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Harris Family
Wellington J. Harris served as our first Warden in 1874 and 1875, when Maple Ridge encompassed the Pitt Meadows area. He then went on to represent the New Westminster Riding in Victoria, serving from 1878 until 1882. He served as Warden of Maple Ridge twice more – in 1887 and again in 1890.
Wellington Harris was one of a family of nine born in Oxford Country, Ontario. He and his wife Mary Jane came to Pitt Meadows in 1873, according to Don Waite's The Langley Story, creating a dairy farm on land which is now part of the Somerset subdivision and the Meadows Gardens Golf Course. In the 1880s, the CPR bought land from him for the building of the railway, and he worked for a time as foreman of a rail building crew.
Mary Jane passed away in February of 1937, at the age of 96. The couple had lived in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows area for 63 years, and had one son together, Frank V.
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