Photos have a wonderful power to capture specific moments in time. The digital collection at Langley Centennial Museum (now salishan Place by the River) is an excellent resource when hunting for images from Langley's past. We went searching for photos of the earliest days at Fort Langley's CNR Station, built by the Canadian Northern Railway in 1915 to a Class 3 standard. (The railway was later absorbed by the publicly owned Canadian National Railway after Canadian Northern went broke near the end of the Great War.) The photo below shows workers laying steel through Langley in 1911.   Below: More levelling work in Langley to prepare the rail grade. Below: The first Canadian Northern (CNoR) train arrives in Fort Langley.     Below: The station, as it looked in 1926. The gardens have begun to mature, tended by station agents Richard and Mary Simpson who lived at the station from [...]