Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
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Name | Burnaby |
Official name | City of Burnaby |
Native name | |
Flag size | 110px |
Image shield | Burnaby BC coat of arms.gif |
Coordinates region | CA-BC |
Subdivision type | Country |
Subdivision name | |
Subdivision type1 | Province |
Subdivision name1 | |
Subdivision type2 | Region |
Subdivision name2 | Lower Mainland |
Subdivision type3 | Regional District |
Subdivision name3 | Greater Vancouver Regional District |
Leader title | Mayor |
Leader name | Derek Corrigan |
Leader title1 | MPs |
Leader name1 | Peter Julian (NDP), Kennedy Stewart (NDP) |
Leader title2 | MLAs |
Leader name2 | Raj Chouhan (NDP), Richard Lee (Liberal), Kathy Corrigan (NDP), Harry Bloy (Liberal) |
Established title | Established |
Established date | 1892 (municipality status) |
Established title2 | – |
Established date2 | 1992 (city status) |
Area total km2 | 98.6 |
Area footnotes | |
Area total sq mi | 38.1 |
Population as of | 2007 |
Settlement type | City |
Population total | 216,336 (ranked 22nd) |
Population density km2 | 2,275.6 |
Population density sq mi | 5891.2 |
Timezone | Pacific Standard (PST) |
Utc offset | -8 |
Coordinates display | inline,title |
Elevation m | Sea level to 370 |
Elevation ft | 0–1214 |
Postal code type | Forward sortation areas |
Area code | 604 & 778 |
Website | City of Burnaby |
Footnotes | }} |
It was incorporated in 1892 and achieved City status in 1992, one hundred years after incorporation. It is the seat of the Greater Vancouver Regional District's government, the board of which calls itself Metro Vancouver.
At incorporation, the municipality's citizens unanimously chose to name it after legislator, speaker, Freemason and explorer, Robert Burnaby, who had been private secretary to Colonel Richard Moody, the Colony of British Columbia's first land commissioner in the mid-19th century. In 1859, Mr. Burnaby had surveyed the freshwater lake near what is now the city's geographical centre; Moody chose to name it Burnaby Lake.
Burnaby is home to many industrial and commercial firms. British Columbia's largest (and Canada's second largest) commercial mall, the Metropolis at Metrotown is located in Burnaby. Still, Burnaby's ratio of park land to residents is one of the highest in North America, and it maintains some agricultural land, particularly along the Fraser foreshore flats in the Big Bend neighbourhood along its southern perimeter.
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Major north-south streets crossing the City include Boundary Road, Willingdon Avenue, Royal Oak Avenue, Kensington Avenue, Sperling Avenue, Gaglardi Way, Cariboo Road, and North Road. East-west routes linking Burnaby's neighbouring cities to each other include East Hastings Street, Barnet Highway, the Lougheed Highway, Kingsway (which follows the old horse trail between Vancouver and New Westminster), Canada Way and Marine Drive/Marine Way. Douglas Road, which used to cross the city from northwest to southeast, has largely been absorbed by the Trans-Canada Highway and Canada Way. Since the 1990s, Burnaby has developed a network of cycling trails. It is also well served by Metro Vancouver's bus system, run by the Coast Mountain Bus Company, a division of TransLink.
Politically, Burnaby has maintained a centre-left city council (which recently completely eliminated the city's debt) and school board for many years, while sometimes electing more conservative legislators provincially (for the Social Credit and BC Liberal parties) and federally (for the Reform, Alliance, and Conservative parties). Its longest-serving politician had been Svend Robinson of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada's first openly homosexual member of Parliament, but after 25 years and seven elections he resigned his post in early 2004 after stealing and then returning an expensive ring. Burnaby voters endorsed his assistant, Bill Siksay, as his replacement in the spring 2004 Canadian federal election. In the May 2005 provincial election, residents of the city sent a mix of BC Liberal and NDP representatives to the British Columbia legislature.
According to a 2009 survey by ''Maclean's'' magazine, Burnaby is Canada's best run city. The survey looks at a city's efficiency, the cost of producing results, and the effectiveness of its city services.
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