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Farm started by the J. W. Berry family on Old Yale Road, Murrayville.
See Also: Berry House (and Barn)

Anne Bowman Berry was born on June 16, 1903 to parents J.W. and Lydia Berry. She died May 3, 1983, and is buried in the Murrayville Cemetery.

Edith Lauretta Berry was born in Ontario on June 27, 1891, the oldest daughter of John Walter and Lydia Berry. Edith married John Ashton "Mike" Carr on September 12, 1925. She died in St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, on June 19, 1935.

John "Jack" Coulter Berry was born on 5 February, 1905. He married twice: in 1938 to Beulah Swann, who died in 1938, and later to Helen Moore. He took his masters degree in agriculture at UBC in 1937 and his Ph. D. at Iowa State College in 1939, becoming a professor of Animal Husbandry at UBC and one of Canada's leading agriculturalists.

John Coulter Berry was interviewed with Harold Sterne Berry in 1976. The interview can be found at SR-008.

John Walter Berry was born on December 18, 1869 in Bruce County, Ontario to parents William Berry and Susanah (Sterne) Berry. In 1890 he married Lydia Bowman of Mannheim, Ontario. They had 7 children: Edith (b. 1891), Edward (b. 1894), William (b. 1900), Harold (b. 1901), Anne (b. 1903), John (b. 1905), and Thomas (b. 1910). John moved his family to Langley in 1897 to help long-time friend David Moss Coulter open a general store. The pair opened two stores, one in Murrayville (managed by Berry) and one in Fort Langley (managed by Coulter). In 1904 John sold his store to Hugh A. MacDonald. During the time he owned the store, John purchased a 135 acre price of land and went on to build a successful dairy farm (Belmont). In 1910 he helped form the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association. John was a prominent Langley citizen. He served as Municipal Clerk in the Township of Langley from 1899-1909, as Chairman of the Langley School Board from 1912-1936, and as MLA for the Delta Riding (which consisted of Delta, Surrey and Langley) from 1928-1932. He also served as an auctioneer and valuator. John died at his home on Old Yale Road after a lengthy illness on September 5, 1943 at the age of 74. He is buried in the Murrayville Cemetery.

See Also: Coulter & Berry Store
Term Source: The Langley Story, pg. 249 (Waite) ; From Prairie to City, p. 85 (Sommer).

Thomas Kerr Berry was born on July 22, 1910, in New Westminster, to John Walter and Lydia Berry.

Albert Deans was born February 19, 1848, in Ontario. As a boy he went to school in Wellington County, and subsequently worked as a surveyor. In 1868 Albert moved to Pennsylvania for a number of years, where he managed a lumber company. Here he married Elizabeth McColm in February 1873. Later that year they had a son, Charles Burnett, and in 1877, after they'd moved back to Ontario, a daughter named Nelly followed. Elizabeth died in Ontario, and Albert moved with his children and father-in-law, Charles McColm, to B.C. Shortly before 1891 Albert settled on homesteaded land just 1.25 miles south of the Otter post office. In the 1891 census, Albert is listed as a Presbyterian and a farmer. He used his skills as a surveyor to subdivide his land and by 1892 he was show in the Directory to be living in both Langley and Otter. On January 9, 1893, Albert married Barbara McKay. After 1897 they moved to Old Yale Road in Murrayville and were known for hosting church picnics on their property, which acquired the name "Deans' Grove;" this is now part of Newlands Golf Course. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Albert built up a multifaceted career in Langley. He was an Assessor in 1892, and also served as a School Trustee, Councillor and the first magistrate of Langley, a post he held for 26 years. It appears that Albert and Barbara Deans moved to the U.S.A., apparently California, and they died and were buried there.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-362/1131), 1901 Census, and "The Place Between"

Brian was born into the English gentry in 1871. His wife, Annie Dolphin, was born in 1880. The couple married in 1903 and emigrated to Canada with their friend Alf Layton, perhaps after some good reports about Langley from their friends, the Hunter family. They bought a quarter section at Yale and Berry Roads. (Fraser Hwy. and 208th Street). Because it was on the Nickomekl River, the Harrisons' named it "Riverside." Although somewhat ill-prepared for farm life after a life of relative leisure, the Harrisons developed a dairy operation that became very successful. Brian was also one of the founding members of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association in 1917. Annie, raised to become an English lady, had to quickly learn her away around the farm, livestock, and three babies, Dollie, Greta, and Brian. The Harrisons provided land for the building of St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Langley Prairie. Brian was on the local school board in the early 1920s, and was on the board of the Langley Agricultural Association for over 50 years. The Harrisons retired from farming in the early 1940s. Moving to a house on 208th Street built by their son, Brian took up selling insurance at the age of 70. He died in 1959 at the age of 88, and Annie died in 1972 at 93. Both were cremated, and their remains were the first to be scattered at the memorial garden at St. Andrew's in Langley Prairie.
Term Source: From Prairie to City," by Warren Sommer.