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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2005.051.005

Title

Aldergrove Community Secondary School.

Date

2004.

Description

1 Photograph : col. ; the photograph shows a building with a sign that says "ALDERGROVE COMMUNITY SECONDARY". There are some teal metal and glass awnings hanging over an entrance, and a person is standing outside the entrance doors. There is a white vehicle parked on the street in front of the building. On the back of the photograph, written in cursive, is "Aldergrove / Community Secondary. / Courtesy of M. Pepin".

People/Subject

Aldergrove (B.C.)

Aldergrove Community Secondary School (Aldergrove Junior-Senior High School)

Aldergrove Community Secondary School is located at 26850 29 Avenue. The school was built in 1957, with the official opening of the school on May 8, 1958. The school was initially called Aldergrove Junior-Senior High School, as it held grades 7-12. Those wishing to complete grade 13 had to finish at Langley High School. The school had many Indigenous students from the Nass and Skeena areas of B.C., who came to board with families in Aldergrove to go to high school. From the school's website, they explain that they "approached Ellen Neel, hereditary totem carver from the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations to carve a totem pole that would represent the school as well as the First Nations in the Fraser Valley. With the guidance of the First Nations students and the blessing of the local First Nations groups, the school adopted the mascot of the Totem, the slogan Hi-All Yu-Wen meaning Second to None in Coast Salish, and became known as the Aldergrove Totems." Today the school is known as Aldergrove Community Secondary School, and has grades 9-12.

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