Welcome to Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Your Surrey (South Surrey, Central Surrey, Delta, White Rock, Langley, Surrey, Cloverdale)
area contact is Jim Williams (REMAX ridgemeadows realty.) Please refer to the "Surrey, North Surrey" section to the right for
the phone number and email address to contact Jim directly about the REMAX MLS real estate homes for sale including residential houses,
apartments, condos, duplexes, acreages and farms not listed for sale here.
Surrey summary
Surrey is a Canadian city in the province of British Columbia that lies within the Metro Vancouver district, and geographically at the centre of the larger region
known as the Lower Mainland of BC. It is the province's second-largest city by population after the city of Vancouver.
The six "town centres" comprising the City of Surrey are: Fleetwood, Whalley/City Centre, Guildford, Newton, Cloverdale, and South Surrey. Surrey was incorporated
in 1879, and encompasses land formerly occupied by a number of Coast Salish-speaking aboriginal groups. When Englishman H.J. Brewer looked across the Fraser River
from New Westminster and saw a land reminiscent of his native County of Surrey in England, the settlement of Surrey was placed on the map. The area then comprised
forests of douglas-fir, fir, red cedar, hemlock, blackberry bushes, and cranberry bogs. A portion of present-day Whalley (named after Harry Whalley, who owned and
operated a gas bar at the bend in King George Highway at 108th, "Whalley's Corner") was used as a burial ground by the Kwantlen (or Qw’ontl’en) Nation.
Settlers arrived first in Cloverdale and parts of South Surrey, mostly to farm, fish, harvest oysters, or set up small stores. Once the Pattullo Bridge was erected
in 1937, the way was open for Surrey to expand. In the post-war fifties, North Surrey's neighbourhoods filled with single family homes and Surrey (not yet a city)
became a true bedroom community, absorbing commuters who worked in Burnaby or Vancouver.
In the 1980s and 1990s Surrey witnessed unprecedented growth, as people from different parts of Canada and other parts of the world, particularly Asia, began to
make the municipality their home. Surrey is projected to surpass the city of Vancouver as the most populous city in B.C. by 2020.
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