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Object Description

Object ID

2021.001.008

Title

Harvest Queen Norma Mufford with others in Group Portrait.

Date

Sep. 1944.

Description

A black and white photograph of four women and three children, one boy and two girls. The three children stand in the front, with the boy in a darker jacket in the center with the two girls on both sides of him wearing light-coloured dresses and holding baskets with bouquets in them. The four young women in the back are wearing light-coloured dresses and tiaras, and are carrying bouquets. The group is standing outside, with trees in the background. The portrait was taken of harvest Queen Norma Mufford and her "royal party" as there is a note on the back of the photograph that says "HAZEL GREENWOOD/ NORMA MUFFORD - QUEEN/ BESSIE HURL - PAST QUEEN/ MARG HUNTER/ MARILYN JOHNSON/ JENNIE MCMILLAN/ ELMER/ ABOUT 1942". Directly on the back of the photo, "Mrs. Greenfield" is also written. Norma Mufford was crowned Harvest Queen in September 1944.

People/Subject

Hunter, Margaret

Margaret Greenfield was born in 1926 in Langley Prairie. She married Merv Hunter. Marg was a teacher at the Langley High School. She helped many students pass their Red Cross and Royal Life Saving Society Tests. She wsa a long-time volunteer for the Langley memorial hospital Auxiliary - Penny Pinchers and the Hospital Gift Shop. She was a member of the Cloverdale and Langley Curling Clubs, and the Langley Golf Centre, and Langley Lawn Bowlers Club. She was an active member of the Langley United Church. Margaret passed away on November 22, 2018 at the age of 92.

Hurl, Bessie

Langley High School student (Gade 10 1941-42). Bessie was 1943's Harvest Queen.

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.

Mufford, Norma

Member of the local Mufford family of Milner and one time Miss Langley. Milner School student in the 1930s.

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