Durieu, British Columbia

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Durieu
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Durieu's store, feed co-op and gas station on Farms Road on Hatzic Prairie, showing Dewdney Peak in the background, spring 2019.
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Durieu
Location of Durieu in British Columbia
Coordinates: 49°13′14″N122°14′31″W / 49.22056°N 122.24194°W / 49.22056; -122.24194
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Area codes 604, 778

Durieu is an unincorporated predominantly farming community, located around five kilometres northeast of Mission, British Columbia, Canada in Area F of the Fraser Valley Regional District of that province's Lower Mainland at an elevation of between twenty and forty metres above sea level. Durieu falls mostly within zone 1 of the Agricultural Land Reserve. 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 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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