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Chilliwack (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ l ə w æ k / CHIL-ə-wak) is a city of about 100,000 people and 261 km 2 (100 sq mi) in the Canadian province of British Columbia.It is located about 100 km (62 mi) east of the City of Vancouver in the Fraser Valley.
On March 19, 2013, the Nunavut city of Iqaluit was imaged. Rather than shipping a car or using a trike, the city was imaged using backpack-mounted cameras for three days. One of the people involved, Chris Kalluk, was responsible for Google mapping Cambridge Bay, his home town. [6]
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.
As the Trans-Canada Highway (designated Highway 1 in 1941), the old Yale Road route saw further abandonment as the main highway of the valley with the by-passing of the Chilliwack-Rosedale-Bridal Falls section (constructed circa-1958-60) and the Fraser Highway section between New Westminster and Abbotsford by the “401” Freeway (constructed ...
Chilliwack Transit System operates the public transportation system for the City of Chilliwack in the Upper Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada. Funding is provided under a partnership between the city and BC Transit , the provincial agency which plans and manages municipal transit systems.
Its headquarters are in the city of Chilliwack. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km 2 (5,159 sq mi). It was created in 1995 [3] by an amalgamation of the Fraser-Cheam Regional District and Central Fraser Valley Regional District and the portion of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District from and including the District of Mission eastwards.
Yarrow is a small community located 90 kilometres east of Vancouver within the City of Chilliwack in British Columbia, Canada. It is in the Fraser Valley at the foot of Vedder Mountain. The village was first settled by Mennonites in the late 1920s, following the draining of Sumas Lake and the reclamation of the former lake bed for agriculture.
On July 31, 1969, the interchange with Lickman Road in Chilliwack opened. [49] The Prest Road overpass followed in the early 1970s. [50] In January 1992 the Cassiar Tunnel opened. The project replaced a surface street section of Cassiar Street which was used by traffic to get from the Burnaby Freeway to the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge. [51]