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Albion, British Columbia is a neighbourhood in Maple Ridge, British Columbia and is one of several small towns incorporated within the municipality at its creation. It is the oldest non-indigenous community of the district's settlements, and is only slightly younger than Fort Langley, adjacent across the Fraser River, and Kanaka Creek, which is just to the west and lies along the creek of the same name. Its official definition is the area bounded by the Fraser River, Kanaka Way, and 240th Street, but in its historic sense it means the community centred on and flanking 240th Street and adjoining areas along the Fraser River waterfront and around the Maple Ridge Fairgrounds, while along Kanaka Way and also on the near bank of Kanaka Creek, the creek, is historically the community of Kanaka Creek. Burgeoning newer home construction east of 240th Street near the Lougheed Highway 〔The "vinyl monster" (a reference to the exterior finish of most of these homes) Claus Andrup, (Ghost Busters 2005 ) , Radio Haney (webpage) accessed 4 December 2010〕 is also often referred to as part of Albion. ==History== Samuel Robertson and his native wife Julia were the first "European" settlers, he establishing the first fruit orchard in British Columbia two years before he permanently relocated from across the river at Fort Langley.〔Maple Ridge Museum and Archives, ("Albion" ), accessed 4 December 2010〕 Known originally as East Haney, it was renamed Albion in 1907.〔Maple Ridge Museum and Archives, ("Albion" ), accessed 4 December 2010〕 Peter Baker (originally Boulanger) was another early European settler whose name was originally used for 240th Street.〔Maple Ridge Museum, "Baker Road", (""A History of Street Names in Maple Ridge"" ), accessed 4 December 2010〕 Trains did not stop in Albion until train personnel set a precedent by permitting one Albion resident "whose weight was not to be lightly estimated" to alight there and in this way save a long walk through a stormy evening from the stop in Haney. The next week several men demanded the same privilege, and the Albion stop on the railway was created.〔 〕 Sawmills, canneries and fishboats featured in Albion's economy, and River Road, which runs between the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks and the river, has been a mixed industrial area for all of Albion's existence since the coming of the railway in the 1880s. Farmland on the north side of the highway and semi-wild green fields and trees that typified the old rural community are succumbing to suburban sprawl. Langley Indian Reserve No. 5, which includes a native cemetery, is just east of Albion on the north side of the Fraser. It is one of several reserves under the jurisdiction of the Kwantlen First Nation, whose main reserve is across the Fraser from Albion on McMillan Island in Fort Langley.〔(BCGNIS entry "Langley Indian Reserve No. 5 )〕 Albion Hall was built in 1923 by the Albion Community Association. It was bought by the municipality and demolished in 2011. Speaking of the hall, one proponent, looking back several decades, said: :“The people of Albion didn’t travel very far afield but took pleasure in getting together with one another. Of necessity their lives were lived within walking distance of their homes. The Albion Hall was a result of this desire to get together in a place where transportation would not be a necessity.”:〔Gladys Suttcliffe, quoted in Sheila Nickols, ("Albion Hall a valuable place to meet" ), Maple Ridge News, 8 December 2010, accessed 9 December 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albion, British Columbia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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