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.
Pitt Meadows is a municipality within Metro Vancouver in southwestern British Columbia,Canada. Incorporated in 1914,it currently has a land area of 86.34 square kilometres (33.34 sq mi) with a population of 19,146 as of 2021. The municipality received its name from the Pitt River and Pitt Lake. Pitt Meadows is one of 21 municipalities including Electoral Area A that comprises the Metro Vancouver Regional District.
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.
The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) is a regional district in British Columbia,Canada. Its headquarters are in the city of Chilliwack. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km²(5,159 sq mi). It was created in 1995 by an amalgamation of the Fraser-Cheam Regional District and Central Fraser Valley Regional District and the portion of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District from and including the District of Mission eastwards.
Maple Ridge-Mission is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia,Canada. The riding's name was resurrected from a former riding in the same area,with similar but not identical boundaries.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Sather is a former MLA for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows in the Canadian province of British Columbia. As a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party,he was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election,and was re-elected in 2009.
Lyle Wicks was a British Columbia politician.
Marc 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.
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.
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,who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows as a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party. He was defeated for re-election in 2017 by Lisa Beare.
Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge is a federal electoral district in British Columbia. It encompasses a portion of British Columbia previously included in the electoral district of Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission.
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.
Lisa Marie Beare is a Canadian politician who has represented the electoral district of Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 2017. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus,she has served in the cabinets of Premiers John Horgan and David Eby,currently as Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills.
