Let’s head back to Aug. 19, 1961 to check out the huge, colourful float by the Municipality of Delta in that year’s PNE Parade.
Featuring a nine-foot sockeye salmon and 10-foot-high farmer with a moving head, the float carried several Delta Harvest Princesses and that year’s Harvest Queen, 16-year-old Susan Reuss.
Delta’s Harvest Festival was held July 28 at Memorial Park, sponsored by Delta Lodge No. 21 I.O.O.F.
The event featured a parade, music, games dancing under the stars and the crowing of the Harvest Queen.