CEED Centre

Housed in an official heritage building, the Centre is home to the CEED Centre Society and its tenant, ANAD.

  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 Communicty 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 videodeck 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

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 ownership of the building 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 (formerly 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