Delta

Delta (49˚05'00" 123˚05'00" S side of the mouth of the Fraser R, S of Vancouver). The first settlers to this rich farming area arrived in the 1860s and had to dike their lands before developing them. Agriculture is still important to the area, especially dairy farming, though the district municipality, formed in 1879, has seen rapid population growth since the George Massey Tunnel connected it to Richmond in 1958. Delta is now an important residential suburb of Vancouver with three population...

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