Assault on Annieville Home

Before Demolition

This morning, residents of Annieville were woken by heavy machinery being moved in to demolish the 100+ year old house at 10345 River Road. Machinery pulled in early this morning and the house was completely gone by 8:40AM. Many local residents voiced their dissatisfaction with the way the vacant properties are being left by the government. "There are numerous properties that now belong to the Ministry of Transportation that have garbage dumped on them and down the riverbank," said one of the bystanders watching the demolition.

It's an easy to understand point of view. Driving through this part of historic Annieville one would think they were in a ghetto. Vacant homes sit empty with the siding half gone and doors boarded up, garbage litters the lots, and even the once busy Tide Water Pub is behind construction fencing after a recent fire shut it down.

After Demolition

This isn't the first old home in the area that has been destroyed by the provincial government to make way for the South Fraser Perimeter Road, a 40 kilometer highway linking Deltaport to the Trans Canada Highway. There are 64 homes/buildings slated for demolition in Delta to make way for what most people in this neighbourhood see as an unnecessary highway.