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Chilliwack, British Columbia

Find a Chilliwack business, from Yarrow to Rosedale

The shops, kitchens and trades of the valley floor; Yarrow to Rosedale, Five Corners to the hillsides.

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Neighbourhoods
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These are the categories I cover in Chilliwack, each one carrying a live count of what is in it. Right now the largest is Food & Drink, followed by Shopping.

Food & Drink in Chilliwack BC

Food and drink is the widest section of any local directory and usually the reason someone opens one. It covers everywhere you can sit down for a meal, pick something up on the way home, or restock a cupboard: full-service restaurants and quick counters, coffee bars, bakeries and dessert shops, pubs and taprooms, grocers, liquor stores, and the corner shops that stay open after everything else on the block has closed. The subcategories split the section along the lines people actually search. Someone booking a Saturday dinner and someone hunting a bag of rice at nine at night are not doing the same task, and one blended list serves neither. Each subcategory keeps its own listings, its own map and its own neighbourhood filters. Every listing shows address, phone, website and posted hours wherever the business has published them, with a short description of what the place actually is rather than a line lifted from a brochure. Businesses that genuinely straddle two subcategories, a bakery with a full café menu, a brewery with a kitchen, appear in both, with one marked primary so the breadcrumb trail and the structured data stay consistent.

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Shopping in Chilliwack BC

Retail is the part of a local economy that people miss only once it has gone. This section covers the shops you can walk into: florists, pet stores, hardware and garden centres, furniture and home goods, clothing, shoes and jewellery, books, toys, sporting goods, bikes, electronics, music, phones and the department stores that still anchor a mall. The organising principle is what you are shopping for, not who owns the business. A national chain and a forty-year-old independent sit in the same list and carry the same fields, and neither is pushed up the page for paying us: nothing on this site is a paid placement. Listings show address, phone, website and posted hours, plus the neighbourhood, which is the filter most people want: retail is an errand, and errands are geographic. Where a shop offers something that changes whether the trip is worth making, repairs, rentals, custom orders, delivery, in-store pickup, the listing says so rather than leaving you to phone and ask.

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Beauty & Personal Care in Chilliwack BC

Personal care is a relationship business. Most people find one hairdresser, one nail technician or one barber and stay with them for years, which means the search that brings someone here is usually a first visit or a move to a new part of town: and both are decisions people want to get right. This section covers hair salons, barbershops, nail salons, day spas and tattoo studios. Each subcategory holds its own listings with address, phone, website and posted hours, plus the neighbourhood, because proximity genuinely matters when an appointment is a monthly habit rather than a one-off. Booking practice varies enormously across these trades: some businesses are appointment-only, some take walk-ins, some run an online booking system and some still work a paper book at the desk. Where a business publishes how it prefers to be booked, the listing says so and links to the booking page where one exists. No listing here is a paid placement, and no rating is published unless it comes from real, verifiable data.

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Health in Chilliwack BC

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The health section lists local practices and clinics people need to find quickly: dentists, medical clinics and doctors, optometrists, pharmacies and veterinarians. Most searches here are practical rather than exploratory: a clinic accepting new patients, a pharmacy still open, an eye exam this week, a dentist for a tooth that has started to hurt. Listings show address, phone, website and posted hours plus the neighbourhood. Where a practice publishes it, the listing notes whether new patients are being accepted, whether appointments can be booked online, and whether walk-in service is available : the three questions that decide almost every search in this section. Nothing in this directory is medical advice, and no listing here is an endorsement or a credential check. Practitioner registration in British Columbia is a matter of public record with the relevant regulatory college, and verifying it is always worth the two minutes. For anything urgent, contact HealthLink BC at 8-1-1 or emergency services at 9-1-1.

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Automotive in Chilliwack BC

Everything to do with keeping a vehicle on the road: repair and maintenance shops, new and used dealerships, tire specialists and car washes. It is a category where a bad choice is expensive and a good shop gets kept for fifteen years, so the information that matters is specific: what the shop actually works on, whether it is certified, and whether it can take the car this week. Listings show address, phone, website and posted hours plus the neighbourhood. Where a business publishes it, the listing notes appointment and drop-off arrangements, courtesy or loaner vehicles, shuttle service, and whether after-hours key drop is available. Automotive businesses cluster into a handful of areas in most cities, highway frontage, light-industrial blocks and auto malls, rather than spreading evenly, which makes the neighbourhood filter unusually useful here. No listing in this section is a paid placement, and no rating is shown unless it comes from real, verifiable data.

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Professional Services in Chilliwack BC

The advisers and offices people deal with a few times a year and remember for a decade: real estate agents and brokerages, insurance brokers, accountants and bookkeepers, lawyers and notaries, and bank and credit union branches. These are appointment businesses rather than walk-in ones, and the questions people ask are different from the rest of the directory. Not just where and when, but what this office actually handles, whether a first consultation costs anything, and whether they take on work of your size at all. Listings show address, phone, website and posted hours plus the neighbourhood. Where a firm publishes it, the listing notes areas of practice, whether consultations are free, whether remote or virtual appointments are offered, and which languages are spoken at the office: the last of these matters more in this section than almost anywhere else. Nothing in this directory is legal, financial, tax or insurance advice, and a listing is not a recommendation. Professional licensing in British Columbia is publicly searchable through the relevant regulator, and it is always worth checking.

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Home Services in Chilliwack BC

Trades and services that come to the property: electricians, roofers, landscapers and lawn care, general contractors, locksmiths, movers, cleaning companies, pest control and self-storage. These businesses are found differently from every other section of the directory. Many work from a yard, a unit in an industrial block or a truck rather than a storefront, so the address is often an office rather than somewhere to visit, and the service area matters more than the pin on the map. Where a company publishes the areas it covers, the listing carries that instead of implying it only works on its own street. Listings show phone, website and posted hours plus the neighbourhood the business is based in. Where published, the listing notes whether free estimates are given, whether emergency or after-hours call-out is available, and whether the company is licensed, bonded and insured. For any work requiring a permit or a trade qualification, ask for licence and insurance details in writing before work starts. It is a normal request and a reputable contractor will expect it.

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Things To Do in Chilliwack BC

The section for everything that does not fit a trade heading: gyms and fitness studios, yoga, hotels and places to stay, childcare and daycare, schools and tutoring, dry cleaners and photographers. Some of it is what you do with a free afternoon and some of it is the standing arrangement that makes the week work, and both belong in a directory people actually use. Listings show address, phone, website and posted hours plus the neighbourhood. Where a business publishes it, the listing notes booking and registration practice, whether drop-ins or trials are available, and whether there is a waitlist: which is the deciding factor in several of these categories rather than a footnote. Community centres, public pools, arenas and library branches are civic facilities rather than businesses and are not listed as such, though they are often the right answer and are linked from the articles where they belong. No listing here is a paid placement, and no rating appears unless it comes from real, verifiable data.

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Digital marketing agency based in Surrey, BC, covering website design, SEO, branding, social media, Google Ads and review management. It serves the Chilliwack area as part of a wider Fraser Valley territory rather than from a local address.

Based in Surrey, BC. Serves Chilliwack and area.

Worth knowing about

This row rotates, and the places on it are the kitchens, counters and workshops people in Chilliwack keep sending me back to; not one of them paid to be here.

Why this directory

About Chilliwack

A directory is only worth anything if somebody keeps it honest. Here is what I actually do about that.

Chilliwack is a valley floor with mountains on three sides of it. The city sits at the eastern end of the Fraser Valley where the flat land finally runs out, hemmed by Vedder Mountain to the south, Chilliwack Mountain and the Fraser to the north, and the shoulder of Mount Cheam standing over the whole thing to the east. Two hundred and sixty square kilometres of municipality, and roughly two thirds of it is farmland inside the Agricultural Land Reserve.

That geography decides where the businesses are. The built-up part is a rough L: the old town around Five Corners, where Yale Road, Young Road and Wellington Avenue meet, and then a long southward run down Vedder Road through Sardis and Vedder to the river crossing. Almost everything with a shopfront is on one of those two lines or on the Luckakuck Way retail strip that joins them. Head in any other direction and within ten minutes you are among dairy barns and corn.

So this directory covers two quite different economies at once. There is the town trade; restaurants, salons, clinics, garages, the accountants above the shops on Wellington. And there is the trade that exists because of the fields: equipment repair, feed and fencing, the garden centers out on the highway, the roadside stands that open when the corn does. Yarrow, Greendale, Rosedale and Ryder Lake each keep a handful of businesses of their own, and those are as much a part of Chilliwack as anything on Vedder Road.

Every listing here comes from the public OpenStreetMap map data.

Details can be out of date, so confirm with the business before you set off.

What makes this different

Where the listings come from

Listings start from the public OpenStreetMap map data for Chilliwack, each one filed under a real category and the neighbourhood it trades in. Map data can go out of date, so every listing page says where its details came from and how to get them corrected. When a place has closed and someone tells me, it comes off.

The whole city, not one strip

All 12 Chilliwack neighbourhoods have a page here, Chilliwack Proper and Ryder Lake included, and every listing tells you which one it sits in. Most directories learn one strip of town and guess at the rest.

Free to list, quick to fix

Being listed costs nothing, and that is not a launch offer. Owners can claim their page, correct the hours and add a website. There are no tiers and no ad slots, so nobody here climbs over anybody else by paying.

One editor, one inbox

One person edits this site: Warren Kroeker. Every submitted listing and every correction is read by a person before it goes live, and a correction from the business itself goes to the top of the pile.

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Chilliwack gets described from the highway, which is the one angle that makes it look like nowhere. Come off at any exit and it stops being a place you drive past.

Warren Kroeker, Editor in Chilliwack BC Warren Kroeker Editor, Chilliwack Local More about Warren Kroeker

Guides and local news

What's happening in Chilliwack

I write these for people who are going this weekend, not for people reading about the city from somewhere else. Expect ranked lists, warnings about what sells out early, and the answers to questions I get asked over and over.

Grocery Stores in Chilliwack in Chilliwack BC

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Grocery Stores in Chilliwack

The directory lists 18 businesses under Grocery Stores. Valley Sunrise Fresh Foods sells food near the Canada Education Park campuses in Vedder, while Tydel Foods Meat Shop is an owner-run downtown business.

By Warren Kroeker Read
Gyms and Fitness Studios in Chilliwack in Chilliwack BC

3 min read

Gyms and Fitness Studios in Chilliwack

The local directory lists 13 businesses under Gyms & Fitness. Cheam Centre sits between the Sardis malls and Vedder Crossing. Rotary Pool is a seasonal outdoor pool on Reece Avenue in the downtown, owned by the City and run by the YMCA.

By Warren Kroeker Read
Coffee Shops and Bakeries in Chilliwack in Chilliwack BC

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Coffee Shops and Bakeries in Chilliwack

The Chilliwack directory lists 11 businesses under Cafés. Options span several areas. SinAmen Bun Co. bakes goods in Chilliwack Proper.

By Warren Kroeker Read
Warren Kroeker, Editor in Chilliwack BC

Editor, Warren Kroeker

Written by someone who lives here

I grew up in Yarrow, which was a Mennonite farming village before it was a Chilliwack neighborhood, and which still behaves like one. My family has been on that side of the valley since the fields were new; there was a lake there until the 1920s, and everybody in Yarrow knows it.

My father spent most of his working life as a civilian tradesman at the base at Vedder Crossing. When it closed in 1997 a lot of Chilliwack held its breath. What actually happened is that they built a neighborhood on it, and I live in it now, about four hundred metres from the parade square my dad used to park beside.

This directory is the thing I got tired of not having. Search for a plumber in Chilliwack and you get a national lead-generation site with a Vancouver phone number. I wanted a list of businesses that are actually here, written by somebody who knows the difference between Sardis and Vedder and would notice if a listing were wrong.

  • Lives in Garrison Crossing
  • Grew up in Yarrow
  • Third generation in the valley
  • Walks the Vedder Rotary Trail

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Verified businesses in Chilliwack

These entries are not scrapes. Each of these businesses has checked its own listing here, confirmed the details are right, and keeps them current as things change, which is more than can be said for most of what you will find about any company online.

Taylor Restoration Services, home service business in Chilliwack BC

Taylor Restoration Services

Water, fire and mould damage restoration operating from a Surrey address on 53 Avenue, with round the clock emergency callout, contents cleaning and insurance claim support across Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

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Peace Arch Plumbing & Heating, home service business in Chilliwack BC

Peace Arch Plumbing & Heating

Surrey based plumbing and heating contractor on 196 Street at the city's eastern edge, covering drains and sewer lines, water heaters, boilers and strata repair work, with a service area centred on South Surrey and White Rock.

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Hastie Plumbing, home service business in Chilliwack BC

Hastie Plumbing

Plumbing, gas fitting and hot water work run from an Abbotsford address on Mt Lehman Road, with a stated service area covering the whole Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland rather than any one municipality.

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Third Generation Painters, home service business in Chilliwack BC

Third Generation Painters

Vernon based painting contractor working across the North Okanagan on interior and exterior repaints, staining, wood restoration and cabinet refinishing. Listed here as an out of area trade, not as a Chilliwack business.

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Clayton Heights Chiropractic, health service in Chilliwack BC

Clayton Heights Chiropractic

A multidisciplinary wellness clinic in the Clayton Heights area of Surrey, right on the Langley border, offering chiropractic care, massage therapy, traditional Chinese medicine and custom orthotics. It is listed here as an out of city business, not a Chilliwack address.

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Sonic Health Clinic, health service in Chilliwack BC

Sonic Health Clinic

A multidisciplinary clinic in the Willoughby area of Langley Township offering registered massage therapy, physiotherapy and acupuncture, listed here as a business based outside Chilliwack rather than one trading from a local address.

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My Care Matters Health Services, health service in Chilliwack BC

My Care Matters Health Services

A Burnaby-based in-home care provider offering personal care, companionship, dementia and palliative support, nursing visits and medication management, with Chilliwack named among the communities it covers.

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Kelly Adler & Associates Counselling, health service in Chilliwack BC

Kelly Adler & Associates Counselling

A counselling practice based in the Sapperton area of New Westminster, working in trauma and PTSD, reproductive mental health, eating disorders and emotional regulation. It is listed on this Chilliwack site as an out of city provider, not a local address.

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LabTest Certification Inc., professional service in Chilliwack BC

LabTest Certification Inc.

An accredited testing, inspection and certification body based in Delta, BC, handling product safety approvals and on-site field evaluations for electrical and fuel-burning equipment across Canada and abroad.

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Potential Security, professional service in Chilliwack BC

Potential Security

A Delta-based security contractor offering licensed guards, mobile patrols, event coverage, alarm response and video monitoring, with Chilliwack among the eighteen Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley communities it lists as service areas.

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StayInCanada Immigration, professional service in Chilliwack BC

StayInCanada Immigration

Regulated immigration consultancy based in Coquitlam, handling Express Entry, provincial nominee, family sponsorship, study and work permit and citizenship applications. It appears here as an out of town firm serving Chilliwack clients, not from a local office.

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Oi Marketing, professional service in Chilliwack BC

Oi Marketing

Digital marketing agency based in Surrey, BC, covering website design, SEO, branding, social media, Google Ads and review management. It serves the Chilliwack area as part of a wider Fraser Valley territory rather than from a local address.

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T.K. Graphics, professional service in Chilliwack BC

T.K. Graphics

Surrey-based large format printer working in banners, vehicle and fleet graphics, window and wall signage, trade show displays and production backdrops. Listed here as an out of town supplier serving Chilliwack, not a local shopfront.

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Dream It Creations, photographer in Chilliwack BC

Dream It Creations

A Langley based video production and photography company offering brand and promotional video, event and real estate imagery, drone work and related marketing services across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.

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Havn Hosting, professional service in Chilliwack BC

Havn Hosting

Vacation rental management for owners who would rather not run the day to day. Listing setup, pricing, guest messages, check-ins and turnovers, looked after from Courtenay for properties in the Comox Valley and the Kelowna area. Owning somewhere further away? Ask us how we would cover your specific property first.

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Vertex Auto Corp, car dealership in Chilliwack BC

Vertex Auto Corp

A used vehicle dealer on Fraser Highway in Langley Township, handling pre-owned cars, trucks and SUVs along with financing and trade-ins. It appears on this Chilliwack directory as an out of town business, not a local storefront.

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Pacific Batteries, automotive business in Chilliwack BC

Pacific Batteries

New and reconditioned car, truck, marine and RV batteries from a Maple Ridge shop on Stewart Crescent, with testing, chargers and accessories, and lead acid recycling that pays cash for scrap cores.

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Guarding Life Home Care, health service in Chilliwack BC

Guarding Life Home Care

Chilliwack home care arranged from Surrey, covering hourly visits, overnight care and post-hospital support across the Fraser Valley.

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