Cerificate belonging to Clive Rogers in recognition of the effort put into the formation of the City of Langley.

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Object Description

Object Name

Certificate

Object ID

2016.020.003

Title

Cerificate belonging to Clive Rogers in recognition of the effort put into the formation of the City of Langley.

Date

30 May 1955.

Description

Certificate bordered with a card-stock frame, yellowed with age. Awarded to Clive Rogers for the role he played in the formation of Langley. A round orange seal is printed in the bottom left corner, with "THE CORPORATION OF LANGLEY" embossed around the edges. The certificate is signed by 5 Aldermen, the Mayor, and a clerk in the bottom right corner. Certificate is bent and creased at the bottom left corner, and there is a tear along the top centre of the document.

People/Subject

Langley City

The City of Langley, B.C., covering the Langley Prairie region, was incorporated in 1955.

Rogers, Clive

Clive Rogers was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the youngest of 13 children and left the country in 1902 to attend school in England. He came to Canada briefly before returning to South Africa, and then to England again, where he joined the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps, but had just finished his training when WWI finished. He married Dorothy Rutherford (from Canada) in 1920. He moved to Canada again in 1928, first living for 6 months in Burnaby before settling in Langley to raise poultry. In WWII he served with the Veterans' Guard of Canada and with the Reserve Brigade in Vancouver. He and his wife farmed on Simonds Rd (48th Avenue) until September 1946, when they purchased some additional land and used part of the farm to open Newlands Golf Course, originally 9 tees. The premises were opened March 1948. Rogers was an Alderman on the first Langley City Council in 1955. In 1959 additional land was purchased and Mr. Rogers built the additional 9 holes. In April 1961, the Rogers sold the golf course to W. S. Foreshaw and Mr. Anderson. During the time of this sale, Mr. C. T. Knight was the manager, and Ken Lea was the pro.
Mrs. Dorothy Rogers mother was a Miss Boultbee, and the couple have a son, Clive Boultbee, who was an insurance adjustor in Cloverdale, and a daughter, Helen. Boultbee married Dora Barker of Cloverdale and they had two children, Dianne and Stuart. Boultbee served in the Canadian Army during WWII in Europe for four years. The Surrey Archives has 100+ wartime letters written by Clive Boultbee Rogers. He lived in Surrey from 1956-1997, the year of his death.

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