Peter Robb is the new mayor of Hope, B.C., defeating incumbent Wilfried Vicktor.
Robb finished with 65.6 per cent of the vote, well ahead of Vicktor and fellow mayoral candidate Cindy Young.
Scott Medlock, Dusty Smith, Heather Stewin, Victor Smith, Craig Traun, and Bob Erickson were elected to council.
Candidates
Mayor
Peter Robb
Wilfried Vicktor (incumbent)
Cindy Young
Council
John Duff
Bob Erickson (incumbent)
Sharlene Hinds
Donna Kropp (incumbent)
Scott Medlock (incumbent)
Steven Patterson
Dusty Smith (incumbent)
Victor Smith
Matt T Steberl
Heather Stewin (incumbent)
Paul Stock
Craig Traun
Sung Wong
Boundary
Hope is located in the Fraser Valley, beside the Fraser River and about 33 kilometres from Agassiz.
Population (2016)
6,181
History
The Sto:lo people were first to live in the area that Hope makes up today. Sto:lo translates as “people of the river,” and in this case, it refers to the Fraser River, which was a lifeline for their people, giving them opportunities to fish for salmon.
They referred to the Hope area as “Ts’qo:ls,” which means “bald” or bare,” describing trees there.
After Simon Fraser arrived in Hope in 1808, the Hudson’s Bay Company established a fur trading fort in the Hope area in 1848.
With the Gold Rush 10 years later, prospectors came to see the place as a pathway to prosperity.
As American prospectors arrived, they began to exhaust the resources held in First Nation villages, taking food and even killing people to grab what they wanted.
More prospectors came with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and Hope became a community with as many as 40 homes, and logging, farming and fishing became industries there.
Median total income of couple economic families with children (2015)/B.C. median
$98,560/$111,736
Crime Severity Index (CSI) — 2016
RCMP – municipal/B.C.
177.22 (+19.74)/93.63 (-0.71)
RCMP – rural/B.C.
268.67 (+56.89)/93.63 (-0.71)
Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI) — 2016
RCMP – municipal/B.C.
129.24 (+34.78)/74.86 (-9.81)
RCMP – rural/B.C.
307.38 (+224.82)/74.86 (-9.81)
Political representation
Federal
Mark Strahl (Conservative)
Provincial
Jackie Tegert (BC Liberal)