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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

1996.055.067

Title

Clown and Unicycle in the Fort Langley May Day Parade.

Date

May 1983.

Description

A photograph of a clown carrying a unicycle, walking in the Fort Langley May Day Parade on Glover Road. He is wearing a short-sleeved shirt, a polka-dotted tie, a hat, and face paint, and is carrying the unicycle over one shoulder. There are people sitting and standing on the side of the road watching the parade.

People/Subject

Glover Road

The Langley Trunk Road (sometimes referred to as Trunk Road) was renamed Glover Road following W.W. I after Lieut. F.W. Glover, Langley's first municipal engineer.
See From: Langley Trunk Road, Trunk Road
See Also: streets and roads
Term Source: Roads and Place Names in Langley, B.C., pg. 57 (Pepin)

May Day celebrations

Fort Langley established its May Day in 1922, and it continues to be an annual tradition (2003). In Langley, May Day refers to the 24 of May, the date of the birth of Queen Victoria. The first May Day was held in Fort Langley, then the event moved to Langley Prairie from 1923-1957. In 1958 the Langley Kinsmen gave up the event, and it returned to Fort Langley where it was organized by the Community Improvement Society and the Fort Langley Lions club, and finally a community committee. May Day celebrations include the crowning of the May Queen and the May pole dancing.

Superbase See Also: May Day Celebrations - Langley Prairie
Term Source: Warren Sommer's "From Prairie to City", p. 154.

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