Viewing Object

Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

2011.039.011

Title

Aerial view of Frank and Dorothy Stovell's farm in Langley Prairie.

Date

[195-?].

Description

Colour photograph of Frank and Dorothy Stovell's farm in Langley Prairie from an aerial view, likely on Old Yale Road. The farm has a light coloured house in the middle of the photograph with a wood barn beside the house on the right, separated from the house by trees. There are trees surrounding the house on three sides that extend into the left of the photograph. Behind these trees and to the right of the barn is field. There is a road in front of the house and barn that extend from the left to the right of the photograph, and a field in the foreground on the other side of the road from the house and barn.

People/Subject

Langley Prairie

Langley Prairie became Langley City in 1955.

Stovell, Dorothy

Dorothy Stovell (née Lawrence[?]) married Frank Stovell, and they lived on a farm in Langley Prairie on land now part of Newlands Golf Course.
Information source: http://www.bcgolfhouse.com/newlands-gcc-70th-anniversary

Stovell, Frank

Frank Stovell was born on September 22, 1884 in Croyden, London, England. He emigrated to Canada in 1912 with his brothers Samuel, Ernest, and Harry and acquired land on the northeast corner of 48th Avenue and 208th Street. Frank served in the Canadian Engineers during the First World War, joining in 1916. After the war, he decided to remain in England, but he came back to Langley in 1947. At this time he bought the Charles Rooke farm, north of the original property his brothers kept, and lived there with his wife, Dorothy Susan (nee Lawrence). The farm is now part of Newlands Golf Course. He died in 1963 and was buried in the Murrayville Cemetery.

Information source: "From Prairie to City" by Warren Sommer; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144894182/frank-stovell; https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/ww1-canadian-soldiers/frank-stovell.html; http://www.bcgolfhouse.com/newlands-gcc-70th-anniversary

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