Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

1996.055.042

Title

Dog-Gone Float in the Fort Langley May Day Parade.

Date

May 1982.

Description

A photograph of a float titled "DOG-GONE" in the Fort Langley May Day Parade on Glover Road. There is a man and a woman and a dog sitting on the float, and behind them is a miniature house. There is a man on a motorcycle in the right foreground. The Fort Grocery, now Country Lane Antiques, partially visible in the right background.

People/Subject

Fort Grocery

See Also: Simpson Bros. Store

Glover Road

The Langley Trunk Road (sometimes referred to as Trunk Road) was renamed Glover Road following W.W. I after Lieut. F.W. Glover, Langley's first municipal engineer.
See From: Langley Trunk Road, Trunk Road
See Also: streets and roads
Term Source: Roads and Place Names in Langley, B.C., pg. 57 (Pepin)

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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