Abbotsford, British Columbia

Abbotsford is the largest city in the Fraser Valley, an hour east of Vancouver on the US border, with a large agricultural land base and its own international airport. The City of Abbotsford runs planning and building permits, business and dog licences, bylaw services, roads, water and sewer (the water and sewer systems are shared with the District of Mission through the Abbotsford-Mission Water and Sewer Commission), diking and drainage in the Sumas and Matsqui prairies, curbside garbage, recycling and compost collection, Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service, the Abbotsford Police Department (one of BC's few municipal police forces), parks, recreation centres, pools and arenas, the cemeteries and Abbotsford International Airport. The Fraser Valley Regional District runs regional parks, the regional hospital district and services for the rural areas around the city. Transit is the Central Fraser Valley Transit System run by the City with BC Transit; the library is the Fraser Valley Regional Library; health care is Fraser Health (Abbotsford Regional Hospital); and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.