Surrey-Fleetwood.
5 candidates, one seat.

The Katzie First Nation says that the places now called Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Surrey, Langley and Delta carry ancient Katzie names, which mark the places where its ancestors lived and worked. Katzie says it is working so that these names continue to be spoken by present and future generations. Surrey-Fleetwood is inside the City of Surrey.

The Surrey School District names three Nations in its acknowledgement: Kwantlen, Katzie and Semiahmoo. Its page says the district's schools stand on their traditional and unceded territories, and it also names the many other Coast Salish peoples who continue to use and care for this land. Eleven of the 14 places where people voted in the district in 2024 were schools. The other three were the Fleetwood Community Centre and two churches.

The City of Surrey's heritage study of Fleetwood Town Centre, written in January 2015 by Donald Luxton and Associates, says Fleetwood was a remote, heavily wooded area until the Yale Wagon Road, now Fraser Highway, opened in 1875. The City's heritage register gives an earlier start for the same route. It says the Old Yale Road began as a trail in 1861 and became a wagon road in 1865, running south of the Fraser River from New Westminster to Yale, where steamboat travel on the river ended.

Most early settlers in Surrey chose the low land beside the Serpentine and Nicomekl rivers, where the soil was fertile and easy to clear. The study says only a few settlers took on the timbered uplands of Fleetwood, where clearing was slow and expensive. The earliest of them chose the land along Yale Road between Pike Road and Coast Meridian Road. The study names Logan Davis, Guy Whiteside, Joseph Drinkwater and W.E. Pike. The Davis family arrived in 1889 and built a homestead at the corner of Pike and Davis Roads, which is now 160 Street and 88 Avenue. The Whiteside family took up 160 acres at Old Yale Road and Pike Road in the same year. The study says the land farther west, toward Johnston Road (now 152 Street), was timbered and settled later. The City's register says Johnston Road is named after the elder James Johnston.

The heritage study says Edith and James Francis settled near what is now 160 Street and Fraser Highway in 1907, and that other members of Edith's family, the Fleetwoods, joined them from England over the next decade. Edith's brother Arthur Thomas Fleetwood joined the 47th Canadian Infantry Battalion in August 1915 and was sent to France. BC Geographical Names records that he died of wounds received in battle on 8 September 1917. The study says Edith applied to the provincial government for a charter to name her community in his memory.

BC Geographical Names records that the Fleetwood community association incorporated in 1923, and that the name Fleetwood was adopted on 10 March 1975 as a long-established name. The Fleetwood Community Association says it was formed in 1923 to deal with community business and provide recreation for its members. The study says the first Community Hall opened in 1933 at Pike Road (160 Street) and Walden Road (84 Avenue). Dan Roberts gave the half acre of land, members raised money through dances at the Wander Inn, and volunteers built the hall with lumber that cost $300. Francis Park beside the community centre is named for Edith Francis. A life-size bronze of Arthur Thomas Fleetwood seated on a bench, made by Nathan Scott, was placed in the community centre plaza in 2008.

The heritage study says the cementing of the Pacific Highway in 1923 brought more traffic from New Westminster to the United States through Fleetwood, and some growth with it. The City's register says the old Yale route took the name Pacific Highway in 1923. In the 1930s, the study says, land in Fleetwood was cheap and easy to find. Families who left the drought on the Prairie Provinces took small holdings of 2.5, 5 or 10 acres and ran truck farms and poultry farms.

During the Second World War, housing shortages in Vancouver and New Westminster sent people to look for homes in the Fraser Valley. After the war, heavy earth-moving equipment let farmers clear Surrey's uplands, and many returning servicemen bought land in Fleetwood for farming and poultry. Shops and businesses gathered along Pacific Highway from Coast Meridian Road (168 Street) to Johnston Road (152 Street). The study lists the Prairie Cafe at 15280 Fraser Highway, which opened in 1949, as a reminder of that growth. The two City documents give different dates for the name Fraser Highway. The register says the upgraded Old Yale Road route took that name in the 1930s, and the study says the old Trans-Canada portion of Pacific Highway was renamed after the new Trans-Canada Highway opened in the 1960s.

The City's statement of significance for Fleetwood Memorial United Church says a group of 23 women began raising money for a new church in Fleetwood in 1951. Land was bought that year and the cornerstone was laid in 1953. Volunteers finished the building in 1954 and it was dedicated in 1955. The designer was Harry Francis Dyke, who also drew the plans for Cloverdale United Church. The City's register lists the building at 8590 160 Street as registered on 4 December 2000. The statement says the congregation merged with North Surrey United in 1994 to form Northwood United, and that the building now serves as the Surrey Chinese Baptist Church. A voting place named Northwood United Church was open in the district in 2024.

The heritage study says that by the early 1930s Johnston Road, now 152 Street, had been designated a secondary provincial highway. The hall, Fleetwood Park and the church along 160 Street then gave Fleetwood a second centre that rivalled the one growing on Johnston Road. Surrey Archives holds the registers of the schools that grew with the area: Fleetwood Elementary from 1947 to 1971, Johnston Heights Jr. Secondary from 1957 to 1971 and Johnston Heights Elementary from 1960 to 1971. Johnston Heights Secondary now stands at 15350 99 Avenue and describes itself as an IB Continuum World School.

The heritage study says the Fleetwood Community Association moved in 1995 into the newly built Fleetwood Community Centre, across the street from the original hall. The Surrey Now-Leader reported on 11 September 2015 that the centre was celebrating its 20th anniversary. The City lists a gymnasium, two fitness studios, a weight room of 1,600 square feet, a large hall with a stage and three licensed preschool rooms at the centre, which stands at 15996 84 Avenue. The Fleetwood branch of Surrey Libraries is a 13,300 square foot branch inside it.

The City says the Association has hosted the Fleetwood Festival every year since 1998 to celebrate the heritage, environment, wellness and spirit of Fleetwood. The Now-Leader said the 17th festival was scheduled for Saturday 12 September 2015, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 15996 84 Avenue. The Fleetwood Business Improvement Association represents businesses on the Fraser Highway corridor from 152nd Street to 164th Street. It gives its membership as 120 property owners and 350 businesses, in round figures, in retail, food service, health, personal service, light commercial and auto sectors.

The City of Surrey's Fleetwood Town Centre Plan page says Council endorsed the Stage 1 Plan for Fleetwood on 7 March 2022 and an updated version on 16 October 2023. The City says the plan guides growth over more than 30 years in Fleetwood as SkyTrain extends along Fraser Highway to Langley. It says the plan area stretches from Green Timbers Urban Forest in the west towards the Agricultural Land Reserve in the east, and that Council will consider further updates in 2026.

The province's Surrey Langley SkyTrain project names eight stations: Green Timbers, 152 Street, Fleetwood, Bakerview-166 Street, Hillcrest-184 Street, Clayton, Willowbrook and Langley City Centre. The project's station page places the 152 Street station at the northwest corner of Fraser Highway and 152 Street, and the Fleetwood station at the northeast corner of 160 Street and Fraser Highway. The project page gives late 2029 as the current anticipated in-service date.