Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

2010.001.038

Title

A cover being built over the first portion of a public lane in Langley City.

Date

Jul. 1958.

Description

A cover being built over the first portion of a public lane in Langley City. Located at the rear of Duckworth stores, the flat roof would provide shelter for employees going between the warehouse on the right and the rear of the retail store on the left. The Langley Advance, July 24, 1958.

People/Subject

construction

Duckworth's (store)

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"

Langley City

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

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