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See From: wagons
See Also: carriages
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The Fort Langley Hotel (originally known as just the Langley Hotel) was built by first owner James Taylor in the late 1860s, early 1870s, and appeared to incorporate part of a saloon built by Henry West, the builder of the steam mill. There were three "long term" hotel keepers: James Taylor, from when he built it until about 1889, Peter Stanley Brown, who ran it from 1891-1914, and Warren W. (Spud, or Jack) Webster, who ran it from 1914 - abt. 1938. Alexander Praisley was proprietor of the hotel in the late 1950s and 1960s. After many years and several renovations, the hotel was the oldest in B.C. by the 1970s. On December 29, 1974, the owners burned the hotel to the ground to collect the insurance money. The site is now the home of the Riverside Centre (2007).
See Also: Brown's Hotel, hotels

Jacob Haldi and his wife Jessie purchased one acre in 1901 on this site along the Bedford Channel and Glover Road. The couple gave local carpenter Billy Brown $10,000 in 1908 to build a three story home beside their butcher shop (in the old Hudson's Bay Company Store building on the site). The home was completed in about 1910, and the original interior featured a French polish finish on the woodwork. The exterior featured a wrap around verandah, numerous bay windows and a hip roof with hip-roofed dormer windows. Alterations by 1957 included a large wrap around porch addition at ground level. It later operated as the Bedford House Restaurant (from approx. 1977 - 2005).
Source: Inventory of Historic Buildings in Langley.

Alexander Mavis (1825-December 31, 1905) came from England to California for the gold rush in 1849, and then to BC for our gold rush in 1858. He returned to England and married Mary Fiddler-Horn Nicholson in the mid-1860s. The couple had 6 children in England before returning to Langley in 1887. Children include Francis John (1871-1936), James Alexander (1872-1926), Ada (1876-), Lily Dawson (1874-1957), and Laura (1879 - ). Alexander and his family farmed some of the land that had previously belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company. In fact, much of the land in east Fort Langley was once owned by Mavis. Mavis and his wife died in 1905 and are buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery, but there are still many descendants in the area.
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