Surrey-Newton.
3 candidates, one seat.

The Surrey School District acknowledges the Kwantlen, Katzie and Semiahmoo Nations as the peoples on whose traditional and unceded territories its schools stand. It also names the many other Coast Salish peoples who continue to use and care for this land. The City of Surrey makes the same acknowledgement on its page for Newton and says these Nations have ancient and ongoing ties to the place.

The Katzie First Nation says on its website that its people have lived in their territory for thousands of years. It lists Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Surrey, Langley and Delta as places that each have ancient Katzie names, and it says it works to keep those names in use by coming generations. Kwantlen Polytechnic University, which has its main campus in this district, says the Kwantlen First Nation gave the university its name. The university gives the meaning of the word Kwantlen as Tireless Runner.

BC Geographical Names says Newton is named after Elias John Newton. A second account in the same record, taken from a book of British Columbia place names, says the name comes from E.J. Villeneuf, a pioneer settler, saddler and harness maker. According to that account his neighbours found his name hard to say, so he changed it to Newton. The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says Newton settled in the area in the mid-1880s.

The Encyclopedia says the community grew up around an interurban station of the BC Electric Railway, built in 1910 at a crossroads. It adds that King and Farris Lumber Company built one of western Canada's first electric-powered sawmills at Newton in 1910. The City of Surrey says the Newton name was recognized more firmly after Newton Station opened on the BC Electric line, and that Newton Elementary opened in 1914 at the northwest corner of today's King George Boulevard and 72 Avenue. BC Geographical Names records that the Newton Station Post Office opened on 1 April 1914 and was renamed the Newton Post Office on 6 June 1960.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places places Strawberry Hill east of 120 Street, west of 128 Street, north of 72 Avenue and south of 96 Avenue. The part between 72 and 80 Avenue is in Surrey-Newton. The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says Japanese berry farmers settled the area in the early 1900s and that, by the late twentieth century, it had become mostly residential.

The register's statement of significance, written by the Province of British Columbia, says Japanese Canadian families bought land at Strawberry Hill and began berry and poultry farming among the stumps of freshly logged old growth timber. It says strawberry, raspberry and gooseberry growing was a successful industry before 1940. After the First World War, growers faced too much supply, too few markets and no price control. The farmers formed the Surrey Berry Growers' Co-operative Association and the Strawberry Hill Farmers' Institute to set quality and price controls.

The statement also describes the forced internment of the farmers during the Second World War and the seizure and sale of their homes and farms. It records that one tract, owned by the farmer Zennosuke Inouye, was returned to him afterwards. The Province recognized Strawberry Hill as a heritage site in 2017.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places says the Strawberry Hill Farmers Institute was founded on September 3, 1909. Donations, grants and volunteer labour paid for the hall, which stood on land given by the institute's first president, George Henry Flux. The register says the institute held lectures on farming practices, hosted social activities and helped new settlers, and that the hall stood at the corner of 75A Avenue and 122 Street.

The City of Surrey's heritage register dates the building to circa 1909 and lists it as a utilitarian homestead hall. The City says a fire destroyed the original building in 2021 and that a replica was completed in 2024. The replica stands at 12152 75 Avenue and is now a childcare centre for children aged 3 to 5.

Two houses on the City of Surrey's heritage register show the farms of the district before the suburbs. Burkart House at 13483 72 Avenue was built circa 1920 as a Craftsman bungalow, and the City registered it in 1998. At 6571 King George Boulevard, Adolph and Ruth Swanson bought a property in 1927, cleared it and started building a house in 1932. In 1943 they built a barn, which the City says later served as a community hall for a trailer park.

The City's entry says new owners bought the property circa 1960 and turned the farm into a trailer park, and that the wife of one of them, Rita Johnson (the City's spelling), later served on Surrey Council, as an MLA and as the first woman premier of British Columbia. King George Boulevard was completed in 1940. Princess Margaret Secondary School, which opened in 1951, was the first high school in the area. Frank Hurt Secondary School and Newton Arena both opened in 1973.

Kwantlen College split from Douglas College in 1981. It became a university college with power to grant degrees by 1995, and in 2008 Premier Gordon Campbell announced its new name, Kwantlen Polytechnic University. The university's address is 12666 72 Avenue. The Newton Wave Pool opened in 1987, and the City of Surrey approved the first Newton Town Centre Plan in 1990.

The City says some civic and recreation buildings and some shops followed north of 72 Avenue, and that key parts of the plan area, particularly south of 72 Avenue, were never developed. In 2008 Council endorsed a report that sought an agreement between the City and TransLink to prepare an updated land use and transit plan. In November 2018 Council suspended the Surrey-Newton-Guildford light rail project, and on July 13, 2020 it adopted an updated plan. The Newton branch of Surrey Libraries, a 14,700 square foot building designed by Patkau Architects, stands a short distance from Newton Exchange at 13795 70 Avenue.

The Surrey Now-Leader reported in April 2012 that Surrey's annual Vaisakhi event was then in its 12th year and was coordinated by the Gurdwara Sahib Dasmesh Darbar in Newton. The temple stands at 12885 85 Avenue, north of this district. Vaisakhi marks the founding of the Khalsa in 1699, according to the same article.

The article gave the 2012 route. The parade went south on 128 Street, west along 82 Avenue, south on 124 Street, along 75 Avenue and 76 Avenue, and north on 128 Street back to the temple. The parts of the route south of 80th Avenue are inside Surrey-Newton. The article said attendance had usually been between 80,000 and 100,000. The City of Surrey now says Newton hosts one of the largest Vaisakhi parades outside India, with more than 400,000 people. In the 2021 census 45% of residents of the district gave Punjabi as their first language.