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,which is a group of mountain summits which are the southernmost of the Garibaldi Ranges of the Coast Mountains. Maple Ridge's population in 2021 was 90,990. Its downtown core area was once known as Haney.
The 2004 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election took place on March 20,2004,in Toronto,Ontario,and resulted in the election of Stephen Harper as the first leader of the new Conservative Party of Canada. The Conservative Party was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada,in December 2003.
Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission was a federal electoral district in British Columbia,Canada,that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015.
Maple Ridge East is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia,Canada.
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia,Canada. The 2008 re-distribution is an amalgamation of the old Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows riding with an addition of a small portion of the old Maple Ridge-Mission.
Keith John Ashfield was a Canadian politician. He served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the electoral district of Fredericton from 2008 to 2015 and,before that,was a member of the New Brunswick Legislature from 1999 to 2008. He served in the federal cabinet in various capacities from 2008 to 2013.
Dewdney was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its predecessor was the riding of Westminster-Dewdney,which was created for the 1894 election from a partition of the Westminster riding,which was a rural-area successor to the original New Westminster riding,which was one of the province's first twelve.
Fin Donnelly is a Canadian politician. He has served as the member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia for the electoral district of Coquitlam-Burke Mountain since 2020,as part of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus. He previously served as member of Parliament (MP) as part of the federal NDP caucus,representing New Westminster—Coquitlam from 2009 to 2015,and Port Moody—Coquitlam from 2015 to 2019.
Grant McNally was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2004. He was educated at Trinity Western University in Langley,BC. By career,he is a teacher.
Marc H.J. Dalton is a Canadian politician. He is the current Conservative Member of Parliament for Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge after the 2019 Canadian federal election. He was a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia following the 2009 and 2013 provincial elections for the riding of Maple Ridge-Mission.
Randy Clifford Hawes is a Canadian politician from British Columbia. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of BC,representing the provincial riding of Maple Ridge-Mission from 2001 to 2009,and Abbotsford-Mission from 2009 to 2013. As part of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus,he served as Minister of State for Mining from 2009 to 2011 under Premier Gordon Campbell. He also served as mayor of Mission,British Columbia from 1993 to 2001,and from 2014 to 2018.
John van Dongen is a Canadian politician who formerly served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia,representing the riding of Abbotsford from 1995 to 2001,Abbotsford-Clayburn from 2001 to 2009,and Abbotsford South from 2009 to 2013. Part of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus from 1995 to 2012,he served in several cabinet posts under Premier Gordon Campbell. He briefly sat in the legislature as a member of the BC Conservatives in 2012,before leaving that party later that year to serve out the remainder of his term as an independent politician.
The Dewdney Trunk Road was one of the earliest major roads in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia,Canada. Originally running from Port Moody to Dewdney,just east of Mission,it exists in three sections today:
The Dewdney-Alouette Regional District was a regional district in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia,Canada,comprising the district municipalities of Pitt Meadows,Maple Ridge and Mission and unincorporated areas east to the Harrison River and north to the southern end of Lillooet Lake. The regional district was partitioned when the Greater Vancouver Regional District was expanded in 1995 to take in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge;the regional district's eastern half was combined with the former Central Fraser Valley Regional District and the Regional District of Fraser-Cheam to form the Fraser Valley Regional District.
William James "Bill" Hartley was a child care worker,restaurant owner and political figure in British Columbia,Canada. After being defeated in the riding of Dewdney in the 1986 provincial election,he represented Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1991 to 2001 as a member of the NDP. He served as Speaker of the assembly from 2000 to 2001. He previously served as deputy speaker from 1998 to 2000.
Mark R. Strahl is a Canadian politician. He is the current Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Chilliwack—Hope and was first elected in 2011. Strahl is the son of former Conservative MP and federal Cabinet Minister Chuck Strahl,who was the predecessor of the riding.
Doug Bing is a Canadian politician and dentist who served as the member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows from 2013 to 2017,and a Pitt Meadows municipal councillor from 2005 to 2014.
Daniel Ruimy is a Canadian politician,who represented the riding of Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge in the House of Commons of Canada from the 2015 federal election until his defeat in the 2019 Canadian federal election. He was elected Mayor of Maple Ridge in 2022.
Lawrence Mok is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2024 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Maple Ridge East as a member of the Conservative Party of British Columbia. He unseated NDP member Bob D'Eith.
