Virtual Heritage

As the pandemic continues, heritage organizations across B.C. are becoming more innovative in reaching members and other people interested in heritage issues. Heritage BC is moving its annual conference online beginning Thursday May 6th and will present sessions over the span of four weeks. Themes include: Building Back Better, Reconciliation: It's Time For Action, Climate Adaptation: It's Time for Action and  Intangible Heritage in A Tangible World: Writing the Playbook. See the full schedule and register HERE.   Meanwhile, the British Columbia Historical Federation is presenting its annual conference in Surrey online in partnership with the Surrey Historical Society.  Langley Heritage Society members can attend all sessions at a 50% reduction ($25) by indicating you're a member of the BC Historical Federation through the LHS. Registration is now open for the June 3 - 5 event. Sessions include: Adventures in Digital History with Kyle Jackson, Surrey's poet laureate Renée Sarojini Saklikar, [...]

2021-03-04T21:25:23+00:00March 4th, 2021|

Scott Family Honoured With a Park

  Update from the Surrey Historical Society:  Surrey City Council voted to approve the naming and dedication of the Henry Houston Scott Park. The park is located on 64th and 181st and honours the historical importance of African-American and emancipated slave, Henry Houston Scott who arrived in Cloverdale with his family in 1912. He was a shoemaker in Cloverdale, as well as a successful farmer who worked with council to clear the road system for easier access to the local community. His sons as well as his daughter made their own indelible marks here too and now we can honour them properly. Langley Heritage Society story HERE:

2020-05-27T05:59:50+00:00February 26th, 2019|

Honouring a Former Slave Family

(Photo: Jim Foulkes) All that remains of the Scott Family farm in Cloverdale is a small copse of old fruit trees. The 7 acres that Henry Houston Scott and his family farmed have been transformed into a subdivision and power transmission right-of-way.  The Surrey Historical Society has been working to honour this family that ventured north to the Fraser Valley, where they became respected farmers and members of the community. Henry was born a slave in 1854 in Fannin County, Texas. President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, but it wasn’t until 1865 that slavery was finally abolished under the 13th amendment. Henry met Amy Florence Alridge of Mississippi and in 1905 the couple received a homestead grant in Oklahoma. Census records suggest they eventually had ten children. The Scotts and their three youngest children were drawn to the fertile lands of the Fraser Valley in 1912 where they [...]

2020-05-27T05:59:55+00:00October 30th, 2018|
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