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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 T ...
,
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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 the Fraser Valley. Home to approximately 3.05million people as of the 2021 ...
at an elevation of between twenty and forty meters above sea level. Durieu falls mostly within zone 1 of the
Agricultural Land Reserve British Columbia's Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) is a collection of land where agriculture is designated as the priority use. Farming is encouraged and non-agricultural uses are restricted. The ALR was established by the British Columbia New De ...
. Sited in the middle of Hatzic Valley 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 3, 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 Durieu ...
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 {{BritishColumbiaSouthCoast-geo-stub