Heritage buildings and historic sites in Langley

Langley is more than a fort. Farmhouses, churches, a train station and a community hall are still standing, and many can be seen from the sidewalk. This page is a starting list, not a complete register. Most of these are in the Township, one is in the City, and each is linked to the source we used. Please respect that many are private homes or active churches.

In Fort Langley village

• CN Station (Canadian Northern Railway “Langley Station”). Canada’s Historic Places says it was built in 1915, with living quarters added upstairs in 1918, and that it was moved about 100 feet east in 1983. It is at Mavis Street and Glover Road beside the tracks, and the register calls it the only survivor of twelve stations built along a twelve-mile stretch of Langley. It was the first partnership between the Township and a non-profit, the Langley Heritage Society.
• Fort Langley Community Hall. On Glover Road (9167 Glover Crescent in the register), a wooden classic-revival hall with Doric columns and an upstairs dance floor. The register lists construction in 1931, by volunteers for the Fort Langley Community Improvement Society, which still owns and runs it. The Heritage Society’s walking tour dates the start of construction to 1930.
• Coronation Block. Built in 1911, according to the walking tour, and named for King George V.
• St. George’s Anglican Church. The walking tour says it opened in 1901 and was enlarged in 2003. The Pioneer Cemetery beside it has 24 burials located by ground-penetrating radar in 1999.
• St. Andrew’s United Church. Built in 1885, the tour calls it Langley’s oldest surviving church.
• Fort Langley Cemetery. Established in 1884, with a granite cenotaph for First World War dead.
• Houses on the tour. The tour also describes the Haldi Residence (1908), Dr. Marr Residence (1910), James Mowat Residence (1909) and Morrison/Hadden Residence (1904). They are private homes, so look from the street.

You can pick up the full PDF map from the Heritage Society’s walking tour link in our sources.

Museums and the fort

• Fort Langley National Historic Site, where BC was proclaimed in 1858.
• Langley Centennial Museum in salishan Place by the River.
• BC Farm Museum, the walking tour says founded in 1958 and opened in 1966.

Elsewhere in the Township

• Milner Chapel and Hall (Langley Prairie Methodist Church). At 6716 216 Street in Milner Park. Canada’s Historic Places says the church was built in 1886 by pioneer Thomas Turnbull on land donated by James M. Johnston, with a hall added in 1925, and that it was moved a short way to its present site. It is one of the oldest surviving churches in the Township.
• Wark/Dumais House. A Glover Road farmhouse built in stages starting in 1890. The City’s heritage page says it housed Robert James Wark, reeve from 1914 to 1918, and then the Dumais family, who ran a dairy farm until 1963.

In the City of Langley

• Michaud House. Built in 1888 by Joseph and Georgiana Michaud, who came from Quebec. Heritage BC describes it as the home of Langley’s first French Canadian family, on what was a dairy farm, and as a house museum with a garden. A local heritage society manages it. We have not confirmed opening hours, so check with the Heritage Society before you go.

The Heritage Society’s site also lists other restored buildings, including Dixon House and Barn, Harrower House, Lamb/Stirling House, Lattimer House, Moir House and Sperling Methodist Church. We list them by name only because we have not checked where they are or whether they are open.

A few notes

Canada’s Historic Places says the Community Hall, the Coronation Block and the CN Station helped build support for the Township’s first Heritage Conservation Area, established in 1997. For the bigger picture, see A short history of Langley.

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