Aerial photo of Murrayville.

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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2018.040.004

Title

Aerial photo of Murrayville.

Date

1989.

Description

Photograph: colour; aerial photo of Murrayville showing the W.C. Blair Pool (just right of centre), and construction of the Langley School Board Office and R.C.M.P. Murrayville branch (diagonally across from the pool, on the right). Langley Memorial Hospital is at the top left of the photograph. The Township of Langley Municipal Hall building to the left of W. C. Blair Pool no longer exists, nor does the Township Works yard, which is just below (south) it in the photo.

People/Subject

Langley Memorial Hospital

Langley Municipal Hall

SEE Township of Langley Municipal Hall
The Township of Langley Municipal Hall was at 4700-224 Street, Langley. The placement of the Hall reflected the growth of the original communities of Fort Langley and Murrayville. In 2006, the Township of Langley moved its Municipal Hall to the Township of Langley Civic Facility at 20338-65 Avenue, a part of the growing area of Willoughby. The new facility also includes a new library, fitness room, several businesses and a new community policing station.

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Murrayville (B.C.)

Paul Murray was born in Ireland in 1811 and immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eighteen. the Murray family settled in Oxford County, Ontario, and ten years later Paul married Lucy Bruce. They bought land in Zorra and had seven children together. In May 1874, after his children were grown, Paul left Ontario and relocated in B.C., accompanied by three of his sons. Their first home in Langley was a roughly built shelter they made for themselves from a gigantic fir tree, and after his wife and two of hisdaughters arrived, they all lived there together. After these humble beginnings, Murray opened a hotel on Old Yale Road to service travelers making their way into the interior, building up a reputation as one of the finest carpenters in the area. The corner where the hotel was eventually came to be known as Murray's Corners, as the family had 160 acres of land on each corner. Murray's Corners eventually came to be known as Murrayville, and all of Paul's sons worked on Old Yale Road, building more hotels and other businesses to increase commerce. Paul was an ordained church elder, dring a time when there were no official churches and services were held in a small schoolhouse on the corner of Glover Road and Old Yale Road. Holding the title of founder of Murrayville, Paul Murray died in 1903. Murray's Corners did not officially become Murrayville until 1911, when the local post office changed its name to Murrayville Post Office.

W.C. Blair Recreation Centre

The W. C. Blair Recreation Centre officially opened on December 15, 1986. The original opening date was scheduled for October 1 of that year, but a 5 week worker's strike during the construction pushed the date back. The wave pool inside the Recreation Centre was B.C.'s first wave pool.

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