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City of Maple Ridge
COMMUNITY HERITAGE COMMISSION
AGENDA – REGULAR MEETING
Thursday, June 8, 2023, at 7:00 pm
Meeting Access Information
Community Heritage Commission (CHC) meetings are held in a hybrid format. Members of the CHC and the
public are asked to join the meeting in-person in the Blaney Room at Maple Ridge City Hall or remotely using
the following access information:
Join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone
https://mapleridge-ca.zoom.us/j/88418905829
Or join the meeting using your phone
Dial: 1-778-907-2071 Meeting ID: 884 1890 5829
1. CALL TO ORDER
1.1. Land Acknowledgment
2. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA
3. ADOPTION OF MINUTES – April 13, 2023
4. DELEGATIONS
5. NEW AND UNFINISHED BUSINESS
5.1. Heritage Vancouver Networking Event Update
5.2. Heritage Plaque and Sign Guidelines Update
5.3. Heritage Awards Event Planning
5.4. Maple Ridge’s 150th Anniversary Speaker Series Planning
5.5. Recent Heritage Files Update:
5.5.1. 23575 124 Avenue – Heritage Designation & Heritage Tax Exemption Request
5.5.2. 21695 River Road – Heritage Tax Exemption Request
6. LIAISON UPDATES
6.1. Maple Ridge Historical Society
6.2. Council Liaison
6.3. Staff Liaison
7. TASK FORCE UPDATES
8. QUESTION PERIOD FROM THE PUBLIC
9. ROUNDTABLE
10. ADJOURNMENT
Next Meeting: September 14, 2023
Agenda Items Submission Deadline: August 31, 2023
QUESTION PERIOD
Question Period provides the public with the opportunity to ask questions or make comments on subjects that are of
concern to them. Each person will be given 2 minutes to speak.
Up to ten minutes in total is allotted for Question Period.
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City of Maple Ridge
Community Heritage Commission Meeting Minutes
April 13, 2023
The Minutes of the Regular Community Heritage Commission Meeting held via Zoom teleconference and
hosted in the Blaney Room at Maple Ridge City Hall on April 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm.
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COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT
Councillor Judy Dueck Council Liaison
Jared Bissky, Chair Member at Large
Gladys Hewson Member at Large
Michael Cook Member at Large
Julie Koehn Maple Ridge Historical Society Representative
Ross Dunning, Vice Chair Maple Ridge Historical Society Representative
STAFF PRESENT
Krista Gowan Staff Liaison, Planner 2
Arsh Dhillon Committee Clerk, Legal and Legislative Services
ABSENT
Graham Strang Member at Large
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1.CALL TO ORDER – 7:00 p.m.
2.APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA
R/2023-CHC-009
It was moved and seconded
That the agenda for the April 13, 2023 Community Heritage Commission Regular Meeting be
approved as circulated.
CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
3.ADOPTION OF MINUTES
R/2023-CHC-010
It was moved and seconded
That the minutes of the January 26, 2023 Community Heritage Commission Regular Meeting be
adopted.
CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
4.DELEGATIONS – NIL
5.NEW AND UNFINISHED BUSINESS
5.1. Vice Chair Selection
The Commission appointed Ross Dunning as Vice Chair of the Community Heritage Commission
for 2023.
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It was moved and seconded
That Ross Dunning be appointed as Vice Chair of the Community Heritage Commission for 2023.
CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
5.2. Heritage Awards Event Debrief
K. Gowan, Staff Liaison, debriefed the Commission on the budget, turnout, challenges, and
successes of the February 24, 2023 Heritage Awards. The Commission discussed future venues,
event decoration, promotional campaigns, entertainment, and the integration of Maple Ridge’s
150 celebration.
5.3. Heritage Conservation Grant Pilot Program
Note: R. Dunning left the meeting at 7:24 pm.
K. Gowan, Staff Liaison, shared feedback received from Council during the February 28, 2023
Council Workshop meeting regarding the proposed Heritage Conservation Grant Pilot Program.
Commission members discussed funding requirements, programs from other municipalities,
an evaluation criteria, and next steps.
5.4. Maple Ridge’s 150th Anniversary Brainstorm
The Commission discussed ideas to commemorate Maple Ridge’s 150 celebration. Topics
included: events, timelines, venues, campaigns, and community engagement.
5.5. Heritage Plaque and Sign Guidelines Update
K. Gowan, Staff Liaison, provided an overview of the Heritage Plaque and Signage Guidelines.
Topics included: historical background, guidelines at other municipalities, and volunteer
opportunities for Commission members.
5.6. Heritage BC Industrial Heritage Inventory Map Submission
K. Gowan, Staff Liaison, provided an overview of the Industrial Heritage Inventory and Cultural
Map. Commission members discussed collaboration with local museums for research and
submission purposes.
5.7. Council’s Strategic Plan
Councillor Dueck provided an overview of the mission and vision statements, core values, and
priorities of the draft Council Strategic Plan.
6.LIASION UPDATES
6.1. Maple Ridge Historical Society
J. Koehn provided an update on the following:
•Annual General Meeting hosted on March 23, 2023
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April 13, 2023 Regular Meeting
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•Maple Ridge Museum Trees in Bloom event from April 1, 2023 – April 21, 2023
•2023 Tourism Challenge
6.2. Council Liaison
Councillor Dueck provided an update on the following:
•Climate Action Summit hosted by Mayor and Council on April 13, 2023 at the Albion
Community Centre
•Business Planning held on March 27, 2023 and March 29, 2023
•PRC Master Plan endorsement by Council
6.3. Staff Liaison
K.Gowan provided an update on the following:
•2023 Heritage Award recipient, Whitehead Residence, was submitted for the BC
Heritage Award
•Internal staff review progress on the Heritage Plan
7.TASK FORCE UPDATES – NIL
8.QUESTION PERIOD FOR THE PUBLIC – NIL
9.ROUNDTABLE
Members discussed relevant community events and initiatives related to community heritage.
R/2023-CHC-012
It was moved and seconded
That Michael Cook be reimbursed up to $25 for the Heritage Vancouver Fundraiser and Social
on April 15, 2023 and report back the findings to the Community Heritage Commission at the
next regular meeting.
CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
10.ADJOURNMENT – 8:39 p.m.
The next regular meeting of the Community Heritage Commission will be held on Thursday, June
8, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.
Jared Bissky, Chair
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Date Printed: 2002-09-13 Page 1 of 1 Policy 6.07
Incorporated 12 September, 1874
CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF MAPLE RIDGE
TITLE:HERITAGE PLAQUE
POLICY NO. 6.07
APPROVAL DATE: July 11, 1994
POLICY STATEMENT:
1.Heritage plaques will only be installed with the owner's consent.
2.The installation of a heritage plaque does not confer any heritage designation or protection.
3.The Community Heritage Commission will select buildings for the installation of a heritage plaque.
4.The Community Heritage Commission will accept recommendations from the community for
possible heritage plaque installations.
5.If a building is destroyed or demolished the plaque shall be returned to the District of Maple Ridge.
6.If the plaque is removed from a building it shall be returned to the District of Maple Ridge.
PURPOSE:
The objective of the Heritage Plague program is to recognize the heritage value or heritage character of
structures, sites, or landscape features in Maple Ridge by installing heritage plaques on or nearby these
items.
5.2
5.5.1
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MAPLE RIDGE STATEMENTS OF SIGNIFICANCE 2018
WESTACRE FARMS, 23575 124 AVENU E
HISTORIC NAME: Westacre Farms/Westacres
ADDRESS: 23575 124 Avenue
ORIGINAL OWNERS: Gordon L. and Anne Margaret Clark
LATER OWNERS: Doug and Sharon Hanzlick / Josine and Adriaan Eikelenboom
ORIGINAL ARCHITECT: Unknown
ORIGINAL CONTRACTOR: Unknown
DATE OF HOUSE CONSTRUCTION: 1968; Later Additions
NEIGHBOURHOOD: East Haney
HERITAGE STATUS: Heritage Inventory
Location of Supporting Documentation: Maple Ridge Heritage Inventory Files
DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE
Westacre Farms is an agricultural_landscape located in the East Haney neighbourhood of Maple Ridge.
The entry is a curving, tree-lined drive that leads to a house and farm compound. To the north of the
house, a widening of Coho Creek has resulted in the establishment of a wetland area surrounded by
mature native Maple trees.
HERITAGE VALUE OF HISTORIC PLACE
Westacre Farms is significant for its associations with the early agricultural development of Maple Ridge,
the history of Japanese-Canadian settlement in the area, and for its protected wetland and wildlife
habitat.
Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows were once home to a large, vibrant Japanese-Canadian population.
Immigration from Japan to Canada increased greatly in the first decades of the 1900s, and Japanese
settlement in Maple Ridge began with the arrival of Jira Inouye in 1907. These new settlers were mainly
farmers, and although they established farms throughout the District, most chose to farm near Haney, in
the area north of Dewdney Trunk Road, and many raised strawberries. Anti-Japanese feeling was
evident at the time; in 1919 the Agricultural Association barred Japanese from their Directorate, and
three years later decided not to solicit any further subscriptions from them. By the time of the 1921
Census of Canada, many second-generation children of Japanese descent had been born in Canada, and
were considered Canadians. The population of Maple Ridge reached was almost a third -Japanese-
Canadian in the 1930s, and formed an important part of the community. The site of Westacre Farms was
subdivided in 1908 from a larger property owned by Archibald Baillie; the access road to the south, now
124 Avenue, was called Baillie Road at the time. Yazayemon Tamura owned this property and the
adjacent site to the west from 1912 to 1921; in 1921 this twenty-acre parcel was transferred to his
brother Jube Tamura; they were both poultry farmers. In 1940, there were 29 Japanese-Canadian
families engaged in the poultry business in Haney, with a total of 18,800 birds, all of the 'White Leghorn'
variety. In 1942, the Japanese-Canadian population was forcibly evacuated from the Coast, and their
properties were confiscated.
The Secretary of State of Canada owned this confiscated property until 1944, when it was transferred to
the Director of The Veterans' Land Act. It was then rented out, and in the 1950s was the site of a
business that provided therapeutic services for racehorses; a large deep concrete pool still exists where
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MAPLE RIDGE STATEMENTS OF SIGNIFICANCE 2018
a trainer could exercise the horses while they swam, saving wear and tear on their legs. The curving
drive that runs through the site appears to be part of a racetrack. Gordon L. and Anne Margaret Clark
acquired this farm property in 1963, and built a new house in 1968. Doug and Sharon Hanzlick lived in
Burnaby, Vancouver and Coquitlam for the first seven years of their marriage, but with a growing family
plus numerous pets they began to look for a larger property. Doug Hanzlick was approached by Gordon
Clark, who was a business acquaintance, to see if he would be interested in 'trading' their two year-old
home for this property in Maple Ridge. The Hanzlicks agreed, and moved into the ranch-style house on
the property in August 1970. They expanded the home twice during their nine years of living here; the
house has a sweeping view over a small lake on the property, and a party room suitable for large-scale
entertaining. Josine and Adriaan Eikelenboom acquired the property in 1979, and were soon hosting
musical events in the great room, just as they had done in their native Holland before they came to
Maple Ridge; this series of modest house concerts led to the formation of the Maple Ridge Music
Society in 1983. There is a part of the property where Coho Creek has been enlarged into a pond, now a
wetland that is a home to herons, ducks and geese. After the death of her husband in 2001, Josine
Eikelenboom committed to protecting the land from future development, and has dedicated ten acres
of the site through a legal covenant.
HERITAGE CHARACTER-DEFINING ELEMENTS
Key elements t hat define the heritage character of Westacre Farms include its:
• location in East Haney, in an agricultural area;
• continuous residential and agricultural use;
• rolling agricult ural landscape, with cleared open fields, curved entry drive lined with mature
fruit trees, 1968 house with later additions, barns and outbuildings, equestrian therapeutic
concrete swimming pool, numerous trees and shrubs, and natural springs and creeks;
• remnants of original plantings from previous house and garden, including cultivated bushes, two
Prune Plums, two King apple trees, and heirloom daffodils; and
• protected wetland pond and natural habitat creat ed by the widening of Coho Creek, surrounded
by mature native Maple trees.
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5.5.2
MAPLE RIDGE COMMUNITY HERITAGE REGISTER
Leslle Residence
21695 River Road
Protected by Municipal Designation:
Bylaw 5549-1997
Neighbourhood:
The Ridge
DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE
The Leslie Residence is a one-storey plus
basement, finely detailed rectangular plan
wood frame Craftsman bungalow located
in the historic community of The Ridge.
The building stands on a residential street and is fronted by a generous, mature, hedged garden.
HERITAGE VALUE OF HISTORIC PLACE
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This house is a valuable record of the urban and social development of The Ridge, originally a rural area that
gradually gave way to residential growth in the early years of the twentieth century, and became an area
where people could build a home in a semi-rural setting. The historic community of The Ridge takes its name
from the collection of maple trees that ran for two miles, high above the Fraser River on a ridge between
Hammond and Port Haney. The early farming settlers in this area encouraged the incorporation of the
District of Maple Ridge in 1874. As the nearby commercial centres of Port Haney and Hammond developed,
The Ridge slowly developed between the two as a residential neighbourhood of modest family homes.
Built for Mr. and Mrs. J. Earl Leslie by contractors Bill White and Howard Leggatt in 1925-26, this house is
valued as a good example of the Craftsman style, demonstrating its development at a local level through
regional variations. Though not as ornate as many urban examples of the style, the house displays an adept
handling of Craftsman detail and ornamentation. The Craftsman bungalow was often long and narrow,
designed to suit the subdivided lots available in urban settings; here the house is designed to be wide and
shallow, with a central front entry on the long side, reflective of the larger size of the lots in this semi-rural
area. Built on a simple rectangular plan with one-storey massing, the house reflects the modest scale of
1920s residential development in Maple Ridge.
The Leslie Residence is complemented and enhanced by the surrounding homes along this portion of River
Road with a similar setback from the road; together they constitute a residential grouping of the post-First
World War era. The residence is also valued for its excellent exterior restoration and was the recipient of a
local residential heritage award in 2003.
Updated November 2008
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CHARACTER-DEFINING ELEMENTS
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Leslie Residence include its:
• siting and orientation on the lot, set back in line with its neighbours and the street
• location in a semi-rural setting in The Ridge
• form, scale and massing
• side-gable roof with a generously proportioned gable-fronted porch
• shallow-pitched roof and deep eaves
• Craftsman bungalow design, with symmetrical massing and central entry on the long side of plan
• local variation in Craftsman details, structural elements and proportions
• expressed structural elem,ents such as rafter tails and brackets
• exterior decorative features such as half-timbering over shingles and the dentil course in the porch
gable
• large brackets on the porch and side gables
• multi-paned double-hung wooden sash windows, including large front windows with a geometrical
muntin pattern
• surviving interior features such as wooden floors, decorative mouldings and plate rails, interior doors
and plaster walls
Updated November 2008
CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF MAPLE RIDGE
BYLAW NO. 5549-1997
A bylaw to designate a heritage property
WHEREAS, the Council considers that the property described in this Bylaw has heritage value
and heritage character and that its designation is desirable for the conservation of protected
heritage property,
NOW THEREFORE, the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the District of Maple Ridge,
in open meeting assembled, ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
TI'fLE
1. This bylaw may be cited as "Maple Ridge Heritage Designation Bylaw No. 5549-1997".
IN'fERPRETATION
2. In this Bylaw, any grammatical form of the term "alter" has the meaning corresponding to
the meaning given to that term in s.1002 of the Municipal Act ..
DESIGNATION
3. The property in the District of Maple Ridge described as Lot 2, DL 247, Plan 77955 with
the civic address of 21695 River Road is designated as protected under Section 1022 of
the Municipal Act.
EXEMPTIONS FROM PERMIT REQUIREMENT
4. The following types of alterations may be made to the property without the owner
obtaining a heritage alteration permit:
(a) normal repair and maintenance;
(b )-interior alterations that do not alter the exterior appearance of the building.
5. For the purposes of s. 4 "normal repair and maintenance" is that repair and maintenance
occasioned by ordinary wear and tear and is limited to the replacement of elements of the
structure or finishing materials of a building with components that are equivalent to those
being replaced in material composition, dimensions, colour and quality.
COMPENSATION
6. Schedule "A" forms part of this bylaw.
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Bylaw 5549-1997
READ a first time the 25th day of March, A.D. 1997.
PUBLIC HEARING held the 15th day of April, A.D. 1997.
READ a second time the 22nd day of April, A.D. 1997.
READ a third time the 22nd day of April, A.D. 1997.
RECONSIDERED AND FINALLY ADOPTED the 27th day of May, A.D. 1997.
January 22, 1997
Sharon Folkes
Long Range Planner
District of Maple Ridge
Re: Requested Waiver Form
Dear Sharon Folkes:
Overend House Sch~dule 1'.'A11
to Bylaw No. 5549-1997
Here is the required waiver form you had mentioned in your letter
addressed to us on Dec 3 1996.
We the registered owners of the Property at 21695 River Road, waive
any claim compensation for reduction in market value of the property
as a result of it being designated as a protected heritage property.
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