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Object Description

Object ID

3049

Title

School children on a tour of the Langley Advance building.

Date

[ca. 1949].

Description

A school group getting a tour of the Langley Advance building, led by teacher Fred Cudlipp, standing on the left by the door. On the right in the background is George Johnson (Betty Cox's brother-in-law), standing in front of a kleisograph (it makes pictures). Boris Granholm is in the foreground working on a platen press, a machine that was used by the newspaper but also was a general prints business, able to make items such as berry tags and wedding invitations.

People/Subject

Cudlipp, Fred

Fred Cudlipp was a local teacher who taught at least in the 1940s. He quite often took kids on tours of the the Langley Advance newspaper.

Granholm, Boris

Boris Granholm worked for the Langley Advance Newspaper.

Johnson, George

George Johnson was a brother-in-law of Betty Cox. He worked at the Langley Advance newspaper.

Langley Advance (newspaper)

The paper was originally entitled the Langley Advance, and was first published July 23, 1931.The paper was started by Ernest J. Cox, who had moved to BC from North Battleford, Saskatchewan to take a half interest in the Abbotsford News along with Gerald Heller. At the same time, the Langley Board of Trade had been negotiating with Heller to start a paper in Langley: Cox took up the task. A few months after the Advance was founded, Cox and Heller went their separate ways, and Cox retained the Langley paper and Heller kept the Abbotsford paper. Cox ran the paper with the help of his wife and two teenaged children. After the war, son Fred Cox returned to the paper along with George Johnson (an RAF instructor) who had married daughter, Kathleen Cox. In 1947 Jim Schatz joined the paper. In 1949 The Langley Advance Publishing Co. Ltd. was formed with principals E.J. and Fred Cox, Johnson, and Schatz. E.J. Cox went into semi-retirement in 1958, and Fred Cox sold his interests in the paper, but took controlling interest of the commercial printing portion of the business. Schatz served as publisher and editor, and was well known in the BC newspaper industry. In 1981 Bob Groeneveld became editor, and remains editor today (2005).
Term Source: Paper Trails: a history of British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspapers, 1999 (by George Allan Afflek).

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