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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 [[Russian Mennonite|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|City of Chilliwack]]. 

[[Image:Yarrowbc.jpg|right|Yarrow Viewed from Vedder Mountain]]

==Geography==
(contracted; show full)f the stations along this line was named Yarrow. The townsite was built on land reclaimed, in part, from [[Sumas Lake]].  In the early 1920s, the provincial government built [[Dike (construction)|dykes]] to channel the [[Vedder River]] through the [[Vedder Canal]] to the [[Fraser River]]. This dyking project, which was completed in 1924, opened 12,000 acres (49 km²) of land for agriculture to the west of Yarrow.  By 1928, much of the land was owned by [[Chauncey Eckert]]. That same year, a group of ethnic 
[[Russian Mennonite|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]].

==Yarrow Days==
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{{Coord|49.0799|-122.0473|type:city_region:CA-BC|display=title}}

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

[[fr:Yarrow(Colombie Britannique)]]