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Rudi Dangelmaier was born in Germany in 1909. He trained as a designer, artist and teacher in Stuttgart, Munich and Ulm. He came to Canada in 1929. While living in Saskatchewan, he met and married his wife, Margaret. The couple had two sons. They moved to BC in 1937. Here he worked in Vancouver as an architectural designer and establishing himself as an artist. In 1976 the BC Provincial Museum sponsored an exhibit of his paintings, and they travelled the province for two years. In 1989 a collection of his paintings was published in "Pioneer Buildings of British Columbia." Rudi and Margaret moved to Langley in 1980. He passed away on December 24, 199

Douglas Day celebrations held every November in the Township of Langley, B.C., commemorate the founding of the mainland colony of British Columbia by Sir James Douglas at Fort Langley, B.C., on November 19, 1858.