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Newton Station (Newton), part of Surrey, was established around 1886. This area of Surrey was slow to develope due to heavily forested land. The Semiahmoo Road allowed access to hand loggers and non-Indigenous settlers. The BC Electric Railway built Newton Station in 1910 and the Hiland Lumber Company (Sullivan) established a mill. The King and Farris Lumber Company also operated a mill along the BC Electric tracks. By the 1920s, milling operations dwindled but the newly cleared land encouraged farming families to move to the area.

The Mori family owned a ten-acre farm on Rowberry Road—east of the King George Highway and less than two kilometres south of the Queen Elizabeth School. They grew around four acres of strawberries along with apples, pears, cherries, plums and raised chickens. A heritage stone feature at Bear Creek Park in Newton, built in 2022, acknowledges Surrey’s stump farmers, including the Japanese Canadians who used explosives to prepare farmland for use.