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The address of the house is 8258 252 Street. Murdoch McIver (sometimes McIvor) homesteaded 160 acres here in 1876, originally living in a log cabin he built, making yokes for oxen and clearing stumps on the land while logging and fishing to supplement his income. He started working with the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1880 as a blasting foreman, and in 1884 he leased the Fort Hotel and ran the bar (saloon) there for a year and a half. In 1886 he went to Sherbrooke, Quebec and married Annie McIver (no relation) on November 4, 1886. They returned to the cabin at this location, but the homestead was surveyed and they learned the cabin on was the right of way for a new road that would be built (now known as 252nd Street, but originally known as McIvor Road). He moved the cabin to the 8200-block of 252nd Street, where it existed until at least the 1990s. The new McIver residence was built between 1887 and 1890 to replace the earlier log cabin, which was most likely to small to accommodate the McIvers growing clan of 9 children. It is built in the carpenter Gothic/Gothic revival style, with a full open from verandah and decorative brackets, a steep front gable, and a dormer window. In 1890 they subdivided 80 acres, which were sold to the Allen brothers, and in 1927, in anticipation of their move to Fort Langley, they sold this house and 40 acres to Edwin and Maude Kirk. The remaining 40 acres went to their son, Kenneth McIver. The Kirks stayed in the home until 1943. In the early 1990s the home was still occupied, but by 2010 it had been surrounded by a turf farm and was uninhabited and falling into disrepair.


Sources: The Place Between, 1860 - 1939, p. 206-207.