AGASSIZ

AGASSIZ
Is a small community located on the junction of Highways #9 and Highway #7, it is part of the district municipality of Kent and is the major commercial and largest center for the Kent region. Agassiz is also located in the northern confines of the Fraser Valley, just north of Chilliwack, and south of the resort community of Harrison Hot Springs. Agassiz enjoys a climate similar to that of Vancouver’s and the rest of southwestern British Columbia with wet, moderate and mild winter months and a warm, but a mostly dry and warm summer. The average summer temperatures are often 23 degrees Celsius and winter’s average is 2.5 degrees Celsius. In its early days as a community, Agassiz mostly relied on hop farming, but due to the major flood of the Fraser River in 1948, which wiped out the entire crops of the Valley region, north from Hope and southwest to Langley and since then, tourism has taken its turn as Agassiz’s main economy. Agassiz also has several attractions nearby including that of Harrison Hot Springs, Dinotown in Bridal Falls, and Minter Gardens, which is in the nearby community of Rosedale. Since 1948, Agassiz is known as “the Corn Capital of Canada” and it has become the main agriculture crop in Agassiz.

AGASSIZ'S POPULATION: 4,572