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Five Harry Hunt photos from June 2006. What awesome looking young people!

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Starting off the day with a little 1916 family history humour.

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Looking for something to do? Check this out. =)

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Another look at our community through the lens of Harry Hunt.

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1911 real estate advert inviting interested parties to purchase land at Coghlan.

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Happy Victoria Day! Here are two sets of Maypole dancers to start off your holiday Monday. One group is from Bradner, one is from Fort Langley, both are from the Aldergrove Star Collection.

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Cuteness overload for your Sunday, from the Harry Hunt Collection.

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44 years ago at 08:32....

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There are loads of activities going on this Victoria Day long weekend - Monday has parades & festivities at Bradner and Fort Langley, the 2024 opening of Langley Heritage Society's CN Station, the annual Victoria Day BBQ at Royal Canadian Legion Branch #265, Aldergrove BC. There's another installment of the Langley Arts Council's speaker series today (Saturday) & Music Bingo at the Legion, plus our Aldergrove Museum & Community Archives will be open on Sunday afternoon from 12-4pm.

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Back to the Harry Hunt Photo Collection - hockey, vintage cars, soccer, rugby and horses. Harry was everywhere at everything, truly dedicated to our community.

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Switching gears from photos to documents today. In going through pages and pages and pages of Crown Grant ledger books, this nugget was found. Well, there have been loads of other nuggets, but this one is really cool.

The land for the original Beaver School was donated by Mr. John Knox, who had received a land pre-emption from the government in 1889. Here are images of some of the documents officially transferring the school property to the Township of Langley. Mr. Knox's Quarter Section is marked on the map.

Research into land records and settlers is ongoing (and time consuming), but piece by piece we're working through our community timeline back to before settler contact and beyond.

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Congratulations to Heritage Abbotsford / Trethewey House and the restoration team for their Conservation award from Heritage BC for their work on preserving South Poplar School.

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Aldergrove 2002 through the eyes of community photographer Harry Hunt.

...and as promised, the grad photo shenanigans....

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Another thin slice of the Harry Hunt photos. If you look closely at the grad photo, you will see some shenanigans. Tomorrow we'll show you a close up. 😉

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It's BC Museums Week - this year's theme is 'Imagine The Future' and we are curious if you have any thoughts about Aldergrove's Community Museum & Archives, which is 100% volunteer-operated in a very small building that holds a lot of information.

We'd also like to know if you've visited the building lately, haven't been in the building for a year or 10 (things have changed a bit), or if you've never visited.

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Another tiny sampling of the Harry Hunt Collection - Pink Shirt Day, Terry Fox Run, hockey, basketball and rugby.

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The late Harry Hunt was very well known and loved in our community. He was known as "the man with the camera" and your Aldergrove Community Museum & Archives is very proud to be the caretaker of the Harry Hunt Collection - literally thousands of photographs in print and CD format spanning over a couple of decades - all very generously donated by Harry's daughter, Laura Hunt.

We are incredibly grateful for this donation, and while it's going to take our little band of digitizers a number of months to catalogue the entire collection, here is a tiny sampling of Harry's work.

Today's post features print photo scans. Not all photos have information on the back but as we work our way through the hundreds of CDs we will be better able to at least date the photos as all of them have a label, and many have handwritten lists …

This week's Victory Garden column from 1944 plus two local events, one today and one during the coming week.

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Today is the 79th anniversary of VE Day. Let's have a look at coverage in the local newspapers while remembering the terrible cost, policies, practices and harsh realities of war both here at home and overseas.

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From the Aldergrove Star, 7 May 1997 - Remembrance ceremony at NRS Aldergrove (now CFS Aldergrove) to honour and remember the many Canadian sailors lost during the Battle of the Atlantic, which ended with the surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945.

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Two events happening today - the 35th DW Poppy Car Show and the 62nd Langley Walk (this year's start is in Walnut Grove), so we're sharing a few Aldergrove Star photos and articles with you.

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Happy 64th Anniversary to OAPO #71 & Aldergrove Heritage Hall! We'll see you at your special event today. =)

Also in today's post is this week's 1944 Victory Garden installment.

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A variety of photos from the Aldergrove Star Collection - boxes were dated 1993, 1994 and 1995.

Unfortunately we can't look up the stories to go with the photos as they are still be digitized at UBC, but we definitely know that Coach Brown had to shave his head (because it was written on the back of the photo). =)

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