Maillardville

MAILLARDVILLE  () is a FRANCOPHONE settlement northeast of NEW WESTMINSTER, created in 1909 when Fraser River Saw Mills imported 150 workers from Quebec to replace Asian employees at its MILLSIDE operations. More French-speaking workers followed, and a community developed around the parish of Notre Dame de Lourdes Church (1910). It is named for Rev Edmond Maillard, first priest at the church. Maillardville later became part of COQUITLAM. It...

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