Coquitlam is located in British
Columbia's Lower Mainland, about
32 kilometers (20 miles) east of Vancouver.
Settlement of Coquitlam can be traced
back to the 1860s, when the area was
known as the "place-in-between," because
of its position adjacent to an east-west
corridor linking New
Westminster with Port
Moody. Early settlers were largely
former miners who...