“Chilliwack River Road meanders along the former water course of the Chilliwack River, which at one time flowed to the Fraser River through Sardis and Chilliwack.
The name Chilliwack is an Anglicized version of a Halq’eméylem word Ts’elxwéyeqw meaning “going back upstream; backwater; as far as you can go with a canoe”” (Carlson, 2001) and/or “”as far as you can go with a paddle before having to switch to a pole”” (Denman, 2008). Chilliwack also refers to a group of First Nations Peoples, the Ts’elxwéyeqw, as well as a river in the area. Alternate spellings: Chilliwhack (Township of); Ts’elxwéyeqw; Chillwayhook, Chil-whey-uk, Chilwayook, Silawack.”