70 km (43 mi.) east of Vancouver lies the community of Chillawack, a striving rural town which proudly calls itself the "Green Heart" of British Columbia. Yale Road, the old meandering road to Rosedale, passes through fields of hops and vegetables and pastureland. Farmers offer their produce
for sale at the roadside. Chilliwack - its name comes from the Indian word meaning "valley of many rivers" - dates from 1858, when Volker Vedder settled here. He had crossed the continent in an ox-wagon and was the first settler in this fertile valley.