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Dominion Day was the original name of Canada Day. Celebrating July 1, 1867 (the British North American Act, today called the Constitution Act), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire. The name was changed to Canada Day in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed.

Langley Prairie became Langley City in 1955.

George Young Timms was born in England in 1842. He moved to Langley with wife Harriet Hadiah (nee Harris) (1844-1929) in 1911 with their (adult) five sons and two daughters : Fred, Arthur, Vivian, Edward, Phillip, Esther and Gertrude. They built a large craftsman style house just south of the B.C.E.R. Station on Langley Prairie (site of today's City Hall on Douglas Crescent and Topping Road - 204th Street - 2005). The family was very influential in early Langley Prairie, starting two short lived newpapers (Langley Journal and Langley Press), two feed operations, the Timms Market Garden Co., a printing business, a large theatre in the Theatre block, a cafe, and a confectionary.