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Object Description

Object ID

2019.011.001

Title

Souvenir Programme: Welcome Home to Returned Soldiers Open Air Festival and Grand Ball.

Date

4 Aug. 1919.

Description

Ten page souvenir programme for the "Welcome Home to Returned Soldiers/ Open Air Festival and/ Grand Ball," held in Fort Langley on August 4, 1919. The program contains details about soldiers from Langley who served in World War I, including those who survived and those killed. There is a schedule of events for the day, which features sports races and swimming events, culminating in speeches and a dance. The front of the program has script in Gothic and serif fonts, all surrounded by a decorative border. The front cover reads: "Souvenir Programme/ Welcome Home to Returned Soldiers/ Open Air Festival and/ Grand Ball/ Given by the Municipal Council and Citizens of Langley to/ Their Soldiers Home From the Great War, 1914-1919, at/ LANGLEY FORT, B.C./ Monday, August 4th, 1919/ Fifth Anniversary of the Declaration of War/ August 4th, 1914/ Under the auspices of Langley Municipal Council." This particular program has "K. McIver" handwritten in the top right corner.

People/Subject

McIver, Kenny

Kenneth McIver was born on June 5th, 1890 to his parents Murdoch and Annie McIver, and was one of nine children, their youngest living son. On September 21st, 1921, he married Ellen Isabella Hallack. In 1927, when Murdoch and Annie McIver moved to a Francis Street address in Fort Langley, they sold half of their farm (80 acres) and left the other half to Kenneth and Ellen. The couple had four daughters: Norma, Anna, Jean, and Lois. Kenneth served as a school trustee and was a member of the Langley Agricultural Association, Langley Farmers’ Insitute, and Native Sons of B.C. Post #9. He also helped out with, and then took over the Langley exhibit at the New Westminster Fair/Fall Fair, from 1904 until just before his death. Kenneth McIver died on August 5th, 1949 at the age of 59. He was buried in the Fort Langley cemetery.

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-334/1105)
Oral history interview with Ellen Isabella Mufford.
"The Place Between: 1860-1939" by the Aldergrove Heritage Society.
Royal B.C. Museum Genealogy Archives.

World War, 1914-1918

Argus v4.3.6.40 - Langley Centennial Museum