Yarrow

YARROW is located south of the FRASER R on the eastern edge of SUMAS PRAIRIE, at the base of Vedder Mt. Originally known as Majuba Hill after a battle in the Boer War, the area was settled in the 1890s. In 1910 it became a station on the BC ELECTRIC RWY line from VANCOUVER to CHILLIWACK. The station was called Yarrow after a local bitter WILDFLOWER, a reference to a feud between the railway and a local landowner. MENNONITE settlers began arriving from the prairies and from Mexico in 1928. While...

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