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Identified, thanks to Dean Williams - it is located at 28941 Haverman and is the Fraser Valley Buddhist Temple. It was built in 1955. =)

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Continuing on from yesterday's post, this was more like the typical Aldergrove welcome to new or expanding businesses. By October 1967 the Billingham's store had closed and Morelli's Furniture was moving in to the same building.

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What's happening this weekend - and yes, you're reading that correctly. The Aldergrove Museum & Community Archives will be OPEN on Saturday during Cruise-In as well as for our regular Sunday hours.

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Does anyone remember this store? I've found other, smaller advertisements into October 1966, but there doesn't appear to be any accompanying story for a new business opening or closing in town, which was very unusual for Aldergrove at that time.

In 1955 there was a Billingham's at 3335 Kingsway in Vancouver, and I've found a few death registrations for Billingham men whose occupation was listed as "Dry Goods Dealer" or "Retail Clothier" so that's a lead. Now to find a 1966-67 Aldergrove phone book and go back through the relevant newspapers with a fine-toothed research comb...

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It's really hard to find any articles about the school office staff where more than one or two people are mentioned, which is kind of sad when you think about it, because the ladies in the office were really the school's lifeline. This article is the most relevant to the history of our local schools.

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Congratulations to the Aldergrove High School Class of 1961

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HMCS Aldergrove July 1962 - only 3 Navy Logs, as Andree took a week off due to a new arrival. =)

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202 teachers - 34 of them new, prepared to welcome back the youngsters of Langley School District for the 1966-67 school year - here are their names, from the Central Fraser Valley Echo. According to a 1978 news article in our files, the 1978-79 school year saw 690 teachers in the district. According to the SD35 website, the district now employs over 3,800 teachers, support staff and administrators.

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Back to School 1966 - celebrating 15 teachers with 25 years in front of a classroom, along with a quick look at what the teens were wearing to high school.

Tomorrow we'll see which teachers were teaching at which schools - all 202 of them. =)

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There wasn't a Victory Garden news article for the end of August 1944, so instead I'm sharing an article that I find somewhat ironic - the government paid $29000.00 in 1977 to plant trees in the median along Highway 1 so that 47 years later the government could pay to remove them.

I've also shared two timely recipes from the Aldergrove News as the season for bake sales and classroom gatherings is upon the parents of school children everywhere. =)

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Check out what's happening in our community this Labour Day long weekend.

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County Line Girl Guides, June 1966.

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A Farm feature from the Vancouver Daily Province, March 1926. You will most likely have to save the image to your device to read it, or use "open image in new tab" but I didn't want to lose the look of the article. It definitely has loads of little tidbits - a skunk farm at South Otter, muskrat farming and so much more. These articles are always a boon of information.

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Happy Wednesday, everyone. Today we're going to see who was teaching at North Otter School in 1954 and who was tops at Sports Day in 1964.

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There wasn't a Navy Log report for the first week of June 1962, but the rest of the month's news certainly made up for it.

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Lots of familiar names in the Aldergrove Elementary Sports Day Results for June 1962.

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Here are a few photos that were featured in the Central Fraser Valley Star during education week, 7 March 1967.

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Here is this week's 1944 Victory Garden installment along with a variety of local events - due to the weather, we would recommend checking with individual event organizers to make sure they're still happening.

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Let's check out the local gossip as printed in the Langley Advance, Spring 1944.

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Did you know that there was an Aldergrove connection to the endless searching for the Lost Creek Mine (Slumach's Gold)? In 1959 three hopeful prospecting farmers set off to try their luck in locating the treasure.

Of the three prospectors, Alf Newman was the easiest to trace as his sister Bessie married Richard Catto, son of early settler Joseph Catto and his other sister Elsie married Trevor Beggs. Alf passed away in 1981, age 66. At the time of his death he lived at the Alderhaven apartments, 27264 30 Avenue.

One of the articles states that Robert Blakey lived on Kendall Road (62 Avenue). According to the 1958 phone book, this also is where his mother lived. Their address was 26191 62 Avenue. Sadly, Robert died when he fell into the Fraser River in October 1975. His body was found near Bowman's Mill, which was located in Chilliwack. On his …

Last Thursday evening Global News had a story by Jay Durante about the only fish cannery still operating on the BC coast - St. Jean’s Cannery & Smokehouse in Nanaimo*. In contrast, here's how many fish canneries were in operation in 1892, according to Williams' BC Directory.

* For the full story, go to the Global News BC site and search "cannery"

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May 1962 saw the opening of the Bachelors' Quarters at HMCS Aldergrove. There were some new arrivals as well as some departures, birthday parties and a wedding. In sports news, the Navy baseball team went down in defeat to the Carling Brewery team.

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Doctors and Teachers in the Williams' 1892 British Columbia - where teachers far outnumbered the doctors. While the directory states that it's a complete list of Medical Doctors for the province, it also then states that some are missing.

With the propriety of the time, overlooked are the many unlicensed Indigenous healers, settler wives and Asian immigrants who were very knowledgeable in regards to providing medical attention to those who were in need.

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Who remembers these planters?

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This week's 1944 Victory Garden article discusses the importance of good health in our plants. We're also looking back at what is becoming a rarity in our town - community halls. They were once the centre of any community and district, offering affordable local space for any type of gathering, and a topic we'll be diving deeper into in the near future.

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