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By Tina Costanza
he City of Abbotsford, British Columbia, has a lot to
celebrate for its 25th anniversary this year.
TIn the quarter of a century since the amalgamation of the
districts of Matsqui and Abbotsford to form the City of Abbotsford,
the latter has experienced huge growth.
“We’re not a little village anymore,” says Abbotsford Mayor
Henry Braun, who was four years old when he moved to the
area with his parents from south Ukraine. “As I’m looking
out my window at City Hall, I see everything around
me that would have been farms. Now it’s a hustling,
bustling city of 152,000 people.”
Braun attributes the record growth of the last
three to four years to a new official community
plan the city adopted in 2016.
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