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William Thomas Crozier Blair (Bill) was born on 5 May, 1913 in Langley, to George Irvine and Elizabeth Blair, nee Culbert. He attended school in Milner, and at Langley High School. Bill took over part management of the family farm (on 216th Street, across from the airport) when his father died in 1933. He married Doris Livingston, whom he met through his sister, as they both attended Columbian College in New Westminster. They had six children: Jean, Doug, Jim, John, Terry, and Gordie. He was a director of the B.C. Federation of Agriculture, Director of the Mainland Dairymen's Association, Vice-president of the Artificial Insemination Centre, and a member of the B.C. Branch of the Holstein-Friesian Association. He served for 4 years as the Regional Board Director of the Central Fraser Valley Regional District. Blair served 19 years as a member of the Langley Municipal Council, between 1962 and 1981. In 1981 he became the Township's mayor, a position he held until his death March 28, 1985, at the age of 71, after a surgery to treat a perforated intestine. The W. C. Blair Recreation Centre in Murrayville was named for him.

In 1909 the first high school class was organized and held in rented quarters in Murrayville. From 1911-18, classes were held in Belmont Superior School (later Murrayville Elementary), but the school became overcrowded with elementary and high school students. The school board approached the Municipal Council, but their request for a new schol was turned down twice. The board resigned, but the next board was more successful and local contractor Owen Hughes was hired on a low bid of $11,900. The School Board temporarily found room for the overflow pupils from Murrayville in the downstairs portion of Milner Hall and by renting the Sharon Presbyterian Church Hall. In 1922, Langley High School moved from Murrayville to Milner School, where it remained until Langley High School was built on Yale Road in 1924. Langley High School opened in 1924 with two classrooms and one science room. It taught grades 9 to 12. Additional rooms were built in 1934. In roughly 1947 the new school on the current property (2005) was built, and it included Grades 11 and 12. In 1948, the old building on Fraser Highway became Langley Central Elementary, and the high school students moved to the current location (2006) at Langley SECONDARY School. In 1985 the school went from Grades 8-12.
See Also: Langley Secondary School
Term Source: History of Langley Schools" by Harry McTaggart, Maureen Pepin, and Norman Sherrit.

William John Larmon was born on 1 December, 1914. His parents were John and Alice Isabella Larmon (nee Medd). William died on 12 September, 2000.