Langley (B.C.)

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Alexander Hope interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alex Hope begins this tape with family history; he talks about his grandfather's [Mavis] first trip to BC in 1858 and his later settlement in the Langley area; his father, a land surveyor, surveyed for the Mavis family and moved to Langley in 1907. He relates background information about the Fort Langley restoration project; the Mavis family lived on the site of the fort, and Mr. Hope describes the remaining buildings which were on the property when his grandparents purchased the land in 1886; the Langley Historical Society and the restoration of Fort Langley; government funding; for the project; historical research and planning; the official opening in 1958; archeological studies of the site and information about the Hudson's Bay Company; exploration of southwestern BC. TRACK 2: Mr. Hope talks about the settlement of Derby; a history of Fort Langley; Old Fort Langley and New Fort Langley; chief factors at the fort; town of Fort Langley; river transportation; mail delivery; the Hudson's Bay Company farm site; the CNR; origins of the Fort Langley/Albion Ferry; early settlers; Joe Morrison; McClughan family; the telegraph trail; the Yale Road; early communities.

Bert Williams interview

CALL NUMBER: T0451:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Bert Williams recounts his father's arrival in Ontario, and the family's later move to Langley to homestead in 1889. He relates early incidents; other families; the trip to Langley; early homesteaders; remittance men; building their first home; Bovel's Mill; cougar stories; life on the homestead; the family's garden; livestock; the Salmon River. TRACK 2: Bert Williams continues, discussing grouse hunting; clearing land; an anecdotes about life on the homestead; his mother's life on the farm; preachers; entertainment; boyhood antics; bear stories; a description of Fort Langley in 1895.

CALL NUMBER: T0451:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Williams talks about the Telegraph Trail and roads in the area; names of roads; the township system; the Salmon River Bridge; peddlers; entertainment; different types of transportation, carts and buggies; local incidents. TRACK 2: Mr. Williams continues with his discussion about farm incidents; horses and teams; the Langley Country Fair; summer picnics; Blackie's Spit; winters and changing weather conditions; effects of a 1911 or 1912 Alaskan volcanic eruption and earthquake; fencing; the New Westminster Market; ferry at Brownsville; the railroad bridge; work on the telephone line.

CALL NUMBER: T0451:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02 or 1963-03-20-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Williams continues with recollections about peddlers; Christmastime; social occasions; bear incidents. TRACK 2: Mr. Williams talks about farming and milk production; local feuds; anecdotes about pioneer life; Jim Melrose; hog killing; church; the Seeley brothers; prosperity in the 1910s; drilling for artesian wells.

Beulah Probert interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Probert recounts her family's arrival in the Langley area in 1900; the farm site; dairy produce; Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association; mosquitoes; farm life; schooling; Bill Miner; ;school teachers; community life; neighbours; fishing and hunting. TRACK 2: Mrs. Probert continues with the discussion about fishing; Crescent Island; Boyd Island; wildlife; churches; picnics; 24th o;f May celebrations; dances; box socials; entertainments; anecdotes about the area; Neil Cameron; Jason Allard; interesting characters; Christmas.

Captain Hollis Young interview

CALL NUMBER: T0696:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Young recalls his family's arrival in BC in 1889, and their work with sternwheelers carrying passengers and cargo on the Fraser River. He speaks about various boats the family owned; the shipping service; incidents; tow-boating, his work on the government dredge for twenty-one years; James Island. He recalls conditions on the Fraser route; customers; navigation; C.P.R. competition; the "Ramona", the "Paystreak", the "Hamlin" and the "New Westminster". TRACK 2: Captain Young continues with his recollections of his work along the Fraser; competition from the BC Electric Railway; local boat building; the flood of 1894; a May 24th excursion to Harrison Hot Springs; the Western Navigation Company, the "Ramona", and the "Paystreak"; Langley's waterfront hotels; crew; boat accommodation and navigation. He talks about his early family life and boating; travel to Chilliwack; accidents; seasonal navigation difficulties, and learning navigation.

CALL NUMBER: T0696:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Young talks about his early boating years with his father; navigation licenses; and nostalgia for sternwheelers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Chilliwack and Fraser Valley way points

The item consists of a film record of BC Electric passenger railway routes and interurban service in the Fraser Valley. It shows the line's last run before it shut down in 1950. One sections documents the entire route, from the Interurban Train Depot at Hastings and Carrall in Vancouver, through New Westminster, across the Fraser River, through Surrey, Cloverdale, Langley Prairie, Clayburn, Abbotsford (and other way points) to Chilliwack. Derelict cars are scrapped and burned at the Kitsilano yards under Burrard Street Bridge.

Dan Cummings interview

CALL NUMBER: T0749:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dan Cummings talks about his father [Rod Cummings] coming west from P.E.I. in 1879 to Vancouver; his father and uncle homesteading in Langley in 1888; logging bees; clearing land; burning out trees; statute labour; logging; Royal City Mills; logging mills and camps; Hamry's bus line; roads; New Westminster market; farming in the area; local incidents; more information about the New Westminster market. TRACK 2: Mr. Cummings continues with recollections about the New Westminster market; the land boom; river transportation; peddlers; Prefontaine; Langley Prairie, Innis' Corner; early ;crops; anecdotes about pioneer life; food; winter weather; sleigh bells; mosquitoes; peddlers; recollections about the development of Langley Prairie.; CALL NUMBER: T0749:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Cummings talks about the new Trans-Canada Highway; Murrayville; early stores in Langley; the Hughie Davidson and John Riddle store; the customs officer at Shortridge's Corner; Coulter an;d Berry store; growth of Murrayville; milk production; recreation and dances; teachers; schools; Otter School; Lochiel School; childhood memories and chores; churches and church life; Milner; the Hudson's Bay Company farm land; subdivision and land boom; Fruitvale; land development. TRACK 2: Mr. Cummings discusses the railway routes; the Great Northern Railway; BC Electric; construction of the railways; politics; road names; naming of Murrayville; the high school.

Edith Chatwin and Alma Ward interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Chatwin recalls her father, William Hampton, and his farm at Maple Ridge; the homestead; schooling; Hammond; Haney; churches; transportation; winters and childhood. Her sister; Mrs. Ward, talks about their father and his early life in Cornwall, England. In 1873 he went to Colorado; where he met his future wife; they moved to Maple Ridge in 1879; with the Laittie family. Mrs. Ward; describes early impressions of Maple Ridge; the location of the community; clearing land; working with oxen. TRACK 2: Mrs. Ward continues speaking about oxen; the family farm; interesting character;s; clothing; social events; the Hicks family; education and teaching; farm tools and house construction. Mrs. Chatwin continues with a discussion about the family's early impressions of Maple Ridge; food; diphtheria; local characters; Haney; Hammond; washing clothes; dairy products; clothing; Langley.

Fraser Valley : Langley

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews dealing with the history of the Langley area of the Fraser Valley, including Fort Langley, Glen Valley, Milner, and Murrayville. The time period covered is ca. 1880 to ca. 1920.

Ira Biggar interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-01-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Biggar recounts his father's coming from P.E.I. to the Langley area in 1887; homesteading in Biggar Prairie; other settlers from P.E.I.; settling the prairie; building; flooding; early settlers; Eric Anderson; schooling; comparison to P.E.I.; winter on the prairie; the railway; Blaine; pioneer life; improvements to the homestead; farming; taking produce to market; roads and trail; livestock. TRACK 2: Mr. Biggar discusses various jobs; the BC Electric; Fred Sinclair; working for the BC Electric; storms; Biggar homesteads; logging; churches; Alexander Tate; doctors; naming of the; community.

Lands records

  • GR-0767
  • Series
  • 1858-1863

This series consists of land records from the Colony of British Columbia Lands and Works Department, 1858-1863. Most records are related to the sale of town lots at Langley, 1858-1859, and New Westminster, 1860-1862, including records of exchanges of lots at Langley for lots at New Westminster. The series also include various other land records related to New Westminster, Douglas, Hope, Yale, Lytton and Lillooet, including pre-emptions, lot registers, accounts for sales of town and suburban lots, and lists of deeds issued.

British Columbia (Colony). Lands and Works Dept.

Langley land sales book

The item is a land sale book for Langley. The book is arranged alphabetically by name of purchaser and includes block and lot number, the dates payments were made.

Living memory : Langley Prairie

SUMMARY: "Langley Prairie", the fifth episode, features people of Milner and Murrayville. The voices heard include Dan Cummings, Bert Williams and Mrs. Jenny Medd.

The recording is incomplete.

Living memory : The way in

SUMMARY: "The Way In", the first episode in the series, describes the trails, roads and rivers used by the first settlers. The voices heard are: Jim Kipp, Leon Ladner, Constance Cruickshank, and Bert Williams.

Powell, George Eli, 1862-1944. Langley; Postmaster.

George E. Powell was a pioneer resident of the Langley area and postmaster at Hopington, B.C. for twenty-three years. The Powell papers include diaries, 1909-1927; copies of several of Powell's poems; two letters and miscellaneous clippings.

Loaned for copying by Mrs. James Livingstone, Vancouver, 1974.

Powell, George Eli, 1862-1944

Princess in wonderland : out-takes, reel no. 1

The item consists of a film reel of out-takes from 1958. It shows the royal visit by HRH Princess Margaret and centennial celebrations in BC. Footage includes: Naval review; New Westminster City Hall; Williams Lake Stampede (from grandstand); last cruise of the ferry "David Lloyd-Jones"; long shot of Okanagan Lake Bridge; Nanaimo cake; first arrival at Empress Hotel; Fleet review; Langley; Williams Lake Stampede (from fence); UBC convocation procession; UBC Memorial Gymnasium; Prince George; Quesnel; train parked; Chilliwack; HMCS "Crescent"; Naval review; New Westminster City Hall; Vancouver City Hall; Mayor Hume; church attendance in Kelowna; crowds at Vancouver City Hall and New Westminster City Hall; Pattullo Bridge, New Westminster; children's wing at Vancouver Preventorium; RCAF honour guard review at Comox airport; Comox hospital; arrival and convocation procession at UBC; HMCS "Crescent"; Veterans hospital, Vancouver; presentation of First Nations gift and dances.

Receipts for payment on town lots : Langley

The item is a land sale receipt book for the district of Langley, numbered 1 to 206. Most of the receipts have been torn out, leaving only the counterfoils. Listed on the counterfoils are the rotation number, the name of the person, block number, lot number, date and amount paid. A few receipts are still intact and show the signature of J.D. Pemberton, Acting Colonial Surveyor.

Receipts for payment on town lots : Langley

The item is a land sale receipt book for the district of Langley, numbered 207 to 339. Most of the receipts have been torn out, leaving only the counterfoils. Listed on the counterfoils are the rotation number, the name of the person, block number, lot number, date and amount paid. A few receipts are still intact and show the signature of J.D. Pemberton, Acting Colonial Surveyor.

Robert Yeomans interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bob Yeomans talks about early Langley; his father's coming in 1882 to homestead; the origins of Derby; first settlers in the area, Smith, Muench, Campbell; trails and roads; Port Kells; the landslide at Haney in 1881; the Yeomans family; farming and logging; schooling; dyking the area and the land boom. TRACK 2: Bob Yeomans continues with incidents that occurred during the land boom; h;is father's early years; Indians; childhood memories; teachers; mosquitoes; other settlers; roads; flood of 1894; land deals; logging; shingle mills; community life; Tynehead; school memories.

Suburban land sale receipts

The file contains suburban land sale receipts from various registers, for lots sold at Langley and New Westminster, 1860 to 1866. The records include the name of the purchaser, the date and the amount paid. In most cases, only the counterfoil remains. There are also a few miscellaneous cancelled timber licences and a mining licence at the end of the file.

Town lots, Langley

The item contains land sale information for Langley. It is arranged by block and lot number and includes the name of the purchaser and the dates payments were made.

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