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Today we're looking back at the opening of Aldergrove's first Legion branch in 1966. The first Legion was at the eastern edge of town, at 27279 Fraser Highway, and it was from there that our current Royal Canadian Legion Branch #265, Aldergrove BC building was born. Many of you may not know this, but your local Legion provides financial support to many community events and groups, including this society, and for that we are very grateful.

In addition to being Day 5 of Veterans' Week, today is also World Digital Preservation Day, and it is through the assistance of the BC History Digitization Programme that we were able to digitally preserve the Aldergrove Star Oct 1957 - Dec 2000, enabling us to able to share so many stories about our community's history. Thanks are also due to Gulf & Fraser for providing the funds needed to update and equip the …

A few photos of this morning's No Stone Left Alone Memorial Foundation ceremony at Aberdeen Cemetery.

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Today at 10:00am Alder Grove Heritage Society, in partnership with the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #265, Aldergrove BC, @nostoneleftalone and Shortreed Community Elementary School, will be honouring and remembering the 58 military veterans interred at Aberdeen Cemetery.

If you have a family member interred at Aberdeen who was a veteran but is not on our list, please let us know. We want to make sure that all of our veterans are remembered.

Two new names have already been added to the list: Pte Lena Lawrence who served with the CWAC and William Allen.

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Instead of our usual Tuesday "Navy Log" post, here is an article about the history of HMCS Aldergrove from the Central Fraser Valley Echo, May 1965, along with a look at CFS Aldergrove's participation in the 1984 Aldergrove Festival Days.

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Today we remember veterans of the Korean War, often referred to as 'the forgotten war'. We have not forgotten, and we thank those veterans for their service.

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The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 265 Aldergrove is part of our community's backbone. Through its various events during the year, the Aldergrove Legion continuously gives back to this community, not just on Remembrance Day, but year round. Donations to community groups, scholarships for youth, comradeship for veterans, events and activities. If you haven't done so already, please support the #LegionPoppyFund and #buyapoppytoday.

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There wasn't a Victory Garden article for 2 November 1944, so instead we'll have a look at contributions to the WW1 Patriotic Fund. Note that Aldergrove Farmers' Institute outdid the Langley Farmers' Institute, while in the Womens' Institute section, you won't see any of Aldergrove's WI groups listed. This is because none of them were formed until the 1920s.

The National Service Board of Canada also carried some subtle and not so subtle messaging in its War Bonds/War Effort advertising in 1917.

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Happening around town this weekend, with one special event coming up on Wednesday 6 November.

Please note that the museum will be opening at 1pm on Sunday as we're having a Directors' Meeting at noon.

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This letter home from an RCN sailor named John was brought into our museum in August by a couple who had moved here from Alberta. The letter was found in the glove box of a truck that had been purchased at auction and then traded to the couple in exchange for farm work. Thus far we haven't identified "John", but we're still trying.

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If you're still out and about in Aldergrove, come swing by the museum for candy, hot chocolate, and a selfie wall.

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Your #communitymuseum holds a few hundred local family history stories. They are currently being digitized. These stories were gathered for The Place Between volumes 1 & 2, but many of these files haven't been viewed since the books were published in 1993 & 2001 respectively. Not everything in these files was included with the books, so who knows what treasures we may find! We're also working on a searchable index of the many obituary clippings we have in our paper and digital files.

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Here's a look back at Hallowe'en 1987 with items from the Aldergrove Star for 29 October 1987 as well as a Top 10 Horror Films of 1987 list from IMDB.

The author of the Top 10 also added a "notable, but didn't make the cut" list:

Bad Taste, The Stepfather, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Fatal Attraction, Prince of Darkness, Dolls, The Witches of Eastwick, In a Glass Cage, Anguish, StageFright: Aquarius, Creepshow 2, Street Trash, Wicked City, The Gate, Reflections, Faceless, The Believers, Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Dead of Winter, Flowers in the Attic,

The Offspring, Nekromantik, Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, Devilman: Birth, Epidemic, My Best Friend is a Vampire, Blood Diner, The Kindred.

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The ghosts of Hallowe'en Past.

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HMCS Aldergrove and RCN news for the first third of 1965 - a new national flag, a new recruit, exciting adventures for local Sea Cadets and an active bowling team who had a firm grip on 3rd place in the Alder Lanes Bowling B League.

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How paper was made.

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It's #MapMonday and here is a 1918 map from the University of Toronto's Government of Canada Sessional Papers collection that explains the names and locations of BC's many mountain ranges. Knowing these are at times important in figuring out locations discussed in historical stories and accounts of events.

To see a larger version of the map, right click and open the image in a new tab (assuming you're using a computer, that is).

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We were very happy to welcome a group of heritage enthusiasts - the Langley Heritage Society CN Station volunteers - to our museum on Saturday for a private tour. Lots of great questions and discussion not only during the tour but at lunch afterwards. Thank you for visiting! =)

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Did you know, that lurking in the overgrown Bertrand Creek are the remnants of the GNR trestle pilings that once supported the tracks as they wound their way towards the old Fernridge Mill that once sat on the bank of the creek south of Fraser Highway before continuing on to the Aldergrove Train Station and off into Abbotsford?

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This week's 1944 Victory Garden column discusses local 4-H kids as well as dealing with something many of us have - clay soil. I also came across an interesting article about the Aldergrove Agricultural Fair and kids, specifically the Junior Gardens that were carefully laid out, tended and then judged at our annual Fall Fair.

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What's happening this weekend in and around our fair community. Check back on Sunday to see what local events will be taking place on Hallowe'en.

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Lots of familiar names in this County Line School report from June 1961.

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Back in the early days of birth, marriage and death registrations, many events went without being registered. The 1896 birth of Lavina MacKenzie is one such example. She didn't obtain a certificate of birth until 1965. What is especially interesting to me, is that Lavina, who married Frederick Bird in 1918, was delivered by midwife Mrs. Swanson - one of my maternal great great grandmothers.

Fast forward many years when Fred & Lavina's son Ernie joined the Aldergrove Volunteer Fire Department and he, along with wife Sharon, became life long friends with my parents. Many of you will remember that Fred & Lavina built Bird's Store at 64th & 264th in 1946, which the family owned until its sale in 1959, shortly after Fred passed away.

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When the society's volunteers were conducting their research for our two local history books, they would often ask people to write down what they recollected about their neighbours - who were they, when did they arrive, etc. They were - and still are - very useful research tools. Here is one that was done in 1992 by Captain Al Gibson for Bradner Road north.

What do you remember/know about your neighbours past and present?

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