It can be found to the immediate northwest of the present-day junction of Harris Road and British Columbia Highway 11 (just south of the Fraser River) in what is now the City of Abbotsford.
A branch line of the Canadian Pacific Railway also runs from Mission, British Columbia, to the US border through the eastern boundary of the village.
The Matsqui station of the Canadian National Railway line is northeast of the village, on the far side of Highway 11.
[1] The word Matsqui derives from the local First Nation language Halkomelem, spelt Máthxwi[2] and means a "stretch of higher ground".
Abbotsford, after its amalgamation with the District of Sumas, encompassed McCallum Road east to the Vedder River and also from the US border to the Fraser River, including the Canadian side of the Sumas Border Crossing.