People uprooted from Coghlan (37)

Coghlan, a community in Langley on the traditional territories of Stó:lō Peoples, was first settled by the Coghlan brothers in 1882. Seasonal fishing on the Fraser River was common among early settlers; they would travel from New Westminster, where most worked during the winter, by riverboat via Fort Langley. The BC Electric Railway arrived in 1910, and the station, substation, and area were named after the Coghlans. Shingle mills and logging operations became the area’s principal industries. As forests were cleared, the agricultural industry expanded.

Japanese Canadians contributed to Coghlan’s early logging and milling industries. Some also purchased land often considered undesirable by white settlers and developed successful berry farms. There was a small, loosely structured Nokai (agricultural society) of fewer than twenty families in Coghlan (Doré). Residents living on the northern part of Otter Road (now 248th Street) would have been a part of the Coghlan community.