20 Facts About Pitt Meadows

Pitt Meadows is a municipality of Metro Vancouver in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.

Pitt Meadows is one of 21 municipalities plus Electoral Area A that comprises the Metro Vancouver Regional District.

In 1892, residents of the Pitt Meadows area petitioned for their removal from the District of Maple Ridge.

In 1914, Pitt Meadows was a small, agricultural community of less than 250 individuals which supplied Vancouver and New Westminster with produce and dairy products.

In 1892, residents of the Pitt Meadows area petitioned for their removal from the District of Maple Ridge.

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Pitt Meadows reverted to unorganized territory from 1892 until it was separately incorporated as a municipality in 1914.

In 1914, Pitt Meadows was a small, agricultural community of less than 250 individuals which supplied Vancouver and New Westminster with produce and dairy products.

Pitt Meadows joined the Greater Vancouver Water District in 1948.

Pitt Meadows is located in the Lower Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver.

Pitt Meadows is sandwiched on the north side of the Fraser River at its junction with the Pitt River on the west and Maple Ridge on the east.

Pitt Meadows is protected from flooding by 64 kilometres of dikes which provide a multi-use trail system alongside the farmland and marshes, and offer views of the mountains to the north.

Pitt Meadows is located between the rapidly developing communities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, Surrey and Langley.

Pitt Meadows is naturally isolated from the rest of the Lower Mainland by the Pitt River and the Fraser River.

The Fraser, Pitt and Alouette Rivers played a pivotal role in the development of Pitt Meadows by providing transportation routes, fishing areas and nourishing flood water to the farm areas.

In 2018, a TransLink bus stop on Highway 7 in Pitt Meadows was voted the "sorriest bus stop in America" by StreetsBlog.

Access Transit provides accessible door-to-door transportation service in the Metro Vancouver region, which includes Pitt Meadows using specially equipped vehicles designed to carry passengers with physical or cognitive disabilities who are unable to use public transit without assistance.

Pitt Meadows has one secondary school, and four elementary schools, all of which are part of School District 42 Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows.

In Pitt Meadows, there are cultural, recreation and other community facilities and public uses in the Civic Centre, the Town Centre and the Sawyer's Landing Waterfront Village.

Outdoor recreational opportunities include a system of dikes top trails along the river systems of Pitt Meadows for walking, cycling and equestrian use as well as boating opportunities on the Alouette, Fraser and Pitt Rivers.

Widgeon Valley National Wildlife Area, which is 125 ha in size located near Pitt Meadows Lake, was purchased by the Nature Trust of British Columbia in 1973 and declared a NWA in October 1973.