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Happy New Year!
It has been looking very wintery at the Fort Langley CNR Station lately. Please be careful walking on the station platform. Here's hoping 2022 will be a better year so that we can open the station, caboose and railcar for public visits. Stay safe!
Michaud House Makes Merry
Sandra Reams, our longtime tenant at Michaud House in Langley City, lovingly tends the gardens year round. She has lots of extra greenery to work with this winter to create arrangements for the neighbourhood. "I had LOTS of supplies courtesy of mother nature as a huge 12’ branch and a 6’ branch came down in the front yard during one of our wind storms. Also, I have holly and other greenery in the yard. I am going to put these arrangements out on a table by the sidewalk with a sign. Be kind and please only take one." Michaud House (built 188) sits beside the Nicomekle River, which burst its banks during recent flooding. It seriously damaged the furnace in the basement, which has now been replaced. "The new furnace is working great and so good for me and the house to have heat in all the rooms." [...]
40th Anniversary Photo Contest Gallery
A gallery of images from 40th Anniversary Photo Contest.
CNR Scrapbook
Dennis Cardy sent us this photo of the Fort Langley CNR Station shortly after it was moved 240 metres down the track to its present location. The station will be getting a new roof in the next few weeks; another one of our off-season projects. In this 1984 photo the sawmill is still operating where today's Bedford Landing stands. The fir tree in the left foreground now towers over the station. Lots more about the CN Station HERE.
An Artist’s View of Langley Heritage
Lyle Longstaff is almost 80 years old, and still loves to paint heritage buildings. Born in New Westminster, he was a home builder for many years, and appreciates the rich character of heritage structures. "I hate to see the old architecture destroyed. I once lived in a house that was over 100 years old...the wood in it was close-grained fir that you can not get today. Beautiful!!" As you can see in the painting of Dixon House (restored by the Langley Heritage Society, video HERE), he has a warm and engaging style. Lyle is also drawn to trains, "I grew up in the era of steam trains, and that is my real love. I paint the new locomotives because that is what people want." He painted the scene below at Fort Langley's Heritage CN Station, operated by the Langley Heritage Society. Remarkably, Lyle only started painting about 14 years ago. We [...]
CBC Radio Profiles Historic Murrayville
Check out CBC‘s South of the Fraser reporter Jesse Johnston‘s piece on Murrayville‘s Five Corners intersection. It was featured on the CBC program The Early Edition on February 23, 2017. Langley Heritage Society President, Fred Pepin speaks on the challenges and eventual triumph of saving the intersection and much of the built heritage that surrounds it today.
Another Great Season Coming Soon at CN Station!
Fort Langley’s CN Station drew more than 8,000 people inside its vintage railcars and many more thousands soaked up the ambience of the cars and 1915 station building at the corner of Mavis and Glover Road. Thank you to Langley Heritage Society volunteers, led by Bays Blackhall and Gerry Landsman, along with summer student staff for putting out the welcome mat. The visitors’ season officially runs from Victoria Day weekend in May until Thanksgiving, but you’re welcome to walk the platform anytime. Watch a video about the station here: