DIXON HOUSE AND BARN
This grand farmhouse and the adjacent barn were built on highly productive lands that once belonged to the Hudson’s Bay Company and today remain in the Agricultural Land Reserve. After the BC Electric interurban rail line came through Milner in 1910, agricultural commerce quickly…
HARROWER HOUSE
Harrower House in Murrayville exudes country charm and local pioneer history. It’s not hard to imagine owners Robert and Mary Harrower relaxing with family on the verandah, chatting about the day’s events or chores that needed doing. Built between 1908 and 1910 from local timber, this one-and-a-half storey house was saved from demolition…
LAMB/STIRLING HOUSE
Lamb/Stirling House was battered and brokendown when the Langley Heritage Society began restoration work on this house with “good bones”, a partly enclosed verandah and decorative arched ornamental trim. Built in 1908 1910 by the David Lamb family, the house was originally located on a farm at 48th Avenue…
MICHAUD HOUSE
Built in 1888 by Joseph and Georgiana Michaud, this was home to the first French Canadian family in Langley municipality. Today the house sits on a quiet street near the heart of the city, but it was once part of a thriving dairy farm. The first Roman Catholic mass was held within its walls, before an old school house…
MOIR HOUSE
George Robert Moir and his wife Christian sailed from Glasgow to Quebec in 1908. Their final destination: tiny Milner, British Columbia. George was skilled as a master blacksmith and soon set up shop near the family house that was built in 1909. The blacksmith shop was central to the emerging…
SPERLING CHURCH
When Sperling Church held its first service in 1912, it was an important addition to a small rural community taking shape beside the BC Electric interurban line. The electric railway had expanded to this part of the Fraser Valley just two years earlier, connecting people and goods (milk to mail) to the major urban centres of New Westminster and Vancouver…
