Fort Langley is a village community in Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Lying on the Fraser River, Fort Langley is at the northern edge of the Township of Langley.

Fort Langley was named after Thomas Langley, a director with HBC and dates from a time when the boundary between British and American possession of the trans-mountain west, known as the Columbia District to the British and Oregon Country to Americans, had not yet been decided. Fearing the 49th parallel north could become the demarcation line, Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, ordered the Hudson’s Bay Company to construct the original Fort Langley in 1827 at a location 4 km downstream from its present site. Fort Langley was intentionally constructed on the south bank of the Fraser River in the event that Fort Vancouver was lost to the Americans, then Fort Langley would secure British claims to both sides of the Fraser.

May Day, also called Workers’ Day or International Workers’ Day, is the day that commemorates the struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement.

Below is a selection of photos taken during a visit to Fort Langley and the preparation of the May Day parade on May 22, 2017. Click on a small photo for a larger view, then select the next one with the cursor keys or the arrows on either side of the photo.