January 2021 - Langley Heritage Society

Bays Blackhall Memorial Scholarship 2021

Langley Heritage Society is again offering a $1,000 scholarship in memory of heritage and conservation advocate, Bays Blackhall. Bays was a longtime member of the Langley Heritage Society and oversaw operation of the Fort Langley heritage CNR Station. The scholarship is open to all high school students in Langley and acknowledges academic achievement, community service and need. Last year's winner was RE Mountain Secondary student Julia Kim. You can view all of the scholarships administered by the Langley School District Foundation HERE.

Mark Forsythe2021-03-03T23:06:24+00:00January 24th, 2021|

Roaring! Langley in the 1920s

Take a virtual tour of this new exhibit at the Langley Centennial Museum. "While the exhibit shines a light on the rise of convenience items, buying on credit, flappers, and the beginning of Hollywood’s influence, it also shows the importance of our local community halls and schools, our early midwives, nurses, and doctors, and spotlights the Langley Prairie fire of 1928. The exhibit also highlights the ways in which the decade did not “roar” for everyone: residential school attendance became compulsory for Indigenous children, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, the Ku Klux Klan set up in Vancouver, and the local White Canada Association and farmers’ institutes, like others around the Fraser Valley, pushed for the exclusion of Asian people from land ownership." Take the virtual tour HERE. You can also book an onsite tour HERE

Mark Forsythe2021-01-11T18:11:17+00:00January 11th, 2021|

Milner Mystery

The family of a WW I veteran named William James Lutman (1885 - 1963) wants to learn more about his time at Milner (or possibly Willoughby) in the late 1920s and 1930s (and possibly beyond). He may have purchased a cabin from someone named Bob. His great-great nephew Greg Stott tells the story: "My great-great uncle William James Lutman was a veteran of the First World War and fought at the Battle of Vimy Ridge. He was from London, Ontario but had lived in Vancouver from 1906 to 1915. In about 1926 he returned west and was briefly back in Vancouver but thereafter seems to have established himself in Milner, BC. His whereabouts are unclear and his family was largely unware of his activities or whereabouts for protracted periods of time. However, I recently found this undated missive in the papers of my great-grandmother Florence J. (Lutman) Houghton (1881-1969) who [...]

Mark Forsythe2021-01-24T19:46:49+00:00January 6th, 2021|

Bays Blackhall Memorial Scholarship 2021

Roaring! Langley in the 1920s

Milner Mystery

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