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The son of Ovid Allard, the Chief Trader at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Langley, B.C., Jason Ovid Allard was born at Fort Langley and joined the company himself in 1866 at age 19. Allard quit the company and joined a Canadian Pacific Railway survey crew in 1871, and later worked as an interpreter in the courts all over the province, as he spoke 5 Indigenous dialects in addition to French and English. He married a woman named Seraphine. They had children Hermosa Alexina, Alexander (b. 1882), Eugene (b. 1884), William (b. 1886), Francis (b. 1889), George (b. 1894), Helena (b. 1896), Clarence (b. 1900 or 1902?), Justine (b. 1905), and Lawrence (b. 1907). He moved to New Westminster in 1915 in order to be readily available for court appearances, and was an important source of information about the pioneers of the 1860's, 1870's, and 1880's for historians Howay, Reid, Nelson, McKelvie and Gibbard before his death in New Westminster on December 17, 1931 at the age of 83.

Joe Morrison was born on March 18, 1861, in Yale, and spent his youth in and around Fort Langley as the son of Kenneth Morrison, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Langley, and his wife Lucy (nee Allard). As a youngster, Joe used to see the fur brigades arrive at the fort. Joe worked as a logger at Cape Midge and at Cowichan on Vancouver Island. He was hired out to cut ties for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1884. One summer Joe did construction work on a canal in the East Kootenays. He patrolled and fixed breaks in the telegraph line between New Westminster and Yale. He rode the first train in B.C., operated the first steam winch in the logging industry, saw the first fery in operation between New Westminster and Surrey, saw the first flour mill constructed on the Lower Mainland and rode on the "Beaver, " the first steamboat to ply the Pacific Ocean. He was honoured in 1955 with a life membership in the Native Sons Post No. 19 He celebrated his 100th birthday March 20 in Fort Langley, and died March 31, 1963. He is buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.
Term Source: Fort Langley Cemetery pg. 41 (Hannay)

Kenneth Morrison was born in Scotland in 1831. He worked at the cooperage at the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Langley, and was one of the first people to pre-empt land, getting 160 acres just up river from the Fort. He called his home Barvis. He became a councillor in the first election held in Langley once it became a municipality. On July 31, 1859, Kenneth married Lucy Allard, whose mother was likely a member of the Hul’q’umi’num people, at the Fort Yale Wesleyan Methodist. The couple had children: Joseph, Matilda, Maggie, Alexander, Mary, Kenneth, William (Billy), and Elizabeth. He died May 18, 1900, and is buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.