In the Community

Let's do another throwback and check out this Delta Archives photograph of Captain Brewster and the "New Delta" ferry to Steveston leaving Ladner Government Wharf. The Ladner ferry service began 1913.

Let’s do a final throwback for the year and go back to a September 1979 edition of the Optimist , showing student crossing guards Caroline Visser and Ricky Taylor at Delta Manor school.

Let's go back in time and check out the inaugural year of South Delta Senior Secondary in the 1973/74 school year.........

Let’s go back to 1964 and the Know Your Friendly Ladner Merchants special section that in the Optimist in March of that year. One of the businesses featured was Overwaitea Foods, a grocery store located at 4857 Delta Street.

Let's do another throwback and head back to Ladner in Sept. 20, 1915. These Delta Archives photos show Australian student cadets, who were on tour of the British Empire, arriving in Ladner Harbour at the ferry slip.

This colour lithograph poster print from World War I from the Delta Archives shows the caption "Doing my bit- Four Years- Do yours- Buy Victory Bonds'" The poster shows a higlhland soldier holding up four fingers, indicating his years in service, urg

Let's do another throwback and head back to Ladner Village in the winter of 1916. The photo shows C. O. Lambert, G. Clement and Myrtle McCrae Grant shoveling snow on Westham Street outside the Clement and Lambert hardware store.

Let's take a step back in time to the pages of the Optimist during Christmas 1963. Here's some of the Delta businesses of yesteryear that ran greetings in a special Christmas suppliment.

Let’s go back to Christmas 1925 and visit Calvert family members having dinner with friends including the Guiry family. The above photo was taken at the Calvert's log home at around 12th Avenue and 56th Street, according to the Delta Archives.

Here's another throwback for you. The above Delta Archives photo shows Delta's William Tamboline in the official dress of a Ranger. The armband on William's right arm has the initials PCMR.