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Refers to the large, Fraser River flood of 1948. Similar subject term, "floods and flooding" refers more generally to floods and flooding.

The MacLean Farm was located in Glen Valley. The property went from River Road, just before Lefeuvre Road, and went all the way past the railway tracks, to the McLeod farm. It was about 100 acres. It was originally purchased by Francis MacLean's father in about 1920, and was taken over by Francis MacLean when his father did not want to run it anymore. Francis ran it with wife Violet (nee Holyoak), and had about 100 head of cattle. The couple had one daughter, Marilyn, and when the flood of 1948 hit, Marilyn and her mother Violet went into Vancouver and stayed with Violet's best friend for about a week and a half. During the 1948 flood, people used row boats to come down from the railway tracks to check on the houses along the river. All cattle from the farm was taken to whoever volunteered to help, sometimes all the way to Mount Lehman or Bradner. There was another smaller flood in 1954. Violet and Francis sold the farm in 1967-68 and moved to Hadden Street in Fort Langley.