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604 / 778 / 236HighwaysWaterways,WebsiteChilliwack ( ) is the 7th-largest city in by metropolitan area, with 101,512 people. Historically an agricultural community, most of its residents are now city-dwellers. Chilliwack is the seat of the and its second largest city. This city is surrounded by mountains and recreational areas such as. It is located 102 kilometres (63 miles) southeast of. There are many outdoor activities in the area, including hiking, horseback riding, archery, biking, camping, fishing, golf and paragliding. Vedder RiverChilliwack is located in the Upper, 100 kilometres (60 mi) east of on the.
The city is bounded on the north by the, and on the south by the Canada-United States border.Chilliwack is surrounded by tall mountain peaks, such as and, and large rivers (the and ).Geology The Chilliwack Batholith is a large that forms much of the in southwestern, Canada and the of.The geological structure is primarily named after the City of Chilliwack, where it is the most notable geological feature.The Chilliwack Batholith is part of the and is the largest mass of exposed intrusive rock in the. The age of the Chilliwack batholith ranges from 26 to 29 million years old.In 2013, reported that, with an average annual temperature of 10.5 °C, Chilliwack is the warmest city in Canada. Cityscape. Main article: Neighbourhoods on the north side Also referred to as 'Chilliwack Proper Village West', the north side covers the area from the in the south, to the in the north, and includes the communities of Camp River, Chilliwack Mountain, Downtown Chilliwack, East Chilliwack,. Downtown Chilliwack is the historical urban centre of the city. Several cultural attractions, such as the, and the Eagle Landing Shopping Centre are located there, as well as key government buildings, such as city hall, offices, and the.Neighbourhoods on the south side The south side includes the communities of, Promontory Heights, Vedder Crossing,. Is the urban core of the south side and is a popular shopping destination.Parks.
Chilliwack Heritage Park. Fairfield Park. Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve. Gwynne Vaughn Park. Island 22.
Salish Park. Sardis Park. Townsend ParkArts and culture. Front view of the newly constructed City of Chilliwack City Hall in 1912. The building later became the.Chilliwack is known for its locally-grown corn.
From June until September the farmers take advantage of the sunny weather and produce up to two crops of corn for both human consumption as well as for cattle feed.used bookstore is the second-largest in the Province of British Columbia.Music Chilliwack has an active rock music scene, centring mostly around young ska and punk rock bands. Bands originating in Chilliwack include:, and.Chilliwack also has a thriving community, featuring the Chilliwack Symphony Orchestra and the Chilliwack Metropolitan Orchestra.The drumline from played at several venues during the in Vancouver.Chilliwack also offers many other community events and classes throughout the year. The Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association hosts free concerts and activities in the downtown core each Friday evening during the months of July and August, called 'Party in the Park'. 'Music and More' is another free summer event that takes place each Wednesday throughout July and August, with kids' activities at noon and concerts in the evening. This event is presented by numerous local arts groups working together, and the Chilliwack Community Arts Council. Another annual event that is a corn maze, where the public is invited to roam in the farmers' fields when the crops of corn are at their highest.Despite their name, the band actually formed and is based, in nearby Vancouver.Performing arts The is a performing arts venue located in downtown Chilliwack.
The building is home to the Chilliwack Players' Guild (the resident theatre company), as well as the Chilliwack Academy of Music.The UFV Theatre is a 206-seat venue belonging to the Theatre Department. UFV produces three or four mainstage shows each year, as well as the annual Directors' Festival featuring student directors and performers from, and.The Chilliwack School of Performing Arts provides pre-professional training in acting, singing and dancing to children ages 3–18 at the North Campus of the University of the Fraser Valley. The mainstage show performs a two-week run every January at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre, and a Spring Festival featuring performances from many age groups at the UFV Theatre in late May. Programs at the Chilliwack Performing Arts can be registered for at. Many different programs are available, including a Junior Musical Theatre and Summer Break Camps.Festivals Annual events and festivals include:.
Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival (ended in 2013). Christmas Craft Market. Chilliwack Art of Wine Festival. Fraser Valley Culture and Craft Beer Festival. Fraser Valley Women's Expo.
Party in the Park. Chilliwack Canada DayMuseums.
Canadian Military Education Centre. Chilliwack Museum and Archives, located in the 1912 former Chilliwack City Hall on Spadina Avenue, is a. The Chilliwack Museum and Archives are a non-profit organization operated by the which began in 1958 by brothers Oliver and Casey Wells.Notable people. Former, hails from Chilliwack Academics., Ph.D., musicologist in and,., Ph.D., classical archaeologist and excavator of the., M.Econ,., Ornithologist and distinguished wildlife artist., Ph.D., mathematician and computer scientistActivists., cancer research activist, mother of., activist, who graduated from Chilliwack Senior Secondary.Arts and entertainment., actor from Glee, True Blood and Night At The Museum. Graduated from Chilliwack Senior Secondary., Covergirl model. Born in Chilliwack on July 23, 1979.
Appeared on the covers of magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Marie Claire., musician, songwriter, composer, arranger and producer. Bernie Herms, Grammy Award-winning artist., jazz musician, Juno Award winner for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year in 2017Athletes., a former professional hockey player with the and., former professional football player with the and., a former professional soccer player with the., a soccer player in the Vancouver Whitecaps systemCanadian Military., recipient of theJournalists., journalist and radio operator., television journalist. Graduated from Chilliwack High School in 1983.Justices., Justice and Chair of thePoliticians., former., former member of Parliament and cabinet minister., first woman elected to political office in Canada., first aboriginal.Writers.,. Worked for The Chilliwack Progress as a student., author of, lived in Chilliwack., novelistOthers. One of the pioneer Chilliwack families., serial killer who committed crimes on Canada and the U.SMedia.
TeamLeagueSportVenueEstablished20111999Chilliwack Crusaders RFCThird DivisionYarrow Sports Field2012Sports clubs in ChilliwackThe 's, play at the. The team used to be the. The franchise was purchased and moved to Chilliwack by the Chiefs Development group.
They started in the BCHL's Interior Conference for the 2011/2012 BCHL Season. While the original Junior 'A' team, the Chilliwack Chiefs, plays in, as the (the Chiefs Development Group sold their interest in the but retained the 'Chiefs' name and history). The 's used to play at the Prospera Centre. The expansion franchise began to play in 2006 and ended when the team was sold at the end of the 2011 season. It became the WHL hockey team in 2011.Community sports include hockey, lacrosse, softball, soccer, football, baseball, field hockey and swimming.The 's play at.Chilliwack Turbo Fastball club won the 1997 Canadian Jr. Men's National Championships. In 2013 the team was an inaugural induction into the.Chilliwack's minor baseball Cougars were the 2006 Western Canadian tier 2 champions.Chilliwack Cougars College Prep Baseball Team won the Provincial Championship in 2016,2017 and 2019.
Most recent title against the Ridge Meadows RoyalsChilliwack hosted the 2007-2008 Synchronized Skating Canadian Championships at the Prospera Centre.was organized in 1958 with the opening of the Chilliwack Coliseum.Climate The climate is typical (: Cfb) but with some influence of the land mass being some distance from the sea, similar to, (although the former has a precipitation more than twice as long and with a tendency towards the Mediterranean pattern). Chilliwack's mild climate with limited extremes provides excellent growing conditions for a wide variety of crops and agricultural products.
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In fact, when averaged from 1981 to 2010, Chilliwack had the warmest mean temperature for any city in Canada. According to the weather network, The latest recorded snowfall was on April 19, 2009.
And the earliest was on Sept 28th, 1938. The highest temperature recorded in Chilliwack was 39.4 °C (102.9 °F) on Aug 10, 1898. The lowest recorded temperature was −26.7 °C (−16.1 °F) on Jan 31, 1929. Precipitation falls mostly as rain, with snow limited to the surrounding mountains, except for two or three weeks per year generally in December or January. In 2013, reported that with an average annual temperature of 10.5 °C, Chilliwack is the warmest city in Canada. In Chilliwack, snow is most likely to fall from Oct 31 to April 1.Chilliwack receives nearly the same number of days of precipitation (184.6 days at greater than 0.2 mm) as comparable local communities nearer Vancouver such as Maple Ridge (185.8 days) and the City of Mission (186.0 days) (Environment Canada Statistics). Summers in Chilliwack are usually sunny and warm, with long days (light out until well after 10 pm in June with dusk that lasts for hours) and with occasional stretches of heat where temperatures rise above 30 °C (86 °F).Due to its location at the eastern end of the Fraser Valley, there has been some debate about preserving Chilliwack's air quality.
However, the 2011 World Health Organization's study of air quality shows that Chilliwack enjoys air quality among the best in the world. For PM 10 (10 ) size, Canada averaged third best in the world (along with Australia) at an average of 13 micrograms per cubic metre.
The City of Chilliwack and the Greater Vancouver Regional District were tied at a low 8.0 MPCM. For smaller particulate of 2.5 µm size (PM 2.5), 'the City of Chilliwack averaged 4.9 micrograms per cubic metre.
Vancouver also had 4.9, Calgary had 5.6, Winnipeg had 5.6, Toronto had 7.9, Montreal had 11.2 and Sarnia had 12.7.' Main article: Second World War CFB Chilliwack was established in 1941 as Camp Chilliwack following Canada's entry into the in 1939. After the outbreak of the the camp was expanded to garrison units for the defence of Canada's West Coast. The base was also a training facility: 112 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre and A6 Canadian Engineering Training Centre were housed at Chilliwack until the war's end in 1945.1945–1997 During the, the base was used as a permanent training facility and the for the Canadian Army units of British Columbia. The base housed the Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering, formerly A6 Canadian Engineering Training Centre and 58 Field Engineer Squadron which was transferred from on Vancouver Island.Following the unification of the Canadian forces in 1968, the base was renamed Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack. The base housed the following units:.
Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering (CFSME—formerly Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering). Canadian Forces Officer Candidate School (CFOCS) (transferred in 1971 to CFB Chilliwack). First Combat Engineer Regiment (1CER—formerly 58 Field Engineer Squadron)In 1994, the 3rd Battalion (3PPCLI) was transferred from to, the last unit to be transferred to the base.Due to Department of National Defence cutbacks at the end of the Cold War, the base was closed in 1997. CFOCS was transferred to Area Support Unit St-Jean in Quebec , CFSME transferred to, 3PPCLI and 1CER were transferred to.Legacy Part of CFB Chilliwack became a residential subdivision known as Garrison Crossing, and its training facilities became the, a campus for a number of post-secondary schools. The Chilcotin Training Area, better known as Area C, is still operational and is part of the Western Area Training Centre (WATC). Area C is used by the units of British Columbia for field training and for the use of its firing ranges.
The ASU is also used by for field training. The ASU also houses supply depots for the Canadian Army units of and the cadet units of BC. The old quartermaster warehouse is now the Canadian Military Education Centre Museum.
Transportation Airports is located about 113 km (70 mi) from downtown Chilliwack and has non-stop flights daily to, the, and, and other airports within Canada. Is located about 42 km (26 mi) west of Downtown Chilliwack and offers scheduled service to Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Victoria, where passengers can connect to anywhere. Chilliwack Airportis a small regional airport located in Downtown Chilliwack.
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It has 1,219 m (3,999 ft) of paved and lit runway that includes a parallel taxiway. Approximately 70% of the estimated 60,000 annual air traffic movements are itinerant traffic that consists of both pilot training and recreational flights from all around BC and south of the border.Bicycle lanes There are about 175 km (109 mi) of bike lanes throughout the city with additional lanes being added every year. Highways. Trans-Canada Highway at dawn in ChilliwackA from to runs through Chilliwack on the section of the.The is a north-south route in the eastern part of Chilliwack that acts as the last connection between Highways and eastbound before, and is the main access to the resort village of. The highway first opened in 1953, originally going between Yale Road in and Highway 7, with a ferry across the Fraser River. A bridge replaced the ferry in 1956. When the section of Highway 1 east of Chilliwack opened in 1961, Highway 9 was extended south to a junction with the new Highway 1 alignment, which replaced Yale Road as the main route between Chilliwack and Hope.Mass transit.
This section is from. ( )Chilliwack Railway Stationconsists solely of a signpost and paved low-level platform located on the north side of the CN Railway tracks at Nowell Street. The station is served by Via Rail's three times per week (two in winter) as a (48 hours advance notice required).
The station is only served by the westbound train to Abbotsford and Vancouver. Eastbound trains call at the located on the north side of the Fraser River on the CP Railway tracks.
The reason for the splitting of service is that between Abbotsford and Kamloops, CN and CP use each other's tracks for through the on long stretches of single track.Education. UFV Campus at Canada Education Park Post-secondary Canada Education Park (CEP) is a 86-acre (35 ha) campus in the Vedder Crossing neighbourhood on the south side of Chilliwack that houses several post-secondary institutions, including the, the, and the.The (UFV) is the largest post-secondary school in Chilliwack, and the seventh largest in British Columbia in terms of full-time enrollment. It offers master's degrees, bachelor's degrees, associate degrees, diplomas, certificates and citations across a range of programs in fine arts, humanities, science, social sciences, applied communication, business, nursing, as well as technical and trade programs. Its campuses are located in Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Hope and Mission.Private Independent schools in ChilliwackSchoolLevelGradesSaint Mary'sElementaryK-7Unity Christian SchoolElementary-SecondaryK-12John Calvin SchoolElementaryK-7Timothy Christian SchoolElementary-SecondaryK-12Elementary-SecondaryK-12Mount Cheam Christian SchoolElementary-SecondaryK-12Chilliwack Adventist Christian SchoolElementary-Junior secondaryK-7Cascade Christian SchoolElementary-Junior secondaryK-9Public.
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