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Chilliwack is a city made up of several amalgamated villages and communities. [1] The urban core has a decidedly north–south axis bisected by the Trans-Canada Highway.The city is bounded in north by the Fraser River, in the east by the Eastern Hillsides, in the south by the Canada-U.S. border, and in the west by the Vedder Canal.
Part of CFB Chilliwack became a residential subdivision known as Garrison Crossing, and its training facilities became the Canada Education Park, a local campus for the University of the Fraser Valley. The Chilcotin Training Area, better known as the OPSEE Area(Operator Special Engineering Equipment Training Area), is still operational and is ...
The railroad was destroyed by a huge fire in 1938. Subsequently, the railroad logging was stopped and supplanted by truck logging. In 1942 an army base was set up in Chilliwack and rifle ranges established on the road to Chilliwack Lake. . [3] Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park gets its name from the Chilliwack Lake, a valley-bottom lake.
The property was bounded by Keith Wilson Road and Vedder Road and was intended as a Canadian Army post for defending the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Camp Chilliwack was created only two months after the Empire of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, launching the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Chilliwack-Cultus Lake is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Created under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution, the riding will first be contested in the 2024 British Columbia general election. [1] It was created out of parts of Chilliwack-Kent and Chilliwack.
During the 1860s, Vedder and his sons Adam and Albert amassed a total of 960 acres. With a further Crown grant in 1878, the Vedder Lands eventually totalled 1,200 acres. [3] In 1910, the British Columbia Electric Railway constructed a line from Vancouver to nearby Chilliwack that skirted the edge of Sumas Lake. One of the stations along this ...
The road proceeded to curve south to follow a path along the south shore of Sumas Lake and along the north base of the Vedder Mountains through Yarrow, Vedder Crossing, north to Sardis and Chilliwack. From Chilliwack, the road followed Reece's old trail through Rosedale and Bridal Falls, then northeasterly along the south shore of the Fraser ...
Hwy 1 in Chilliwack: Cultus Lake Road south of Chilliwack: Vedder Road — 2016 Connected to Hwy 915:0690 Highway 915:0690: 18.51: 11.50 Henderson Road in the Columbia Valley: Vedder Mountain Road in Chilliwack • Columbia Valley Highway • Cultus Lake Road — — Highway 915:1300: 2.64: 1.64 Hwy 1 in Hope: Hwy 3 in Hope: Old Hope-Princeton ...