Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1978-12-20
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note: MH ACCORDING TO COMMISSIONER Legislative library Parliament Bldg, Victoria, B.C. Jan 79 Fund depletetL.no more bailing out of "hardship cases' ALDERGROVE - Bailing out "hardship cases" the B.C. Land Commission quickly spent the $25-million special fund established when the commission was first set up in 1975, a speaker told about 35 business people and residents at a chamber of commerce dinner here last week. Thc commission could have spent $100-million easily, Gordon Gram told the local merchants. Gram had been invited to the Dec. 13 meeting to explain to the local merchants why the B.C. Land Commission turned down an application from Gloucester Properties Ltd. for a large industrial park north of here. The senior civil servant ex plained the origin of Ihe commission, how and why it was formed, and why it had turned "down the Gloucester application which took the better part of last The Aldergrove Star Vol.21 No. 51 28 pages lllegitimus non carborundum Wednesday, December 20,1978 year fighting its way through the lesser bureaucratic maze made up of thc regional district and various boards.. Gram said thc commission had bailed out Grosvenor-Laing, a former major landowner in Langley district, to the tune of S5-million when it bought some 2,000 acres owned by the two British companies. Other landowners in thc province had been bailed out in a similar manner, he said. When asked why the public- owned commission did not buy out small landowners as well if it is lo be government policy for years to come that land - whether it be in agricultural production or not - must be saved lor future food productive use, Gram said that he realized that owners have to "be very big-minded" tu willingly go along with the commission's policies. He added that "wc must be forward thinking, looking 25, 50 or even a 100 years down thc road." However, the rather small fund had been depleted, and now il was up to individual owners to 25c per copy House made of gingerbread to replace civic ce…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0420914
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
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