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Joe Morrison was born on March 18, 1861, in Yale, and spent his youth in and around Fort Langley as the son of Kenneth Morrison, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Langley, and his wife Lucy (nee Allard). As a youngster, Joe used to see the fur brigades arrive at the fort. Joe worked as a logger at Cape Midge and at Cowichan on Vancouver Island. He was hired out to cut ties for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1884. One summer Joe did construction work on a canal in the East Kootenays. He patrolled and fixed breaks in the telegraph line between New Westminster and Yale. He rode the first train in B.C., operated the first steam winch in the logging industry, saw the first fery in operation between New Westminster and Surrey, saw the first flour mill constructed on the Lower Mainland and rode on the "Beaver, " the first steamboat to ply the Pacific Ocean. He was honoured in 1955 with a life membership in the Native Sons Post No. 19 He celebrated his 100th birthday March 20 in Fort Langley, and died March 31, 1963. He is buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.
Term Source: Fort Langley Cemetery pg. 41 (Hannay)