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Paul Murray was born in Ireland in 1811 and immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eighteen. the Murray family settled in Oxford County, Ontario, and ten years later Paul married Lucy Bruce. They bought land in Zorra and had seven children together. In May 1874, after his children were grown, Paul left Ontario and relocated in B.C., accompanied by three of his sons. Their first home in Langley was a roughly built shelter they made for themselves from a gigantic fir tree, and after his wife and two of hisdaughters arrived, they all lived there together. After these humble beginnings, Murray opened a hotel on Old Yale Road to service travelers making their way into the interior, building up a reputation as one of the finest carpenters in the area. The corner where the hotel was eventually came to be known as Murray's Corners, as the family had 160 acres of land on each corner. Murray's Corners eventually came to be known as Murrayville, and all of Paul's sons worked on Old Yale Road, building more hotels and other businesses to increase commerce. Paul was an ordained church elder, dring a time when there were no official churches and services were held in a small schoolhouse on the corner of Glover Road and Old Yale Road. Holding the title of founder of Murrayville, Paul Murray died in 1903. Murray's Corners did not officially become Murrayville until 1911, when the local post office changed its name to Murrayville Post Office.

Built by Billy Murray in c. 1888, the Hotel sits at 21628 48th Avenue, Langley. The building was used as a hotel by travelers on the road to Yale, local residents waiting for their own houses to be built, and the Langley School Board (about one month). The hotel ceased operations somewhere between 1892 and 1911. The building was used as a residence by several families in the following years up to 1949 or later. A restoration by Wally and Sharon Martin and several others started in 1997. The building is now a bed and breakfast called ‘Princess and the Pea B&B’.

See Also: Murrayville Hotel

Located at 21628 48 Avenue, the Travellers' Hotel is a heritage site built in 1887 as part of the chain of hotels on the Old Yale and Cariboo Wagon Road to Barkerville. In mid-summer 1998, it was totally rebuilt as a bed and breakfast.