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David Moss Coulter was born in 1862 in Perth County, Ontario. He went to school where he trained to become a teacher. He taught school in Ontario for 15 years. He married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Burton in Ontario in 1885. The Coulters had six children: William (b.1889), Agatha (b. 1891), Ruby (b. 1893), Enid (b. 1896), Alice (b. 1899), and Bertha (b. 1903). In June of 1897 David went west, intending to go to the Yukon after stopping in Fort Langley to visit friends. His friends sold him their store, and he stayed in Fort Langley. Lizzie Coulter came out in August of that year with her four young children, by rail. David convinced his friend John Walter Berry to move to Fort Langley and help him run the store. The pair operated two stores, one in Fort Langley (managed by Coulter) and one in Murrayville (managed by Berry). Their original Fort Langley store was in the old Hudson's Bay Company Store, north of what is now Mavis Street on the east side of Glover Road. A new location was later built on the south-east corner of Mavis and Glover in about 1900. He sold the store in 1923, and it was destroyed by fire years later. David was a government liquor vendor in 1929, and a member of the Eureka Lodge. The Coulter family was also very involved in St. Andrews Church. David Coulter died in a car accident in 1935 at the age of 73.
See Also: Coulter & Berry Store

See Also: boats
Term Source: Sears List of Subject Headings (16th. Ed.)

Percy Bouverie Primrose born in about 1880. He was a photographer and studio owner in Fort Langley. Percy was the brother of Ralph Gore Primrose, who married Agatha Vera Coulter. Percy married Ellen (Nell) Harper Jolley on October 20, 1911 in Vancouver. Percy died on February 24, 1960, in Vancouver, at the age of 80.
Term Source: HPC Record (COULT-4/147), HPC Record (PRIMR-1/549)