Chilliwack is known as “the great outdoors”, being abundant with geographical features like mountains, forests, rivers and lakes.
Some of the geographic place names on this list were derived from:
- Aboriginal place names, usually Anglicized
- Anglo-European place names
- Early Chilliwack landowners, explorers or residents
- Some mountain ranges were named for Canadian military servicemen listed on the Chilliwack cenotaph who were killed during World War II
The agency responsible for naming geographical features in Canada is the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographic Names. This agency maintains the Canadian Geographical Names Data Base, which stores and records names and information about places and physical features in Canada.