Langley-Walnut Grove.
4 candidates, one seat.

Kwantlen First Nation has its office at 9712 Glover Road in Fort Langley. The Nation's own website says it sits between two dialects of Halkomelem, the upriver Halq'eméylem and the downriver hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, and that the community honours both. The Province lists the Nation as located on the Fraser River at Fort Langley.

The Township of Langley's acknowledgement says the Township is on the traditional territories of the q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), Se’mya’me (Semiahmoo) and Máthxwi (Matsqui) First Nations. The Township names the same four Nations as partners in salishan Place by the River, its arts, culture and heritage centre in Fort Langley. The acknowledgement covers the whole Township, which is larger than this district.

Parks Canada says Fort Langley stood on a trade route, in the middle of a large Indigenous population. When the Hudson's Bay Company came for furs, the Kwantlen people had other business in mind. Chief Whattlekainum pressed the Company's traders to accept salmon and cranberries, and salted salmon was soon shipped to Hawaii and cranberries to California.

BC Geographical Names records that Chief Trader James McMillan of the Hudson's Bay Company founded Fort Langley in 1827, and that the fort took its name from Thomas Langley, a director of the company. The plaque text held by Parks Canada says the company built the first fort 2 1/2 miles below the present site. The company moved the fort in 1839, and the new fort burned and was rebuilt in 1840. The Canadian Register of Historic Places says the company ran a post on the present site until 1886, and that in its later years the post turned from furs to farm produce and fish packing.

The site of the first fort was called Derby, and in 1858 it was chosen for a capital. BC Geographical Names says Governor James Douglas decided that year to place the capital of the new Crown Colony of British Columbia at Derby, and made his proclamation at Fort Yale on 15 September 1858. Colonel R.C. Moody disapproved of the site when he arrived in December 1858, and the capital was established at New Westminster. Parks Canada says gold found on the Fraser River in 1858 brought 30,000 miners to Fort Langley, and that on 19 November 1858 Governor Douglas proclaimed the Colony of British Columbia at the fort.

Parks Canada reports that the fort became a national historic site in 1923, and that its one original building opened to the public in 1931. The Register says the site was expanded twice, in the 1950s with the provincial centennial celebrations and again in the 1990s.

The first council of the Township of Langley met in a school in Fort Langley. The Langley Retired Teachers' Association's school history says a school opened at Fort Langley on 23 November 1868 on Hudson's Bay Company land on Mavis Street. A later school opened on 8 August 1872 at the corner of Hudson Bay Avenue and Glover Road, and the history says the first council meeting after incorporation was held there in 1873. BC Geographical Names gives 26 April 1873 as the date of incorporation.

BC Geographical Names records that the post office opened on 1 March 1875 under the name Langley. It became Langley Fort on 1 December 1912 and Fort Langley on 1 July 1925. The Canadian Northern Railway Station in the village dates from 1915, according to the Canadian Register of Historic Places. The Aldergrove Star reports that trains used it full time until 1972, when it was reduced to a flag stop.

The village gained its community hall in 1931. The Register says volunteers built the hall for the Fort Langley Community Improvement Society, to a design by the Vancouver architect Archibald Campbell Hope, and that the Society's first president was Mrs. Hector Morrison. The Township's museum history says the Native Sons of B.C. bought the Storehouse, the last remaining Hudson's Bay Company fort building, and the three acres around it from the Mavis family in the 1920s. The Storehouse opened as a museum in 1931.

Fort Langley School No. 6 opened on 30 December 1957, according to the retired teachers' school history, and the old school was taken down. Fort Langley Elementary now stands at 8877 Bartlett Street. The Township's museum history says the Langley Centennial Museum opened on 1 July 1958, a century after the colony was proclaimed, and that the Government of Canada gave it the National Exhibition Centre designation in 1974. The galleries on King Street closed on 30 September 2022.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places says the Township created a development permit area in the village in 1989 and adopted design guidelines for facades and signs in 1993. It created Langley's first Heritage Conservation Area in 1997, covering 9 square blocks of the Village of Fort Langley.

salishan Place by the River replaced the old museum. The Township describes it as a 40,000 square foot arts, culture and heritage centre in Fort Langley, developed in partnership with the Katzie, Kwantlen, Matsqui and Semiahmoo First Nations. The Fort Langley Library opened inside it on Saturday, 8 February 2025. The Township says the museum collection that is moving in includes more than 17,000 objects.

The Canadian Encyclopedia says the economy of Langley was based mostly on farming before the Trans-Canada Highway arrived in the early 1960s. Better access and land suited to subdivision then led to many new houses. KnowBC describes Walnut Grove as a rural district that grew into a suburb, and says it holds WindSong, the second co-housing project in Canada.

The school record shows where the builders expected people to settle. The retired teachers' history says planning for a school named Willoughby Secondary began in late 1975 or early 1976, and that it was completed in February 1977 and renamed R.E. Mountain Secondary after Roy Mountain, who spent 44 years in Langley schools. The school stands on 202A Street, which was believed to be the next major growth area. The history says later growth in the Walnut Grove area proved that belief wrong, so Mountain remained one of the smallest secondary schools in Langley.

The Walnut Grove subdivision north of 88 Avenue grew larger instead. Students were bussed to Fort Langley Junior Secondary and R.E. Mountain until Walnut Grove Secondary opened on Walnut Grove Drive in 1990, with Mary Wright as principal. The school district set up 25 portables at one point. In 2002 the school was the largest in the Langley district, and in 2004 it had 1,892 students. The Township's community profile counts Walnut Grove, together with northwest Langley, at 21,455 people in the 2001 census and 25,220 in the 2016 census.

The Township of Langley's Willoughby Community Plan page lists a 1998 plan, Bylaw 3800, as the background document, and says the plan has shaped Willoughby over the past 30 years. The Township's 2019 community profile gives census counts for Willoughby of 7,250 people in 2001, 13,005 in 2006, 20,335 in 2011 and 31,305 in 2016. That is a rise of 24,055 people in fifteen years. The counts include Willowbrook, which the commission places in the neighbouring district of Langley-Willowbrook.

The Langley Advance Times reported on 2 August 2017 that the three newest schools in Langley had all opened in the Willoughby and Willowbrook area: Lynn Fripps Elementary in 2012, Richard Bulpitt Elementary in 2013 and Yorkson Creek Middle School in 2014. Elections BC lists all three as voting places inside this district in 2024.

TransLink says the Golden Ears Bridge and its 14-kilometre road network opened to traffic on 16 June 2009, and the Township's profile says Walnut Grove connects directly to the bridge. The Township's page on the Willoughby plan says the plan is being refreshed as part of the 2025 Official Community Plan update, in response to the 200 Street bus rapid transit corridor. The refresh would combine several neighbourhood plans into new plans, and the Township expects to give more information in 2026.