One of the world's most fertile agricultural regions, the Fraser Valley is in the midst of explosive change from the pressures of technology and urbanization. The author follows the Valley's history from the eighteenth century when Stalo natives were constantly on guard against visits from raiding Yacultas, through the Victorian era, when waves of settlers fought harsh winters, floods and mosquitoes to build a new community in the Valley, to the twentieth century, when the depredations of two world wars and the impact of the automobile changed the Valley forever. Throughout, Cherrington reminds us that beneath the serene, increasingly urbanized surface of the Fraser Valley, there is a turbulent past of Sasquatches and steamships, fur traders and fishermen, priests and prospectors - a recent past that, in an era of freeways and microchips, seems increasingly remote.

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1. The river people
2. The Odyssey of Simon Fraser
3. The birth of Fort Langley
4. Lonely outpost of Empire
5. The world of James Murray Yale
6. Gold Rush
7. The Sappers of Stump City
8. Telegraph trail
9. Struggles of the soil
10. Railway boom
11. The golden years
12. For king and country
13. Flivvers, flappers, and jitneys
14. Depression
15. War and flood
16. Town planners and sasquatches
17. Wither a valley