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'''Yarrow''' is a [[village]] located  90 kilometres east of [[Vancouver]] and 12 km southwest of downtown [[Chilliwack, British Columbia|Chilliwack]], in [[British Columbia, Canada]]. It is in the [[Fraser Valley]] at the foot of [[Vedder Mountain]]. The village was first settled by [[Mennonite]]s in the late 1920s, following the draining of [[Sumas Lake]] and the reclamation of the former lake bed for agriculture. Yarrow is located within the [[Chilliwack, British Columbia|Ci(contracted; show full)hat same year, a group of ethnic Dutch-German [[Mennonites]], who had fled persecution in the [[Soviet Union]], began buying lots of this land from Eckert. They created a Mennonite community that flourished from the late 1920s until the early 1960s. As many Mennonites began to assimilate into mainstream Canadian culture, they moved away from the rural village of Yarrow, and subsequent settlers were of many different ethnic backgrounds. Today, Yarrow functions mainly as a semi-rural suburb of [[Chilliwack]]
Is known to have kick ass parties.

==Yarrow Days==
[[Image:Yarrowdays_2007_1.jpg|right|Yarrow Days Parade with Vedder Mountain in background]]

On the first weekend of June, residents of Yarrow celebrate their community with Yarrow Days. Festivities begin at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, with a parade down Yarrow Central Road that starts at the Yarrow School on Wilson Road and ends at the Yarrow [[Mennonite Brethren]] church. Booths located in the park display local crafts, clothes, and homemade food.  Particularly popular are the bake-sales and barbecues by members of the local churches, offering ethnic and traditional wares. Performers provide entertainment as residents and visitors make new friends and renew acquaintances. Local merchants offer specials in the nearby shops. Events include a barbecue and dance at the Community Hall on Saturday night and a pancake breakfast at the hall and church service in the park on Sunday morning.While in yarrow check out the kick ass parties

==References==
* Klassen, Agatha. E. (1976). ''Yarrow: A Portrait in Mosaic.'' Clearbrook, B.C.: Klassen 
* Yarrow Research Committee (2002). ''Yarrow, British Columbia: Mennonite Promise'' 
:— Volume I, ''Before We Were the Land’s.''
:— Volume II, ''Village of Unsettled Yearnings.''

==External links==
*[http://www.yarrowecovillage.ca Yarrow Ecovillage]
*[http://www.yarrowbc.ca Yarrow's Pioneers and Settlers]
*[http://www.elmerwiens.ca/home/album3_2.html Yarrow, B.C. Scenes and Times]
*[http://www.elmerwiens.ca/home/album3.html Yarrow Days Parade]
*[http://www.elmerwiens.ca/home/album3_4.html Yarrow Pioneers: Vedder River Flats and Majuba Hill]

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[[Category:Neighbourhoods in Chilliwack, British Columbia]]
[[Category:Lower Mainland]]
[[Category:Mennonites]]