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NOTE : THERE IS ANOTHER WILLIAM H. BROWN IN LANGLEY PRAIRIE, NO RELATION. Carpenter and builder William Harvey Brown, known as Billy, was born on June 15, 1875 in Parham, Ontario.
He came to BC around 1895. He married Ann Elizabeth Medd, known as Annie, on May 7, 1902. Their children were Muirice (Min), Lorne, Russel, Ernest, Milton (Bob) and Pearl. Billy was hired, between about 1908-10, to build Jacob Haldi's house, later the Bedford House Restaurant (ca. 1979 - 2014). When the Canadian Northern Railway line was coming through Fort Langley in about 1910, they offered the old Towle Commercial Hotel house, now vacant, to whoever could move it out of the way of the railway. Billy, as a builder, had the tools needed to move it across the street and slighty north, to where "Billy Brown Road" now is, off of Glover Road. Billy moved to another house on Francis Street in the years before he died. His family lived in the old house at Billy Brown Road until the 1930s, when it was torn down, rebuilt, and lived in by son Ernie Brown and his family. Billy died in Vancouver on March 8, 1937.