Albion, British Columbia is a neighbourhood in Maple Ridge, British Columbia and is one of several small towns incorporated the municipality at its creation, as well as the oldest non-indigenous community of the district's settlements, being only slightly younger than Fort Langley, adjacent across the Fraser River, and Kanaka Creek, which is just to the west and lies along the creek of the same name. Its official definition is the area bounded by the Fraser River, Kanaka Way, and 240th Street, but in its historic sense it means the community centred on and flanking 240th Street and adjoining areas along the Fraser River waterfront and around the Maple Ridge Fairgrounds, while along Kanaka Way and also on the near bank of Kanaka Creek, the creek, is historically the community of Kanaka Creek.
Sawmills and fishboats featured in Albion's economy, and River Road, which runs between the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks and the river, has been a mixed industrial area for all of Albion's existence since the coming of the railway (1880s). Farmland on the north side of the highway and semi-wild green fields and trees that typified the old rural community are succumbing to suburban sprawl.
Schools
Albion is served by School District 42 Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows.
See also
- Thornhill, Maple Ridge
- Whonnock, British Columbia
- Webster's Corners
- New Albion
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Coordinates: 49°11′00″N 122°33′00″W / 49.183333°N 122.55°W
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