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Advent Road

Advent Road is named after the Seventh Day Adventists who prior to the 1920's had a strong presence in Pitt Meadows. In her 1967 book "Through a Century of Progress, the Historical Story of Pitt Meadows" Edith McDermott researched and wrote the following about the Adventists time in Pitt Meadows: "..They had their settlement on the north west portion of the Ford Road as far as what is now McTavish Road, their property extending along the Harris Road and down what is now the Advent Road. William Manson, who in 1893 was one of the commissioners for the Maple Ridge Dyking District, and later became an M.P., donated both land and money to the Adventist cause. They built the Manson Industrial Academy, a building containing 16 rooms, which was reached by a high board walk going in from the Ford Road. The building was in as far as what is now the Advent Road." She also found the following information in an excerpt from the report to the Western Canadian Union Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church 1910: "Manson Industrial Academy. At Pitt Meadows, a little town 24 miles east of Vancouver, we have an academy for the education and training of our young people. The main building in size is 42 feet by 50 feet with three stories above the basement, and is capable of accommodating 25 students with board and room. This building was erected at a cost of about $6000 and has now been in use a little over one year. This is the development from the first effort made in a log school house about six years ago. The total enrolment is 35. Professor K. R. Hughey is the principal, and has the assistance of three teachers. Connected with the school is about 187 acres of land, a part of which will be sold, as necessity demands. The school is doing nicely through the efforts of the present faculty and we believe it will succeed in its important mission of training for young men and women." As a foot note she added: "By the close of the great war, many of the families had moved away. The Academy was closed and deserted. About 1920 it was purchased and torn down by a man named Aikenhead. He sold the lumber, doors and windows, in fact anything that was saleable. Thus ended the Academy." (Edith McDermott, "Through a Century of Progress, the Historical Story of Pitt Meadows", 1967) For many decades after the Adventists had left Pitt Meadows Advent Road was lined with farmland, most notable of which was the Howe family dairy farm. On the north side closer to Harris Road was the Japanese Canadian Hall which was built in 1939. Today Advent Road, which runs west from Harris Road, forms the main street in the Highland Park area of Pitt Meadows. Gone is the farmland, replaced with houses and an elementary school. The building that was the Japanese Canadian Hall remains and is now a church. However, as the cost of land for housing in the Greater Vancouver area rises there is the worry that this building will also be gone in the not too distant future.

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Latitude: 49.2261063719567

Longitude: -122.69044827808

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