Mission Cooperative Housing Association

10/03/2026

Are you following the District elections.

09/29/2026

Upcoming community event.

Our Mission Location is hosting a BBQ Raffle in support of SARA House as part of our annual Home Sweet Home Campaign❤️🏠🔥

🎟️ Raffle Tickets:
2 tickets for $5
10 tickets for $10
25 tickets for $20

📅 BBQ Event: Friday, October 2, 2026 at 2pm
🎉 BBQ Raffle Draw: Monday, October 5, 2026

100% of raffle proceeds will go directly to SARA House, helping support their important work in our community.

09/29/2026

We have a view of the Fraser River.

09/19/2026

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BC has a new time zone abbreviation: PCT.

PCT stands for Pacific Time, BC’s single year-round time zone. It replaces PST and PDT, which were the seasonal clock changes that are no longer in effect.

A consistent abbreviation will make it easier for businesses, governments, technology providers and the public to refer to BC’s time zone in schedules, systems and communications.

And when November comes around, there’s no need to fall back. The clocks will stay the same.

09/06/2026

09/04/2026

Very quaint and cozy.

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🕯️ In a great many old Irish cottages the best bed in the house was not in a bedroom at all. It was built into the kitchen wall, an arm's length from the fire.

It is called the outshot, and it is exactly what the name says. The wall beside the hearth was pushed out to make a recess, and a bed was fitted into it with a curtain or a low rail across the front. In parts of the north and west it also carried the name cailleach (KAL-yukh), the old woman, which tells you plainly enough who slept in it. 🔥

The logic of it is the whole point. In a house with one fire, heat was the scarcest thing anybody owned. It was not distributed evenly and nobody pretended it was. It went, deliberately, to whoever was least able to do without it, and that was usually the oldest person under the roof. Everybody else slept further away and colder, and nobody argued about it. ❄️

There is a second thing in it that is easy to miss. The outshot put the oldest person in the middle of the house rather than out of the way of it. They slept beside the fire, which meant they slept beside the talk, the visitors, the cooking and the coming and going. They were not put in a back room to be quiet. 🫖

And when you know what to look for, the recesses are still there in ruins and in restored cottages, a strange square bite taken out of the wall beside every hearth. That is not a cupboard. That is where somebody's grandmother slept. ☘️

09/01/2026

Looks a bit like Frank?

07/31/2026

Member Spot-light in the Mission Record this week.

07/25/2026

This is too good not to share! Happy Friday. Hope your not bored!