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Visits home for members of the Royal Canadian Navy, recruitment, base expansion, the importance of donating magazines and newspapers along with the inevitable casualties are part of our community's story.

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Rationing in Canada during WW2 did not fully end until 1947, with meat, sugar, butter and preserves being the last items to be removed from ration limits. Tea and coffee had come off rationing in September 1944, probably because they were very hard to acquire at the time. Gasoline and liquor were taken off the list in August 1945. The final ration book was issued in September 1946.

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Dieppe. Operation Jubilee. 19 August 1942. 83 years ago. A bloodbath on a beach in France that echoed across an ocean and a continent, touching families in our community.

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Every day through two world wars, families would scan the casualty and POW lists looking for friends and relatives, because during a time when not everyone had a telephone, the dreaded lists often came out before letters arrived and sometimes even before the telegrams were delivered to the door.

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38 young men from Langley Township gave their lives in World War 1.

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Wishing you all a Happy and Safe Hallowe'en!

The museum will be open from 3pm - 7pm(ish depending on weather) for trick or treating and there are lots of other great things going on today - Trick or Treat the Town, Hallowe'en Community Event at the Legion - lots of places to visit and things to do.

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Here's a time warp back to Aldor Acres Family Farm from Hallowe'en 1996.

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Those look some very tasty treats! Hopefully the students got to go on their trip to Quebec and brought home some great memories.

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A look back at the Buckerfield's crew all gussied up for Hallowe'en 1997.

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Here's the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #265, Aldergrove BC 1997 Executive Officers to remind you that the 2025 Poppy Campaign starts on Friday. Please be sure to buy a poppy and support your #CanadianVeterans.

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We missed a "Happy Building Anniversary" event so happy 27th to the ReMax Alder Centre building. =)

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Very sad news coming out of the weekend. Dr. Cook will be greatly missed in the museum & research communities - he was literally a walking encyclopedia on Canada's military past. =(

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The good news is that this pole was eventually moved to the sidewalk. The bad news is that there's still a pole in the road at 29A Avenue & 272 Street.

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The Aldergrove Youth Activity Centre opened just over 28 years ago, another community vision brought about by community group and volunteer collaboration.

By the way, it's voting day in Langley Township so #getoutandvote if you haven't already.

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A number of events are happening around town this weekend, and we've included events for Hallowe'en so you can plan your trick or treating fun. As always, remember to check and see if an event requires registration or tickets.

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#FridayFunny for our Township's byelection.

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The Aldergrove Nightmares Youth 8 Girls' Soccer Team in 1997.

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We don't know who Cody is, but we'd like to wish him a happy 36th birthday....

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As promised last Tuesday, here is the other half of the "inside the Base" photos we found in the Aldergrove Star collection donated by the Langmann family.

There has been a lot of discussion as to whether or not the 6 photos in the set posted last week and today are Aldergrove / Matsqui, or different bases entirely. Some said no, some said definitely yes, and maybe someone will recognize the men in the photos and provide some names. =)

Either way, these photos are pretty cool - such big machines that are now probably a lot more compact and look a whole different.

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A friend of our page is hoping that someone out there might be able to assist in putting names to faces. This photo was taken at Glen Valley School between 1914 and 1918. The children she is hoping to identify belonged to Hezekiah and Catherine Tingle: James, George, Jessie, Shirley, Catherine, Georgina, Rhoda and Clarissa (not in birth order).

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Forget the pumpkin spice, here are some great apple recipes from Hallowe'en 1940, 16 months before rationing became the wartime norm. Who doesn't love a good taffy apple? The recipe editor is assuming that those reading these recipes know how to make pastry for turnovers as it only tells you how to make the filling. Rationing in Canada was just over one year away.

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Lots of fun stuff coming up in #ourcommunity. If you don't like to cook breakfast on the weekend, you're in luck - you can have breakfast at the Aldergrove Veterans & Seniors Centre on Saturday, then at the Legion on Sunday.

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The long-gone Aldergrove Revitilization Committee got lots of things done in our downtown core, perhaps the most important of which was the undergrounding of services along Fraser Highway. Even though it created a big, big mess along the way, the end result was wonderful.

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Today we're going back to school - County Line in May 1999.

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#WhatWasThere - Before Lordco, before Ferguson's Meats, there was the Aldergrove Co-op Cold Storage. Aldergrove Co-op was separate from Otter Co-op and operated until 1953, when William Ferguson and his son Jim purchased the building.

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