Abbotsford, British Columbia

Abbotsford is a city in British Columbia, Canada, next to the Canada-United States border and the Fraser River, within reach of Greater Vancouver. It is the most populous municipality in the province outside metropolitan Vancouver and the largest municipality of the Fraser Valley Regional District. It is home to Tradex, the University of the Fraser Valley and Abbotsford International Airport. The Village of Abbotsford was incorporated in 1892, and Mennonites settled in the area beginning in the early 1930s. The Abbotsford-Mission metropolitan area had 195,726 inhabitants in the 2021 census, the 23rd-largest census metropolitan area in Canada, while the city itself had 153,524 residents.