Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

1996.055.079

Title

Langley Lions Float in the Fort Langley May Day Parade.

Date

May 1983.

Description

A photograph of The Langley Lions float, with 10 people sitting on it and an American flag on the right front corner in the Fort Langley May Day Parade on Glover Road. At the very back and top of the float, there is a a person in a lion costume. There are people sitting and standing on the side of the road facing the camera watching the parade. In the right foreground, there is a man walking beside the float.

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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