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Rudi Dangelmaier was born in Germany in 1909. He trained as a designer, artist and teacher in Stuttgart, Munich and Ulm. He came to Canada in 1929. While living in Saskatchewan, he met and married his wife, Margaret. The couple had two sons. They moved to BC in 1937. Here he worked in Vancouver as an architectural designer and establishing himself as an artist. In 1976 the BC Provincial Museum sponsored an exhibit of his paintings, and they travelled the province for two years. In 1989 a collection of his paintings was published in "Pioneer Buildings of British Columbia." Rudi and Margaret moved to Langley in 1980. He passed away on December 24, 1994

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