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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
5551
Title
People and a horse and cart outside of the Coghlan General Store.
Date
[1915 or 1916].
Description
People and a horse and cart outside of the Coghlan General Store. Bessie Green is in the cart on the left.
People/Subject
Coghlan
Coghlan General Store
The Coghlan General Store was built on Coghlan Road in 1912 by Pete Spence for Mr. and Mrs. Petersen who operated it until 1939 when it was taken over by Mr. E.P Rowe and his son Alan Rowe. The father and son ran a delivery service up and down Coghlan Road as far as the Fraser Highway. The building had living quarters as well as the store and a post office. It was a place for people to gather and photos show some arriving by horse and carriage over the years. There was a sign over the front door that read “Pioneer General Store” and General Store was painted on the side of the building.
Once the trams with BC Electric Interurban discontinued running, in about 1950, business dropped off and the Rowe’s closed the store.
Green, Bessie
Bessie Green lived at Coghlan. She was a teacher at Coghlan (and perhaps Aldergove).
Stores and businesses
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unidentified
Anyone with information on who this individual might be is welcomed to contact the Langley Centennial Museum at 604.532.3536. Thank you.
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