Langley Heritage Society hosted its annual Heritage Week Tea at the Milner Chapel to highlight heritage partners in the Langley region. LHS President Fred Pepin launched the event and encouraged all to share highlights of their work, and to collaborate even more in the days ahead. Please send your events for our quarterly newsletter to: info@langleyheritage.ca

Brigette Wieronski, manager at the Fort Langley National Historic Site. Many exciting things are happening at the fort, including a project to craft a new bateau by a Metis staff member.

Matt Offer from the Canadian Museum of Flight. The recent Family Day events drew more than 1,300 people to this unique museum at the Langley Airport. The museum’s collection even includes a window from an original Avro Arrow — along with many vintage aircraft that still fly.

CN Station manager Helen Williams thanked all the volunteers who keep our 1915 heritage site humming. This year’s projects include restoration of the Simpson heritage gardens and improvements to our exhibits. A new video has also been created by students at Brookswood Secondary School and can be found at the bottom of our video page HERE.

Langley Centennial Museum curator Kobi Christian outlines plans for the museum’s 61st year –  including a request to share quirky collections for an upcoming exhibition. Be sure to visit the current “Away” exhibition, based on novelist Jane Urquhart’s novel.

June Speedie from the Alder Grove Heritage Society details some of the projects ahead — including organizing their collection of 100,000 of local photographs (!)

Jim Mair & Karen Long from the BC Farm Museum spoke about the many opportunities for heritage groups to collaborate in the Langley region. “History helps us know who we are.”

LHS President Fred Pepin is interviewed by local reporter Dan Ferguson from the Langley Times. (Which will soon merge into Langley Advance Times.)

Historian and author Warren Sommer will be conducting a cemetery tour in Fort Langley in early March. Find out more and register HERE