The Grove

This photo came to us from Lianne Pryce whose grandfather once lived in this house. She asked if we knew where the home was actually located. It didn’t take local historian Warren Sommer long to identify it as the Morrison home, AKA The Grove which once stood near the base of Armstrong Road where it meets River Road, below Barvis Hill.  Warren interviewed Toody (Morrison) Wilson for the Langley Centennial Museum archives; she was part of a Fort Langley pioneer family and grew up in the house. Toody’s voice can be heard on the March edition of Valley Voices. Warren also located another image with the Morrison family in front of the house  (all but the uniformed man in the photo), probably sometime after the Great War. 

We enjoy receiving images that help tell the story of the Langleys. Please send yours to: info@langleyheritage.ca  You can also search out a photo of Toody (Morrison) Wilson in the museum archive HERE.

Leanne also sent us the image above, with more information about her family connection to Fort Langley:  “Mine is the Butler family. Attached is a photo of the children of the family. Both parents were English. They met each other in South Africa. He was in the Boer War. They married in South Africa, had one daughter and then immigrated to Canada in 1907. First they lived in Toronto where their second child was born. Then they went to Stave Falls and the father worked as a time keeper at the dam. Their 3rd and 4th children were both born in Stave Falls. The father was in WWI. Their 5th child (who is still living, now in Coquitlam) was born in Fort Langley. She was born in 1922. The third child was my grandfather who was killed in WWII.  They are listed in the 1921 census as living in Fort Langley.  In 1935 their address was in Vancouver.”