New Concept Hair Studio
An independent hair salon in Vedder, between the Sardis malls and Vedder Crossing.
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A hair salon in Vedder, close to the Canada Education Park campuses.
Christine's The Hair Place is listed in Vedder, and specifically in the part of it near Canada Education Park, which holds the University of the Fraser Valley campus, the RCMP Pacific Region Training Centre and a Justice Institute campus. Vedder grew 39 per cent between 2011 and 2021, faster than anywhere in Chilliwack but Promontory, and there are now more people living in it than in any neighbourhood except the downtown. A salon at that end of town is serving new subdivisions, a student and staff population, and a good deal of ordinary family housing.
Hairdressing has followed that housing south. The greatest number of salons in Chilliwack now sits along the Vedder Road corridor through Sardis and Vedder, mostly in strip plazas built to serve the streets behind them, with an older group downtown near Five Corners where several rooms have been operating for decades. Promontory and the Eastern Hillsides have almost no commercial space, so stylists working those neighbourhoods generally rent a chair down on the flat or run a studio from home. Chain and franchise salons are excluded from this list. The pattern is worth knowing for anyone choosing by distance rather than by name.
A telephone number is published and a website is not, which is the usual arrangement for a room of this kind and no real obstacle, given that booking a chair is a phone call anyway. No street address appears in the record either, only a postal code, so the map pin is accurate to the block rather than the door. Everything a person actually wants to know before turning up, what things cost, how far ahead the book runs, what the room does and does not do, belongs to that first call. A listing under a single name does not say how many people work under it either, which is another thing easier asked than assumed.
In the Vedder neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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