European settlement of the Coquitlam area began in the 1860s, when some miners returning from the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes turned their hand to farming. Coquitlam was incorporated in 1892. The city has had rapid population growth since the 1960s and 1970s.
Today, Coquitlam is mainly a suburban city, with a large and affluent multicultural community in a region known as Westwood Plateau.
Coquitlam borders it on the north, the cities of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows lie across the river.
Nancy Ogilvie, a member of the Port Coquitlam Heritage and Cultural Society and a treasure trove of information for this book (and who, incidentally, was the 1942 May Queen), recalls that her family, armed with the proper licences, occasionally made trips to “the flats,” now the Broadway industrial area, to shoot pheasants for Sunday dinner.
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