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

Alfred (Fred) Pepin is a grandson of Thomas Alfred Pepin, a pioneer settler of the Langley, B.C., area. He is married to Maureen Sankey. He is involved in the P. Y. Porter Tailgate Programme, and the Langley Heritage Society. He was awarded the Freedom of the Municipality in 2006.

Maureen Sankey was born in Vancouver and attended Lord Kitchener Elementary and Lord Byng Secondary. She earned her BA and teaching certificate from UBC in 1955, and her M.Ed. from Western Washington University in 1975. Maureen taught at Kitsilano and Killarney Secondary Schools before moving to south Aldergrove with her first husband in 1962. After teaching at Clearbrook Secondary for a year, she spent 22 years at Aldergrove Secondary as a teacher and then as Langley's first female vice-principal. During this time she was the Langley Teachers' Assoc. president (1973-74). She became the vice-principal of Langley Secondary in 1984 and retired in 1992, but worked part time at the Langley Education Centre after that. Maureen married A. E. (Fred) Pepin in 1977. She has one daughter, Jane, and a grandaughter Chelsea. Maureen was an active member of the Fraser Valley Hunt Club and the Langley Scholarship Comittee. In her retirement, she co-wrote" Roads and Place Names", edited "The Place Between", and co-wrote "The History of Langley Schools: 1867-2004." (2005) She was a volunteer at the Valley Therapeutic Equestrian Association, a member of the Langley Heritage Association, and a docent at the Langley Centennial Museum.

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.