Haney, British Columbia is the name of the downtown core of the

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Maple Ridge, British Columbia Maple Ridge is a city in British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the northeastern section of Greater Vancouver between the Fraser River and the Golden Ears (peaks), Golden Ears, which is a group of mountain summits which are the southernmo ...

. The name derived originally from Thomas Haney, the namesake of Port Haney, the neighbourhood adjoining today's downtown along the

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immediately south, which is today includes a station on the

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and was formerly a steamboat port. Port Haney is a designated heritage district in Maple Ridge and includes buildings moved to the neighbourhood from other parts of the municipality that otherwise might have been demolished.

Features

Haney is the location of the Maple Ridge Municipal Hall and the Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows school board office. It also houses part of Maple Ridge public library, leisure centre, RCMP headquarters and other public facilities within a mall complex known as Haney Place. Another mall lies within the town, just east of Haney Place, called Valleyfair.

Schools

Haney is served by

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Climate

References

External links

Maple Ridge home page
Neighbourhoods in Maple Ridge, British Columbia Populated places on the Fraser River {{GVRD-stub