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This week's Navy News looks at HMCS Aldergrove & Matsqui Station for the month of March 1962. There wasn't a news post for the 7th of March, so I've included the Sea Cadet news for the month as well.

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Early indications in the cataloguing of the Harry Hunt Collection of CDs is that there are many 4-H photos. Here is one of them, in a mash-up of the original photo and the information that appeared on page 9 of the 22 March 2012 Aldergrove Star. This photo is one of the few printed photos we have in the collection, but an excellent clue on dating it was the St. Patrick's Day balloon in the background.

We are closing in on our 700th CD to be catalogued, with another large box yet to be processed. Once the CDs are catalogued and numbered, we'll be going back to itemize and number each photo on every CD, which also involves finding the newspaper edition the photo appeared in.

Naturally, Harry took more photos than what we will find in the newspapers, but at the very least we'll be able to nail down …

Hot Weather Alert - the museum will be open at noon, but please be aware that if we can't get the temperature down inside the building to something tolerable for our volunteers (it was 28 degrees in there at 930pm last night), we will be closing early. Please call ahead to check our status if you're planning to visit us today. Thank you for your understanding, here's hoping that our borrowed portable AC unit will kill the heat. =)

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A look back at municipal election activity for 1959 and 1965. The 1959 candidates' occupations were quite indicative of the majority of the population in the township at that time.

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This week's 1944 Victory Garden column is accompanied by photos from the Harry Hunt Collection and a story from the 19 October 2012 edition of the Aldergrove Star that features the garden grown and tended by students at Aldergrove Community Secondary School.

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Langley School District Cross Country Meet, held at Aldergrove Regional Park on the 1st and 3rd of October 2012. Photos from the Harry Hunt Collection. Coverage from the Aldergrove Star, 11 October 2012, page 15.

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A look back at a local no controversy soccer tournament - the 2012 BC Youth B Cup Provincial Championships, held at Aldergrove Athletic Park in July 2012. Photos are from the Harry Hunt Collection. Aldergrove's U16 team placed 8th in the tournament while the U13 team placed 5th and won the Fair Play Team Award.

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How is it the end of July already? Hockey season is almost upon us again, so here are some of Harry Hunt's Aldergrove Hockey photos from March 2012.

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Canadian history buffs, here's a challenge for you - the 2024 Canadian Museum of History & Canadian War Museum Crossword puzzle.

We somehow missed the call for questions this year, but maybe we'll be able to send in a question for next year. =)

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The HMCS Aldergrove Navy Log for February 1962. Also note that the base had an active bowling team as well.

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Sometimes museums and archives deaccession items in their collections when they no longer meet the criteria of the materials they hold, or they have more than what they need of said item. Last week we added these military and Red Cross items to our own military collection, thanks to the British Columbia Aviation Museum in Victoria.

We also managed to get a CNR Dining Car Service stir spoon, but that is going over to our friends at @Langley Heritage Society's CN Station in Fort Langley for their collection.

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Many remember the old Husky station that used to stand on the southeast corner of 264 and Fraser. It was demolished for the new retail centre that is there now. The first service station on that corner was Westgrove Esso, owned by the Sawatsky family. Here's a page from the 1st May 1968 Aldergrove Star (microfilm) announcing the opening of the service station, along with other local bowling news and also the introduction of Ruby's Ceramics.

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This week's 1944 Victory Garden article looks at blight and propagation, although I'm not sure if the anti-blight products mentioned are still available today.

There are a few activities going on in the community this weekend, details on the ones shown in today's post can be found in the Events section on Facebook. Drop by the museum on Sunday afternoon, we're open from 12-4pm, entry is by donation.

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New residents often complain about "the smell" in our fine community - possibly not realizing that the town is surrounded by farms, and with farms come smells. However, if they lived here prior to 1997, they may have been complaining about a different odour in the air - even many of the long time residents raised a stink about the stink. Here are a few articles about Aldergrove's sewer history.

In an interesting aside, if memory serves correctly, the lagoon used to freeze over enough in the winter for ice skating.

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Motocross Racing at what was called Jackman Park. These photos are from the Aldergrove Star Collection, and were in a box labelled 1990-1991, which would have been the sunset years for the LMMC's 20+ year history of riding and races at the old gravel pit.

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Lots of familiar names and faces in the photo features from the Aldergrove Star for the 28th of May, 1969.

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There didn't seem to be as much activity going on at HMCS Aldergrove in January 1962, but at least the 10 January column lets us in on post-holiday happenings. Apparently Clyde Burgess had quite the beard as it warranted front page mention in the 3rd January paper.

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Here's one for the County Line kids from the Aldergrove Star for 22 May 1968. How many names can you put to the faces in Mrs. Janzen's Grade 1 class?

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Inspired by a conversation - we've not come across the original photos for this article, but we have the original paper which has a better image than the microfilms. (Unfortunately it's in newspaper storage and not easily accessible at this point in time).

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This week's 1944 Victory Garden column features information about collecting seeds and cross-pollination. On a related side note, there is an event coming up in August called Seed Collecting 101. You can find it in FB events, but we'll post a reminder closer to the workshop's date.

In the meantime, there are some great events happening around our community this weekend - the Aldergrove Fair continues today and tomorrow at the Kinsmen Centre. Sage & Solace Farm will be hosting a flower pressing workshop this afternoon from 12-4, and Campbell's Gold is hosting a Bee-Friendly Demonstration Garden Tour from 11am - 12pm.

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How many RCMP officers did the Township and City have in 1970? This many. =)

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Today we're visiting the Mt. Lehman community. In amongst the 1967 Aldergrove Star photos I found the photo of the school class seen in image 2, which was featured in the Star with the accompanying article on 27 June 1967, as was the content of image 2.

These articles were part of the Star's Centennial year featured stories about our region's history. Of particular interest to us is further confirmation of the relationship between the Matsqui and Nooksack First Nations people. The earliest notation of 272 Street on a map names the southern portion as being Nooksack Trail.

Both photos can also be found in The Place Between Volume1, pages 554 and 568

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From the Aldergrove Star Collection, Box D 1990s, Folder 1992 (although we've found there are duplicates of some photos in the 1995 Folder, which makes sorting these easy...).

As always, photo information and people names is welcome - especially if you tell us where in the photo any named people might be situated. =)

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It's Tuesday, so here is this week's Navy Log from HMCS Aldergrove, December 1961. There wasn't a newspaper on 27 December due to the Christmas holiday, but there is, however, proof that James Kirk served in Aldergrove. 😉

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110 years ago - the official prize list & regulations for the 3rd Aldergrove Agricultural Association Exhibition, which was held on Thursday 17 September 1914.

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