Viewing Object

Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2011.039.018

Title

Two women in front of the Stovell house in Langley Prairie.

Date

[196-?].

Description

Colour photograph of two older women standing in front of the Frank and Dorothy Stovell house in Langley Prairie, likely on Old Yale Road. The woman on the left is wearing a light green sweater over a white shirt, and the woman on the right is wearing a patterned purple dress and purple hat. They are standing in front of the side of the house, which is white with white trimmed windows and an angled roof. There are bushes at the corner and side of the house, and a wooden archway covered in vines beside the house on the right.

People/Subject

Langley Prairie

Langley Prairie became Langley City in 1955.

Stovell, Dorothy

Dorothy Stovell (née Lawrence[?]) married Frank Stovell, and they lived on a farm in Langley Prairie on land now part of Newlands Golf Course.
Information source: http://www.bcgolfhouse.com/newlands-gcc-70th-anniversary

Stovell, Frank

Frank Stovell was born on September 22, 1884 in Croyden, London, England. He emigrated to Canada in 1912 with his brothers Samuel, Ernest, and Harry and acquired land on the northeast corner of 48th Avenue and 208th Street. Frank served in the Canadian Engineers during the First World War, joining in 1916. After the war, he decided to remain in England, but he came back to Langley in 1947. At this time he bought the Charles Rooke farm, north of the original property his brothers kept, and lived there with his wife, Dorothy Susan (nee Lawrence). The farm is now part of Newlands Golf Course. He died in 1963 and was buried in the Murrayville Cemetery.

Information source: "From Prairie to City" by Warren Sommer; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144894182/frank-stovell; https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/ww1-canadian-soldiers/frank-stovell.html; http://www.bcgolfhouse.com/newlands-gcc-70th-anniversary

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