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Object ID

2010.001.134

Title

Flowergirls, retiring and new May Queens and party on stage at May Day celebrations.

Date

May 1960.

Description

Flowergirls, retiring and new May Queens and party on stage at May Day celebrations. Karen Reid (retiring May Queen centre stage), with Wendy Lesiuk (new May Queen) standing to her left and John Condor behind them centre stage. The Langley Advance, May 26, 1960, page 3.

People/Subject

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.

May Queen

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-230/1026)

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