Chilliwack BC - Travel, Tourism, Hotels, Outdoors

Be sure to stop in Chilliwack if you're driving in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. It's about 90 minutes East of Vancouver on Highway 1.

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City of Chilliwack
The City of Chilliwack BC Canada

The City of Chilliwack is a community of 70,000 people and is growing rapidly. It is located 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Vancouver, marking the start of the Fraser lowland. In its pioneering days Chilliwack served as a gateway as well as a hinterland to the fur trade and gold mines at Yale BC and Hope BC. But the arable flat land and the improved transportation of the Lower Mainland soon reoriented the 's economic ties toward the Vancouver area. As Greater Vancouver expands, the Lower Mainland becomes integrated as one economic region, and Chilliwack is very much a part of that region. The incorporation of the area began with the Township of Chilliwack in 1873. In 1881 a large subdivision called Centreville was developed. In 1887 the name Centreville was replaced by a more popular name, Chilliwack, and the area was incorporated in 1908 as a separate municipality, the City of Chilliwack. The City and the Township co-existed for 72 years, and finally in 1980 they merged to form the City of Chillwack.