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Gladys met Ralph Peterson (b. 1916) at the Swedish Hall in Vancouver, and the two were married in 1950. They lived on property Ralph had bought at 372 212th Street in Langley, known as Langwood Farms. They had a total of 40 acres that they bought in parcels. He continued to work as a logger, clearing the land on the farm on weekends. After an injury in 1962, Ralph gave up logging and the couple worked full time on the dairy farm. Ralph also helped contribute to the family income by working with a man named Alfred McMillan who imported alfalfa from Washington State - Ralph would take orders on his behalf in Canada. The Petersons purchased some registered Holsteins from Art McDonnell. They were very proud of their herd, and note that one year they had three cows featured in the "Holstein Journal". They sold their milk to Palm Dairies, who picked up their milk at the farm. The couple also raised two daugthers, Joyce and Lois.

Ralph Peterson was born in Vancouver in 1916 to Martin Edwin and Hilma Peterson, originally from Sweden. The family moved to Langley in 1924 when Martin ad Hilma bought property on 8th Avenue and 200th Street from Thomas Alfred Pepin. Ralph had four siblings : Ester, Francis, Elvira, and Leroy. Ralph attended Glenwood school when it was still on the corner of 16th Avenue, and as a young man worked for Len Rowlatt on his farm. In the 1930s he began working as a logger. In 1936 he went to work for Frank McKay, harvesting hardwood for Hammond Furniture in New Westminster. Shortly after he got a job in Deroche cutting shingle bolts in a water-powered shingle mill, and he later worked for Triangle Logging removing stumps with dynamite. He met a Swedish man in Vancouver and they began working together at Harrison Lake in 1937/1938, and later he went to work on Vancouver Island in Youbou. He recalls that work in the camps was hard to find during the Depression, and owners were hostile to union organizing during this period. Men had to hide their union cards and have secret meetings in the bunkhouse. Organizers would have to walk through the bushes to the camps, and the workers would provide them with meals. He saw many men fired arbitrarily during this time, partly to drum up business for the steamship companies who took men in and out of the camps. Ralph met his future wife Gladys at the Swedish Hall in Vancouver, and the two were married in 1950. They lived on property Ralph had bought at 372 212th Street in Langley, known as Langwood Farms.. They had a total of 40 acres that he bought in parcels. He continued to work as a logger, clearing the land on the farm on weekends. After an injury in 1962, Ralph gave up logging and the couple worked full time on the dairy farm. Ralph also helped contribute to the family income by working with a man named Alfred McMillan who imported alfalfa from Washington State - Ralph would take orders on his behalf in Canada. The Petersons purchased some registered Holsteins from Art McDonnell. They were very proud of their herd, and note that one year they had three cows featured in the "Holstein Journal". They sold their milk to Palm Dairies, who picked up their milk at the farm. The couple also raised two daugthers, Joyce and Lois.
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