The Langley Story Illustrated: An Early History of the Municipality of Langley

Book is in excellent condition in every respect with sharp corners, straight, solid binding, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket has several large tears along the folds, heavy chipping at edges. Clean boards in brown cloth, map endpapers. 280pp. Formerly of a private library with two stamps near the front of the book. Many b&w photos, some full page. Maps, tables, charts. Contents include Fur company exploration, First Fort Langley, Hudson's Bay co. , The great Langley prairie, A yuculta attack, Fraser river gold rush, Birth of B.C. Mainland's first church, Collins telegraph, Birth of Langley, Municipal troubles, The great railway, Great flood of '94, The B.C.E. railway, The war years, etc. "Don Waite began the task of collecting the material for this book with day by day interviews with the descendants of the pioneers.The book covers the history of the municipality from the time of the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company's first Fort Langley in 1827 until the end of the First World War in 1918."