Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

2011.004.002

Title

BC Monumental Works Limited receipt.

Date

17 Oct. 1923.

Description

Receipt issued by BC Monumental Works Limited on October 17, 1923 to Mr. G. Underwood Esq. of Langley Prairie, BC, for a "Granite Monument (a.1192) inscribed and erected complete, Langley Fort Cemetery" for $100.00. Mostly typewritten, but in black ink on the bottom it reads "Received Oct 19/23 J M Dawes BC Monumental Works."

People/Subject

Fort Langley Cemetery

Located at 23105 St. Andrew's Street, this historic cemetery was created in 1884. This was the first municipal cemetery established in Fort Langley, and is the resting place of many of the area's pioneer families. The first burial was Robert Mackie, father of the municipality's first Warden. Separate sections of the cemetery were reserved for First Nations people and for Canadian War Veterans. Many of the granite and marble monuments are elaborately carved and decorated, and several gravesites are surrounded by wrought iron fences. In conjunction with an early landscape plan now in full maturity, it remains a site of peace and beauty. To the north side of the cemetery is a granite First World War memorial to the fallen men of the Langley district which was later rededicated to the memory of those who served in the Second World War.
Information from "Langley's Heritage: A Listing of Heritage Resources"

Underwood, George

George Ewart Underwood was born in 1845. He immigrated to Milner in 1878 and purchased 98 acres of land from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1879 for $27.50 per acre on Trunk Road (Glover Road), halfway between Milner and Langley Prairie. In July 1920 he married his housekeeper, Jessie (Hoding) MacDonald, sister-in-law to his neighbour Alexander MacDonald. Jessie (1877-1970) had a son named William (Willie) (1915-1994), from an earlier relationship. George Underwood died in 1921.

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