Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

2008.040.005

Title

Roof top view of Langley Prairie businesses along Yale Road.

Date

[ca. 1927].

Description

Roof top view of Langley Prairie businesses along Yale Road, including (from the left) Valley Meat Market, the Government Liquor Store, McDougall's Hardware, a drug store, Fuller's Meat Market, and the Royal Bank of Canada. In the foreground on the right are powerlines and signs for hardware and ice cream. The image has a lot of damage.

Photo is noted in the album to be from the 1920s, and it is established as being during or after 1927 as that was the year that owner Ted Fuller's Langley Prairie Meat Market was renamed Fuller's Meat Market.

People/Subject

Fraser Highway

See Also: streets and roads

Fuller's Meat Market

Langley Prairie Meat Market came to be known as Fuller's Meat Market in 1927 when E. R. (Ted) Fuller renamed his local butcher shop. Fuller had visited Langley Prairie in 1919 and decided to stay. He bought the village's first bucher shop in 1920, located near Profontaine's store. In 1922 he moved the business closer to the centre of the commercial area, building a new shop just east of the Prairie's new Royal Bank (on today's Fraser Hwy-2004), on land previously used for Jim Gibbon's blacksmith shop. In 1959 Fuller sold his property to the Royal Bank, who tore it down and established a new branch. In the meantime, Fuller's Meat Market relocated to a new location on Douglas Crescent and was carried on by his sons, Jack and Roy (Pete).
Term Source: Warren F. Sommer's "From Prairie to City: A History of the City of Langley," 19

Langley Prairie

Langley Prairie became Langley City in 1955.

McDougall Hardware Store

Store on the south side of Fraser Highway (Old Yale Road) in Langley Prairie.

Royal Bank of Canada

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-204/1000)

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