Delta North.
3 candidates, one seat.

The City of Delta describes the land it stands on as the shared, traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the scəw̓aθən (Tsawwassen), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and other Coast Salish Peoples. Mayor George V. Harvie first read this acknowledgement at the council meeting of 10 May 2021, and the City says it developed the wording with Tsawwassen First Nation and Musqueam Indian Band. The Tsawwassen First Nation says on its website that its people have been here since time immemorial, and that on 3 April 2009 they ratified the first urban First Nations treaty in British Columbia. Musqueam says its ancestors have lived in the Fraser River estuary, the wide mouth of the river, including much of Metro Vancouver, for thousands of years.

The Delta Heritage Advisory Commission's passport for Sunbury and Annieville describes archaeological deposits that stretch over 1000 metres along the Fraser River bank between the St. Mungo and Glenrose cannery sites. The passport says the middens at these sites, which are deposits left by people over many years, hold a record of more than 5,000 years of salmon fishing and habitation by ancestors of the Coast Salish.

Early travellers reached this shore by river. The City's heritage passport says James Kennedy cut a settlement trail in 1861 from the Brownsville Wharf on the Fraser River to pasture land at Mud Bay. The contract for the 14.5 kilometre road asked for a width of 3 metres, with all stumps dug out or cut level with the ground, marshy spots covered with logs, and bridges made of round poles. A plaque for the Kennedy Trail stands at Gibson Elementary School on 90 Avenue in North Delta.

BC Geographical Names records that Delta was incorporated as a district municipality on 10 November 1879. It gives the origin of the name as the land built up by material the Fraser River deposited, as the Gosnell Year Book of 1897 described it. The municipality became a city on 22 September 2017 by Order in Council 362. The Canadian Encyclopedia names North Delta, Ladner and Tsawwassen as the three main communities of Delta.

The passport for Sunbury and Annieville says the community of Annieville began with the establishment of Finlayson and Birrell's salmon canneries in 1878. Immigrants from Norway settled there in the 1890s, and fishing and cannery work set the pattern of life until the 1940s. The passport lists farming, brick making and mink ranching among the other early industries.

St. Mungo Cannery opened in 1899. The St. Mungo Fish Processing Company of Glasgow, Scotland, built and owned it, and named it after Glasgow's patron saint. It changed owners several times until 1957, when its cannery section moved to Steveston and B.C. Packers used the buildings as a net loft. Glenrose Cannery began in 1896 as a fishermen's co-operative called Fraser River Industrial Cannery, closed in 1901 and reopened under the Glenrose name in 1909.

The passport also records the houses of the settlers. It says Jacob Gunderson built the Gunderson Residence in 1902, five years after he arrived from Norway, and calls it one of the first permanent homes in North Delta. A sign at Mackie Park on 82 Avenue tells of George Mackie Sr., who arrived in British Columbia in 1888 and worked in sawmills and fishing. The sign says his plan for "Steel City", an industrial town in the Sunbury area, was never realized.

The passport says the people of Annieville petitioned the Delta School Board for a school in 1906. The first teacher, Miss Ella Hoffard, lived in New Westminster and rowed across the river, or walked across the ice, to work each day. Annieville School was the last one-room school in Delta. It closed in 1956, and the building was demolished in 1963. The neighbouring village of Sunbury had its own school from 1902, and the passport says most of its pupils were of Scandinavian, Japanese and Finnish origin.

Trinity Lutheran Church in Annieville was dedicated on 22 May 1910 as the congregation's second building there. The passport says it served members who lived in New Westminster, Brownsville, Annieville and Sunbury. Volunteers built Sunbury Hall in 1962 and 1963 to replace the earlier Bayview Hall, which was built in 1919.

Annieville Park was the first park in North Delta. The passport says Annieville fishermen created it, and that the Annieville and District Playground Association bought an 8 acre parcel of forested land for it in 1949. A Women's Auxiliary raised money with garden parties, raffles and bingo games, and by 1952 the park access road, 112th Street, had been cleared and graded. The association turned the park over to the Municipality of Delta in June 1958 and disbanded in 1970.

The passport for Sunbury and Annieville says the fishing and farming families of Sunbury travelled mainly by river in the early days, even after River Road was built in 1904, and that steamboats landed at a public wharf there. A photograph caption in the same passport records that River Road was moved past the Annieville cannery after the CN railway was built, in circa 1908 and 1909. The passport says the river in front of Annieville was first dredged in the mid 1930s, and that the sand spit there was not present in 1878 when the cannery was built. The river's natural action and structures built north of Annieville slowly changed the shoreline and formed Gunderson Slough, where the local fishing fleet found shelter.

The Surrey Now-Leader reports that the BC Electric Inter-Urban Railway ran tram cars from New Westminster to Chilliwack four times each day from 1912 to 1950. The line stopped at the Liverpool station in Brownsville, then at Scott Road Station and at Kennedy Station in North Delta. Students from Kennedy took the tram to high school in Cloverdale or to college in New Westminster, and the trip from Kennedy Station to Cloverdale took an hour. BC Electric started a bus company in 1925, and the tram stopped service in 1950.

BC Geographical Names says Annacis Island was named after Francis Noel Annance, a Hudson's Bay Company clerk who travelled with Chief Factor James McMillan in 1827 to found Fort Langley. Charts of 1849 and 1853 spelled it Annance's Island, and the 1858 edition of British Admiralty Chart 1922 misspelled it Annacis. The name was adopted officially on 11 February 1936.

The Encyclopedia of British Columbia, published by KnowBC, says the Duke of Westminster developed a large part of the island as an industrial park starting in 1953, and that deep-sea shipping facilities, mostly for imports, were built there in the 1970s. Grosvenor, the property company, says on its own website that it developed and opened Canada's first industrial park on Annacis Island in 1955.

The passport says the St. Mungo cannery site in Annieville was acquired in 1981 for building the Alex Fraser Bridge, and that the cannery buildings were then demolished. The Canadian Encyclopedia lists the bridge's opening among the key developments of Delta in 1986. The Transportation History website gives the date as 22 September 1986 and says that Alex Fraser and Premier Bill Vander Zalm cut the ribbon together.

The Surrey Now-Leader published an account by a board member of the Delta Museum and Archives Society on 23 June 2017. It says Scott Lake was a large beaver pond on the land that holds Scottsdale Centre today, and that early road builders went around it. Residents of North Delta and New Westminster came to the lake on Sunday outings. A Mrs. Nicholson, who owned nearby North Delta property, rented out boats, and trout fishing was popular. Two arms of Cougar Creek once fed the lake, and one remains.

On 8 July 2024 Delta Council adopted a new Official Community Plan. The City says Delta was the first municipality in the region to finish an update since the Province required one, and that the plan helps it meet a Housing Target Order of 3,607 net new units over five years. The City's earlier release on its urban growth areas names four strategic growth areas: the North Delta Social Heart, Ladner Village, Tsawwassen at 56 Street, and along Scott Road. The City's housing page refers to the plan as Bylaw No. 8400.