Fort Langley restaurant "Edward's on Glover" beside the Fort Langley Community Hall.

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Object Description

Object Name

Transparency, Slide

Object ID

2019.015.011

Title

Fort Langley restaurant "Edward's on Glover" beside the Fort Langley Community Hall.

Date

30 Jan. 1995.

Description

Colour slide of a light green building in Fort Langley, to the left of the Fort Langley Community Hall, on Glover Road. The building is two storeys, with a shingle roof above the first storey and a pointed second storey that attempts to look like a historic building, though it was built later. There is a wooden sign hanging perpendicular from the second storey that reads "EDWARD'S/ on/ GLOVER." There are cars parked along the street in front of the building. Half of the Community Hall is visible on the right of the photograph, and there are trees in the background.

People/Subject

Fort Langley (village)

Fort Langley Community Hall

This location was the site of the first town hall, although it was closer to the north-east corner of the lot, near the Fort Grocery. In 1924 the Fort Langley Women's Institute, led by the second Mrs. Hector Morrison, started the Fort Langley Community Improvement Society with the idea of building a new town hall. In 1925 the old town hall grounds are purchased from the municipality for $137.13, the amount of the tax bill still owing.
Although the Fort Langley Community Improvement Association had been primarily founded in 1924 by the second Mrs. Hector Morrison (nee Hadden), George Young became a very active influential member as well. Archibald Campbell Hope, architect brother of local Charles Edward Hope, was commissioned to plan the new hall. Construction on the building did not begin until 1930. On March 6, 1931, the formal opening and Inaugural Dance was held, and that same year maple trees were planted by members of the board, those along the north by the women and along the south by the men, and the cherry trees were later donated by another supporter. Originally the hall was painted dark brown.
The Community Hall became a designated Heritage site September 10, 1979.

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