Fraser Heights | |
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Location of Fraser Heights within Metro Vancouver | |
Coordinates: 49°11′56″N122°46′43″W / 49.1988°N 122.7787°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | British Columbia |
Region | Lower Mainland |
Regional District | Metro Vancouver |
City | Surrey |
Town Centre | Guildford |
Government | |
• Mayor | Doug McCallum |
• MP (Fed.) | Ken Hardie (Liberal) |
• MLA (Prov.) | Garry Begg (NDP) |
Time zone | UTC−8 (PST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−7 (PDT) |
Fraser Heights is a neighbourhood of Guildford, a town centre in the city of Surrey, British Columbia. Bounded by Highway 1 to the south, Golden Ears Connector and Golden Ears Way to the east and the Fraser River to the north, with most homes having a view of the Fraser River and Coquitlam Mountain.
Residents of the neighbourhood consist mostly of upper-income families and zoned for large single family homes. The population was estimated to be about 25,000 people in 2014. [1]
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The Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre (GHAC) is an indoor Olympic-sized aquatic centre in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the Grandview Heights neighbourhood of South Surrey, and was designed by HCMA Architecture + Design, built at a cost of $55 million and opened in June 2016. The facility features a 10-lane 50-meter lap pool, leisure pool with lazy river, hot tubs, diving towers and a water slide in addition to a sauna and steam room.