Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

2013.026.003

Title

Looking north on Glover Road from just south of Mavis Street, Fort Langley.

Date

[190-].

Description

Photograph : b&w ; looking north on Glover Road from just south of Mavis Street, Fort Langley; Coulter & Berry Store can be seen on the right, followed by a blacksmith shop, a white building, and then the Towle Commercial Hotel. A warehouse can be seen by the Fort Langley wharf, and a steamboat can be seen on the water. The Fort Langley Hotel is not visible behind the trees to the right.

People/Subject

Boats

See also: paddle steamer, ships, steamboats, steamships, sternwheelers, canoes, models

Commercial Hotel (Fort Langley)

Run by the Towle family on the east side of Glover Road on the opposite side of the street as the Fort Langley Hotel. The original location meant that the dining room was directly over the railway. Given to Billy Brown when the railway came through Fort Langley, as he was the only one with the house moving equipment to move it off of the railway right-of-way. He moved the hotel 50 yards - closer to the river and to the other side of the street (to the same side of the street as the Fort Langley Hotel) to make way for the railroad. He then built his own house behind the new hotel or possibly used the hotel as his house. The 50 move also changed the front entrance of the hotel.

Coulter & Berry Store

See Also: Berry, John Walter ; Coulter, David Moss
Term Source: HPC Records (CHURC-18/133)

Fort Langley (village)

Glover Road

The Langley Trunk Road (sometimes referred to as Trunk Road) was renamed Glover Road following W.W. I after Lieut. F.W. Glover, Langley's first municipal engineer.
See From: Langley Trunk Road, Trunk Road
See Also: streets and roads
Term Source: Roads and Place Names in Langley, B.C., pg. 57 (Pepin)

paddle steamer (see boats)

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