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Harvey Williams has installed a spiral staircase to get to the second of three floors.
t’s a measure of a man’s commitment to became the first in a collection of thousands of objects, and he still has it today in his hobby that he builds a working order. shrine to accommodate his He comes to these houses, collection. which are equipped with top-end For Harvey Williams, building security systems, at least once a not one, but two houses for his day, depending on the number of massive collection of antiques people who ask to tour them. He speaks to his love of beautiful clearly never tires of showing his objects, from intricately carved collection. furniture, wool rugs, hats, helmets Although there are many, many from the two World Wars, roll things to look at, there is no sense top desks, a 12 foot long grocer’s of overwhelming clutter. counter, tables set with fine bone Harvey looks around proudly. china and a female mannequin “I collect things, and set them with glass eyes. The houses are real. One of the houses Harvey built here and there,” he says. “And then my daughter finds a Large enough to comfortably accommodate a family of four or five, they place for them.” His daughter, Janice, a nurse who lives in were built on Harvey’s central Langley property. Harvey began the first one when he and his wife Kelowna, is a collector of dolls which form an Joanne ran Harvey’s Meats on Fraser Highway in appealing part of the collection. Some of them are high-end dolls, Harvey advises. Langley City 30 years ago. He began work on the first house about 35 It was here at their butcher’s shop that his love of antiques began — on a musical note. When years ago. Dominating the ground floor is he and Joanne first set up the store, he discovered the fuselage of a high-winged aircraft with jet a side room empty but for an antique organ. It engines. Harvey built it of thin-cut spruce to
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“He lifts the lid and the music plays, and for a moment Harvey is immersed in nostalgia.”
The collection includes Harvey’s artistry with wood, including a desk and chair which he built without nails and screws. Some of his finds have come by chance, and virtually on his doorstep. One is a 35 pound bell from a New York fire hall, which he bought at a garage sale in Murrayville. Harvey’s collection includes a unique object of his own doing. “Someone gave me a big fish, so I froze it,” he said. “Then I carved it in sections and copied it into wood.” The cedar fish is eyecatching. There is a third house with antiques, and it is the one Harvey shared with Joanne until her death in June, 2005. Reminders are everywhere of their love of antiques, beginning just inside the front door where a hall stand occupies the small landing. Until you cast your eyes downward, you could be forgiven for thinking that this piece of furniture isn’t much different from other hall stands. That’s when you see it is supported by seven legs. A few new additions have sprung up in the house since Joanne died, and a few more in the basement where Harvey repairs and finishes furniture. A tour of his home reveals more surprises. Take the dining room for example, and talk about a
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conversation piece. The table legs are actually not legs at all, but three large horses’ heads, made of teak and standing about three feet high. Topping them is a modern, round bevelled glass table. On the wall are pencil sketches. One is of Henry Ford, another of a Canadian soldier, Cordell Hull. A third is of a leopard and her cubs. They were all drawn by Harvey when he was in the Canadian Air Force. He was going to take up art after he left the air force, but was never encouraged and didn’t bother pursuing it. “I’ve never drawn anything since.” High up on the top shelf of a sideboard is a carved horse-drawn chariot driven by Roman centurions. “It’s in great shape for its age,” he says, adding that when he bought it, the entire scene was painted in white. It took a week to scrape off the paint, and when Harvey had finished, he uncovered something unusual: the horses, chariot and centurions in all their elaborate detail, were carved out of a single block of wood. From the same sideboard Harvey pulls out a music box which he believes once belonged to his mother who was born in Milwaukee. He lifts the lid and the music plays, and for a moment Harvey is immersed in nostalgia.
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The weather beaten way “It is like a memory lane, for old folks.”
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s pristine heritage restoration, or the weather beaten Fraser Valley barn the more appealing aspect of our pioneer heritage? Both have their charms. Be it a row of stately old homes on a tree-lined New Westminster street, or a crumbling Cariboo miner’s cabin with aspen sprouting between the walls, each evokes a sense of B.C.’s history, and nostalgia for an earlier era. Scott Burgess has a genuine appreciation for history. Currently, he resides in an historical Langley building — which leans dramatically toward the rustic and precariously away from the pristine — the Noel Booth Store at 20640 24 Ave. He’s only renting, but he considers himself a steward of the historic site, the store and the gas station, on their original site, and another building he has moved in between, from another part of the property. Sue Morhun, the Township’s manager of community heritage, says the Community Heritage Commission is concerned about the Noel Booth Store and Gas Station buildings, but it is privately owned, by an offshore owner. The buildings have been on the Township’s Heritage Listing since 1993, and are eligible for a Heritage Building Incentive Program grant, if the owner was interested. “It looks to us like it is demolition by neglect,” says Morhun. “What a shame. Both Noel and his wife Lillian (also known as Gertrude) were major players (in the Township) in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s,” said Morhun. Burgess is not unsympathetic, but pragmatic. He says some newcomers to Canada, with thousands of years of history in their homeland, don’t consider B.C. pioneer dwellings significant. Burgess does, and has rescued from the “bulldozer” many of the artifacts he has on display at the storefront. “This is our heritage. We only have 100 years of history, but it is ours. We don’t want it to slip away.” He knows and appreciates the history of Noel Booth: 8 | Sideroads of Langley & Aldergrove | June 2007
Booth’s years in Langley Township civic politics; his grocery business and fleet of vans or buses used as mobile stores; his philanthropy in donating property for schools, and Gertrude Booth’s operation of the post office in the store. (Morhun believes Mrs. Booth’s business acumen was behind N. Booth, General Merchant, the store and mobile grocery, while Noel concentrated on politics). Burgess has pondered the patina of age versus the pristine restoration. While he appreciates the rustic, he refinishes antiques and once owned his own store, Coachhouse Antiques, on the Langley Bypass. His current dilemma is whether to refurbish, or leave the scars of age intact on an old gasoline pump he has found for the front of the gas station building. He has the skills to make the old pump as new. “Should I paint it? This really bothers me. If I do paint it, it will look out of place.” The same test might be put to the buildings, but what, realistically, is a tenant expected to do? Burgess does propose replacing the rotting fascia boards on the store, but he will not consider alterations that don’t suit the era of the three buildings. “I brought the (middle) building up here, because I thought it belonged here,” Burgess says. The middle building, originally on the west side of the property, was a storehouse for the garage’s oil and other equipment, he thinks. He may turn it into a studio for some of his friends who do stained glass work, and has set aside some nice wood-framed, multi-pane windows for the studio. Many of his accumulated artifacts are on display out front — old wood-fired cook stoves; an old wringer washer; long, two-man crosscut saws; the gas pump, a machine used to change the tires of wood-spoked automobile wheels, and much other memorabilia. These have prompted a few visits from the bylaw officer. “It is neat to look at. People enjoy it. I have a lot of stuff, so why not let people look at it?”
Scott Burgess considers himself the steward of the old N. Booth General Store and Gas Station. And many passersby stop to view his collection of artifacts from a bygone era. Colleen Flanagan photo.
And he is aware of the concern of the heritage folks, about the buildings. “If I didn’t live in it (the store), it would probably fall down,” he says. He takes a visitor on a tour, including the garage, surprisingly large inside. He points out the heavy, steel eyebolts imbedded in the concrete floor. “Those old cars, when they went off the road, their frames were bent all out of shape.”
The bent cars were anchored by chains to the eyebolts, and jacks or come-alongs would be used to force the frames back into alignment. Passers by are always stopping in, and visitors have included movie location scouts. A recent proposal was to shoot a movie scene in which a city family stops at a rustic country gas station. “It has lots of atmosphere, and lots of character,” he says. Burgess particularly enjoys the seniors who stop by. “I meet a lot of little old ladies out here. Their memories are tied up in this place. I’m happy to take them on a tour.” He has brought some of the seniors into his living room, the original old store front, where they have pointed out exactly where the counter was located. “They say: I used to buy penny candy, right here,” says Burgess. Adds a friend, who has just dropped by for a visit: “It is like a memory lane for old folks.” Photos this page: Roy Schellekens, a Fernridge resident, stopped his 1950 Ford at the old Noel Booth service station recently, for a look around. Colleen Flanagan photographs.
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he humble appearance of the old Noel Booth grocery store and gas station belies the heritage value of the structures. The proprietors, Noel Bowman Booth and his wife Gertrude Lillian Booth were major players in Langley Township throughout the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, according to the Township’s 1 manager of community heritage, Sue Morhun. According to the archives of the Langley Centennial Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Noel Booth was born in Nottingham, England on May 23, 1897. When his father died in 1906, his mother, Edith Maude Booth, brought the family to Canada. Noel enlisted in the Canadian military in 1918. His wife, Gertrude Lillian Osterberg, was born Aug. 21, 1900, in Gleichen, Alberta. She came to Vancouver with her family in 1916 and worked as a stenographer and bookkeeper at a wholesale jewelry company there. In 1918 she began a four-year courtship with Noel, whom she had met through her father. They were married on June 1, 1921 and came to Fernridge that fall, on the B.C. Electric Interurban Railway.
Gertrude began operating the Fernridge post office while Noel commuted to his plumbing business in Vancouver until the mid 1920s. By that time a small store was added to the post office. According to Morhun, Gertrude had the business savvy, while Noel was very much involved in politics. He served as a school trustee from 1938-1939 and a Township councillor in 1945, 1949-1955 and 1959; and reeve 1933-1935, and again 1946-1947. During the Second World War the Booths established a fleet of mobile stores, which were at the height of their use in 1946 and 1947. The service was decreased to a one-vehicle operation in 1947, and the last remaining vehicle, a Diamond “T”, remained in service until 1963 when the traveling grocery was cancelled.
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1929 pickup roadster: Young man (probably Mark Booth) in a car outside of the N. Booth Store and Service Station. Photo No. 3388 courtesy of Langley Centennial Museum. 3) Len Green and the N. Booth General Store’s Diamond “T.” Probably after the Second World War, when Len returned to drive the Diamond “T” for the store. Photo No. 3387, courtesy of the Langley Centennial Museum. 4) Esther Davis (left) and Mrs. Gertrude Booth outside of the N. Booth Store with “The White” truck in the snow, 1946. Photo No. 3367 courtesy of Langley Centennial Museum. 5) The family shot in front of the old gas pumps: Hope MacPherson with Noel and Gertrude Booth and their children Mark and Valara outside their service station. Photo No. 3364 courtesy of Langley Centennial Museum.
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The Booths expanded in 1940 and 1941, adding stores in Whalley and White Rock. The White Rock store closed for economic reasons, and the Whalley location after its manager enlisted in the army. The couple had two children: Mark and Valara. Gertrude Booth died in Langley on Oct. 13, 1973. Noel Booth died May 22, 1979.
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A Road Well Travelled – 72nd Avenue There are two quite distinct 72 Avenues in Langley.
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ne is increasingly urban; the other is almost completely rural. Interestingly enough, both roads were just as distinct from each other in Langley’s early days. The 72 Avenue that runs from the edge of the escarpment between Milner and Willoughby to the Surrey border was known as Jericho Road for many years. Unlike most roads, it retained the same name when it crossed into Surrey, where it ended at what is now Fraser Highway and 180 Street. According to Maureen Pepin’s book “Roads and Other Place Names in Langley,” the name Jericho was given to the road by John Smith, an early Milner settler and grandfather of current Milner farmer Jack Worrell. He named it after the hills of Jericho in the Bible, referred to most notably in the book of Joshua. The steep escarpment above the Milner valley would have seemed quite remote and challenging in the days of trails that wound around stumps and boulders, and meandered under towering first-growth timber. Jericho Road was the main road between Milner and Willoughby. Milner was a major centre for earlyday Willoughby residents, particularly after the B.C. Electric Railway line opened in 1910. The mail was delivered by train to Milner, and it
was the most convenient place to catch the train and travel into New Westminster and Vancouver. Longtime Willoughby resident Dick Straw recalled in an interview with The Times in 2005 how his family arrived in Langley on the interurban in 1920 from Saskatchewan. They then made their way up the hill on Crush Crescent and Jericho Road to 208 Street (Alexander Road), where they headed north for their property near what is now the Yorkson development, just south of Highway 1. As the years went by, the road became wider and was eventually paved. It remained a relatively quiet road until more recent years, when the urbanization of Willoughby began in earnest. The stretch between the Langley-Surrey border and 202A Street is now almost completely urbanized, with a neighbourhood shopping and commercial core developing at 200 Street and 72 Avenue. Plans call for eventual urbanization almost to the edge of the escarpment, or “the hills of Jericho” as they were known many years ago. The road has been widened in the urban areas and will likely be widened all the way to its junction with Crush Crescent in the next few years. The “other” 72 Avenue was known as Springbrook Road. A remnant of its name remains in use — the portion of Highway 10 between Glover Road and 232 Street is still also called Springbrook Road. The name Springbrook comes from the Springbrook School, which was (and is located) at 72 Avenue and
232 Street. Built in 1896, it is now the Harmsworth Hall. The school received its name from a sulphurous spring in the same locale. The original Springbrook Road took off from Glover Road in a southeasterly direction, to conform with the land use patterns set by the Hudson’s Bay Company farm in the Milner valley. It then curved northeasterly and became a straight east-west road (72 Avenue) right where the road crosses the Salmon River. It continued easterly across what is now Highway 1 and climbed the steep hill to the community of Sperling, which was centred near 240 Street and 72 Avenue. That was the location of the Sperling School (now a private residence) and the Sperling Church, which is one of Langley’s heritage buildings. Sperling got its name from R.H. Sperling, general manager of the B.C. Electric Railway when the interurban line was built in 1910. The railway’s successor, Southern Railway of B.C., still refers to the storage track south of 72 Avenue on 240 Street as “Sperling.” Springbrook Road continues east until it comes to the edge of the hill that drops down to Glen Valley. There it winds and twists to eventually connect to 256 Street. A small portion of 72 Avenue runs west from 264 Street to the edge of the same hill, and can actually be reached from the other portion of 72 Avenue via 252A Crescent.
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In this, our second issue of Sideroads of Langley and Aldergrove, we bring you an excerpt from a work of historical fiction. Beyond the Blue is the second novel from author Andrea McPherson, a former Langley resident who now calls Cloverdale home. She teaches creative writing and English at University College of the Fraser Valley. McPherson’s first novel, When She was Electric was published in 2003.
“In 1918, rainy Dundee is nearly emptied of men. The Great War has left the town’s women both new-found freedom and
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allis tugs at the jute and lets it fall through her fingers. The jute might be something else, something kind and lovely, if she were only able to shut herself off to the carding room, the gossip between the women around her, the whine of the machines. “Been to any dances, Wallis?” Mae asks over the din. She is a few years older than Wallis and pretty with dark hair and light eyes. She smiles. “No.” “Caro hasn’t dragged you out?” “Not lately. But I’m sure she will.” Caro is always begging Wallis, always suggesting that Morag trusts them more when they go out together. Usually, though, it is Caro who dances and Wallis who stands at the side, watching her sister spin in the arms of another man left behind by the War. She has watched these men, their broken, ruined limbs — an arm that will no longer bend, a leg that is permanently stiff, stilted, or, worse, a man who has been bombed and blasted into silence — and felt a slow, sad sinking. Wallis says, “Any word from Peter?” Mae’s eyes well up, and Wallis immediately regrets the
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servitude. They toil in the deadly jute mills, taking in the children of perished family members and praying their own bodies —and spirits— do not fail them too. “A grateful widow of the war, Morag shelters her daughters as best she can: beautiful Caro schemes to escape the working class with well-calculated seduction, while Wallis works in the mill alongside her mother, slowly fortifying both spirit and pocketbook for a more radical departure. Morag’s orphaned niece, Imogen, grapples with her fragile mother’s death and the return of the father who abandoned them.”
question. Mae says, “No,” in a voice barely audible. Wallis closes her eyes to the broken —apart look of Mae’s face; she knows that look, knows the pained feeling behind her pale eyes. She is about to say, “I’m so sorry, Mae,” when there is a crack, a loud, hard sound in the air around them. The chatter of the women stops just as suddenly. Wallis is absolutely still and silent for a moment, before she hears the cry. The long, anguished cry of someone in unbearable pain. Mae breathes, “Good God.” Wallis does not look down the row of women in the direction if the cry. She does not see Elsie caught in the carding machine. She will not know how to explain it later, but she does not want to see her tangled body — a body that she will later be told had been bent, broken, trapped by the rollers — and the possibility of her own future. Such accidents are possible, probable and Wallis does not want to commit the scene to memory. Wallis takes a step backward, away from the other women who are rushing forward, burdened with their unfortunate curiosity. She is paralyzed with fear at the poscontinued on page 16
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sibility of the sight of Elsie; Elsie’s eyes, her body wrenched into the machine, and the sheen of the dark, polished boots. Wallis counts the buttons on her own boots — one, two, three — and gets to six before the men rush in, mumbling and cursing as they try to pull Elsie free. “Stand back, stand back.” The biggest man, Joe McGivern, warns all the women away. His stomach will be straining against his shirt, pushing into the air between them. A button pulling, and Wallis becomes transfixed by the prospect of it: the pucker, the pull, the possibility of a tear. “Dammit, get them out of here.” It is one of the managers — perhaps Fergus or Paisley in the quick flash of the moment, the confusion of bodies, Wallis can never be sure — holding his hand up against his mouth. There is a rush of movement, the crush of women’s bodies to one another, and the dull, washed —out sound of Elsie’s cries. Wallis and the other women in the carding room are herded out, pulled away from the pulse of the machines and into the courtyard. Jean breathes, “Lord help us all.” Lottie asks, “Will she be all right?” “Sure she will,” Mae says. “They’ll get her out.” Wallis does not speak but, instead, looks up to the blue sky and the camel that hangs between the warehouses. She does not want to answer Lottie, to tell her that she knows — without having looked at Elsie, without seeing her eyes, the taut fear that must have been there — that Elsie would not be all right. That Elsie was damaged, had been torn apart and forgotten by the machines, as so many of the women had been before. How many is that now? Does anyone remember them all? Wallis looks around to the women standing in the courtyard with her, hoping that the sky will remain the clear stretch of blue while they wait — coatless — close to one another. She wonders how many of them will give themselves over to the same fate. In ten years, how many of them will still be here, perhaps even standing in the air of a crisp day, while another women is pulled free from angry machinery. Later, Wallis steps into the courtyard again, but the sky has darkened, relinquishing continued on page 17
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BEYOND THE BLUE the faint light of day for the navy of evening. It’s cold for a spring night; Wallis pulls the collar of her coat tighter. She moves from one foot to the other — her foot aching from the tight edge of her boot — as she waits for Morag. She know Morag will ask her about Elsie, will wonder what she saw, what the carding room sounded like in the moments just after the accident. Death is not unusual in the mills. A girl loses her hand while spinning. A man is caught by a belt and revolved around the shafts three times. Women go deaf. Children are hit, boxed in the ears, dangled out windows three storeys up when they fall asleep at their machines. But, still, there is that thick stab for Wallis each time an accident occurs; another reminder of their own slim trajectories in the mill. Wallis is stamping her aching foot when Morag appears, rushing across the courtyard in her long dark skirt. “What happened to Elsie McRae?” “You must have heard.” “She was caught. Did they get her out?” Morag seems desperate for information. Her eyes are bright, wide. “Yes,” Wallis says. Morag sighs. “Thank God the girl is all right.” Wallis and Morag start across the courtyard, toward the arch with the camel and out into Caldrum Street. Just a few steps across the street and they will enter their tenement building, climb the three storeys to their flat. Look out the window and see the Works, always. Wallis says, “She died.” Morag stops in the middle of Caldrum. She grasps Wallis’s arm. “She died?” “Yes. The injuries were too severe. She died after they pulled her out.” Morag looks up to the darkening sky and then back to Wallis. New shadows come across her face, cutting her features in two. One eye. Another. The curve of lip. “The poor thing.” Morag takes Wallis’s arm to cross the street and they walk up the stairs to their floor. The hallway is deserted, quiet, as they push their door open.
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Community Improvement Society The village of Fort Langley will be filled with art and music on Brigade Day weekend August 4-6th. This year will be celebrated with a gala Saturday evening dance in the Community Hall featuring Jack Stafford and his band. Great rhythm, blues and jazz. After all the exciting Brigade Day activities in the Fort, the Museums and the village, there will be a final concert inside the palisades of the Fort. On Monday evening the public is invited by the National Historic site and the Festival to bring a supper to a FREE “Picnic in the Fort”. Live music with the wonderful Sabir Sisters will make everyone want to get up and dance on the grass or just tap their feet to the lively fiddles. Fresh lemonade will be sold by the “Friends”. Information from Bays at 604-888-1759.
Coming This Fall Join the Fort Langley Legacy Foundation for the Douglas Day Parade — November 18th Exciting 2nd annual Douglas Day Parade featuring horses, mules, pioneers, voyageurs, dancers, pipers. Horses and Buggies, no cars - to celebrate 1858 and our great founding Governor.
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Art and Music in the village of Fort Langley on Brigade Day weekend August 4-6th. This year will be celebrated with a gala dance in the Community Hall featuring Jack Stafford and his band. On Monday evening the public is invited bring a supper to a FREE “Picnic in the Park” inside the palisades of the National Historic site from 6 to 8.30. Live music and dancing on the grass. Fresh lemonade will be sold by the “Friends” Information at 604-888-1759 Saturday, October 6, 2007 8:00am - 5:00pm
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In Langley we love to celebrate the Cranberry. The Village of Fort Langley hosts the annual event featuring a scrumptious pancake breakfast, cranberry-wares, field tours, canoe regatta and cranberry sales.
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