Royal Engineer to Reeve: The Life and Times of Philip Jackman Royal Engineer to Reeve: The Life and Times of Philip Jackman Langley Centennial Museum
The Vanettas were another Aldergrove pioneering family that would intertwine with the history of the Jackmans. William Vanetta was a witness to Philip Jackman’s Aldergrove land declaration. Additionally, […]
Philip Jackman in front of what is believed to be Sarah and Philip’s first house in Aldergrove.
Robert Shortreed homesteaded and opened his store on the corner of what was then called Yale and County Line Roads, (now Fraser Highway and 264th Street). The Shortreed […]
A studio portrait of Philip Jr. and Anna Jackman. Philip Jr. was the Aldergrove postmaster working out of his father’s store from 1887 to 1890 and again later […]
A view of the Yale Road through downtown Aldergrove.
A copy of this picture hangs in the Mayor’s Office at the Township of Langley’s Civic Facility with photos of Langley’s mayors and reeves.
The photograph shows (from left to right) in the back row: Premier Richard McBride, Judge F.W. Howay, Mayor W.H. Keary (infant passenger on Royal Engineer ship), Henry Bruce, […]
A watercolour, gouache, and graphite on paper painting by William George Richardson Hind. The painting gives a glimpse into the life of a 1860s Cariboo region gold miner.
Tom Pope, great-grandson of Philip Jackman, stands by a former path in the Garden Meadow at Leasefields Farm. The large tree in the background is believed to be […]
This painting was made posthumously by a local artist in the Fraser Valley, BC.
A view of the Yale Road through downtown Aldergrove. This would have been how the village of Aldergrove looked during Philip and Sarah Jackman’s last years there.
Philip Jackman celebrated his 90th birthday on April 12th, 1925. It is believed that the cake was given to him by the New Westminster International Order of Odd […]