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Metrotown, Burnaby

Index Metrotown, Burnaby

Metrotown is a town centre serving the southwest quadrant of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. [1]

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Anne Kang

Anne Kang (Chinese: 康安禮) is a Canadian politician serving as the MLA for Burnaby-Deer Lake since 2017.

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Boundary Road (Vancouver)

Boundary Road is a road in Canada.

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Brentwood Town Centre

Brentwood Town Centre (often referred to as Brentwood Mall) is a shopping mall in Burnaby, British Columbia.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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British Columbia Highway 7

Highway 7, known for most of its length as the Lougheed Highway and Broadway, is an alternative route to Highway 1 through the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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British Columbia New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party of British Columbia (BC NDP) is a social-democratic provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada, which currently governs the province, and previously governed from 1972 to 1975, and then again from 1991 to 2001.

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Burnaby

Burnaby is a city in British Columbia, Canada, located immediately to the east of Vancouver.

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Burnaby Public Library

Burnaby Public Library or BPL is a public library that serves Burnaby, British Columbia and the surrounding Lower Mainland.

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Burnaby South Secondary School

Burnaby South Secondary is a public high school in Burnaby, British Columbia, and it serves the South Slope, Burnaby neighbourhood, and Southern Burnaby.

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Burrard Inlet

Burrard Inlet is a relatively shallow-sided coastal fjord in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.

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Burrard Peninsula

The Burrard Peninsula is a peninsula in the Lower Mainland region of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, lying between Burrard Inlet to the north and the Fraser River to the south, and bounded by Georgia Strait on the west and the Pitt River on the east.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canada 2011 Census

The Canada 2011 Census is a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population on May 10, 2011.

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Census tract

A census tract, census area, census district or meshblock is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census.

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Central Park (Burnaby)

Central Park is a urban park in Burnaby, British Columbia, founded in 1891.

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Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866)

The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866.

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Condominium

A condominium, often shortened to condo, is a type of real estate divided into several units that are each separately owned, surrounded by common areas jointly owned.

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Coquitlam

Coquitlam is a city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.

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Crystal Mall (British Columbia)

The Crystal Mall (Traditional Chinese: 麗晶廣場) is an ethnic shopping mall oriented towards the local Chinese community in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

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Derek Corrigan

Derek Richard Corrigan is a Canadian politician and the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

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Early 1980s recession

The early 1980s recession was a severe global economic recession that affected much of the developed world in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Eaton Centre

Eaton Centre is a name associated with shopping malls in Canada, originating with Eaton's, one of Canada's largest department store chains at the time that these malls were developed.

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Eaton's

The T. Eaton Company Limited, commonly known as Eaton's, was a Canadian retailer that was once Canada's largest department store chain.

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False Creek

False Creek is a short inlet in the heart of Vancouver.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Great Depression in Canada

Canada was hit hard by the Great Depression.

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Högdalen

Högdalen is a suburban district in South Stockholm, Sweden, built around the metro station with this name on line 19.

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Hilton Hotels & Resorts

Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of Hilton.

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Interurban

The interurban (or radial railway) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like light electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns.

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Ivanhoé Cambridge

Ivanhoé Cambridge is a Canadian real estate company with assets around the globe.

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Kennedy Stewart (Canadian politician)

Kennedy Stewart, (born November 8, 1966) is a Canadian politician and academic, currently running to be the Mayor of Vancouver.

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Kingsway (Vancouver)

Kingsway is a major thoroughfare that crosses through the Canadian cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia.

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Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, while the other is Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

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Light rail

Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.

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List of House members of the 42nd Parliament of Canada

This is a list of members of the House of Commons of Canada in the 42nd Canadian Parliament.

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List of largest enclosed shopping malls in Canada

The following is a list of Canada's largest enclosed shopping malls, by reported total retail floor space, or gross leasable area (GLA) with and over.

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List of regional districts of British Columbia

The Canadian province of British Columbia is partitioned into regional districts, as a means to better enable municipalities and rural areas to work together at a regional level.

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Lougheed Town Centre

Lougheed Town Centre (also referred to as Lougheed Mall) is a shopping centre in the northeast corner of Burnaby, British Columbia near the Coquitlam border.

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Lower Mainland

The Lower Mainland is a name commonly applied to the region surrounding and including Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Mall of America

Mall of America (commonly, locally known as "MOA") is a shopping mall located in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States (a suburb of the Twin Cities).

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Manulife

Manulife Financial Corporation is a Canadian multinational insurance company and financial services provider headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Metro Vancouver Regional District

Metro Vancouver is a political body and corporate entity designated by provincial legislation as one of the regional districts in British Columbia, Canada.

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Metrotown station

Metrotown is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system.

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Moscrop Secondary School

Moscrop Secondary School is a publicly operated secondary school in Burnaby, British Columbia.

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New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a social democraticThe party is widely described as social democratic.

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New Westminster

New Westminster is a historically important city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of Metro Vancouver.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Patterson station (SkyTrain)

Patterson is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system.

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Proper noun

A proper noun is a noun that in its primary application refers to a unique entity, such as London, Jupiter, Sarah, or Microsoft, as distinguished from a common noun, which usually refers to a class of entities (city, planet, person, corporation), or non-unique instances of a specific class (a city, another planet, these persons, our corporation).

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Richard Clement Moody

His Excellency, Major-General The Honourable Richard Clement Moody (13 February 1813 – 31 March 1887) was a British Imperialist, Colonial Governor, Royal Engineer, musician, and architect.

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Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment

The Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers was a contingent of the Royal Engineers of the British Army that was responsible for the foundation of British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858–66).

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Royal Oak station (SkyTrain)

Royal Oak is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system.

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Save-On-Foods

Save-On-Foods is a chain of supermarkets located across Western Canada.

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School District 41 Burnaby

School District 41 Burnaby is a school district in British Columbia with 41 elementary schools and 8 secondary schools.

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Sears Canada

Sears Canada Inc. was the Canadian subsidiary of the American-based Sears.

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Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada with campuses in Burnaby (Main Campus), Surrey, and Vancouver.

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SkyTrain (Vancouver)

SkyTrain is the metropolitan rail system of the Metro Vancouver Regional District, serving Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and surrounding municipalities.

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Station Square (Metrotown)

Station Square is a mixed-use development under construction in Metrotown, Burnaby, British Columbia.

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Station Square collapse

The Station Square collapse, also known as the Save-On-Foods collapse, was a major structural failure of a new supermarket and parking facility in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Surrey, British Columbia

Surrey is a city in the province of British Columbia, Canada, located south of the Fraser River and north of the Canada–United States border. It is a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver regional district and metropolitan area. Mainly a suburban city, Surrey is the second-largest city by population after the city of Vancouver and the province's third largest city by area, after Abbotsford and Prince George. The six "town centres" the City of Surrey comprises are: Fleetwood, Whalley/City Centre, Guildford, Newton, Cloverdale, and South Surrey.

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Swangard Stadium

Swangard Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Central Park in Burnaby, British Columbia.

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The American Journal of Economics and Sociology

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1941 by Will Lissner with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.

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The Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun is a daily newspaper first published in the Canadian province of British Columbia on 12 February 1912.

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Town centre

A town centre is the commercial or geographical centre or core area of a town.

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Triple Five Group

Triple Five Group is a real estate company based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which specializes in shopping malls, entertainment complexes, and hotels.

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University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vällingby

Vällingby is a suburban district in Västerort in the western part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden.

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West Edmonton Mall

West Edmonton Mall (WEM), located in Summerlea, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is the largest shopping mall in North America, followed by Mall of America, and the 23rd largest in the world (along with The Dubai Mall) by gross leasable area.

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Woodward's

Woodward's Stores Ltd. was a department store chain that operated in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada for one hundred years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1973–75 recession

The 1973–75 recession or 1970s recession was a period of economic stagnation in much of the Western world during the 1970s, putting an end to the overall Post–World War II economic expansion.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrotown,_Burnaby

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