C4 Cloudia's

Chilliwack reads better than its size suggests. A city of ninety thousand or so supports a real independent new and used book trade, and most of it has settled in the old downtown, on and around Wellington Avenue, in premises large enough to browse rather than boutiques you pass through in a minute. National chains are excluded from these pages, so everything in the category here is genuinely independent, which is part of why the list runs as long as it does. That makes the address on this entry a slight departure. C4 Cloudia's carries a Sardis postal code, which places it near the Cottonwood Centre and Chilliwack Mall cluster instead of among the downtown shops.

What the listing does not carry is worth stating plainly. No phone number, no website and no street address are recorded, only the postal code and a map position, which is thin ground on which to plan a trip across town from anywhere else in the city. Stock in the used trade is by nature unrepeatable, and no directory entry can tell you what is on the shelves in a given week. Without a published number there is no easy way to ask first either, so the honest advice is to go when you are already in that part of Sardis, with an hour to spare and no fixed intention.