Cemeteries in Langley

Langley’s cemeteries are where a lot of its history is written down, one name at a time. The Township runs three: two old village burial grounds in Fort Langley and Murrayville, and a newer lawn cemetery on 208 Street. There’s also the fur-trade burial ground beside St. George’s Church in Fort Langley, which predates all of them. Whether you’re looking for a grandparent, planning ahead, or just like reading old stones, this is the place to start.

The cemeteries

Cemetery	Where	Run by	Still has plots?	Our page
Fort Langley Cemetery	23105 St. Andrews Avenue at Glover Road, Fort Langley	Township of Langley	A few; premium lots are on the fee schedule	Fort Langley Cemetery
Murrayville Cemetery	21405 44 Avenue, Murrayville	Township of Langley	Nearly full (2019 report)	Murrayville Cemetery
Langley Lawn Cemetery	4393 208 Street	Township of Langley	Yes, the Township’s main active cemetery	Langley Lawn Cemetery
Hudson’s Bay Company (Pioneer) Cemetery	Church and Mary Streets, beside St. George’s Anglican Church, Fort Langley	On church grounds; not a Township cemetery	No, historic only	HBC Pioneer Cemetery

The “still has plots” column leans on the Township’s 2019 cemetery review, which is the most recent count we could find. Ask the cemetery office for today’s picture.

The Township’s museum pages also list six other known burial places it doesn’t maintain, mostly small family or churchyard graves from the 1880s to the 1920s: the McQuilken burial, the Patricia Lutheran churchyard, St. Alban’s Anglican churchyard in Milner, the Walworth family cemetery (smallpox victims of 1888 among them), and two sites on 8 Avenue and 200 Street. Most are on private land, so please don’t go looking for them.

How to find a grave

The Township posts its burial records on its Open Data site as a searchable table. Open the Cemeteries Langley Township dataset, switch to the table view and filter by last name. Each row shows the cemetery, the date of death and the plot details. The dataset says it covers roughly the 1880s to 2021 and is part of an ongoing clean-up of the Township’s records, so a recent burial may be missing or a detail may be off. For anything recent, or to get walked to a plot, call the cemetery office at 604-534-5965.

For family history, the BC Genealogical Society has headstone transcriptions for Fort Langley, Murrayville and the St. George’s pioneer cemetery, and Interment.net hosts copies of Township burial records it received in 2020. Both are useful cross-checks, not official records. Warren Sommer’s book Frail Memorials: The Cemeteries of Langley (Langley Centennial Museum, about 2005) is the deep read.

Buying a plot and what it costs

All three Township cemeteries offer casket and cremation plots, and there are niche walls and a scattering garden. Under the Cemetery Bylaw, you can buy a plot when someone has died if you’re a resident (living in the Township for at least a year), a former resident or a family member of one. Buying ahead of time is limited to residents and former residents aged 60 or older. Veterans, including non-residents, can get veteran lots. Burials usually happen weekdays between 9am and 3pm, booked at least 48 hours ahead.

The Township’s cemetery page, as we read it on October 21, 2026, lists these sample fees (GST extra; the long-term care fund charge is included):

Item	Resident	Non-resident
Casket right of interment	$4,966.50	$8,663.55
Casket interment fee	$1,792.35	$1,792.35
Cremation right of interment	$1,876.35	$3,753.75
Cremation interment fee	$827.40	$827.40
Niche wall right of interment	$4,224.15	$8,449.35
Scattering garden right of interment	$462.00	$462.00
Marker permit	$434.00	$434.00

The Township says these are for illustration and that grave and cremation liners are mandatory. The full list, including weekend rates, veteran lots, natural/hybrid lots and Fort Langley premium lots, is in Schedule 2 of the Fees and Charges Bylaw, last amended for cemeteries in April 2026. The bylaw defines a resident as someone living in the Township, and the City of Langley is a separate municipality, so City residents should ask the office which rate applies.

Visiting

Come any day between 8am and dusk. Keep dogs on a leash and pick up after them, drive slowly on the lanes (15 km/h unless posted), and give funerals plenty of room. Cut flowers, wreaths and artificial flowers are fine; the bylaw allows artificial wreaths from November 1 to March 1, and other ornaments are cleared each spring (this year it started April 20, with items held for 60 days).

Remembrance and war graves

Fort Langley and Murrayville both have cenotaphs and veterans’ sections, and both host Remembrance Day ceremonies. See Remembrance Day in Langley for this year’s times. Veterans Affairs Canada’s Canadian Virtual War Memorial includes Langley burials, such as a Second World War serviceman at Murrayville Cemetery. On Saturday, November 7, the Township runs a guided walk, Stories from the World Wars, from salishan Place by the River to Fort Langley Cemetery (12:30 to 2pm, $2, registration required).

More history nearby: heritage sites, the Langley Centennial Museum and a short history of Langley.

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