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On June 3, 2007, we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Albion-Fort Langley ferry service.
It will be a bitter-sweet day for both workers and passengers of the ferry with the knowledge that service will be discontinued as soon as the Golden Ears Bridge across the Fraser River is in operation.
People living on both sides of the Fraser River have always moved back and forth regularly, but by rowboat or canoe in early days.
The campaign to have regular ferry service began a surprisingly long time before the first trip in 1957.
Jordana Feist, curator at the Maple Ridge Museum, has researched the 30 years of effort it took to bring the obvious need into reality.
In July of 1924, a Gazette article urged the mayor and council to keep...