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See Also: Belmont Farm

Harold "Harry" Sterne Berry was born in Langley on 17 August, 1901 to John Walter Berry and Lydia Bowman. He married Vera Evelyn Laking (1902-1979) on 19 October, 1922, in Vancouver. They had 6 children, including Gordon (Chub), Helen, Ted, Dick, Bill and Jean. Harold died on 4 December, 1980. Harry Berry was a farmer on Belmont Dairy Farm, and lived in only two houses his whole life.

John "Jack" Coulter Berry was born on 5 February, 1905. He married twice: in 1938 to Beulah Swann, who died in 1938, and later to Helen Moore. He took his masters degree in agriculture at UBC in 1937 and his Ph. D. at Iowa State College in 1939, becoming a professor of Animal Husbandry at UBC and one of Canada's leading agriculturalists.

John Walter Berry was born on December 18, 1869 in Bruce County, Ontario to parents William Berry and Susanah (Sterne) Berry. In 1890 he married Lydia Bowman of Mannheim, Ontario. They had 7 children: Edith (b. 1891), Edward (b. 1894), William (b. 1900), Harold (b. 1901), Anne (b. 1903), John (b. 1905), and Thomas (b. 1910). John moved his family to Langley in 1897 to help long-time friend David Moss Coulter open a general store. The pair opened two stores, one in Murrayville (managed by Berry) and one in Fort Langley (managed by Coulter). In 1904 John sold his store to Hugh A. MacDonald. During the time he owned the store, John purchased a 135 acre price of land and went on to build a successful dairy farm (Belmont). In 1910 he helped form the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association. John was a prominent Langley citizen. He served as Municipal Clerk in the Township of Langley from 1899-1909, as Chairman of the Langley School Board from 1912-1936, and as MLA for the Delta Riding (which consisted of Delta, Surrey and Langley) from 1928-1932. He also served as an auctioneer and valuator. John died at his home on Old Yale Road after a lengthy illness on September 5, 1943 at the age of 74. He is buried in the Murrayville Cemetery.

See Also: Coulter & Berry Store
Term Source: The Langley Story, pg. 249 (Waite) ; From Prairie to City, p. 85 (Sommer).

Thomas Kerr Berry was born on July 22, 1910, in New Westminster, to John Walter and Lydia Berry.