Coquitlam

 

COQUITLAM  () surrounds PORT COQUITLAM on the north side of the FRASER R east of BURNABY and PORT MOODY. The name derives from a SALISHAN word for "small red salmon." In its early days, Coquitlam was centred on the large SAWMILL at Fraser Mills (see MILLSIDE). A community of French-Canadian millworkers developed north of the mill at MAILLARDVILLE, which continued to be BC's largest French-speaking enclave. RIVERVIEW Psychiatric Hospital...

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