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Abbotsford, British Columbia
Abbotsford (2001 population 115,463) is a city on the Fraser River in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.
The city was founded in 1889 when a town plan was drawn up by John Maclure[?], who owned the land the city was built on. Maclure, a former British surveyor, received the land as a thank you for keeping Americans out of an 1850s gold rush in the Fraser valley. The village was incorporated in 1892.
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