Viewing Object

Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2010.001.1149

Title

Social Credit Cabinet Meeting at Fort Langley National Historic Site.

Date

[between 1975 and 1987].

Description

1 photograph of a group of men and a woman in an office signing a document; this event is identified as a Social Credit Cabinet Meeting on Douglas Day at the Fort Langley National Historic Site; seated left to right the people are identified as: Lavde (sp?) Gardom, Grace McCarthy, and Jim Neilsen; the woman identified as Grace McCarthy holds a feather quill in her hand over the document.

People/Subject

Fort Langley National Historic Site

The Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Langley in 1827 in present day Derby Reach Regional Park. It was moved upriver to its current site in 1839. The Fort was run as a provisioning station and farm. The Company moved out of the Fort in 1886. From 1888 into the 1920's the Mavis family ran a farm on the land. In the 1920s the Fort was recognized by the federal government's Historic Sites and Monuments Board, though by that time only one building remained. The land was purchased and from 1931 until 1958, the Native Sons operated a museum on the site. In 1955, the Fort was declared a National Historic Site. A few years later more buildings were reconstructed and much of the collection was moved to the Langley Centennial Museum. Today the Fort is run by Parks Canada.

politicians

Term Source: Sears List of Subject Headings (16th. Ed.)

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