Corky's Irish Pub

Chilliwack does not have a bar district. There is no block here where you could walk out of one room and into another two doors down, which is how drinking works in bigger cities and emphatically not how it works in the Fraser Valley. What the city has instead is neighborhood pubs, spread thin: the older rooms downtown, several attached to hotels that were standing long before the malls, the larger suburban places along Vedder Road with their patios and screens, and a couple out at Vedder Crossing that fill with fishing traffic when the runs are on.

The name declares an intention and nothing more. No hours, no menu and no view of the inside are available here, and none of those will be guessed at. No phone number or website is published either, which for a small owner-run room is ordinary rather than suspicious. The postal code above will drop a map pin on the right few blocks, and the rest is a matter of looking in. It is worth remembering that several of the licensed rooms in this part of town are older than the suburbs that now hold most of Chilliwack's population, which is not nothing when choosing where to sit.