Book Stores
A bookshop on Vedder Road, in Vedder, between the Sardis malls and Vedder Crossing.
Filed here under book stores, though the name announces a wider brief than that: toys, collectibles, trading cards and comics, with books as one strand among several. Directories have to put a shop somewhere, and the comic and card trade has more in common with a bookshop than with anything else on the list. It is worth knowing before visiting that the stock the name describes is not the stock of a general bookseller.
The address is Unit 5 at 5725 Vedder Road, which places it in Vedder on the long commercial run south of the Sardis malls and north of Vedder Crossing. Unit numbers on this stretch usually mean a plaza rather than a storefront on the road, and those are easy to drive past without noticing. Vedder is the fastest growing part of Chilliwack, up 39 per cent between 2011 and 2021, with Garrison Crossing and the subdivisions around it accounting for most of that. Canada Education Park is at the south end too, with the UFV Chilliwack campus and two training institutes a short drive away. A shop selling to collectors and to children benefits from sitting in the middle of where the new households actually went, rather than downtown where the rest of the city's book trade concentrates.
That downtown trade, around Wellington Avenue, runs to large browsing shops with deep second-hand stock. This is a different proposition and probably a complementary one. Neither a phone number nor a website appears in this listing, and no photographs have been supplied, so there is no way from here to check what is currently in stock. Vedder Road carries a lot of traffic that is going somewhere else, which is a disadvantage for a shop set back off it and an advantage for one people already know about. For anything specific, a card set, a back issue, a particular line, turning up and asking is the only method the record leaves open.
In the Vedder neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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