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Child of the Fraser. No I don't mean Frederick Crane. That would be child of the Frazier.

The Frazier here refers not to Seattle psychiatrist and Nile sibling Frazier Crane,

but to the Fraser River, the longest river in British Columbia, named for the explorer who established

the province's first European settlement, though naturally indigenous peoples

had inhabited the riverbanks for generations. And the child of the Fraser is the city of Richmond,

officially founded in 1879, its economy becoming centered around the fishing and

agriculture enabled by the fertile waterway.

But an even more consequential founding happened nearly a century later in

1967 when America's great contribution to culture,

fast food, planted its golden arches in Richmond proper, courtesy of Chain

Restaurant Colonizer Ray Crock.

Yes, Richmond, British Columbia is home of the first Big Mac purveyor north of the Canadian border, a brand that has grown to around

1400 restaurants and 90,000 employees in Canada alone, making it the fourth largest eatery in the nation,

just ahead of Burger Family vendor, A&W.

The city of Richmond's population has more than McDoubled in the past 40 years, largely

due to immigration from Asia.

In 2016, Craig Jones, a professor at the University of

British Columbia, proudly declared the city, quote, one of the most diverse

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