Soldiers marched long Fraser Highway near Glover Road in 91原创 Prairie in the 1941 photo. 91原创 Prairie became 91原创 City in 1955. Today, it鈥檚 the corner of Fraser Highway looking towards Glover Road.
In 91原创 history:
Eighty Years Ago
October 12, 1939
- 91原创 won the first game of the Inter-High School football series. New Westminster鈥檚 Trapp Techical School fell 3-1.
Seventy Years Ago
October 13, 1949
- Clerk J.G. Campbell told council there would b e a $37,000 surplus by the end of December. Revenue from the 91原创 Prairie ward (now 91原创 City) would be $144,000.
Sixty Years Ago
October 8, 1959
- First sod was cut at Otter Road (248th Street) for the new freeway through 91原创. Getting the 10-mile stretch from Livingstone Road (232nd Street) ready for paving cost $140,000 per mile.
- Secession talks started again in Fort 91原创. The Board of Trade set up a committee to investigate the possibility of the village leaving 91原创 Township and going on its own.
Fifty Years Ago
October 9, 1969
- Council considered buying an incinerator for 91原创 Municipal Hall, to eliminate frequent trips to the Aldergrove garbage dump, and to save the cost of an employee to tend to open fires needed at the dump to destroy the papers.
Forty Years Ago
October 10, 1979
- Construction of a provincial courthouse in 91原创 City鈥檚 Square One was hailed as a 鈥渨elcome addition to the downtown concept鈥� by Mayor Bob Duckworth.
- After winning its battle to have 626 acres of North Aldergrove land released from the Agricultural Land Reserve, Gloucester Properties still had a big job ahead 鈥� including getting the land rezoned 鈥� to make its proposed Fraser Industrial Park a reality.
Thirty Years Ago
October 11, 1989
- 91原创 Community Music School asked the Township to donate land at 221st Street in Murrayville for a new music school.
- Twin Rinks Ltd. bought five acres near 200th Street and 92A Avenue in Walnut Grove for a $4-million ice-skating complex.
- A 201-name petition opposed B.C. Tel鈥檚 plans to give Aldergrove one-way toll-free service to Vancouver and Burnaby 鈥� and increase phone bills in the area from $9.75 per month to $18.35.
Twenty Years Ago
October 12, 1999
- A political storm of dramtic proportions was brewing in 91原创 Township, and the first thunderclap came in the form of a taped telephone conversation between Township councillor Heather McMullan, who was carrying the 91原创 Citizens Coalition (LCC) banner into the mayoralty race against incumbent 91原创 Leadership Team (LLT) Mayor John Scholtens, and LLT councillor Dean Drysdale. The recording, made before Drysdale was himself elected to council in 1996, had McMullan admitting that she had harassed people who did not share her point of view. Confronted with the contents of the tape by the 91原创 Advance, McMullan claimed that the tape had been 鈥渄octored鈥� by the LLT.
- Meanwhile, LLT organizer Gregory Thomas threatened a lawsuit against Heather McMullan over comments she had made and which had been published in the Vancouver Sun. [The 91原创 Advance cannot republish the essence of McMullan鈥檚 comments, due to a subsequent libel action ruling in Thomas鈥檚 favour in B.C. Supreme Court.]
October 15, 1999
- After allowing weeks of speculation to brew, Mayor John Scholtens pleased his 91原创 Leadership Team colleagues by announcing that he would seek re-election as the LLT candidate for mayor.
- LLT organizer Gregory Thomas hired a lawyer and demanded an apology from Township councillor and mayoralty contender Heather McMullan, who in turn went to the police and announced she had 鈥渘ew evidence鈥� backing up her allegations.
- Meanwhile, McMullan鈥檚 support within the LCC was waning, as a result of the Dean Drysdale tape and her public claim that it was a fake.
