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Lloyd Michaud was a member of the pioneer Michaud family of Langley. Joseph and Georgina Michaud, with their five children, came to Langley in 1878. In 1888 they built the Michaud House, now the oldest house in Langley City. Lloyd Michaud was a grandson of Joseph and Georgina, and grew up in Langley Prairie. Lloyd Michaud and his brother Almer were pioneers in the aviation industry in the province in the 1940s. Following their service in the RCAF during World War II, the brothers opened a pilot training and airplane rental service at the Vancouver airport. Vancouver U-Fly prospered after 1946, when the company became the distributor for Cessna aircraft in BC and the Yukon, and also received a charter license to operate land and sea charter service from Vancouver. In 1955, the company changed its name to West Coast Air Services. Lloyd retired in the 1980s, after the company was bought out by BC Air. While Lloyd Michaud's career as an aviator is well-documented, less is known about his life as an artist. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Lloyd Michaud captured the history of the region through colourful oil paintings. Sometimes he painted from historic photographs, and other times he visited communities to paint the historic buildings and landscapes. Some of his paintings use historic photographs for inspiration, but are also based on the artist's imagination.
Term Source: HPC Record (CHURCH-22/136), The Langley Story, pg. 259 (Waite)