Coquitlam-Maillardville.
3 candidates, one seat.

The kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) First Nation says on its website that its name in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language means "Red Fish up the River", and that its people have lived in their territory around the Coquitlam River Watershed since before remembered time. The City of Coquitlam says the Nation is located on traditional and ancestral lands in the Coquitlam area, lands historically shared with the Katzie and other Coast Salish Peoples.

The Nation's two reserves are slakəyánc (Coquitlam Indian Reserve 1) and setɬamékmən (Coquitlam Indian Reserve 2). The Electoral Boundaries Commission moved Coquitlam 2 into this district in 2023 so that both lie together. The Province says slakəyánc is the Nation's ancient village site and that its name means "young sockeye". The federal government managed the reserve lands from 1876. The City says the Nation's Land Code became operational on 1 July 2020 and returns that authority to the Nation.

On 12 December 2023 the Province announced 14 new rental homes for Nation members at Lot 16, 65 Colony Farm Road, on slakəyánc. It was the first project the Nation completed under its Land Code. Monthly rents run from $500 for a one-bedroom home to $1,200 for a four-bedroom home. Chief Ron Giesbrecht gave the Nation's population growth as 6.8% a year from 2011 to 2023.

The City's page on Mundy Park says George and Constance Munday emigrated from England in 1869 and eventually settled in the area. George claimed 150 acres in 1888, hoping that railway development would raise land values. The City says much of the old growth forest was logged in the 1920s. The Raymond L. Spani Memorial Pool opened in the park on 29 May 1970.

BC Geographical Names records G.A. Munday as a former owner of the property. A municipal map of 1920 spelled both the lake and the street Munday. The Post Office later changed the street to Mundy, to avoid a duplicate name in the New Westminster postal district, and local use of the lake name followed. The Office adopted Munday Lake on 4 July 1957 and kept that spelling to preserve the link to the first owner, while Mundy became the municipality's spelling.

Como Lake has a separate record. BC Geographical Names lists an earlier name, Welcome Lake, taken from a Geological Survey sheet of 1908 and a BC map of 1914. It records that on 4 July 1957 the name changed to Como Lake, the established local name.

The City's heritage statements say the Fraser Mills sawmill was established in 1889 to sell lumber abroad, which needed large ships. The Fraser River channel was too shallow for them and the mill shut down. The river was dredged in 1905 and the mill resumed production in 1906. Orders came faster than the mill could fill them, and the next year an investment syndicate based in the United States bought it and paid for new equipment. The City describes the mill as at one time the largest lumber mill in the British Empire.

A major expansion in 1907 and 1908 brought a company town. The Fraser Mills Manager's Residence was completed by 1908 at the entry to Millside, the town north of the mill. Millside Elementary School opened in 1907 as a two-room school for children up to Grade 7, and doubled to four rooms in 1925. The Coquitlam Public Library says the first stores stood along Pitt River Road, which later became Brunette Avenue.

In 1913 the Corporation of the District of Fraser Mills was incorporated by Letters Patent, separate from the District of Coquitlam. The City says the company town covered 390 acres along the Fraser River. The Coquitlam Archives says the Canadian Western Lumber Company operated the mill through much of the twentieth century.

The City's heritage statements give one account of how Maillardville began. An economic downturn in 1907 led to riots against Asian workers and left the mill short of labour. Fraser Mills hired a Roman Catholic priest to recruit workers in the lumbering regions of Quebec and Ontario. On 28 September 1909, 110 French Canadians arrived at the Millside Station, from villages in the Hull and Sherbrooke regions of Quebec and from Rockland, Ontario. The City counts the group as 40 families. A second group came the next year. The settlers founded Maillardville beside the mill, on lots supplied by the company that they paid for month by month.

They planned the town around a church in a central square. Funds were raised to build the first church in 1910, and the Société francophone de Maillardville says the parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes celebrated Christmas mass that year. The City says the rectory was built in 1911 for the priest, and names Father Edmond Maillard, born in Lyon, France, who had been an Oblate missionary in New Westminster. The Société says the community was named in his honour in 1912. The City calls Maillardville one of the only distinct French-Canadian settlements west of Manitoba.

Fraser Mills workers went on strike on 17 September 1931. The Coquitlam Heritage Society says wages were cut five times between January 1930 and September 1931, by almost one-third in total. The Lumber Workers' Industrial Union led the strike, and the society says the close community of Maillardville let it last two and a half months. A soup kitchen opened on Cartier Avenue and Chinese farmers gave vegetables. The society says the strike ended the wage cuts, with no significant pay rise and no recognition of the union. It says management, including Henry Mackin, blamed Communist agitators, although most strikers came from Maillardville itself.

A second dispute came over schools. The Société francophone de Maillardville says Catholic schools went on strike on 2 April 1951 because they felt they were the victims of injustice. The Festival du Bois website says the strike involved 840 students and drew international attention.

The Lougheed Highway opened in 1953. A City report to Council dated 4 March 2014 says residential growth in Maillardville surged after World War II, with small businesses locating along Brunette Avenue. The City's profile of Austin Heights says that neighbourhood began to develop rapidly as a residential community after the war, and that the Trans-Canada Highway opened in 1964.

The mill's houses changed use. The last manager left the Manager's Residence in 1956, and in 1961 it became an RCMP headquarters. The last manager left the Mackin Residence in 1971. That year the Province forced the merger of Fraser Mills with Coquitlam. Talks had begun in 1969 and stalled over the mill's tax rate. The merger was finalized on 7 October 1971, when new Letters Patent were signed, and the City says it gave Coquitlam an industrial tax base and brought municipal services to Fraser Mills.

Place des Arts began in 1972 as a not-for-profit society in Ryan House, the former mill manager's home at 1120 Brunette Avenue, and expanded into 18,000 square feet in 1996. The Société francophone de Maillardville was founded in 1983. The Coquitlam Public Library's Poirier Branch was formed in 1989 when the Ridgeway and Cottonwood branches merged, and it stands at 575 Poirier Street. The Société produces Festival du Bois, which takes place in Mackin Park each spring. The festival's own site welcomes visitors to its 38th annual festival and lists 5 to 7 March 2027.

The City's first Maillardville Neighbourhood Plan was adopted by Council in 1990. It created a mixed-use Neighbourhood Centre, set out improvements to Brunette Avenue and guided the development of the Clock Tower area and Heritage Square. The Neighbourhood Centre rules were updated in July 2008. The City's report of 4 March 2014 proposed a new plan to take 6,000 new residents over 20 to 25 years, with two Heritage Character Areas, Laval Square and Allard-LeBleu, named for the early townsites around that square and those avenues.

The Coquitlam Public Library's exhibit says the Fraser Mills sawmill closed in 2005 after 115 years and was Coquitlam's largest private employer. The site is now a 96-acre master-planned neighbourhood developed with Beedie Living. Council approved the Waterfront Village Centre Neighbourhood Plan and a Development Agreement on 3 October 2022. The plan provides 5,500 residential units, 462 of them rental, with 16.6 acres of park and 5.1 acres of restored natural area.

The City says Council's approval of the public amenities was announced on 16 April 2025, with the first phase of park work targeted for completion in 2027. That phase includes a Riverfront Park with a renewed wharf, a playground, water play areas and two tennis courts, and a Historic Como Creek Greenway trail. The City says the area was once the largest sawmill in the British Empire, and that this history shaped the park's design themes. A community centre with a pool is planned for 2031, and on 13 July 2026 Council received the completed schematic design.