Horse Rider in Mexican Dress in the Fort Langley May Day Parade.

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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

1996.055.052

Title

Horse Rider in Mexican Dress in the Fort Langley May Day Parade.

Date

May 1982.

Description

A photograph of a woman riding a horse in Mexican horse-riding regalia in the Fort Langley May Day Parade on Glover Road. There is a person also in the regalia leading the horse on the left, but the person's upper body is blocked by the horse's head. There are people sitting and standing on the side of the road facing the camera, watching the parade. The photo is labelled "MEXICAN RIDERS". In the right background the Fort Langley Community Hall is visible.

People/Subject

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.

Glover Road

The Langley Trunk Road (sometimes referred to as Trunk Road) was renamed Glover Road following W.W. I after Lieut. F.W. Glover, Langley's first municipal engineer.
See From: Langley Trunk Road, Trunk Road
See Also: streets and roads
Term Source: Roads and Place Names in Langley, B.C., pg. 57 (Pepin)

May Day celebrations

Fort Langley established its May Day in 1922, and it continues to be an annual tradition (2003). In Langley, May Day refers to the 24 of May, the date of the birth of Queen Victoria. The first May Day was held in Fort Langley, then the event moved to Langley Prairie from 1923-1957. In 1958 the Langley Kinsmen gave up the event, and it returned to Fort Langley where it was organized by the Community Improvement Society and the Fort Langley Lions club, and finally a community committee. May Day celebrations include the crowning of the May Queen and the May pole dancing.

Superbase See Also: May Day Celebrations - Langley Prairie
Term Source: Warren Sommer's "From Prairie to City", p. 154.

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