Surrey-Cloverdale.
5 candidates, one seat.

The Katzie First Nation says on its website that the Katzie have lived and thrived in their territory for thousands of years. It adds that the places now called Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Surrey, Langley and Delta each carry ancient Katzie names for the sites where its ancestors lived and worked, and that the Katzie are working to ensure these names continue to be spoken by present and future generations.

The Surrey School District's page on local Nations says: "In Surrey, we respectfully acknowledge the Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo Nations, on whose traditional and unceded territories we live, learn, and work." Elections BC's 2024 statement of votes lists Katzie Elementary School as a voting place inside Surrey-Cloverdale.

BC Geographical Names records that the name Cloverdale comes from Clover Valley, a name that the early settler William Shannon (1843 to 1928) gave to the valley in 1875. Shannon wrote that he looked out at the wild clover which grew luxuriantly everywhere and thought that Clover Valley was the best name. The record adds that railway engineers later renamed the place Cloverdale when they built the line of the New Westminster Southern Railway. Cloverdale Station opened circa 1891, and the Cloverdale post office opened in May 1892 under the postmaster J. McMillan.

The City of Surrey's heritage register describes that railway as a line of 22 miles that opened in 1891 under the New Westminster Southern Railway, before the Great Northern Railway took over its operation. For a period it was the only rail connection between the United States and Canada west of the Rocky Mountains, and the register says it spurred economic growth in the Cloverdale area. The City's Cloverdale page says the business area grew along the railway tracks into a railway and commercial centre.

The City of Surrey's history of the Cloverdale Fairgrounds says an annual fall fair began in 1888 at a site that the page places one mile southwest of the present grounds. In 1938 the fair moved to the current site, which the City describes as a new place for the community to show the work of Surrey's growing farming community. The same page dates the first Cloverdale Rodeo at the grounds to 1946. A different City page, on the community of Cloverdale, says the rodeo has been held since 1945.

The City lists the later buildings. Cloverdale Community Centre, now Shannon Hall, was built in 1956 and the Cloverdale Arena in 1972. In 1987 the hall took the name Shannon Hall to honour the Shannon family, early settlers who helped set up Surrey's first municipal council and school. In 1996 the products building became McKay Hall, for the volunteer work of Alice McKay. The Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre was added in 1999 and the Cloverdale Recreation Centre was completed in 2011. The City also says Cloverdale holds the largest Canada Day celebration in Western Canada.

The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says Clayton was a settlement 15 km southeast of New Westminster. John George opened a store where the old Yale Road crossed the Clover Valley Road, and in 1889 he set up a post office and named it after his hometown in Ontario. Clayton became a station on the New Westminster Southern Railway in 1891, and the entry says that later growth elsewhere in Surrey left its section of track out of use.

The City of Surrey's heritage register says Clayton's first school opened in 1891 as a log cabin and was replaced in 1921 by the building at 7541 184 Street. The register dates Clayton United Church, at 7027 184 Street, to 1936, in the Craftsman style with Tudor-inspired details. A church hall was added in the 1940s.

The City of Surrey says its council set aside $18,000 in 1910 for a new municipal hall and chose Cloverdale as the site. The hall at 17671 56th Avenue opened in 1912 and served as Surrey's second municipal hall until 1962. A third hall opened on King George Highway in 1963 and the RCMP took over the Cloverdale building. It later held the Cloverdale Library from 1976 and the Cloverdale Seniors Centre from 1988, and in 2006 the Surrey Archives moved into it after major renovations. Parks Canada's register describes the hall as a symbol of Cloverdale's importance as the municipal administration centre.

Other buildings on the City's register show the town centre taking shape. The Bank of Montreal at 5679 176 Street was built in 1912 and used by the bank until 1958. The Highway Garage at 5723 176 Street began in 1919 as a livery stable and became a garage in 1920. In 1938 it was renovated with a barrel vault roof and a false front that had an opening for the fire siren of the Cloverdale Volunteer Fire Brigade. Cloverdale Elementary School at 17857 56 Avenue dates from 1921. The Clova Theatre at 5732 176 Street was built in 1946 in the Art Deco style, and the register calls it one of the first modern buildings in Cloverdale.

The Pacific Highway opened between those years. The City's register says the highway was opened on August 3, 1923. The A.B. Palmer Co. Limited built it as a concrete road, and the provincial Minister of Public Works, W.H. Sutherland, officially opened it to improve access to the American border crossing. The Cloverdale Business Improvement Association says it was established in 1995.

The City of Surrey says its council identified Clayton Heights in 1996 as an area suited to new development. The Clayton General Land Use Plan, approved on January 25, 1999, covers 809 hectares (2,000 acres) and sets out the goal that Clayton will be a compact and sustainable community with services within walking distance of all homes. A 15-member citizen advisory committee took part, and the final public information meeting was held in December 1998.

East Clayton was the first neighbourhood to be built. Council endorsed its plan in 2003 and approved extensions in 2005, and the City says it is now home to more than 15,000 residents. West Clayton covers 288 hectares, and its final plan was approved in July 2015. The City's Clayton Community Centre at 7155 187A Street has a library, a gymnasium and arts studios, and the City says it is the first community centre in North America to be Passive House Certified. The Surrey Langley SkyTrain project gives its anticipated in-service date as late 2029.