Coquitlam History

Explore Coquitlam History

• Books & Documents

  Coquitlam: Then and Now, 2011
  Explore Coquitlam's history over the past century. Also available in print.

  Coquitlam 100 Years: Reflections of the Past, 1991
  Contains photographs dating from 1913-1948. Also available in print.

  Indexes for Coquitlam 100 Years:

  • Subject Index
  • Name Index

  Building of the Coquitlam River, 2010
  Early trail building in the new colony of British Columbia. Also available in print.
  
  Coquitlam Chronicles (print version), 2018
  Historical crossroads on the Fraser River
  
  Coquitlam Watershed and River, 1994
  History from 1898 to 1914
  
  Early Pioneer Settler on the Coquitlam River, 2018
  

  • George Black
  • Stephen Hastings Atkins

• Photographs

  Coquitlam 100 Years Photographic Collection
  View hundreds of photographs featuring landscapes, buildings and figures from Coquitlam’s history.

  City of Coquitlam Archives
  Find prints of the photographs from Coquitlam 100 Years and other historical material through the Archives.

• Audio

  Audio Recording of Maillardville Pioneers
  Recorded in 1972 by the Vancouver Oral History Project

  Early History of the Coquitlam and Fraser River Area
  Historian and Belcarra Mayor Ralph Drew interviewed on Valley Voices podcast

• Obituaries

  Find your ancestor’s obituary in our microfilmed newspaper collection:

  • Surnames A to L (1911 - 1949)
  • Surnames M to Z (1911 - 1949)