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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.


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.

Adanac

Coquitlam Adanacs, box lacrosse team in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

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.

Barry Mather

Born in Condor, Alberta, he was a journalist for the Vancouver News Herald and a columnist with The Vancouver Sun before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 federal election for the British Columbia riding of New Westminster.

BBY

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

Brentwood station

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

Bryan Leitch

Raised in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Leitch played three seasons of junior hockey in the British Columbia Hockey League with the Coquitlam Express and Merritt Centennials before attending Quinnipiac University where he played four seasons with the Quinnipiac Bobcats men's ice hockey team, which competes in NCAA's Division I in the ECAC conference.

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.

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.

Cassiar Country

The line was begun in 1865 at New Westminster, and continued as far as the Skeena River in 1866, but then the project was abandoned as the transatlantic line was built first, making the Collins line redundant.

Cedric Cox

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

Charles Fenn Pretty

In 1890, he moved to New Westminster with 17 cents in his pocket and, according to tradition, booked a room in the best hotel straightaway.

CJSF

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

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.

Discovery Park

Discovery Park (Burnaby), a research community in 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.

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.

Gerry St. Germain

After his riding's boundaries were changed to create the new riding of Mission-Coquitlam, St. Germain was defeated in the 1988 general election by Joy Langan.

Gustavus Blin Wright

He arrived in British Columbia on February 28, 1862 aboard the steamer Brother Jonathan and began a partnership that operated vessels on the route between San Francisco and New Westminster.

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).

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.

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).

Kevin Harmse

Born in Johannesburg, Harmse grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and began his youth career training at the Roman Tulis School in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Owen Forrester Browne

He was born in New Westminster and worked on the lower Fraser and Yukon River sternwheelers before coming to the upper Fraser River in the early 1900s.

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.

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.

Port Moody Station

The planned Evergreen Line will extend the SkyTrain network northeast from Lougheed Town Centre Station, integrating with Port Moody Station with a transfer to Moody Centre Station on its way to Coquitlam.

Renfrew–Collingwood

In 1861, Colonel Richard Moody made the first modern attempt to break through the thick forests that covered the areas now known as Renfrew–Collingwood, building a military trail on the route of an ancient First Nations trail that led from New Westminster to English Bay.

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.

Sony Canada

With headquarters in Toronto, sales offices in Vancouver and Montreal and distribution centres in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and Whitby, Ontario, approximately 1,200 employees support a network of more than 500 authorized dealers and 70 Sony Style retail locations across Canada.

Steamboats of the Island to the Mainland

Soon miners began using stern wheelers from Fort Victoria (now present day Victoria) on Vancouver Island to New Westminster.

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.

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.

Water supply and sanitation in Canada

Three watersheds - the Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam Watersheds are the water source for more than two million residents in the most populated urban region of British Columbia.

Yekaterina Lobaznyuk

Lobaznyuk now resides in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada where she trains as a coach alongside her mother Ludmila, who herself is a coach at the Omega Gymnastic Academy.


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