These three distinctive communities include the municipality of Delta. During the next twenty years, Delta was one of Canada s fastest developing communities, registering a 400 percent population increase. Delta caters to an array of lifestyles with an assortment of innovative, award winning housing styles for all incomes, which are situated close to everyday amenities. Agriculture, the evident activity for rich soil Delta area, has long played a very important role in Delta s economic and social life. Today, however, industry is the greatest growing sector, with approximately 2,500 acres of serviced land and an additional 750 acres of industrially zoned, but un-serviced land.
Delta is one the greatest growing industrial areas in the Greater Vancouver region.
Delta is home to almost 3,400 businesses, has an accomplished labor force, commercial centres in each of its three communities, and eco-tourism destinations that are the envy of several municipalities. Located at the estuary of the Fraser River, Delta is an eco-tourist s enjoyment, being the Pacific Flyway for some 1.4 million wintering shorebirds and waterfowl that take pleasure in the area year round, and enjoy the seasonally warm climate. Ladner Harbour Park is well recognized for its cottonwood trees that appeal to bald eagles to nest annually. The Reifel Bird Sanctuary on the tip of Westham Island provides an 85-acre safe haven for more than 230 species of migrating birds. Each November, the annual Snow Geese Festival marks the homecoming of thousands of snow geese from Wrangel Island in the Arctic.