Just 40 minutes from Vancouver on Hwy. 1, Fort Langley was established by the Hudson’s Bay Company as a trading post in 1827; it was southwestern B.C.’s first European settlement. The centre of the fur trade, it was also a jumping off point for prospectors heading to the Fraser River gold fields. In 1858, British Columbia was proclaimed a colony in the fort’s Big House, making Fort Langley “the Birthplace of B.C.” Today, Fort Langley thrives as an agricultural and residential community with charming shops.
Fort Langley National Historic Site. The original Storehouse and reconstructed buildings of the fur trading post offer a surprising glimpse of early commerce in British Columbia.
B.C. Farm Machinery and Agricultural Museum. Machinery, equipment and household furnishings from the old days.
