Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre

Leisure centres and gyms are not the same proposition, and the difference is the first thing to understand about this entry. Gyms in this directory are mostly independent rooms: strength and conditioning spaces, boxing and martial arts clubs, small studios in the industrial units behind Sardis where the ceilings are high and the rent is not. A civic leisure centre works to a different logic, built for a whole population rather than a membership, and what it holds varies from one building to another. This listing does not enumerate what is inside, so the facilities are a question for the operator.

Chilliwack's demand for training space is stronger than the population alone would suggest, partly because of Canada Education Park at the south end, where the university campus, the RCMP Pacific Region Training Centre and a Justice Institute of BC campus put a large number of people who train seriously into one district. That is at the other end of the city from Corbould Street, which is part of the point of having something downtown. The listing carries no telephone number and no website, and hours, admission and programme schedules at a facility of this kind change through the year, so they need checking at source rather than here. Anyone travelling in from Promontory, Yarrow or Rosedale should confirm before making the drive; the distances in this municipality are real.