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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

1996.055.017

Title

Staging Area at the Fort Langley May Day Parade.

Date

[between 1979 and 1982].

Description

A photograph of the staging area at the Fort Langley May Day Parade. There are several cars and trucks parked in a field or gravel parking lot, and people are walking around, taking out equipment and other things necessary for the parade to operate. There is a cow in the left foreground, and a horse in the central background.

People/Subject

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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