CEED Centre

An official heritage building, the Centre provides offices for the Society and other organizations.

  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 up to 20 people. The room is available to community groups at no charge for single meetings.

Group memberships are also available for $180 per year for guaranteed monthly bookings and additional privileges. The room is equipped with a VHS video deck and monitor and three computers with Internet access.

Dorjechang Buddhist Centre

The CEED Centre is the venue for guided meditation sessions offered by the Dorjechang Buddhist Centre on a drop-in basis on Thursday evenings at 7:00 pm.

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