CEED Centre
An
official heritage building, the Centre provides offices
for the Society and its tenant, Jessie's
Hope Society.
The Centre is open to drop-in visitors (hours)
and offers a resource library with environmentally oriented
publications and videotapes and a CAP
site for free public Internet access.
The grounds of the Centre contain the Port
Haney Compost Education Garden and the CEED
Centre Organic Community Garden.
Meeting
Room
The
Resource Room comfortably accommodates groups of 12 people (up
to 20 in a pinch). The room is available to community groups
at no charge for single meetings. Group
memberships are also available for $150 per year for
guaranteed monthly bookings and additional privileges. The
room is equipped with a VHS video deck and monitor and two
computers with Internet access.
Maple
Ridge Pitt Meadows Environmental Council
The CEED Centre Society
was instrumental in forming the MRPMEC to improve coordination
between environmental and stewardship groups and communicate
community consensus positions to government representatives.
More
Glenwood
School Neighbourhood Garden
The
CEED Centre is assisting with the design and installation
of a school neighbourhood garden intended to serve as a
pilot project for future school gardens in the Maple Ridge
area. More
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Old Japanese
Kindergarten Building
Our
building was originally built in 1939 as a kindergarten
for the Japanese community that homesteaded the Maple Ridge/Pitt
Meadows area.  It
was part of a three building complex located at the corner
of Dewdney Trunk Road and what is now called 232nd Street.
The Japanese community was dislocated during World War II
and building ownership passed on.
 It
was used as a cable TV studio for community broadcasts during
the 1970s and the land was eventually purchased by Esso,
which converted the site into a gas station. Esso generously
donated the building for $1 and it was moved to its current
site at 11739 223rd Street by the efforts of the CEED Centre
Society (then known as the Fraser Information Society),
a large cast of volunteers and generous donations by local
businesses and citizens.
 Today
the building stands as sturdy as the day it was built, a
tribute and physical link to our pioneering Japanese community.
Japanese
Canadian National Museum
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