Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

2017.048.039

Title

Children at a school program in the Langley Centennial Museum.

Date

Nov. 1994.

Description

Colour slide of children seated at wooden tables pushed together inside the Langley Centennial Museum's program room. One child at the end of the tables, wearing a grey sweater, is standing. Five children on the right side of the tables are seated. All of the children are looking at an otter and an owl, which are in the middle of the tables and which have been preserved through taxidermy. The children have pencils in their hands and paper in front of them. The girl in the right corner of the photograph is wearing a Remembrance Day poppy. There are two adults standing behind the tables: one on the right, wearing a lace shirt, and the one in the background at the far end of the table, wearing dark pants and a collared shirt is Museum instructor Pat Davis. Beside them is a plastic cart with what appears to be a pheasant which has also undergone taxidermy. In the background on the right is an empty museum display case.

People/Subject

Langley Centennial Museum

The Museum is located within a designated Heritage Conservation Area in the village of Fort Langley, Township of Langley. Community collecting began in the 1920's with a Native Sons of BC exhibit located in the last remaining Hudson's Bay Company fur trade era structure (circa 1840). A decision by the Canadian Parks Services to actively interpret Fort Langley prompted the provincial and municipal governments to cooperate in the construction of a new museum adjacent to the National Historic Site.

The Township-owned museum opened July 1, 1958 and housed a majority of the Native Sons collection. It was operated by volunteers until 1974 when it was selected by the Federal government as a site for one of 22 National Exhibition Centres across Canada. The physical plant doubled in size, its mandate was extended to include art, history and science traveling exhibitions and the first staff person was hired. Federal NEC operating funding was eliminated in 1994 but the museum has continued to respond to that expanded mandate. In 1991, the Museum became the core facility of the Community and Heritage Services Department, Planning, Development and Stewardship Division, Township of Langley.
Term Source: BCAUL

Argus v4.4.0.36 - Langley Centennial Museum