Burnaby is a city in British Columbia, Canada, located immediately to the east of Vancouver. It is the third-largest city in British Columbia by population, surpassed only by nearby Surrey and Vancouver.
T & T Supermarket is a Canadian supermarket chain which sells primarily numerous forms of Asian foods. The supermarket chain is headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia. In 1993, the first T & T was opened in Burnaby's Metropolis at Metrotown, a shopping centre in the Metrotown area in Metro Vancouver.
Metrotown is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located in the Metrotown area of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It is the fifth-busiest station in the SkyTrain system. The station is located between Central Boulevard and Beresford Street, east of Willingdon Avenue.
Brentwood Town Centre is an elevated station on the Millennium Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located above Lougheed Highway east of Willingdon Avenue in Burnaby, British Columbia. The station is adjacent to the Brentwood Town Centre mall, a mid-size shopping centre.
Kingsway is a major thoroughfare that crosses through the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia. The road runs diagonally from northwest to southeast, emerging from Vancouver's Main Street just south of East 7th Avenue and becoming 12th Street at the Burnaby–New Westminster border.
CFML-FM is the campus radio station of the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Lougheed Town Centre is a shopping centre in the northeast corner of Burnaby, British Columbia near the Coquitlam border. It is located along the Lougheed Town Centre SkyTrain station, a hub station that connects the Expo Line and Millennium Line along the new Evergreen Extension. At 615,000 square feet with 160 shops and services, Lougheed Town Centre is the second largest mall in Burnaby. The 40-acre site is currently being redeveloped into a master planned, mixed use community called The City of Lougheed. It will include up to 23 residential towers, 300 new shops and restaurants and more than five acres of public parks and plazas.
The Crystal Mall is an ethnic shopping mall oriented towards the local Chinese community in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It is located at 4500 Kingsway at the intersection with Willingdon Avenue in Metrotown, directly adjoined to the Hilton Metrotown Vancouver Hotel. A 26 floor residential tower called Residence at the Crystal was also constructed that connects to the rest of the shopping complex.
North Burnaby is a general name for a large neighbourhood in the City of Burnaby, British Columbia, that includes a number of smaller ones. It stretches from Boundary Road in the west to Burnaby Mountain with Simon Fraser University in the east and bounded by Burrard Inlet to the north and the Lougheed Highway to the south. It is a desirable place to live for many local and immigrant families which is reflected by real-estate prices that keep climbing and have doubled in the last 15 years.
Brentwood Park or simply Brentwood is a neighbourhood in North Burnaby, British Columbia, in between Willingdon Avenue to the west and Springer Avenue to the east. Hastings Street separates it from the Capitol Hill area to the north, while the Lougheed Highway marks the dividing line between this residential area and a commercial / industrial land to the south.
Willingdon Heights is a neighbourhood in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It is named after a major Burnaby thoroughfare Willingdon Avenue connecting North Burnaby with Kingsway and the Metrotown area in the south.
Robert "Bob" William Prittie was a Canadian politician. He was a New Democrat Member of Parliament from Burnaby—Richmond from 1962 to 1968 and mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia from 1969 to 1973.
Station Square is a mixed-use development under construction in Metrotown, Burnaby, British Columbia. When completed, it will have five condominium towers with 1,800 units and 400,000 square feet of office and retail space. It is located near Metropolis at Metrotown on the former site of the Station Square strip mall, which closed in 2012 to make way for five high rise condo buildings. Several stores, including Bed Bath & Beyond, The Shoe Company, Dollarama, and Best Buy, have already opened.
As of September 2015, one condo building has been completed and two are currently under construction and are slated to be completed in 2018.
The 91 B-Line is a future express bus line with bus rapid transit elements in Metro Vancouver, Canada that was outlined in the 2005 Vancouver/UBC Transit Plan for implementation in December 2009. It will replace the 43 Express that travels along 41st Avenue, a major east–west route which connects the University of British Columbia (UBC) to Joyce–Collingwood station on the SkyTrain system. The service will also connect with the Canada Line at Oakridge–41st Avenue station.
Sovereign, a skyscraper in Metrotown, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is a complex building designed and built by Bosa Properties Inc. on Willingdon Aveune and Kingsway. This building is located northwest of Metrotown. The building is 511 feet/156 metres tall. It has 45 storeys which include hotel and residence space. Sovereign has 202 luxury residences in the upper part of the structure and 169 hotel rooms in the lower part. It also includes 100,000 sq. feet of retail space. It held the former title of the tallest building in Burnaby, but has been surpassed by Altus in the Solo District, with the phase two building being 187.76 meters tall.
Anne Kang is a Canadian politician serving in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as the MLA for Burnaby-Deer Lake since 2017. Prior to her election, Kang served as a City Councillor in Burnaby for three terms.
Maywood is a mainly-rental low income residential neighborhood in Burnaby, and is a part of the larger Metrotown area. The neighborhood consists of low-rise apartments built during the population boom in the Metrotown area in the 70's, and 80's. Geographically, the Maywood neighbourhood's boundaries are Grange Street and Kingsway to the north, Nelson Avenue and Bennett and Bonsor Streets to the east, Imperial Street to the south and Boundary Road to the west, and it includes Central Park.
