Abbotsford is a city in

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next to the

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, and the

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. With a census population of 153,569 people (2021), it is the most populous municipality in the province outside metropolitan Vancouver. Abbotsford–Mission has the third-highest proportion of visible minorities among census metropolitan areas in Canada, after the

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and the Greater Vancouver CMA. It is home to Tradex, the

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, and

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. As of the 2021 census, it is the largest municipality of the

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and the fifth-largest municipality of British Columbia. The Abbotsford–Mission metropolitan area of around 195,726 inhabitants as of the 2021 census is the 23rd largest

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in Canada. It has also been named by Statistics Canada as Canada's most generous city in terms of charitable donations for nine straight years. The community of is the largest city by area in British Columbia. The municipality's southern boundary is the Canada–United States border. In Canada, it is bordered by the

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to the west, the City of Mission to the north, and the City of

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to the east. Abbotsford borders the town of

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, to the south. Much of Abbotsford has views of

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(to the southeast, in Washington) and the

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(to the north).

History

Settlement

The first residents of the area are the Stó:lō Nation. The Upper Sumas 6

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of the Sumas First Nation is located at Kilgard within Abbotsford city limits. European settlement began when the

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surveyed the area in response to the

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along the

in 1858. This led to the building of Yale Road (today Old Yale Road), the first transportation route to link the

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. The settlement grew and the production of butter, milk and tobacco began by the late 1860s. In 1889, former Royal Engineer John Cunningham Maclure applied for a Crown grant to obtain the that would become Abbotsford. The Gur Sikh Temple, located on 33089 South Fraser Way, is the oldest Sikh temple in North America. Built in 1908 and opened in 1911, it is now over 110 years old, outlasting the now demolished 2nd Avenue temple in Vancouver (opened in 1908), and the Golden temple (opened in 1905) which was destroyed by fire. There is some controversy over the origin of the Abbotsford name. The most commonly cited origin is that Maclure named the land "Abbotsford" after family friend Henry Braithwaite Abbott, the western superintendent of the

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. Maclure's sons later stated that the property had actually been named for Sir Walter Scott's home,

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, and pronounced it with the accent on ''ford'', In his later years Maclure himself claimed that the naming had been "a combination of two ideas". The Akriggs say that Maclure in an 1894 letter said that when the town was laid out in 1894, the town was named for Henry Abbott, general superintendent of the

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and brother of Sir

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, prime minister.

Contemporary period

The title passed hands to Robert Ward, who filed a townsite subdivision on July 9, 1891. Also in 1891, the CPR built a railway line through the area that connected

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with the

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. This route was the only rail connection between

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and

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until 1904. The Village of Abbotsford was incorporated in 1892. At that time Robert Ward sold many of the lots to private investors, but also sold off a significant portion to the Great Northern Railway's subsidiary company the

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. The

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(BCER) arrived in 1910. The Interurban, as the BCER tram linking Abbotsford with Vancouver and

was called, was discontinued in 1950, but BCER's successor

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retains the right to re-introduce passenger rail service. Service to Vancouver runs from neighbouring Mission by way of the

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. The most notable natural disaster to hit Abbotsford was a major flood of the

in 1948. In September 1984,

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held an open-air Mass for over 200,000 people at

. The amalgamation of the Village of Abbotsford and the District of Sumas into the District of Abbotsford occurred in 1972. The District of Abbotsford amalgamated with the District of Matsqui in 1995 to become the City of Abbotsford, raising the population significantly. In June 2013, the City of Abbotsford spread chicken manure on a homeless camp located in the city. Abbotsford Mayor Bruce Banman publicly apologized for the incident. The city of Abbotsford has a long and ongoing history of gang-related crime, particularly that of violence and the illegal sale of controlled substances. On November 16, 2021, Abbotsford residents living in the

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were given an evacuation order given the flooding in British Columbia at the time, the city calling the situation "catastrophic".

Government

Abbotsford City Council Abbotsford City Council is the governing body for the City of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. The council consists of the mayor and eight elected city councillors representing the city as a whole Municipal elections are held every four ye ...

comprises a council-manager form of local government. The mayor and council were last elected in 2022. The current mayor is

Ross Siemens Ross Allan Siemens (born c. 1963) is a Canadian politician. He has served as the mayor of Abbotsford, British Columbia since 2022. Early life Siemens was born in Abbotsford, and grew up there. His paternal grandparents were Mennonites from Russ ...

. The Abbotsford flag and coat of arms are the same, featuring straight, diagonal crosses representing Abbotsford as at a "crossroads". At the centre is a strawberry blossom to symbolize the local berry industry. The flag of Abbotsford was originally blue in colour. The change to green was initiated in 1995 when the District of Abbotsford and the District of Matsqui amalgamated to create the City of Abbotsford.

Demographics

City of Abbotsford

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Abbotsford had a population of 153,524 living in 53,234 of its 55,659 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 141,397. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. The 2021 census reported that

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(individuals born outside Canada) comprise 43,190 persons or 28.6% of the total population of Abbotsford. Of the total immigrant population, the top countries of origin were

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(23,830 persons or 55.2%),

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(2,310 persons or 5.3%),

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(1,735 persons or 4.0%),

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(1,395 persons or 3.2%),

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(895 persons or 2.1%),

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(885 persons or 2.0%),

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(850 persons or 2.0%),

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(845 persons or 2.0%),

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(820 persons or 1.9%), and

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(565 persons or 1.3%).

Languages

According to the 2021 Census, 92,460 persons or 61.0% of Abbotsford's population have English as a

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;

Punjabi Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabis, Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a ...

is the mother tongue of 34,280 persons or 22.6% of the population, followed by German (3,065 or 2.0%), Spanish (1,375 or 0.9%), Korean (1,190 or 0.8%),

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(1,180 or 0.8%), Vietnamese (1,105 or 0.7%),

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(990 or 0.7%), French (955 or 0.6%), Mandarin (945 or 0.6%), Hindi (860 or 0.5%), Arabic (720 or 0.5%), Cantonese (555 or 0.4%), Russian (415 or 0.3%), and

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(400 or 0.3%). Furthermore, the 2021 census stated 141,175 persons or 93.6% of Abbotsford's population have knowledge of the English language; 41,145 persons or 27.3% of the population have knowledge of Punjabi, followed by Hindi (7,080 or 4.7%), French (6,295 or 4.2%), German (3,665 or 2.4%), Spanish](2,880 or 1.9%), Tagalog (1,835 or 1.2%), Korean (1,430 or 0.9%), Vietnamese (1,170 or 0.8%), Dutch (1,145 or 0.8%), Mandarin (1,430 or 0.9%), Arabic (1,030 or 0.7%), Urdu (985 or 0.7%), Cantonese (810 or 0.5%), and Russian (805 or 0.5%).

Religion

A plurality of Abbotsford's population is Christianity, Christian. Many of the largest congregations in the city are

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. The next largest religious group is

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. Opened in 1911, the city contains the oldest existing Sikh

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built in Canada and

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, with earlier Gurdwaras built in

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(1908) and Golden (1905) since being demolished or destroyed by fire. A National Historic Site, located in Central Abbotsford, the

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is now over 110 years old. The 2021 census reported the religious demography in the city of Abbotsford was: *

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(56,900 persons or 37.7%) *

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(47,550 persons or 31.5%) *

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(38,395 persons or 25.5%) *

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(3,620 persons or 2.4%) *

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(2,125 persons or 1.4%) *

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(1,000 persons or 0.7%) *

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(90 persons or 0.1%) * Indigenous Spirituality (75 persons or <0.1%) * Other (1,060 persons or 0.7%)

Ethnicity

According to the 2021 census, the largest pan-ethnic group is

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, comprising approximately 55.2% of the municipal population. This group includes German, Dutch, British, Irish, Scandinavian and Slavic ethnic origins. The next largest pan-ethnic group in Abbotsford is South Asian, comprising 30.2% of the city population; this group includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri Lanka national origins, while the population in Abbotsford primarily includes persons of Punjabi ethnic origin. Members of the ethnic group first arrived in the early 1900s to work on farms and in the lumber industry. This is followed by

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at 4.6% of the population, Southeast Asians (3.1%), and East Asians (2.7%).

Abbotsford CMA

At the

(CMA) level in the 2021 census, the Abbotsford–Mission CMA had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. The

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reported that

(individuals born outside Canada) comprise 50,085 persons or 26.1% of the total population of the Abbotsford-Mission CMA. Of the total immigrant population, the top countries of origin were India (25,990 persons or 51.9%), United Kingdom (3,295 persons or 6.6%), Philippines (2,065 persons or 4.1%), United States of America (1,725 persons or 3.4%), Germany (1,085 persons or 2.2%), Netherlands (1,070 persons or 2.1%), Vietnam (1,040 persons or 2.1%), China (990 persons or 2.0%), South Korea (930 persons or 1.9%), and Pakistan (600 persons or 1.2%).

Ethnicity

Abbotsford has the third-highest proportion of visible minorities among Census Metropolitan Areas in Canada, after the

and

. The Abbotsford metropolitan area has Canada's highest Census Metropolitan Area proportion of

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Climate

Abbotsford has an

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( Köppen climate type ''Cfb''), with just enough summer precipitation not to be classified as

warm-summer mediterranean A Mediterranean climate ( ), also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen and Trewartha as ''Cs'', is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude). Such climates typica ...

. Summers are generally warm and drier than at other times of the year and winters are rainy and very mild by Canadian standards. Snowfall can be heavy but usually not very long lasting, on average falling mostly in December and January.

Economy

Some 62 percent of residents in Abbotsford work in the City of Abbotsford itself. Most of the remaining 38 percent commute to Mission, Chilliwack or Vancouver and its suburbs (primarily

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and Langley). More than 25 percent of Abbotsford's workforce commutes to Abbotsford from other municipalities. The Conference Board of Canada has identified the local economy as one of the most diverse in the country.
/ref> Abbotsford's main industries are agriculture, transportation, manufacturing and retail. The city earns the highest dollar per acre of agricultural land in the country, greater than the Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara Region and the

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. Total sales from agricultural businesses grew from $635,000,000 in 2010 to nearly $1billion as of 2021 and accounts for almost 50% of all chicken eggs and dairy milk production for all of British Columbia. The BC government's Animal Health Centre, at the Abbotsford Agriculture Centre offers "more than 400 laboratory diagnostic tests for agents that may be found in wild and domestic birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians" and is the leading accredited full-service veterinary laboratory in Western Canada. The facility has housed a Biosafety level 3 laboratory since October 2009.

Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre (''ARHCC'') is a 300-bed Canadian health care facility in the City of Abbotsford, British Columbia that houses the acute care Abbotsford Regional Hospital (ARH) operated by Fraser Health and the reg ...

and community health services make

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the city's largest employer with about 2,500 staff. The city is also home to three federal prisons, each of which employs between 200 and 500 officers and support staff. There is also a growing

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industry led by

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and Conair Group Inc. Local and privately owned confectionery company Brookside Foods was acquired by

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in 2011. In 2016, it announced it would be closing.

Education

Forty-six public elementary, middle, and secondary schools are administered by the Abbotsford School District. This includes a

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called the "Abbotsford Virtual School" that offers more than 30 semestered online courses. This school offers a unique animation and modeling program that teaches students aspects of the video game industry as well as many other courses such as Mathematics, English, and Science. Private schools include Dasmesh Punjabi School,

St. John Brebeuf Regional Secondary St. John Brebeuf Regional Secondary is a Catholic school, under the administration of the Catholic Independent Schools Vancouver Archdiocese school board. The school is co-educational, offering academic, fine arts, and business programs, as well ...

Mennonite Educational Institute The Mennonite Educational Institute (MEI) is an independent country day school located in Abbotsford British Columbia, approximately 70 kilometres from Vancouver. MEI consists of four divisions — a preschool, elementary, middle, and secondary s ...

, and Abbotsford Christian School. Post-secondary institutions in the city include the

, religious institutions such as

Columbia Bible College Columbia Bible College (CBC) is an evangelical Mennonite Bible College in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. It is affiliated with two regional Mennonite conferences, British Columbia Mennonite Brethren and Mennonite Church British Columbi ...

and Summit Pacific College, as well as career colleges such as Career Gate Community College, Sprott Shaw College, Vancouver Career College, Métis Skills and Employment Centre, and CDI College.

Arts, culture and heritage

The Abbotsford Arts Council hosts a number of free local events including music in Mill Lake Park, the Arty Awards and more recently, the Christmas Artisan Gift Fair. It has been involved in projects such as the Abbotsford "Unity Statue", Abbotsford Christmas Craft Fair, Art in the Park, Abbotsford's Art and Heritage Unity Festival, and the Historical Downtown Art Bench Project. As well as maintaining the Kariton Art Gallery which features and hosts exhibitions from local artists of all mediums residing in the Lower Mainland.

The Reach Gallery Museum The Reach Gallery Museum is a public art gallery and museum located in Abbotsford, British Columbia. It exhibits artwork from across Canada and around the world. The Reach is also the regional archival repository and houses a significant collectio ...

features exhibitions from across Canada and around the world, as well as the work of local artists. It houses a heritage archive, runs special events, programs and courses and seeks to promote local arts and culture. Trethewey House Heritage Site features a restored 1920s Craftsman-style house built by J.O. Trethewey, one of the owners of the lumber and shingle mill that gave Mill Lake Park its name. The municipally designated heritage house and adjacent gallery are open to the public for special events, educational programming, and drop-in tours. The Mennonite Heritage Museum, which opened in January 2016, features a permanent exhibit that tells the 500-year-old story of the

Anabaptist Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin , from the Greek language, Greek : 're-' and 'baptism'; , earlier also )Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term (translation: "Re-baptizers"), considering it biased. ...

Mennonite Mennonites are a group of Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name ''Mennonites'' is derived from the cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland, part of ...

movement, with a particular focus on the history of those Mennonites who settled in Abbotsford beginning in the early 1930s. The Museum also has a gallery that features the work of local Mennonite artists, a coffee shop serving traditional Mennonite foods, a bookstore, and a replica traditional Mennonite housebarn that includes a permanent exhibit focusing on Mennonites and agriculture. The Museum is also home to the library and archive of the Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia. Gallery 7 Theatre and Performing Arts has been one of Abbotsford only performing arts organizations since 1991 and operates out of

. They produce four mainstage productions every year.

Transportation

Public bus transportation is provided by the Central Fraser Valley Transit System. Passenger rail service to Vancouver currently runs from nearby Mission by way of the

. Abbotsford is also served by Via Rail's

The Canadian ''The Canadian'' () is a transcontinental passenger train operated by Via Rail with service between Union Station in Toronto, Ontario, and Pacific Central Station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Pacific introduced this serv ...

as a

flag stop In public transport, a request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a bus stop, stop or train station, station at which buses or trains, respectively, stop only on request; that is, only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or drop ...

. The station is only served by westbound trains towards

. Eastbound trains call at

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 ...

along the

tracks, on the other side of the

. This split in service between

and

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is due to CN and CPR utilizing

directional running A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track. Overview In the earliest days of railways in the United Kingdom, most lin ...

through the Thompson- and

Fraser Canyon The Fraser Canyon is a major landform of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains en route from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia to the Fraser Valley. Colloquially, the term "Fraser Ca ...

. Air links are provided by the

WestJet WestJet Airlines, is a Canadian airline headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in 1994, it is the second-largest airline in Canada and the eighth-largest airline in North America by frequency. It began operations in 1996 with 220 employee ...

provides regular scheduled service from the airport, due to its proximity to Vancouver's eastern suburbs. The airport is also the home of the annual

Abbotsford International Airshow The Abbotsford International Airshow is held annually on the second Friday, Saturday and Sunday in August at Abbotsford International Airport in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. It is Canada's largest airshow. In the mid-1970s, Abbotsford ...

. Major transportation routes leading into Abbotsford are the

Trans-Canada Highway The Trans-Canada Highway (Canadian French, French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the A ...

(No. 1), the Abbotsford-Mission Highway (No. 11) and the

Fraser Highway Fraser Highway is a major arterial road in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Connecting the cities of Surrey and Abbotsford, the highway formerly constituted a major portion of British Columbia Highway 1A until the latter was decommissi ...

(No. 1A). Access to the United States is via the

Sumas–Huntingdon Border Crossing The Sumas–Huntingdon Border Crossing connects Sumas, Washington and Abbotsford, British Columbia on the Canada–US border. Washington State Route 9 on the American side joins British Columbia Highway 11 on the Canadian side. Terrain The cr ...

Media

Due to its proximity to Vancouver, most Vancouver television and radio stations are also available in Abbotsford, although in a few cases there are repeater stations licensed to different centres in the region.

Radio

Two radio stations originate from Abbotsford:

CIVL-FM CIVL-FM is a Canadian radio station located at the University of the Fraser Valley (Building S) in Abbotsford, British Columbia. More commonly known as ''CIVL Radio'', the station serves the Fraser Valley Regional District, specifically the surr ...

, campus radio station of the

, and

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

station

CKQC-FM CKQC-FM (107.1 MHz) is a Canadian radio station in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Owned by Rogers Radio, a division of Rogers Sports & Media, the station airs a country format branded as ''Country 107.1''. CFVR was established in 1962 as a semi-sat ...

Print

* ''

The Abbotsford News The ''Abbotsford News'' is a weekly newspaper in Abbotsford, British Columbia. It publishes Thursday and is owned by Black Press. History ''The News'' claims to be one of the first community newspapers in the province due to its roots from the ...

'' * '' The Abbotsford Times'' (ceased publication in December 2013) * ''The Punjabi Patrika''

Online

* ''Abbotsford Today'' * ''Fraser Valley Current''

Sports

Hockey

Abbotsford Minor Hockey is one of the largest associations in British Columbia, with more than 1,000 players registered from the ages of 5 through 18 years old. This association is recognized by many as a model and a leader in the development of minor hockey programs, and several Abbotsford-raised players have gone on to the highest levels of this sport. In the 2005–06 hockey season, Abbotsford's bantam AAA team were ultimately the Western Canadian Bantam Champions, and eight individual players from this team (the most ever) were selected in the 2006 WHL Bantam Draft. The

Abbotsford Pilots The Abbotsford Pilots are a Junior "A" ice hockey team based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Harold Brittain Conference of the Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL). The Pilots play their home games at MSA Arena. Ja ...

of the

Pacific International Junior Hockey League The Pacific Junior Hockey League (PJHL) is a junior ice hockey league which operates in the Lower Mainland and the Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Although the PJHL has included American teams in the past, ...

(junior B level) play at MSA Arena, which is Abbotsford's second largest arena at just over 400 seats. Abbotsford was considered as a possible home for the

Chilliwack Chiefs The Chilliwack Chiefs are a junior hockey team based in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Coastal Conference of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). They play their home games at the Chilliwack Coliseum which w ...

(junior A), who were forced to move in 2006 when the

Chilliwack Bruins The Chilliwack Bruins were a Major Junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League (WHL) based in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. The 2006–07 season marked the Bruins' inaugural season in the WHL. The team played at Prospera Cent ...

(a WHL expansion team) took over their arena, Prospera Centre. Abbotsford would have become the home of the Chiefs if the city had supported them in building a new arena; instead, the Chiefs moved to Langley. Construction has now been completed in Abbotsford on a far bigger sports and entertainment centre (with 7,500 seats). From 2009 until 2014, Abbotsford hosted the

NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

Calgary Flames The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary. The Flames compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. The ...

American Hockey League The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league in North America that serves as the primary developmental league of the National Hockey League (NHL). The league comprises 32 teams, with 26 in the United States and 6 in Cana ...

(AHL) affiliate, the

Abbotsford Heat The Abbotsford Heat were a professional ice hockey team that played five seasons in the American Hockey League (AHL) between 2009 and 2014. The team was based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, and played its home games at the 7,046-seat A ...

. Home games were played at the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre. On May 6, 2021, the NHL's

Vancouver Canucks The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver. The Canucks compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conferenc ...

were approved to relocate their AHL affiliate to Abbotsford for the 2021–22 season as the

Abbotsford Canucks The Abbotsford Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Abbotsford, British Columbia. The team began play in the 2021–22 season with home games at Abbotsford Centre as the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the National Hocke ...

Other sports

From 2012 and 2013, the

BC Angels The BC Angels were a women's American football, women's football team in the Lingerie Football League (LFL) and played in the 2012 LFL Canada season. Based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, (70 kilometres away from Vancouver) the Angels played th ...

of the

Legends Football League The Extreme Football League (X League) is a women's Semi-professional sports, semi-professional indoor American football league operating in the United States. The league was originally founded in 2009 as the Lingerie Football League (LFL), and ...

's LFL Canada division played at the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre. Abbotsford's Jane and Gerry Swan Track at Rotary Stadium is home to the Valley Royals Track & Field Club, who have produced numerous Olympians, including two for the

2008 Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fr ...

. Rotary Stadium was also home to the now-defunct Abbotsford Air Force of the

Canadian Junior Football League The Canadian Junior Football League (CJFL) is a national Canadian football league consisting of 19 teams playing in five provinces across Canada. The teams compete annually for the Canadian Bowl. Many CJFL players move on to professional footbal ...

. Abbotsford has a superior youth soccer program, winning two national titles, and numerous provincial titles. It is also home of soccer all-stars Sophie Schmidt, Brad Petoom and Adam Lang. Abbotsford is home to the

Abbotsford Mariners Fraser Valley Mariners is a Canadian soccer team based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 2003, the team plays in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Northwest Division ...

of the

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Premier Development League USL League Two (USL2), formerly the Premier Development League (PDL), is a semi-professional soccer league sponsored by United Soccer Leagues in the United States, forming part of the United States soccer league system. The league will featu ...

, the highest level of amateur soccer in North America. Abbotsford is home to many high school sports, with Abbotsford Senior Secondary School, W.J. Mouat Secondary, Rick Hansen Secondary, Robert Bateman Secondary, St. John Brebeuf Secondary, Yale Secondary, and the

, among others, doing very well in track and field, volleyball, basketball, and football. These schools have consistently ranked among the highest in the province. The Yale Secondary senior boys basketball team, under Coach Al Friesen, won the 2008 'AAA' provincial boys' basketball championship. Abbotsford's

rugby club Rugby football is the collective name for the team sports of rugby union or rugby league. Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, where the rules were first codified in 1845. Forms of football in which the ball ...

supports three men's teams, two women's teams, U19 men's and women's, U15 U16 and U17 men's, and a great mini rugby program. Many of Abbotsford's players have gone on to play for Canada, such as Erin Lockwood,

Ryan McWhinney Ryan McWhinney (born January 28, 1978) is a Canadian former international rugby union player. An Abbotsford native, McWhinney is a product of Abbotsford Secondary School and in addition to rugby was a Canadian football safety at the University of ...

, Scott Hunter and Brodie Henderson. In Olympic sports, Abbotsford's

Alanna Kraus Alanna Kraus (born June 30, 1977 in Abbotsford, British Columbia) is a Canadian short track speed skater. Career achievements She won the bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in short-track speed skating for the wom ...

has won medals in short-track speed skating.

Crime

In 2005, the Abbotsford–Mission metropolitan area had the highest property crime rate and the second-highest violent crime rate among cities with a population of 100,000 to 500,000 in Canada. The metropolitan area had the highest rate of homicides nationally for two years running (2008 and 2009) with a rate of 5.22 homicides per 100,000 population, compared with the national average of 1.81. In 2010, the rate was 2.3. The City of Abbotsford has its own municipal police force, one of eleven municipal police forces in British Columbia. It is the third-largest municipal police force in British Columbia (behind Vancouver and

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...

). , the Abbotsford Police Department employed nearly 200 officers and 80 civilian employees. The Abbotsford Police Department was officially formed in 1995 when the District of Matsqui and the District of Abbotsford amalgamated to become the City of Abbotsford. Prior to the amalgamation, the District of Matsqui was patrolled by the Matsqui police and the District of Abbotsford by the RCMP. During the referendum citizens elected to keep a municipal police force.

Cityscape

These places represent parts of the city that have more than one neighbourhood in them. * Abbotsford East * Abbotsford West * Aberdeen * Bradner * Central Abbotsford * Matsqui * Poplar * Sumas Mountain * Sumas Prairie

Neighbourhoods

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Arnold Arnold may refer to: People * Arnold (given name), a masculine given name * Arnold (surname), a German and English surname Places Australia * Arnold, Victoria, a small town in the Australian state of Victoria Canada * Arnold, Nova Scotia U ...

* Auguston * Blueridge * Bradner *

Clayburn Clayburn may refer to: Places Canada * Clayburn, former British Columbia British Columbia is the westernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mou ...

* Clearbrook * Downtown * Eagle Mountain * Gifford * Glen Mountain *

Huntingdon Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by John, King of England, King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver C ...

* Kilgard * Matsqui * McKinley Heights * Mill Lake * Mount Lehman * North Poplar * Peardonville * Pepin Brook * Sandy Hill * South Poplar * Straiton * Townline

Notable people

* Karen Lee Batten * Chase Claypool *

Kristina Collins Kristina Lee Halliwell Collins (born July 1, 1996), also known as Kallmekris, is a Canadian social media personality and hairdresser from British Columbia. She is known for her skits that range from thirty seconds to a minute long. Collins bega ...

* Ryan Craig *

Kyle Cumiskey Kyle Cumiskey (born December 2, 1986) is a Canadians, Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing with the Düsseldorfer EG in the DEL2. Cumiskey won the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals, 2015 Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackha ...

Frank Davey Frankland Wilmot Davey, FRSC (born April 19, 1940) is a Canadian poet and scholar. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he grew up in the Fraser Valley village of Abbotsford. In 1957 he enrolled at the University of British Columbia where, in ...

* Sunny Dhinsa *

Dianne Doan Dianne Doan (born September 8, 1990) is a Canadian actress. She is known for portraying Kora in season 7 of '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' and as the character of Mai Ling in Cinemax's ''Warrior''. Early life Doan was born and raised in Abb ...

Brian Doerksen Brian Robert Doerksen is a Canadian Contemporary Christian music, Christian singer-songwriter and worship leader from Abbotsford, British Columbia. Early life Doerksen was a member at a local Mennonite Brethren church in British Columbia and gr ...

* Jacob Doerksen *

Burkely Duffield Burkely Duffield (born August 9, 1992) is a Canadian actor known for his roles as Eddie Miller in ''House of Anubis'' and as Holden Matthews in '' Beyond''. His sister is actress and singer Victoria Duffield. Career Duffield made his screen deb ...

Victoria Duffield Victoria Eileen Elizabeth Duffield (born January 3, 1995) is a former Canadian singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She is best known for her debut single "Shut Up and Dance", which peaked at number 12 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart in 2011 an ...

* Jared Falk *

Michael Funk Michael "Mike" Funk (born August 15, 1986) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Buffalo Sabres. He was drafted by the Sabres in the second round, 43rd overall, of the 200 ...

Amy Gough Amy Gough (born August 24, 1977, in Williams Lake, British Columbia) is a Canadian skeleton racer who has competed since 2002. Her best result in a Skeleton World Cup event was first at Winterberg, Germany, in December 2011, while her best overa ...

* Derek Grant *

Morgan Griffiths Morgan Griffiths is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter from Abbotsford, British Columbia. His debut single "Bourbon" charted in the top ten of the ''Billboard'' Canada Country chart. Biography Griffiths grew up in British Columbia, but hi ...

Adam Hadwin Adam Jerald Hadwin (born 2 November 1987) is a Canadian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won once on the PGA Tour, twice on the Web.com Tour, and twice on the Canadian Tour. Early life Hadwin was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatche ...

Charles Hill-Tout Charles Hill-Tout (1858–1944) was an ethnologist and folklorist, active in British Columbia, born in Buckland, Devon, England, on 28 September 1858. In his early years, Hill-Tout studied divinity at a seminary in Lincoln and preached in Cardiff ...

Jacob Hoggard Jacob William Hoggard (born July 9, 1984) is a Canadian former musician who was the lead singer for the pop rock band Hedley. Hoggard competed on the second season of ''Canadian Idol'' in 2004, where he placed third. In 2018, Hoggard was arr ...

Marek Klassen Marek Klassen (born June 11, 1992) is a Canadian professional basketball player for ESSM Le Portel of the LNB Pro A. He played college basketball for Point Loma Nazarene Sea Lions men's basketball, Point Loma Nazarene. Highschool career Klassen a ...

Evangeline Lilly Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian former actress and author. She gained popularity for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama series '' Lost'' (2004–2010), which garnered her six nominations for the ...

* Gurleen Maan * Brad Moran * Greg Neufeld *

Larry Nickel Larry Nickel (born March 12, 1952) is a Canadian composer, Conducting, conductor, music publisher and singer who devotes much of his focus to choral music. An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre. he has composed for a wide spectrum of ...

* Bradley Peters *

Gladys Powers Gladys Stokes Luxford Powers (10 May 1899 – 15 August 2008) was thought to be, at age 109, the last female veteran of the First World War following the 27 March 2007 death of fellow 109-year-old Charlotte Winters from the US. However the subs ...

* Jordan Pritchett * Nathan Lieuwen *

Mauro Ranallo Mauro Domenico Ranallo (born December 21, 1969) is a Canadian sports announcer, commentator and mental health advocate. He is currently signed as a play-by-play announcer with MMA organization Bellator, and also performs play-by-play duties for ...

Sophie Schmidt Sophie Diana Schmidt (born 28 June 1988) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Women's Soccer League club Houston Dash. From 2005 until retiring from international football in 2023, she was a member o ...

Jared Slingerland Jared Slingerland is a Canadian guitarist and electronic musician based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is best known as a member of the electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly (FLA). History Early life Slingerland's father (Glen Slinger ...

* Devon Toews *

David Van der Gulik David Van der Gulik (born April 20, 1983) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He was a draft pick of the Calgary Flames, selected 206th overall in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, and appeared in six games with the team in 2008� ...

Jake Virtanen Jacob Virtanen (born August 17, 1996) is a Finnish-Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Virtanen was draft ...

Shane Wiebe Shane Anthony Wiebe (born January 12, 1983) is a singer-songwriter who competed on the second season of Canadian Idol. He made it to the top five of the competition before being eliminated. Zack Werner said Shane could sing the phone book and i ...

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