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salishan Place by the River currently maintains a collection of over 9000 photographs, 2000 archival documents, 9000 objects, 500 works of art, and 300 oral history recordings. This collection, spanning hundreds of years, is a wonderful window on the past and present life of our community.

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File: '2013.026.002'

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Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2013.026.002

Title

Looking south on Glover Road from the Fort Langley Hotel.

Date

[190-].

Description

1 photo : b&w ; looking south over men, boys, horses and carts down Glover Road from almost the Fraser River. Part of the Fort Langley Hotel can be seen on the right (at this point known as the Langley Hotel), and the Commercial Hotel is the second building from the left. There is another building and then a Blacksmith shop on the corner of what is now Mavis Street, and then the Coulter & Berry Store is on the other side.

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Commercial Hotel (Fort Langley)

Run by the Towle family on the east side of Glover Road on the opposite side of the street as the Fort Langley Hotel. The original location meant that the dining room was directly over the railway. Given to Billy Brown when the railway came through Fort Langley, as he was the only one with the house moving equipment to move it off of the railway right-of-way. He moved the hotel 50 yards - closer to the river and to the other side of the street (to the same side of the street as the Fort Langley Hotel) to make way for the railroad. He then built his own house behind the new hotel or possibly used the hotel as his house. The 50 yard move also changed the front entrance of the hotel.

Coulter & Berry Store

See Also: Berry, John Walter ; Coulter, David Moss
Term Source: HPC Records (CHURC-18/133)

Fort Langley (village)

Fort Langley Hotel

The Fort Langley Hotel (originally known as just the Langley Hotel) was built by first owner James Taylor in the late 1860s, early 1870s, and appeared to incorporate part of a saloon built by Henry West, the builder of the steam mill. There were three "long term" hotel keepers: James Taylor, from when he built it until about 1889, Peter Stanley Brown, who ran it from 1891-1914, and Warren W. (Spud, or Jack) Webster, who ran it from 1914 - abt. 1938. Alexander Praisley was proprietor of the hotel in the late 1950s and 1960s. After many years and several renovations, the hotel was the oldest in B.C. by the 1970s. On December 29, 1974, the owners burned the hotel to the ground to collect the insurance money. The site is now the home of the Riverside Centre (2007).
See Also: Brown's Hotel, hotels

Glover Road

The Langley Trunk Road (sometimes referred to as Trunk Road) was renamed Glover Road following W.W. I after Lieut. F.W. Glover, Langley's first municipal engineer.
See From: Langley Trunk Road, Trunk Road
See Also: streets and roads
Term Source: Roads and Place Names in Langley, B.C., pg. 57 (Pepin)

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