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The son of Ovid Allard, the Chief Trader at the Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Langley, B.C., Jason Ovid Allard was born at Fort Langley and joined the company himself in 1866 at age 19. Allard quit the company and joined a Canadian Pacific Railway survey crew in 1871, and later worked as an interpreter in the courts all over the province, as he spoke 5 Indigenous dialects in addition to French and English. He married a woman named Seraphine. They had children Hermosa Alexina, Alexander (b. 1882), Eugene (b. 1884), William (b. 1886), Francis (b. 1889), George (b. 1894), Helena (b. 1896), Clarence (b. 1900 or 1902?), Justine (b. 1905), and Lawrence (b. 1907). He moved to New Westminster in 1915 in order to be readily available for court appearances, and was an important source of information about the pioneers of the 1860's, 1870's, and 1880's for historians Howay, Reid, Nelson, McKelvie and Gibbard before his death in New Westminster on December 17, 1931 at the age of 83.

William Jason (Billy) Allard was born June 15, 1889 to parents Jason and Seraphine Allard. He served during WWI like his older brothers, including Eugene, who died at Ypres in 1917 and had Allard Cresent named after him. Billy joined up in the fall of 1914, enlisting with the 104th battalion and serving at Ypres, Vimy, and the Somme. He was wounded four times during these battles, and at Vimy Ridge he went out into no man's land after a Montreal Crater explosion and pulled out two men to the allied lines. He was awarded the Military Medal for bravery at Buckingham Palace, and died November 23, 1962, at the age of 73.

Annie McIver was born in 1864. She met and married Murdoch McIver (no relation) in Sherbrooke, Quebec in 1886. They had eight children together: two boys and six girls. Died in 1940 and buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.

Kenneth (Kenny) McIver was born on June 5th, 1890 to his parents Murdoch and Annie McIver, and was one of nine children, their youngest living son. On September 21st, 1921, he married Ellen Isabella Hallack. In 1927, when Murdoch and Annie McIver moved to a Francis Street address in Fort Langley, they sold half of their farm (80 acres) and left the other half to Kenneth and Ellen. The couple had four daughters: Norma, Anna, Jean, and Lois. Kenneth served as a school trustee and was a member of the Langley Agricultural Association, Langley Farmers’ Insitute, and secretary of Native Sons of B.C. Post #9. He also helped out with, and then took over the Langley exhibit at the New Westminster Fair/Fall Fair, from 1904 until just before his death. Kenneth McIver died on August 5th, 1949 at the age of 59. He was buried in the Fort Langley cemetery.

Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-334/1105)
Oral history interview with Ellen Isabella Mufford.
"The Place Between: 1860-1939" by the Aldergrove Heritage Society.
Royal B.C. Museum Genealogy Archives.

Murdoch McIver (or Murdock McIvor) was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland in 1848. He worked in the British Navy until he was 23, at which point he jumped ship in New York Harbour. He spent several years in the New England, before moving to Quebec, and in 1876, to East Langley, where he had taken up 160 acres. He originally lived in a log cabin he built, and made yokes for oxen and cleared stumps on the land while logging and fishing to supplement his income. In 1880 he started working as a blasting foreman for the Canadian Pacific Railway, where he was a good fit due to his small frame and quick reflexes, allowing him to get behind cover quickly. Murdoch finished his career with the CPR free of serious injuries, and moved on to leasing the “Fort Hotel” in 1884, where he ran the bar for a year and a half. In 1886, Murdoch went east to Sherbrooke, Quebec. Accounts vary, with an oral history from his daughter-in-law, Ellen Isabella Mufford, stating that Murdoch met Annie McIver, his future wife, on the train out of town, as she was leaving to go to Pennsylvania with her sister, but instead the couple got married in Quebec soon after meeting. However, “The Place Between: 1860-1939” says that Murdoch had quit his business and returned to Sherbrooke to marry the eldest McIver daughter (no relation), but she had already gotten married, and instead Murdoch and Annie were married on November 4, 1886. Either way, the couple returned to Langley that year and set up in Murdoch’s cabin, before he built a new house between 1887 and 1890. The McIvers had nine children, three boys and six girls: Kenneth, John, Mary, Jessie, Christine, Mabel, Maggie, Beatrice (Bertie), and Alex. All but Alex survived to adulthood. Murdoch was involved as a municipal councilor in 1887, and was a founder and vice president of the Langley Agricultural Association. When his children went to school, he was elected as a trustee for the Langley School Board. He also was involved in the construction of the first East Langley School on the bluff above his farm in the early 1890’s, and when teachers needed boarding, they would stay with the McIvers. In 1927, Murdoch and Annie McIver sold half of their farm (80 acres) to a Mr. Kirke, and left the remaining land to their son Kenneth and his wife Ellen. Murdoch and Annie moved to a house on Francis Street in Fort Langley. In 1936 the couple celebrated their golden anniversary at the community hall in Fort Langley, with about 300 guests in attendance. Murdoch McIver passed away in 1946 at 97 years old (The Place Between: 1860-1939) or when he was 99 years old (Ellen Isabella Mufford’s Oral History). McIver died February 12, 1946 and is buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery.
Term Source: Oral history interview with Ellen Isabella Mufford.
"The Place Between: 1860-1939" by the Aldergrove Heritage Society.

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.

Ellen Isabella Hallack was born in 1898. She married Kenneth McIver on September 14, 1921. The couple had four daughters: Jean Souter, Norma Jamieson, Anna McKenzie, and Lois Toon. McIver died on August 5, 1949, and Ellen married Wallace Victor Mufford on September 20, 1951. Wallace Mufford died on May 18, 1964. Ellen died on August 8, 1987.
See Also: Hallack, Ellen Isabella
Term Source: Oral history interview with Ellen Isabella