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The Cloverdale paint Factory was located on Fraser Highway in Surrey, not too far outside of Langley.

Samuel Edward Mathews was born in 1893 in England. Mr. S. E. Mathews arrived in Langley from Buxton, Derbyshire, England on March 30 with his wife Amanda E. and their three boys Peter Henry (age 7), Frank Samuel (age 6), and Stephen (age 4). The depression and lack of employment in England forced Samuel Mathew to immigrate to Canada. They chose Langley because they had been given free accommodation by his brother Herbert Mathews. Samuel was trained in the grocery business and was a traveling salesman, who took orders and did deliveries etc. His first job was painting the Milner Food Market and he also picked rocks in Mufford's farm fields. Samuel decided to start his own grocery business when the Murrayville Cash Grocery came up for rent. He ran his store by offering no credit (cash only); taking orders and delivering them; servicing areas not being served; and accepting payment in the form of fresh produce. He acquired the lot on the south-west corner of the five corners intersection and by 1934 built the new store. This building is now known as the Mathew's Cash Grocery, or the Bishop House.