Dewdney, British Columbia

Dewdney, British Columbia
Dewdney
—  Unincorporated community  —
Coordinates: 49°10′00″N 122°12′00″W / 49.1666667°N 122.2°W / 49.1666667; -122.2Coordinates: 49°10′00″N 122°12′00″W / 49.1666667°N 122.2°W / 49.1666667; -122.2
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
- Central Fraser Valley
- Nicomen Island

Dewdney is an unincorporated community in the Central Fraser Valley of British Columbia, Canada, about 15 km east of the town of Mission. It was incorporated as a district municipality in 1893 but has since become unincorporated and is now represented as part of Electoral Area 'G' in the regional government, which currently is the Fraser Valley Regional District.

Dewdney is located at the western end of Nicomen Island, one of the larger settled islands in the Fraser, and at the southeast corner of Hatzic Prairie, a lowland floodplain at the south end of which is Hatzic Lake, an oxbow lake with a community of the same name on the island in its centre.

Downtown Dewdney spans the Nicomen Slough, which is fed by Norrish Creek (aka Suicide Creek), one of the main water supplies for the District of Mission. Running east on the north side of the slough is the famous Hawkins Pickle Road (famous mostly for its name). Dewdney has a couple of stores, an elementary school, and other businesses and is a service centre for other nearby communities, most of which are more rural in character. Though situated in rich farmland Dewdney also has a history and continuing economic presence in lumbering and milling community, and also in relation to the fishery and shipping on the river

Dewdney was the destination of the Dewdney Trunk Road, one of the Fraser Valley's earliest main roads, which ran from Port Moody to Dewdney. The Dewdney Trunk Road, or Dewdney Trunk as it is often called, should not be confused with the Dewdney Trail, which is a colonial-era route from Hope to the East Kootenay region built by Edgar Dewdney, for whom the community of Dewdney is named and who later was Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories and also later Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. The community is the namesake of the historical Dewdney provincial electoral district and also of the now-dismantled Dewdney-Alouette Regional District (DARD).

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