Surrey South.
5 candidates, one seat.

Semiahmoo First Nation calls its people the Semiahma. Its website says the Semiahma have lived across Washington state, the Salish Sea and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia for thousands of years, and that they share the North Straits Salish language with the Lummi and Nooksack in the United States. The Nation writes that it became a trans-boundary nation in 1846, when the Oregon Treaty set the border at the 49th parallel. It says that after the Point Elliott Treaty some Semiahmoo and Nooksack people moved to the Little Campbell River, on the Semiahmoo Indian Reserve, and that its members in Canada live on the Semiahmoo Reserve in South Surrey.

The Nation adds that before 1850 its people spent winters at Drayton Harbour, Birch Bay, Crescent Beach and Semiahmoo Bay. The City of Surrey's history page names the Semiahmoo, Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations as peoples who have lived in the region for thousands of years. It says the Campbell, Nicomekl and Serpentine Rivers were the inland routes for trade and communication. The Surrey School District acknowledges the Kwantlen, Katzie and Semiahmoo Nations as the Nations on whose traditional and unceded territories it works.

The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says Hall's Prairie was an early farming settlement in Surrey, 26 km southeast of New Westminster. A trapper named Sam Hall, who traded with the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Langley, lived there in the early 1860s. Homesteaders came in the next decade, and by the 1880s the settlement had a road, a post office and a school. The City of Surrey's heritage register says the first Hall's Prairie school was built in 1884 on the site at 18035 8 Avenue. The building there now is the third Hall's Prairie school, and the register dates it to c. 1927.

The same encyclopedia says Henry Thrift, who became one of Surrey's early civic leaders, started a farm in 1884 and named it Hazelmere. Hazelmere also had a station on the New Westminster Southern Railway and a sawmill. Hazelmere United Church was built in 1903 to serve the farming community. The City registers it as a Carpenter Gothic building and protects it by a bylaw of 2000. The church annex began as the Hall's Prairie School Annex and was moved to the church site in 1949.

Hazelmere Cemetery lies beside the Little Campbell River. The register says it appears to have been officially established when the Hall's Prairie Cemetery Co. was incorporated in 1908. Local people looked after it as volunteers until 1958, when the municipality was asked to take it over. Twenty years later it was discovered that the original company still held the title, and the land had to go through a legal process before Surrey could take title.

BC Geographical Names says Benjamin Douglas laid out the settlement of Douglas, on the border southeast of White Rock. He had come to the Cariboo goldfields in 1862, worked at Yale, moved to New Westminster in 1884 and subdivided the townsite in 1889. He called it Blane, B.C. The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says the New Westminster Southern Railway opened on 14 February 1891. It ran from the south side of the Fraser River to the American border east of Blaine, Washington, where it joined a line owned by James Jerome Hill, and the entry calls it the first international rail line west of Winnipeg.

The railway stop now called Colebrook began as Oliver's. BC Geographical Names records that it was named for John Oliver (1856 to 1927), who settled there in 1882 and was premier of British Columbia from 1918 to 1927. In 1909 people who objected to the name asked Great Northern Railway officials to change it to Coldbrook, and by mistake it became Colebrook.

The City's heritage register says the Pacific Highway was opened on August 3, 1923, as a concrete road built by the A.B. Palmer Co. Limited, to give better access to the American border crossing. BC Geographical Names adds that, according to April 1956 advice from Canada Customs, its facility at Douglas and its facility one mile west at the Peace Arch were administered together as the Port of Pacific Highway.

BC Geographical Names lists Crescent as a community above Crescent Beach and just northwest of White Rock. It records that the name was adopted on 16 August 1977, as submitted by the District of Surrey. The commission names Crescent among the neighbourhoods of Surrey South.

Grandview Heights Elementary has a one-room schoolhouse behind the main school at 17561 20 Avenue, built in 1922. The register says it is one of only two one-room schools in Surrey that stand on their original sites and are still used for teaching. The register also lists a segment of the Great Northern right of way in Grandview, between 16th Avenue and 180th Street north of 24th Avenue. It formed part of a 22-mile rail line and is now part of a City park.

The City's register says the King George Highway follows part of the old Semiahmoo Trail and was renamed the King George VI Highway when it opened in October 1940. Oak trees grown from seedlings sent from England in 1937, to mark the coronation of King George VI, survive along it. Most of them stand between the Nicomekl River and the Highway 99 junction at 8th Avenue. The register lists Douglas and Panorama Ridge among the heritage areas along the highway, which runs from the Pattullo Bridge to 8th Avenue.

The City of Surrey says its Council identified Rosemary Heights in 1992 as an area suited to development, and approved a Local Area Plan in 1994. Council approved the Central plan in November 1996, the West plan in July 1997 to finish the area to the edge of Highway 99, and the Business Park plan in February 2000. The City says Rosemary Heights Elementary and Morgan Elementary serve the area.

For Douglas, Council approved a first-stage land use plan in July 1996 and the final plan in July 1999. The plan covers 61 hectares of a neighbourhood that the City describes as mostly residential, with two small commercial areas, a park and an elementary school. North Grandview Heights followed in January 1999, as a plan for 339 hectares of large residential lots, south of 32nd Avenue and north of 28th Avenue. After a public process, Council amended parts of the plan in 2005 because of demand for smaller single family lots and townhouses.

In October 2003 Surrey's Council authorized staff to prepare a general land use plan for Grandview Heights. Council approved it in June 2005 after a planning process that the City says lasted one and one-half years and involved a Citizens' Advisory Committee. The plan area covers 1,050 hectares, from 16th Avenue in the south to 28th Avenue in the north and east to the Agricultural Land Reserve. The City lists six neighbourhood plans that were started or finished inside the study area.

Morgan Heights was the first of them to be planned. Council authorized the work in January 2005, approved the first-stage plan in April 2005 and the final plan in September 2005. The plan covers 80 hectares between 24th and 28th Avenue, with 164th Street as its eastern edge, and centres on Southridge Private School. The City's pages now say the Surrey 2050 Official Community Plan update rescinded the Morgan Heights plan, and that the Official Community Plan now leads development there. The 2021 census shows how recent the housing is: 2.4% of the district's homes were built in 1960 or earlier and 23.6% were built from 2016 to 2021.