Mission, British Columbia

Mission sits on the mountain slopes above the north bank of the Fraser River across from Abbotsford, on the traditional territory of the Stó:lō peoples, and became a city in 2021 after decades as the District of Mission. The City runs planning and building permits and bylaw enforcement from its Welton Common downtown office, business licences, roads and snow clearing from the Operations Centre, water distribution and sewers (bulk water comes from the Abbotsford-Mission Water and Sewer Commission the two cities run together), curbside garbage, recycling and compost collection through a contractor with a move to automated carts in 2027, the Mission Landfill and recycling depot, Mission Fire Rescue Service, emergency management, the Mission Leisure Centre, parks and trails, the Clarke Foundation Theatre, cemeteries and a municipal forest it manages under its own tree farm licence. Dog licensing and animal control are run by the Fraser Valley Regional District's CARE Centre. Policing is the Mission RCMP detachment, transit is the Central Fraser Valley Transit System run with BC Transit plus the West Coast Express, the library is the Fraser Valley Regional Library, health care is Fraser Health (Mission Memorial Hospital), and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.