“Alfred Parker was born in Cornwall in 1870, and arrived in 1885. He established a 80 acre dairy farm here; in 1910 he sold 9 acres to the B.C. Electrical Railroad Company , the proceeds allowed him to build a large barn. The house was built for Parker and his wife Alice by John Martin, a carpenter who arrived from Ontario in 1911; the square floor plan and hip roof with symmetrical hip dormers, are very similar to Martin,s own home, which survives in altered condition at 51693 Old Yale Road”

(Page 16,The District of Chilliwack Heritage Inventory, Chilliwack Heritage Advisory Committee, 1991, Chilliwack Museum and Archives reference collection)

Photographed February 2014 By Ted Sauriol