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Maple Ridge Golf Course with 2 men and a woman walking across the green.
Man and woman playing golf at Maple Ridge Golf course. They are putting in a shot and the flag is crooked.
The "ridge" of Maples
One of the earliest European settlers in the district was John Mclver, a Scot, who homesteaded where the Maple Ridge Golf Course is now located.
As this property incorporated a fine ridge topped by Maple trees, Mclver called his farm "Maple Ridge".
By 1874, several small communities had sprung up on the north side of the Fraser River including Port Haney, Port Hammond, Pitt Meadows, Whonnock, Albion, Ruskin, and Webster's Corners. One of the problems of small isolated communities is that they tend to stay small and isolated unless some means is found to build roads between them.
It was with this problem in mind that a group of men representing their small communities gathered at Mclver's farm to discuss incorporating the whole district between the Pitt River and Mission to allow taxation for road building. The name for the district was taken from Mclver's farm and so we became "Maple Ridge" in 1874.
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