Men's Orangemen Organization in Milner.

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Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2984

Title

Men's Orangemen Organization in Milner.

Date

[ca. 1922].

Description

1 photograph : b&w; members of Milner's L.O.L. organization (Loyal Orange Lodge); these "Orangemen" belong to the Belmont group, Lodge no. 1605. Men are standing in a couple of rows with a flag in the centre back, and another row of men kneels in the front. They are dressed in their Fraternal Order gear, including their fraternal ribbon. Members of the Mufford family are in the photo. George Towle appears to be standing third from the left; Francis Worrell is standing eighth from the left, George Blair is standing 10th from left; Bob Blair is standing 13th from left; Frank Smith is standing 14th from the left, and a Mr. Bolton is just behind him with his face partially covered. George Worrell is standing 14th from the right; Bill Lawrence appears to be standing 13th from the right; John Hicks Mufford appears to be standing 12th from the right; and Richard Bolton is 5th from the right. Eddie Mufford is kneeling 3rd from the right; William John Mufford is sitting 4th from the right; and it appears to be Wallace Victor Mufford kneeling 7th from the right.

People/Subject

Blair, George Irvine

George came to BC from the north of Ireland in 1886. He homesteaded a farm in Langley in the Coghlan area of Langley, but spent many years working in the Cariboo, running Hat Creek House and Hat Creek Ranch with his wife, Elizabeth Culbert, who he married in 1897. In 1902 George and Elizabeth returned to Langley and George purchased a farm on what is now 216th Street from his father-in-law, Thomas Culbert, and they developed a dairy farm. Culbert had purchased the farm in 1880 and the Blair family continued to own the farm until 2006. George was the father of William "Bill" Crozier Blair, later a mayor of the Township of Langley. George died in Milner on February 26, 1933 at the age of 69.

Blair, Robert George (Bob)

Son of George Irvine Blair and Elizabeth Blair (nee Culbert). Robert George Blair was born on 25 April, 1898. He died on 9 November, 1977. Robert was interviewed by the museum in 1976. His interview can be found at SR-011 and SR-012 and SR-021

Milner (B.C.)

Mufford family

Thomas Prior Mufford, his wife, and their children arrived in Langley, B.C., in 1885 from the goldfields of California, their original destination when they left Cornwall, England, in 1873. They settled on the north end of the Hudson's Bay Company Farm in Fort Langley. Thomas Prior Mufford's brother and his wife, Joseph and Ann (nee Francis) Mufford, ended up settling in Langley, too.

Mufford, Albert Edward (Eddie)

Albert Edward (Eddie) Mufford was born in Milner on July 21, 1892, to parents Thomas Prior and Millicent (nee Udy) Mufford. Eddie married Matilda (Tillie) Ellen Mountain on April 26, 1922. They had two children, William (Bill) and Patricia. One of the Mufford Bros., Eddie raised registered Holsteins. He was an original member of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers' Assoc., and later became a farm machinery agent, even inventing a couple of innovative new pieces of farm machinery. Eddie died at Langley Memorial Hospital on November 16, 1956, at the age of 63, and is buried at Fort Langley Cemetery.

Mufford, John Hicks

John Hicks Mufford, born in 1870, is the son of Thomas Prior Mufford and Millicent Mufford. He married Elizabeth Ruth (Ruth) Harding on November 2, 1893. They had five children: Leonard Hicks, Albert Percival (Percy), Wallace Victor, John Reginald (Reg), and Aurelia Olive (Relly). John died on April 25, 1946.

Mufford, Wallace

Wallace Victor Mufford was born August 2, 1894 to parents Elizabeth Ruth and John Mufford. He married Ivy McInnis, and they had seven children: Roderick John, Ruth Naomi, Gordon, Allen Gordon, Wallace Jr., Alice and Jean. Ivy died in October 1950, and Wallace married Ellen McIver (nee Hallack), widow of Kenneth McIver, on September 20, 1951. Wallace Mufford died on May 18, 1964.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-332/1103)

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Towle, George Albion

George Albion Towle was born in 1856. He married Clara Matilda Swanson on January 30, 1901. He was the proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Fort Langley, BC. He also served as the mail contractor and as an agent for the BC Telephone Company. In 1910, George retired when Langley Municipality went "dry" and Mr. Towle lost his liquor licence. They built the Towle house at 8813 Glover Road in 1912 as a retirement house. George Albion Towle died on January 27, 192
Term Source: BC Vital Statistics, Clippings file.

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