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Maple Ridge
From Hammond’s Craftsman streets to the forested slopes of Silver Valley, Maple Ridge has more than one story to tell. Explore the neighbourhoods, landmarks and home styles that make this city familiar, then find the plumbing service you need with The Crazy Plumber.
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Pins I to III match the landmark plates; the dashed line is the city boundary. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Location Landmarks
Three familiar places. Three different stories. Explore a church that crossed a river, a creekside park and a bridge over the Fraser.
St. John the Divine Anglican Church
In 1882, the church was dismantled, floated across the Fraser River on scows and rebuilt on River Road.
Kanaka Creek Regional Park
Near the creek, the Bell-Irving Hatchery supports salmon enhancement for chum, coho and cutthroat trout.
Golden Ears Bridge
Four 90-metre towers rise above the river. Tolls were removed in 2017.
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Credentials on file
Licence
TSBC Licence # LGA0213328
Better Business Bureau
Accredited · A+ ratingGoogle reviews
854
Founded
June 2023, Port Coquitlam
Estimates
Free estimates
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Location Data
See how Maple Ridge grew, what kinds of homes it has, how old they are and who calls it home. Explore five views of the 2021 Census.
Residents
90,990
Earlier census
82,256
Census year
2021
Comparison year
2016
People per square kilometre
339.7
Land area (km²)
267.8
Private dwellings
34,254
Occupied by usual residents
33,103
Average household size
2.7
Households of one person (%)
22.1
Median age in years
41.2
Ages 0 to 14 (%)
17.7
Ages 15 to 64 (%)
66.3
Ages 65 and over (%)
16.1
Average age in years
40.8
Ages 85 and over (%)
1.9
Single-detached (%)
52.6
Apartments, 5 or more storeys (%)
3.0
All other home types (%)
44.4
Households that own (%)
79.1
Households that rent (%)
20.9
Median home value, owner-estimated
$900,000
Built 1981 to 2000 (%)
36.3
Homes built 1981 to 2000
12,020
Built before 1981 (%)
28.6
Built 2001 to 2021 (%)
35.0
Needing major repairs (%)
4.8
Homes needing major repairs
1,600
Historical Timeline
A ridge of maples, a riverside cedar mill and a ferry across the Fraser. Explore three turning points that helped shape Maple Ridge.
1874
A ridge of maples
On September 12, 1874, the District of Maple Ridge was incorporated between the Pitt and Stave rivers, with fewer than 50 pioneer families. The name came from John McIver’s farm, where a stand of maple trees followed a ridge above the Fraser River.
1910
Cedar along the river
A riverfront sawmill on Maple Crescent opened in 1910 as the Bailey Lumber Company and later became the Hammond Cedar Company. After the First World War, the company built Craftsman-style homes for employees along Swede Row. Interfor permanently closed the mill in 2019.
1957
A ferry across the Fraser
On June 2, 1957, the Albion Ferry began carrying vehicles between Albion and Fort Langley. The crossing served the community until July 31, 2009, shortly after the Golden Ears Bridge opened.
Neighbourhoods
Explore three different sides of Maple Ridge: Hammond, Albion and Silver Valley. Choose a neighbourhood to see its homes, streets and setting.
Regional key
Fraser Valley
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Hammond
A historic mill town in the southwest corner of Maple Ridge, laid out beside the Fraser River in the 1880s.
Homes
Craftsman homes on a tight grid
Upper Hammond has modest Craftsman-style homes on a north to south street grid. Many were built after the First World War for returning soldiers and sawmill workers.
Streets
A townsite built for the railway
Port Hammond Junction was registered on August 3, 1883. The Hammond brothers and Emmeline Mohun donated land to the CPR to secure the municipality’s first rail station, which opened in 1885.
Setting
Living beside the river
About half of Hammond lies within the Fraser River floodplain, and Wharf Street works as both a road and a dyke.
Albion
A growing community in southeast Maple Ridge, between Kanaka Creek and the Fraser River.
Homes
Townhomes and new subdivisions
Residential growth picked up from the early 2000s. Master-planned townhouse communities make up about half of the newer homes, with detached subdivisions making up about 40 percent.
Streets
A village centre takes shape
The Albion Community Centre opened in June 2022 at 104 Avenue and 240 Street. The 2025 Area Plan update added walking and cycling links and a village commercial node at 240 Street and 112 Avenue.
Setting
From farm flats to fairgrounds
Early Albion grew around sawmills, canneries and farms on the Albion Flats. After the 1948 flood, the municipality bought the Robertson farm in 1959 and created the Albion Fairgrounds.
Silver Valley
A planned community on forested slopes north of the Alouette River, near Golden Ears Provincial Park.
Homes
Homes among the trees
Housing is mostly newer single-family homes, along with Craftsman-style townhouse complexes such as Azure Group’s 16-unit Hillside development.
Streets
Planned as four hamlets
Silver Valley was named in 1944, when Bill and Ruth Shull built Silver Valley Road. The Area Plan, adopted in 2002, groups the community into four hamlets with short walking distances.
Setting
Slopes and second growth
Once logged, the valley is now about 80 percent reforested in hemlock and cedar, with upland slopes of up to 20 degrees.
Builders and Developers
Meet a brickmaking partnership and a cedar mill whose work helped shape Maple Ridge. Follow each story from local materials to buildings and the places people recognise today.
Baynes and Horie
Material
Clay becomes brick and tile.
In 1907, Edgar George Baynes, William McLeod Horie and Harold Burnet established the Port Haney Brick Company. The plant made clay brick, structural tile and agricultural drain tile.
Building
A manager’s house in plant brick.
The company manager’s house, built in 1907 at 22520 116 Avenue, was re-clad in the plant’s own brick around 1930. A Period Revival brick company office followed by 1930.
Community
A 70-year story in Port Haney.
The plant operated until July 1977. Today the manager’s house is home to the Maple Ridge Museum, and the office stands in Jim Hadgkiss Park.
The Hammond Cedar Company
Material
Cedar from the riverfront mill.
A riverfront sawmill on Maple Crescent opened in 1910 as the Bailey Lumber Company and later became the Hammond Cedar Company.
Building
Homes for the mill workforce.
After the First World War, the company built Craftsman bungalows along Swede Row for employees who had served overseas. The McFarlane Residence at 11395 205 Street is a one-storey woodframe example from about 1920.
Community
A mill neighbourhood remembered.
The McFarlane Residence is listed on the Community Heritage Register, and historic mill residences remain on Maple Crescent and 201 Street.
Styles of Homes
Recognise that roofline? Choose a home style, then explore the details that connect it with Maple Ridge.
1910s to the 1930s
Craftsman character
Look for low-pitched gables, deep eaves and an open front verandah. The Craftsman bungalow became a familiar house form in Maple Ridge’s early neighbourhoods.
The roof tells a story
Low-pitched gable roofs with deep eaves, exposed rafter tails and decorative brackets help define the style.
An entrance worth noticing
Full or partial verandahs rest on tapered square columns set on piers.
Built for returning workers
In Upper Hammond, modest bungalows went up after the First World War for returning soldiers and sawmill workers, using locally milled cedar.
1950s to the 1970s
Low and wide, or split in two
Postwar homes spread out along the street, with shallow roofs and large windows. The split-level version staggers its floors across short flights of stairs.
Follow the levels
Split-levels introduced staggered floor plans, with living and sleeping areas on different half-levels.
Look along the roofline
Ranchers show shallow-pitched gable or hip roofs, wide eaves, large picture windows and garages set under the main roof.
A form, not a census category
Local listings use terms such as Rancher/Bungalow w/Bsmt. Construction-era totals include many home styles and should not be read as counts of ranchers.
2020s
New homes at the farm edge
In Albion, on Maple Ridge’s eastern side, the area plan guides new homes where the urban area meets farmland and forested slopes.
Houses beside farmland
Near the Agricultural Land Reserve north of 112 Avenue, new development is expected to use setbacks, planted buffers and careful lot layout beside the farms.
Several forms, ground access
Ground-oriented areas allow single detached homes with suites or garden suites, plus duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes, each unit with ground-level access.
Planned together
In North East Albion, larger lots are encouraged next to rural properties, and rear-loaded homes are encouraged along collector and arterial roads.