Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

2015.027.020

Title

Black and white photo of the Great War cenotaph at the Murrayville Cemetery.

Date

Jul. 1956.

Description

Black and white photo of the Great War cenotaph at the Murrayville Cemetery. Legible carving on the stone reads " ... LANGLEY DISTRICT. MEN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918"." The memorial has flower wreaths all around it, and is surrounded by hedges on the sides.

People/Subject

Murrayville Cemetery

The cemetery was established by the Independent order of Odd Fellows (Cloverdale Lodge No. 15) in August 1891, and they operated it for the next 13 years. They wrote to the Township Council in mid-1904, offering to sell them the property. The transfer took place in October that year, and was renamed the "Langley Prairie Cemetery" in November. (Murrayville was originally part of Langley Prairie). Eventually it came to be known as the Murrayville Cemetery.
From "Frail Memorials: The Cemeteries of Langley" by Warren Sommer.

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1939-1945

Argus v4.3.6.40 - Langley Centennial Museum