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Joyce LaVerne Hockin was born Joyce LaVerne Warren, in Nanton Alberta in 1926. She attended elementary school in Wetaskiwin and Ponoka, Alberta, and high school in Ponoka. She took a secretarial course at Alberta College in 1945 in Edmonton. Her parents were Earl Warren (b. 1884, Lebanon, Indiana), and Marie Gorrison Gottig (b. April or May 1893, Kansas City, Missouri); they were married in Whitefish, Montana, or Pendleton, Oregon, November 23, 1912. Joyce married Wilbur Alexander Hockin (b. May 29, 1923 - d. 1994), and they divorced in March 1959. Joyce worked in a variety of federal government departments, including Veterans' Affairs and the Department of Transportation, in Alberta and the Yukon, between March 1945 and January 1948. Joyce and her family moved from Whitehorse/Watson Lake, Yukon, to Langley in 1953, arriving April 1. They moved to 7226 Telegraph Trail. Joyce worked as a bookkeeper at Langley Hospital for a time, for the municipality of Langley for a time as well, and for McDonald Cedar in Fort Langley in 1961. She later worked for R.A. Payne, Insurance, in Langley City, and by the time of her retirement, she was working in upper management for a large Vancouver based insurance company. In 1987 she married Milton Ainsley (Bob) Brown (b. Feb. 24, 1922 - d. Oct. 13, 1987), on August 14. Joyce died March 2, 2014, in Surrey; she is buried in Fort Langley Cemetery. With first husband Wilbur, Joyce had Earl Wilbur Hockin (Dec. 30, 1945-), born in Edmonton; Heather Charlotte Hockin (March 27, 1948-), born in Whitehorse; Gerald (Jerry) Douglas Bruce Hockin (Oct. 23, 1950-), born in Whitehorse; and Thomas Ward MacNaughton Hockin (Nov. 17, 1951), born in Ponoka, Alberta.

"Maple Leaf" brand salmon was packed by the Delta Canning Company.

The Sperling area was historically in the Harmsworth district but got its name in 1910 when the B.C. Electric Railway arrived and a station was built where the Interurban line crossed Brown Road (240th). The station and surrounding area were named after R.H. Sperling, the general manager of the BC Electric at that time.

The Sperling General Store was thought to be built around 1908, a few years prior to the B.C. Electric Railway passing next to it. Mr. William Hepworth operated the store for many years, and then it was run by his daughter Irene Green. Ray Pattenden owned the store before Woolley's. Art and Dorothy Woolley purchased the store in February, 1946. The Woolleys closed the store in December, 1962 after the 401 Freeway cut it off from a large section of the community. It was then used for a residence until November, 1973. The Guigenheimer family lived in it for several years until its demise. The store was burned down for practice by the Fort Langley volunteer fire department in February-March 1973. According to Marvin Woolley, son of Art and Doris Woolley, the store was built in 1905.
See Also: Woolley Store and Service Station (Esso)