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Object ID
3066
Title
The office of the Muffords' Thorndale Hatchery.
Date
[194-?].
Description
The office of J. H. Mufford & Sons Thorndale Hatchery (not the actual Hatchery). On the corner of Glover Road and Fraser Highway (taken from the Glover Road side).
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Fraser Highway
See Also: streets and roads
Glover Road
The Langley Trunk Road (sometimes referred to as Trunk Road) was renamed Glover Road following W.W. I after Lieut. F.W. Glover, Langley's first municipal engineer.
See From: Langley Trunk Road, Trunk Road
See Also: streets and roads
Term Source: Roads and Place Names in Langley, B.C., pg. 57 (Pepin)
Mufford, John Hicks
John Hicks Mufford, born in 1870, is the son of Thomas Prior Mufford and Millicent Mufford. He married Elizabeth Ruth (Ruth) Harding on November 2, 1893. They had five children: Leonard Hicks, Albert Percival (Percy), Wallace Victor, John Reginald (Reg), and Aurelia Olive (Relly). John died on April 25, 1946.
Thorndale Hatchery
The Thorndale Hatchery, also known as The Stock Farm and Hatchery, bred chickens and Holstein cattle and was operated in Milner, B.C., by J. H. Mufford & Sons from the 1920s to the 1960s, and for a time was considered one of the most successful hatcheries in the province.
See From: The Stock Farm and Hatchery
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