Langley's Junior Farmer Club Member trophy.

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Object Description

Object Name

Trophy

Object ID

2016.048.005

Title

Langley's Junior Farmer Club Member trophy.

Date

1946.

Description

Silver trophy; black wooden base; one handle missing; base is rounded with a flat bottom; the bottom of the base is covered in green felt; the cup is inscribed with the award name on the front; a list of winners and years is located on the back, under the title "LANGLEY"; the list of winners in the left column are: "1946-Vera Goddard / 1947 Bob Logan / 1948 Norman Anderson / 1949 Jean Forrest / 1950 Richard Barichello / 1951 Kathleen Barichello / 1952 Sallie Anderson / 1953 Ted Berry/ 1954 Edward Mulner / 1955-Marlene Hamilton / 1956 Molly Chester / 1957 Albert Anderson"; the second column reads: "1958 Douglas Blair / 1959 Ricky Barichello / 1960 Ellen Farquhar / 1961 Jean Blair / 1962 Ricky Barichello / 1963 R.Barichello / 1964 R.Maigret / 1965 John Lee"; the front of the trophy reads: "Awarded to / Junior Farmer Club Member / with / Highest Standing / by / The Agricultural Department / B.C. Electric Railway Co.Ltd.".

People/Subject

Agriculture

British Columbia Electric Railway Company Ltd. (BCER)

The British Columbia Electric Railway's interurban passenger service for the Fraser Valley, B.C., area came through Langley in 1910. The company was building rail lines into Langley as early as 1906, when they signed an agreement with Langley government. The company itself began as a merger of the National Electric Tramway and Lighting Company (Victoria), Vancouver Electric Railway and Light Company Ltd., and Vancouver & Westminster Tramway Company, and was responsible for hydroelectric power generation, power transmission, and electric rail lines on Vancouver Island and in Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. All three companies had gone into receivership in 1895, and the BCER was met with receivership in 1896, following the Point Ellice Bridge Disaster in Victoria. The company was only able to survive through assistance from London financers, and began operations in 1897 as an English-owned company. A station built at 240 St. in the general area formerly known as Harmsworth in Langley was named after Rochfort Henry Sperling, general manager of the B.C. Electric Company, and the area subsequently came to be known as Sperling community. In 1910, a substation was built at Coghlan, and still stands (2021). The substation stepped the voltage from the power transmission lines down for use by the trains passing through. It did not provide power to the surrounding community. Interurban passenger services on the B.C.E.R's Fraser Valley Line ceased in 1950. The company ended all service in 1958, and broke up into the branches it is modernly: BC Hydro, Translink, and BC Transit.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Electric_Railway

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