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15 unusual facts about Burnaby


BBY

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, is the city immediately east of Vancouver.

Canada Wide Media

Canada Wide Media Limited is an independently owned publishing company in Western Canada, based in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Canlan Ice Sports Etobicoke

The arena is owned and operated by Canlan Ice Sports Corporation, of Burnaby, British Columbia.

Cedric Cox

He represented Burnaby in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1957 to 1963 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member.

Decaffeination

The use of water as the solvent to decaffeinate coffee was originally developed in Switzerland in the 1980s and is now used commercially under the trade-mark "Swiss Water Process" by The Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Company of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Enterra Vipre

This money was to be used to build a manufacturing facility in Burnaby, British Columbia, to produce the Vipre.

Fifty Million Frenchmen

Musicals Society concert was held February 13-16, 2008 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, British Columbia, directed by Scott Ashton Swan.

Jim Phillips

James Phillips (1 September 1860, Pleasant Creek, now Stawell, Victoria – 21 April 1930 at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada) was a Victorian first-class cricketer and Test match umpire.

Michael James O'Rourke

He died on 6 December 1957 in Vancouver and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby

This was an urban riding that contained the city of New Westminster, and those parts of Burnaby lying southeast of the Trans-Canada Highway, and the southwestern portion of Coquitlam.

Non-Partisan Association

There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.

Panago

Panago currently has two Customer Contact Centres located in Abbotsford and Burnaby, servicing calls from British Columbia, most of Alberta, Fredericton, Moncton and parts of Ontario.

Thomas Malcolm Layng

He was deputy Chaplain-General to the Mediterranean forces (1945) and rector of Burnaby and Nunburnholme (1946–48) and Archdeacon of York (1946–47).

Tony Kuo

In the 2005 B.C. general election Kuo was the DRBC candidate in the riding of Burnaby-Willingdon.

Vancouver Southsiders

Their theme song is titled "Boundary Road" sung to the tune of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads", it references Swangard Stadium's location on Boundary Road in Burnaby, British Columbia.


2006 Liberal leadership bid by Stéphane Dion

The Martin wing of the party was represented by former Martin BC Campaign Chair Mark Marissen and two-time losing Liberal candidate in Burnaby—Douglas, Bill Cunningham.

Admir Salihović

The midfielder has been in the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree program at Langara College since the fall of 2006, he played 2004 with the Burnaby Selects.

Andrew Burnaby

The younger Burnaby attended Westminster School, and then Queens' College, Cambridge, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1754 and his Master's degree in 1757.

Brentwood station

Brentwood Town Centre Station, a Vancouver SkyTrain station in Burnaby, British Columbia

Burnaby Hospital

One of the largest hospitals outside the City of Vancouver, it serves the communities of Burnaby and East Vancouver.

Burnaby Mountain Secondary School

The school plays itself in a fictional "Burnaby, Washington" in the 2007 film The Invisible, starring British Columbia native Justin Chatwin and Alex O'Loughlin.

CJSF

CJSF-FM, a radio station at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia

Discovery Park

Discovery Park (Burnaby), a research community in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Frederick Gustavus Burnaby

Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitaï Lampada" is often quoted as referring to Burnaby's death at Abu Klea; "The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel's dead...", (although it was a Gardner machine gun which jammed).

Fukushima Yasumasa

In any case, Fukushima was an admirer of Colonel Burnaby, a British cavalry officer, who had made an epic ride to Khiva in 1874 after receiving word that the Russians had closed the border to Turkistan.

Georgia Street

This portion of Georgia Street is interrupted at several locations, such as Templeton Secondary School, Highway 1 and Kensington Park.

I Still Dream of Jeannie

I Still Dream of Jeannie was filmed from July to August 1991 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and exterior scenes were shot at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Inverse Symbolic Calculator

The Inverse Symbolic Calculator is an online number checker established July 18, 1995 by Peter Benjamin Borwein, Jonathan Michael Borwein and Simon Plouffe of the Canadian Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics (Burnaby, Canada).

Justin Kripps

At Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC), Kripps led the 4 x 100 m team (Justin Kripps, Neal Hurtubise, Rob Drapala, Brett Robinson) to All-American honors and a school record at the 2005 NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Louisville, Kentucky (SFU Athletics, 2009 & NAIA 2005).

Kootenay Loop

It services routes going to East Vancouver, Downtown Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver and the Tri-Cities.

Lougheed

Lougheed Town Centre, a shopping mall in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck

Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Caroline Louisa Burnaby) (c. 1831 – 6 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, great-great-grandmother of Charles, Prince of Wales, and great-great-great-grandmother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry, as well as being an ancestress of other members of the British Royal Family, descended from the Queen Mother.

Murray MacPherson

MacPherson's coaching career including the Winnipeg Monarchs, Winnipeg Clubs, Portage Terriers, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, Jersey Aces/Hampton Aces, Richmond Rifles, New Westminster Bruins, Drumheller Miners, Burnaby Bluehawks and the Langley Eagles.

North American Outgames

More than 800 athletes and volunteers were in attendance for the event, which also covered the cities of Whistler and Burnaby.

Phibbs Exchange

Phibbs Exchange is located directly next to the northern foot of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, which connects North Vancouver to East Vancouver and Burnaby.

RadiSys

RadiSys had over 280 people in its research and development department as of 2009, located in offices in the United States (Oregon, Iowa, Florida), India (Bangalore), China (Shanghai), Malaysia (Penang), and Canada (Burnaby, BC).

Robert Burnaby

The city of Burnaby, British Columbia is named for him, as well as at least ten other urban and geographical features, including a mountain, a lake, a park, a Haida Gwaii Island and a street in Vancouver.

Stuart Liddell

For ten years (1998–2008), he played with the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band in Burnaby, British Columbia and won three World Pipe Band Championship titles (1999, 2001, 2008.) Before joining the SFU Pipe Band, he played with Scottish Power Pipe Band.