Benanna Bakery Inc
An independent bakery in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
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An independent bakery in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
The name is doing two jobs at once, which is worth flagging before anything else. Dicken's Sweets and British Museum is filed here under bakeries, and that is the part of it described here. What the second half of the name refers to is not something that can be settled here, and it is not the sort of thing to guess at in print. The phone number and the website are both published, so a question about what the place actually holds has two easy routes to an answer.
The address is 45945 Alexander Avenue, which puts it inside the old commercial grid of downtown Chilliwack, a few blocks off the junction at Five Corners where Yale Road, Young Road and Wellington Avenue all arrive together. That grid was the commercial center of the town for a long time before the malls at Sardis and the Highway 1 interchange existed, and it still counts more than 350 businesses across banks, clinics, restaurants and small independent retail. A bakery here is drawing on foot traffic and on people who work downtown, rather than on a car trip made specially.
Baking has deeper roots in this valley than the size of the city would suggest. The Mennonite settlement at Yarrow from 1928 brought a tradition that never left, and its breads and fruit platz still turn up on counters across Chilliwack; over that sits a newer layer of laminated pastry and sourdough. There is also a farm-adjacent strand further out, through Greendale and Rosedale, where the fruit in a pie was grown within a few kilometres of the oven, though that is a different part of the city from this one.
Where any given shop falls on that spectrum varies enormously, and there is no way to know from here. Ring ahead if you are after something specific, particularly if you plan to arrive late in the day, since small bakeries generally sell what they have made and then stop.
In the Chilliwack Proper neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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