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Located at 23105 St. Andrew's Street, this historic cemetery was created in 1884. This was the first municipal cemetery established in Fort Langley, and is the resting place of many of the area's pioneer families. The first burial was Robert Mackie, father of the municipality's first Warden. Separate sections of the cemetery were reserved for First Nations people and for Canadian War Veterans. Many of the granite and marble monuments are elaborately carved and decorated, and several gravesites are surrounded by wrought iron fences. In conjunction with an early landscape plan now in full maturity, it remains a site of peace and beauty. To the north side of the cemetery is a granite First World War memorial to the fallen men of the Langley district which was later rededicated to the memory of those who served in the Second World War.
Information from "Langley's Heritage: A Listing of Heritage Resources"

Alexander Mavis (1825-December 31, 1905) came from England to California for the gold rush in 1849, and then to BC for our gold rush in 1858. He returned to England and married Mary Fiddler-Horn Nicholson in the mid-1860s. The couple had 6 children in England, including Sarah Elizabeth (1868-1942), Mary Jane (nee Mavis) Cole (1869-1932),
Francis John (1871-1936), James Alexander (1872-1926), Ada (1876-), Lily Dawson (1874-1957), and Laura (1879 - 1977). The family returned to Langley in 1887. Alexander and his family farmed some of the land that had previously belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company. In fact, much of the land in east Fort Langley was once owned by Mavis. Mavis and his wife died in 1905 and are buried in the Fort Langley Cemetery, but there are still many descendants in the area.

Mary Fiddler-Horn Mavis (nee Nicholson) was born in 1825 in Newcastle-on-Tyne. She immigrated to Canada in 1887 with her husband Alexander Mavis and their children Sarah Elizabeth (1868-1942), Mary Jane (nee Mavis) Cole (1869-1932), Francis John (1871-1936), James Alexander (1872-1926), Ada (1876-), Lily Dawson (1874-1957), and Laura (1879 - 1977). Mary died on September 21, 1905.
Term Source: Fort Langley Cemetery pg. 47 (Hannay), Roads and Place Names in Langley, B.C. (Pepin)