British Columbia History

DOCUMENTING A COMMUNITY The Surrey Leader Photograph Collection

It was a mid-March afternoon in 2017 when staff at the City of Surrey Archives learned of the imminent closure of the Surrey Leader and the potential acquisition of hundreds of thousands of photographs.

The was the main Surrey newspaper from 1929 to 2017. From its first issue, published on

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