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William Thomas Crozier Blair (Bill) was born on 5 May, 1913 in Langley, to George Irvine and Elizabeth Blair, nee Culbert. He attended school in Milner, and at Langley High School. Bill took over part management of the family farm (on 216th Street, across from the airport) when his father died in 1933. He married Doris Livingston, whom he met through his sister, as they both attended Columbian College in New Westminster. They had six children: Jean, Doug, Jim, John, Terry, and Gordie. He was a director of the B.C. Federation of Agriculture, Director of the Mainland Dairymen's Association, Vice-president of the Artificial Insemination Centre, and a member of the B.C. Branch of the Holstein-Friesian Association. He served for 4 years as the Regional Board Director of the Central Fraser Valley Regional District. Blair served 19 years as a member of the Langley Municipal Council, between 1962 and 1981. In 1981 he became the Township's mayor, a position he held until his death March 28, 1985, at the age of 71, after a surgery to treat a perforated intestine. The W. C. Blair Recreation Centre in Murrayville was named for him.

Elford L. Nundal was born in Ballantyne, Alberta on July 30, 1919. He moved to Langley with his parents Samuel Henry Nundal (1890?-1961) and Catherine Nundal (1882?-1973). He graduated from veterinary college at Guelph Ontario at the top of his class in 1943, and founded the Langley Animal Clinic in Langley. During WWII he was a member of the War Time Bureau Technical Personnel. He served as a Langley school trustee in the 1950s, and was a Township of Langley Alderman 1975-1985. Nundal was elected Township mayor in a by-election in 1985 after the death of W. C. Blair, and served as mayor until he retired from politics in 1986. In October 1991 he was awarded the B.C. Veterinary Association's M.C. Award of Merit, recognizing his outstanding contribution to the veterinary profession. Nundal and his wife, Ada ( -1984) had three daughters: Joanne, Sharon, and Carol.
Term Source: The majority of this information was provided by tributes to Nundal published in the Langley Times and Langley Advance in January 1992.

The Township of Langley, B.C., comprising Langley, Fort Langley, Murrayville, Langley Prairie, Derby, Milner, Aldergrove, Otter, Salmon River Uplands, and Glen Valley, was incorporated in 1873. The City of Langley, B.C., covering the Langley Prairie region, was incorporated as a separate entity in 1955.