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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.

William Blair gave an interview to the museum in 1976. His interview can be found at SR-015.

Arthur Brooks was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England on December 21, 1914. His parents, George William (b. November 11, 1888) and Eleanor May Brooks (née Shepherd) immigrated to Edmonton in 1922 where Art continued school until 1932. The family bought land in the Coghlan area in 1935 and developed a dairy herd. Art married Dorothy Abbot, August 15, 1939, and they had a son, Robert, in 1940. Art played a leading role in the Farmer's Institute and was president for 11 years. After a dispute with the Agricultural Production Board, he gave up his wartime exemption and enrolled in the army in 1945. After the war, Art returned to dairy farming and his father took on a political role as Reeve of Langley Township for some years. Art served as an alderman from 1975 to 1979.

George Driediger was born in Drake, Saskatchewan and came to B.C. in 1944 with his family. After high school he went to study at the Inter-denominational Berean Bible College in Calgary. He did lay preaching work in the summer until he was fully ordained. George married June F. Francisco while in college. He took post-graduate studies at Eston, Sask. for one year, and then a pastorage charge in Calgary. While in B.C. he helped on his father's strawberry farm. He was attracted to the Social Credit Party in Alberta, and joined the Otter Social Credit group in B.C. George then won the provincial presidency for the Social Credit League Party. He was the president of the B.C. Farmers Union, vice-president of the board of directors for the Pacific Co-operative Fruit and Vegetable Union of Mission, and one of the original organizers and deacons for the Evangelistic Tabernacle. He has two children, Murray and Brenda. He was the Mayor of the Township of Langley from 1976 to 1979. His political career was not without minor scandals, such as being charged with shooting a deer out of season and allegedly selling property to Benpel Industries Ltd. in 1978. In addition to his political career, Driediger was a member of the business world and the owner of a tow truck company.

John R. Lindsay was born on February 3, 1916 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was the Western Rep. of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He became a Langley City Alderman in 1973. He belonged to the Wartime Pilots and Observers Association, the Vancouver Board of Trade and the Langley Chamber of Commerce. Article appeared in the newspaper (the Columbian) November 14, 1979, saying that Lindsay had been hooked up to municipal water for years, and had not paid his water bill.

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. Langley was named after Thomas Langley, a prominent stockholder in the management of the Hudson's Bay Company. He had inherited his brother's stock in the Company in 1793 and was selected as a member of the committee in 1807. He held this position until his death in 1829.

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.