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Kenneth Morrison was born in Scotland in 1831. He worked at the cooperage at the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Langley, and was one of the first people to pre-empt land, getting 160 acres just up river from the Fort. He called his home Barvis. He became a councillor in the first election held in Langley once it became a municipality. On July 31, 1859, Kenneth married Lucy Allard, whose mother was likely a member of the Hul’q’umi’num people, at the Fort Yale Wesleyan Methodist. The couple had children: Joseph, Matilda, Maggie, Alexander, Mary, Kenneth, William (Billy), and Elizabeth. He died May 18, 1900, and is buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.