Fraser Valley neighbourhood
The city's core urban neighbourhood and its downtown, holding about 31 per cent of Chilliwack's residents. Historic Five Corners, District 1881, Chilliwack General Hospital, the Coliseum and the municipal airport are all inside it.
If Chilliwack has a high street it is here, and it is a genuinely old one. Five Corners is the junction where Yale Road, Young Road and Wellington Avenue all arrive at once, and the blocks around it have been the commercial centre of the town since long before the malls existed. Downtown counts more than 350 businesses across banks, restaurants, clinics, pharmacies and small independent retail, and the District 1881 redevelopment on the old Chilliwack Cattle Sales site has pulled a second cluster of food and retail in beside it.
The neighbourhood is more than the downtown, though. It runs north to the Hope Slough and takes in Chilliwack General Hospital on Menholm Road, the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre, Townsend Park and the municipal airport. That hospital is why so much of the city's medical and dental work has its address in this neighbourhood rather than out on Vedder Road — clinics cluster where the hospital is.
It is also the part of Chilliwack most likely to have an upstairs. A good number of the accountants, lawyers, notaries and insurance brokers in this directory are on a first floor above a shop on Wellington or Yale, which is not true anywhere else in the city.
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.
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A bookshop on Wellington Avenuenue, on the downtown side of the Hope Slough.
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An independent German restaurant in the blocks that have been Chilliwack's centre since before the malls.
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A chicken takeaway on Yale Road, in the blocks that have been Chilliwack's centre since before the malls.
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A locally owned pizza takeaway, in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
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An owner-run hair salon, in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
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A local restaurant in the downtown, within walking distance of Five Corners, on Yale Road.
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A local restaurant in the old commercial grid around Five Corners, on Yale Road.
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An owner-run gym, in the downtown, within walking distance of Five Corners.
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An independent barbecue restaurant in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
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A gym on Corbould Streetreet, on the downtown side of the Hope Slough.
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An owner-run gym, in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
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An independent medical clinic on the downtown side of the Hope Slough.
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A clothing shop on Ontario Avenuenue, in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
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An independent music shop in the blocks that have been Chilliwack's centre since before the malls.
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An independent cleaning company in the blocks that have been Chilliwack's centre since before the malls.
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An independent place to stay in the old commercial grid around Five Corners.
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