Durieu is an unincorporated predominantly farming community, located around five kilometers northeast of
Mission, British Columbia
Mission is a city in the Lower Mainland of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It was originally incorporated as a district municipality in 1892, growing to include additional villages and rural areas over the years, adding the original To ...
,
Canada
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in
Area F of the Fraser Valley Regional District of that province's
Lower Mainland
The Lower Mainland is a geographic and cultural region of the mainland coast of British Columbia that generally comprises the regional districts of Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley. Home to approximately 3.05million people as of the 2021 Canadia ...
at an elevation of between twenty and forty meters above sea level. Durieu falls mostly within zone 1 of the
Agricultural Land Reserve
The Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) is a collection of agricultural land in British Columbia in which agriculture is recognized as the priority. In total, the ALR covers approximately and includes private and public lands that may be farmed, fores ...
. Sited in the middle of
Hatzic Valley
The Hatzic Valley is the southerly, lowland portion of the Fraser Valley Regional District#Electoral area "F", Fraser Valley Regional District Electoral Area "F" of British Columbia's Lower Mainland. The valley was carved as a result of southward ...
it has few services other than a store, gas station, feed co-op, defunct elementary school and community hall.
Hatzic Prairie's former post office was renamed to Durieu Post Office in remembrance of Archbishop
Pierre-Paul Durieu
Pierre-Paul Durieu (December 4, 1830 – June 1, 1899), was a Roman Catholic missionary and the first Bishop of New Westminster, in British Columbia, Canada.
Life
Durieu was born in 1830 in Saint-Pal-de-Mons, the second son of Blaise Durie ...
around 1910. This in turn led to British Columbian government officials and cartographers using the name "Durieu" to describe the local settlement from 1939. Durieu currently holds community-level status per the BC Geographic names office.
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Lower Mainland
Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Populated places in the Fraser Valley Regional District
Designated places in British Columbia
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