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The City of Surrey's history page says the Semiahmoo, Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations have lived in this region for thousands of years. It describes a community life built on hunting and fishing, with shellfish, salmon, herring and oolichan from the tidal waters and rivers. The page adds that the Campbell, Nicomekl and Serpentine Rivers were the inland routes used for trading and communication.

The Serpentine River appears again in the City's coat of arms, which Surrey developed in 1987. The City says its wavy bands stand for the Serpentine, Campbell and Nicomekl Rivers. The commission's final report gives one reason for the name of this district: it replaced the earlier name Surrey Central to reduce confusion with the Surrey City Centre district.

The Katzie First Nation gives its own name on its website as q̓ic̓əy̓, which it translates as land of the moss, and says it has lived in its territory for thousands of years. A.J. McLellan Elementary, a voting place in this district, says in its learning plan that the school sits on the shared, traditional territories of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo and other Coast Salish Peoples.

The Canadian Register of Historic Places says Abraham Huck, the area's first settler, bought land at Surrey Centre in 1872, and that more settlers arrived gradually. BC Geographical Names records that the District of Surrey was incorporated on 10 November 1879. The register says the new district had no public meeting place. Huck gave one acre of his land for a hall, and the first meeting in the building took place on May 2, 1881. The hall also held church services until Christ Church was completed nearby.

The City of Surrey's heritage register says the village grew along the northern end of McLellan Road. Besides the town hall it had a cemetery, a one-room school house, a post office and a general store, and later it held the original fairgrounds. The register lists Boothroyd House at 16811 60 Avenue, built circa 1875, and says the Boothroyds were the second family to settle in Surrey Centre. It adds that George Boothroyd sat on the early municipal Council.

The City's register says the Christ Church cemetery was established in 1881 and was enlarged in 1915 with a lot that runs down to Bell Road. The Canadian Register says Christ Church, built in 1884, was the first church of any denomination built in Surrey. Reverend William Bell arrived in the parish that year and set up a building committee. Abraham Huck gave the land, and the contractor was William Flood. Members of the Surrey Freemasons laid the cornerstone on August 6, 1884, and the register says they return every year to mark the date.

The City places the church at 16631 Old McLellan Road and describes it as a wood frame church in the Carpenter Gothic style, with a steep roof and a slender bell tower. Christ Church Bell Hall at 16613 Bell Road was built in 1932 in memory of Reverend Bell, with work directed by volunteers. It opened on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the parish.

Two plantings stand beside the church. The City's register counts 14 Douglas-firs and 3 Western red cedars in the Avenue of Trees, planted by Surrey Centre's pioneers on the north side of Old McLellan Road. A royal oak was planted to mark the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on May 12, 1937, from a seedling brought from one of the royal forests in Great Britain.

The City's timeline for the 1912 Municipal Hall says the Surrey Centre hall of 1881 quickly became too small for the growing municipality. In 1910 the City allocated $18,000 for a new hall and chose Cloverdale as the site, and Council held its first meeting there in 1912. Surrey Centre Cemetery, at 16647 Old McLellan Road, was established in the early years of the village by the Methodist Church and was acquired by the City in 1924. The register names pioneer families buried there, among them the Woodward, Triggs, Moore, Boothroyd, McCallum and Stewart families.

In 1938 the 1881 hall was moved to the Cloverdale Exhibition Grounds, where it later became Surrey's first museum, according to the Canadian Register. The City lists it at 17635 60 Avenue, inside the former museum building in Cloverdale. The school site stayed at Surrey Centre. The BC schools directory gives Surrey Centre Elementary as 16670 Old McLellan Road, one of the two addresses in the City's register for the first town hall and school sites.

A.J. McLellan Elementary, at 16545 61 Avenue, says in its learning plan that it is named for a contractor who built Old McLellan Road. The plan adds that the road and the nearby McLellan Station took his name.

The City of Surrey's heritage register shows how farming shaped the land west of 168 Street. The Bose family homestead at 16488 64 Avenue was built circa 1898 and extended in 1910. The register says Henry Bose served as Councillor, Reeve and Police Magistrate, and calls him an influential figure in Surrey politics for half a century. At Meadow Ridge Farm, 16390 64 Avenue, the Bose house dates from 1924, a dairy building from 1948 and a T-shaped barn from 1939, made partly from old growth firs cut on the farm. The Smith farmhouse at 16913 66 Avenue was built circa 1915 by Andrew and Thomas Smith, who began as poultry farmers and later added a dairy.

In 1993 City Council named West Cloverdale as one of several areas suitable for development, and a Local Area Plan followed. Council approved the West Cloverdale South neighbourhood concept plan in March 1997 and the North plan in November 1997. The City gives the combined area of the two plans as 165 hectares (410 acres), running from the Agricultural Land Reserve in the west to 168 Street in the east. The Provincial Agricultural Land Commission says the Reserve was drawn under the 1973 Land Commission Act around land with the soil and climate to support farming. The City says West Cloverdale is now largely built out.

The City of Surrey says its Council identified East Newton in 1992 as one of several areas suitable for development, and approved a Local Area Plan for it in 1993. The East Newton North neighbourhood concept plan followed in July 1996, as the first phase. Council approved the East Newton South plan in December 1997 for the southern housing areas, and the East Newton Business Park plan in March 1999.

The business park plan set aside land for employment and also created a live-work designation south of 66 Avenue. In March 2020 Council amended the plan and replaced the live-work land with business park land, because that land had not been developed and had not shown that it could succeed in the market. The City names Chimney Hill Elementary, T.E. Scott Elementary, Regent Christian Academy and Valley View Cemetery among the places in East Newton. The BC schools directory lists Chimney Hill Elementary at 14755 74 Avenue and T.E. Scott Elementary at 7079 148 Street.

The City of Surrey gives the address of Fleetwood Park as 15802 80 Avenue and says the park was named after Lance Corporal Arthur Thomas Fleetwood, whose family settled in the area in the early 1900s. The park has picnic shelters, a spray park, gardens, a 1.8 kilometre nature trail and an Urban Forest in its southern section. The commission's final report names the park when it explains why Surrey Central, its working name for this district, kept it.

The Surrey Sport & Leisure Complex stands at 16555 Fraser Highway. The City lists pools, a hot tub, a sauna and a steam room there, and its arena page says the building has three NHL-sized rinks. The City places the complex in Fleetwood and says its Fraser Highway access will be closed during SkyTrain construction, so visitors enter from Fraser Highway at 166 Street or near 165 Street and 84 Avenue.

The Surrey Langley SkyTrain project will extend the Expo Line 16 kilometres along Fraser Highway to 203 Street in Langley City. Its Bakerview-166 Street Station will be at the northwest corner of 166 Street and Fraser Highway, with a bus exchange, and the project says it will give better access to the sport complex. The project gives late 2029 as the current expected in-service date.