The Dewdney Trunk Road was one of the earliest major roads in the

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, originally running from

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to Dewdney, just east of

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. It exists in three sections today: *an arterial route running roughly parallel and south of the Barnet and

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s in Port Moody,

Coquitlam Coquitlam ( ) is a city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Mainly suburban, Coquitlam is the sixth-largest city in the province, with a population of 148,625 in 2021, and one of the 21 municipalities comprising Metro Vancouver. ...

and

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. *a series of side roads in

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north of the

from the

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to the Ridge-Meadows area near the boundary with

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*a main arterial route, also one of the main commercial streets in downtown

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, corresponding with what would otherwise be 120th Avenue while within Maple Ridge, running from its intersection with the Lougheed Highway in Ridge-Meadows generally parallel to and to the north of the Lougheed across northern Maple Ridge into northern Mission. After crossing Stave Falls Dam it reaches the community of

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and turns south, threading its way through a series of turns through the Cedar Valley and Ferndale areas before arriving at its current terminus in Hatzic, just east of Mission.

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