Photo of Joe Morrison, taken at the rest home on Glover Road in Fort Langley when Joe was just over 100 years old. Accompanying write up by Edward Villiers dated May 23, 2008 reads, "This photograph of Joe Morrison was taken by me, Edward Villiers in May, 1961, in his room at the Fort Langley rest home, Glover Street, Fort Langley, B.C. Joe was just over 100 years old at the time. He was born in Yale, B.C. in March, 1861. He told me in an interview I had with him on the front porch of his little home about a mile east of the present fort park site, on May 16, 1954, 'When my mother was going to have me there were no doctors around Fort Langley so she went up to Yale where there was a doctor. I was born at Yale. Mother returned with me about a month later.' He also told me, 'I can remember when Vancouver consisted of a blacksmith's shop, a store and a few houses situated where the Union Steamship dock is today.'
"One of his first jobs was 'to patrol the telegraph line that went through between New Westminster and Yale. Another fellow and I, Wilkes was his name, were paid ten dollars a day to patrol it from here to New Westminster and fix breaks. The poles were no more than twelve feet high, but we earned our money. It was winter and the snow was quite deep. Sometimes we had to go through water up to our knees and at night dried out by a big bonfire built under a big cedar tree. Those cedar trees around here in the those days were really big and held out the rain.
"'The building down next to my house was the first flour mil around here. It was built around 1882, the same year as this house was built, only it was situated over where those CNR tracks run now. See all those trees down there on the river front? Well they weren't always there. There used to be wharves there at one time but look at it now!'"