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While there was a Duckworths' Store in Fort Langley for a time, the Duckworths' in Langley Prairie was located in two units in the Lyttleton Building on Fraser Highway before moving to a stand alone building farther east on Fraser Highway in 1938. Duckworth's later had a store in Cloverdale, too, but closed in 1973 because of the competition from national chain stores. Auld-Phillips took over the space and concentrated on the sale of ladies clothing.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-23/911); Warren Sommer's "From Prairie to City: A History of the City of Langley"

The paper was originally entitled the Langley Advance, and was first published July 23, 1931.The paper was started by Ernest J. Cox, who had moved to BC from North Battleford, Saskatchewan to take a half interest in the Abbotsford News along with Gerald Heller. At the same time, the Langley Board of Trade had been negotiating with Heller to start a paper in Langley: Cox took up the task. A few months after the Advance was founded, Cox and Heller went their separate ways, and Cox retained the Langley paper and Heller kept the Abbotsford paper. Cox ran the paper with the help of his wife and two teenaged children. After the war, son Fred Cox returned to the paper along with George Johnson (an RAF instructor) who had married daughter, Kathleen Cox. In 1947 Jim Schatz joined the paper. In 1949 The Langley Advance Publishing Co. Ltd. was formed with principals E.J. and Fred Cox, Johnson, and Schatz. E.J. Cox went into semi-retirement in 1958, and Fred Cox sold his interests in the paper, but took controlling interest of the commercial printing portion of the business. Schatz served as publisher and editor, and was well known in the BC newspaper industry. In 1981 Bob Groeneveld became editor, and remains editor today (2005).
Term Source: Paper Trails: a history of British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspapers, 1999 (by George Allan Afflek).

Langley Prairie became Langley City in 1955.

Alf R. Marr, brother of Dr. B. B. Marr, started the Yale Garage when he moved to Langley Prairie from New Brunswick in 1926. It burnt down on New Year's Eve, 1935. Marr rebuilt, but was in poor health and took an early retirement in 1940. Clayton E. Reid took over from 1941-1943, and in 1945 the garage was acquired by Willoughby Rooke and William Barkhausen. At some point the Garage sported a large "Union 76 Gasoline" sign. In 1947 the pair went their separate ways, and Rooke bought Barkhausen' s share of the garage. He rented it to a number of car dealerships, including Trapp-Peters GM and Becker Motors. Later, he sold it to Henry and Agnes Herlihy, who turned it into a store.

Source: Warren Sommer's "From Prairie to City: A History of the City of Langley," p. 67; HPC Record (HPC-452/1208)