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The current hospital has had two forerunners, with the first being opened on 18 April 1922. This hospital, called the 'Cottage' Hospital opened with a mere 14 beds. Eventually, as Abbotsford and its environs began to grow, a new hospital was needed, and so the Abbotsford-Matsqui-Sumas Hospital opened on 28 February 1953. [8]
Six western tourists and their two guides were kidnapped in the Liddarwat area of Pahalgam in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, India on 4 July 1995 by forty militants from the Kashmiri Islamist militant organisation Harkat-ul-Ansar, [a] [1] under the pseudonym of Al-Faran, [2] in order to secure the release of Harkat leader Masood Azhar and other militants.
Abbotsford is a city in British Columbia next to the Canada–United States border, Greater Vancouver, and the Fraser River.With a census population of 153,569 people (2021), it is the largest municipality in the province outside metropolitan Vancouver. [3]
Born into a military family, Lidder - then still Singh - completed his studies at the Kendriya Vidyalaya in Mhow, where he was a brilliant student.After passing the exam for the National Defence Academy (NDA) on his first attempt, he joined the 77th course of the NDA in January 1987 and was assigned to the academy's India Squadron. [2]
Terry Driver (25 January 1965 – 23 August 2021) was a Canadian murderer who attacked two teenage girls with a baseball bat, killed one, then taunted police in Abbotsford, British Columbia with letters and phone calls. [1] [2]
Liddell Hart was born in Paris, the son of a Methodist minister. [1] His name at birth was Basil Henry Hart; he added "Liddell" to his surname in 1921. [2] His mother's side of the family, the Liddells, came from Liddesdale, on the Scottish side of the border with England, and were associated with the London and South Western Railway. [3]
The Cascade is the University of the Fraser Valley's student-run paper, with offices located on the university's campus in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. While the paper's current era as The Cascade began in 1993, it began publication in the 1970s, under different names that would last only for a short number of years.
Gulzar Singh Cheema (born August 11, 1954) is an Indian-born Canadian physician and politician. [1] He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1993, [2] and a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2004, [3] making him one of only a few Canadian politicians to have sat in two provincial legislatures since Confederation.