Sumas Lake: A Quick Look at a Long History

Sumas Lake was and is very important to the Stó:lō peoples, especially the Semá:th. For them, the lake was a source of food, a place to live, a watery highway, and a place which featured in oral histories. Fish and waterfowl were abundant and provided an easy and varied source of food. The lake was large, approximately 10,000 acres, but during the spring freshet (May to July), it often expanded to three times that size.

Stories to Spaces: Land Back – What Does It Really Mean?

The Land Back movement is not about kicking every non-Indigenous person out of Canada and returning to some utopian way of living. So, if the Land Back movement doesn’t mean literally giving your land to the Indigenous people, then what DOES it mean?

The Abbotsford Stories Project Press Release

Abbotsford seniors with an interest in local history are invited to participate in a community-wide storytelling project celebrating the City’s heritage.

Stories to Spaces: The Abbotsford International Airport

The Abbotsford International Airport is a significant and well-known landmark in Abbotsford today. However, how much do you know about the rich and memorable history of this site that has been around since before many of us were born?

Stories to Spaces: A History of Pride in Abbotsford

It was a dreary evening in early October of 2017 when massive numbers of Fraser Valley residents turned up at Garden Park Tower on Clearbrook Road to welcome supporters of anti-Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) curriculum. These anti-LGBTQ2S+ speakers spoke about the so-called “social contagion” that is LGBTQ2S+ communities through long speeches, videos and questions that spanned an exhausting two and a half hours.

Stories to Spaces: The Punjabi Patrika

“Home is where family is. Today, after forty-six years, Abbotsford is home to us.”

I landed in Vancouver from Malaysia on the 30th of September, 1974. And my friend from Abbotsford was there, and decided that we would go to Abbotsford.