Langley-Abbotsford.
5 candidates, one seat.

The Stó:lō Service Agency Society says its core administrative area extends from Yale to Langley, and it lists Matsqui, with the traditional name Màthxwi, among its member communities. Metro Vancouver's 2013 management plan for Aldergrove Regional Park places the park in Stó:lō territory. The plan says that only the Matsqui First Nation, a member band of the Stó:lō Nation, includes the park area in its traditional territory. It records Leqetsel as the name of Pepin Brook and Meqsel, a word it translates as nose, as the name of a Transformer stone in the east of the park.

The plan says that the land around Matsqui Indian Reserve 4, including the Gordon's Brook area of the park, was the site of large gatherings before European settlement. It dates the reserve to 1868 and places it beside the south-west boundary of the park. The Province's page on the Matsqui First Nation gives a population of 299 and says the Nation is one of five of eleven Stó:lō Nation bands negotiating land and resource issues outside the British Columbia treaty process.

The Province lists the Kwantlen First Nation at Fort Langley, with a population of 564. The Nation's own website says it is located between two Halkomelem dialects, the upriver Halq'eméylem and the downriver hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, and that it honours both. The Langley School District's page for Aldergrove Community Secondary School acknowledges the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Máthxwi, q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓, q̓ic̓əy̓ and SEMYOME First Nations.

BC Geographical Names records that the Corporation of the Township of Langley was incorporated as a district municipality on 26 April 1873. Metro Vancouver's park plan describes it as a ten-mile square with its northern border on the Fraser River, and says a strip of land 2.5 miles wide, which it calls orphaned territory, lay between the township and the international border. The same record says a small portion on the western side was re-incorporated as the City of Langley on 15 March 1955.

KnowBC says Paul Murray settled at Murray's Corners in 1874 and built a hotel on the old Yale Road, and that a sawmill and a store followed in the 1880s. The Canadian Register of Historic Places says the Murray family received Crown grants of 160 acres on each corner of the crossing of the New Westminster-Yale Road and the Fort Langley Trail. It places the change of name to Murrayville in 1911 or close to it, made purportedly at the wish of the newly arrived post office. KnowBC says Murrayville was the commercial centre of Langley in the early 1900s and the site of the municipal hall and high school, until economic power shifted to Langley Prairie.

The Register says the pumphouse at Five Corners has supplied water to Murrayville continuously since 1911, when a resident pumped water from an artesian well to Belmont School and the Municipal Hall with a hydraulic ram. The present pumphouse was built in 1928 to shelter an electric pump. The Aldergrove Star reports that Old Yale Road began as a dirt path for wagons in the 1870s and was covered with gravel in 1897, and that the concrete surface west of Five Corners was poured in 1923. The Star gives 1928 as the year Murrayville Community Hall opened.

The park plan records that the Oregon Boundary Treaty of 1846 set the 49th parallel as the international boundary, and that little was done to mark it on the ground until gold was discovered. By mid-July 1858 the British and American Boundary Commissions were both at work. Royal Engineers made a camp on Semiahmoo Bay and began to work eastward, creating the Boundary Commission Trail along the 49th parallel to Sumas. The plan says the largest push to settle the area came in 1899, when families from Norway and Sweden arrived, followed by settlers from the United Kingdom, Japan and India.

The plan names farm families whose land became part of the park. The Loucks family settled in 1908 on a mixed farm and sold produce in New Westminster and Vancouver, and in 1912 William Marley Loucks built an Edwardian house that still stands in the park. In 1929 the Pepin family moved from the Campbell Valley area to a farm, and its dairy later operated as Pepindale Dairy. The plan adds that the people of Matsqui took part in the new farm economy, with the Fraser River as their link for trade and communication.

The plan says the Tanaka family bought a property in 1938 to expand its soft fruit and vegetable farm. In 1942 Japanese families in British Columbia were declared enemy aliens and forcibly moved from coastal areas. The Tanaka family was sent to Tachme, an internment camp near Hope, and the government seized its farm and assets.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places says the first name of the Aldergrove area was Shortreed, after Robert Shortreed Jr., who arrived in 1883 and ran a general store with the telegraph, the post office and a blacksmith shop. The Aldergrove Star reports that the crossroads where the Yale Road met a trail to the United States became known as Shortreed's Corners, after the brothers Robert Jr. and Duncan Shortreed from Ontario. The settlement later took the name Alder Grove, suggested by George Bruskey because of the many alder trees, and the Alder Grove Post Office opened on 1 October 1885. The Register says the name later became one word, possibly at the insistence of the post office. The Star adds that the settlement had the Township's first customs office, in the home of the settler William Vanetta.

The Register says Frederick John Hart, a Newfoundlander who worked as a life insurance salesman and realtor, promoted settlement of the Aldergrove area through building construction and a planned townsite, and donated land for a church. The building put up for him in 1910 first held a bank, a home improvement store and a realty office. Four years later the BC Telephone Company bought it and ran the local telephone exchange there until 1952. Since 1993 it has been a telephone museum and community archives for Aldergrove.

The Aldergrove Star reports that the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern, a subsidiary of the Great Northern Railway, built its line to Aldergrove from the west in 1908 and opened it in 1909. By March 1910 trains ran daily except Sundays, and by 1924 service had fallen to three times a week. The railway applied to close the Aldergrove station in 1925, and the federal government refused after protests from residents. The last train ran in 1929 and the tracks stayed in place until 1934. The Register says Aldergrove was one of only two Great Northern stops in Langley.

KnowBC describes Glen Valley as a former steamship landing on the south shore of the Fraser River and a dairy farming district on soil left by a turn of the river. It says Gilbert McKay first settled it in 1877. BC Geographical Names places Glen Valley in the northeast corner of Langley and quotes a 1927 letter saying that two or three of the first settlers chose the name, with 1890 given as the probable year. Earlier names were Beaver Valley and Cromarty's Prairie. The post office opened on 1 November 1904 and closed on 30 April 1968, and a railway station stood near Nathan Creek.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places says the Glen Valley community grew around McKay's wharf at the foot of Jackman Road, now 272nd Street. The original McKay house, which held the first post office and the first store in 1904, was moved back from the river, and the Hassall house was built on that site in 1917. The Register calls it one of a few houses in the area built on land acquired from the Soldiers' Settlement Board, which encouraged men returning from the First World War to take up small farms. Jack Hassall and his wife Christina ran a dairy farm, and the family lived in the house from 1918 until the late 1970s. The house stands between the railway and the Fraser River in a regional park.

The Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society says the British Columbia Electric Railway completed its Fraser Valley line in 1910 and began passenger service on October 3, 1910. The line ran from downtown Vancouver to Chilliwack, with up to four round trips each day, and it last carried passengers in 1955. KnowBC says Bradner was a stop on this interurban line and describes it as a community 15 km west of downtown Abbotsford that is now part of that city.

KnowBC adds that since the 1920s Bradner has been the centre of the largest bulb-growing area in British Columbia and is known as the Daffodil Capital of Canada, and that an annual spring flower show has been held there since 1928. The Aldergrove Star reports that Fenwick Fatkin started the Bradner Flower Show in 1928, after arriving from Newcastle on Tyne, England, in 1912. He had seen that conditions in Bradner were ideal for daffodils and started the area's first bulb business on his homestead. In 2015 a daffodil memorial stood on Bradner Road near the Bradner community hall.

Fraser Health says Langley Memorial Hospital, first known as the cottage hospital, opened in 1948 with 35 beds. The Aldergrove Star's 2017 profile of Murrayville says the hospital has stood on the hill in Murrayville since 1948 and that Murrayville is also home to the Langley RCMP headquarters, the Langley School District office and Langley Regional Airport, which houses the Canadian Museum of Flight. BC Geographical Names records that the name Brookswood was adopted for a settlement on 3 May 1951, and that a Brookswood post office was open from 16 February 1925 to 15 October 1926.

The Langley School District says Aldergrove Community Secondary School opened in 1958 as Aldergrove Junior-Senior High School, the second oldest school in the district. It welcomed First Nations students and their families from Haida Gwaii, Bella Bella and Bella Coola, who lived in the homes of local Aldergrove families. A teacher asked Ellen Neel, a hereditary totem carver of the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation, to carve a pole for the school, which became known as the Totems.

The park plan says the Keillor family bought a parcel of land in 1959 and planned a lake with a camping area. The base of the lake was built in 1962 and the beach fully opened in 1963 as Aldergrove Beach. In 1967 the Greater Vancouver Regional District, now Metro Vancouver, began to assemble land for a park, and it has operated the park since 1969. The lake closed in early 2011 because of its lifespan, and the plan counts 342,000 visitors to the park in 2012.

Statistics Canada's 2016 Census of Agriculture, as compiled by Metro Vancouver, counts 1,103 farms in Langley, down from 1,584 in 1996. Total farm area was 10,807 hectares in 2016. Gross farm receipts were $340,111,011 in 2015, against $203,399,307 in 2000. The bulletin's figures cover all of Langley, which is larger than this district.