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Metrotown is a neighbourhood in the southwest quadrant of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the city's four officially designated town centres,^[1] as well as one of Metro Vancouver's regional town centres.^[2]

The town centre is bounded on the west by Boundary Road, on the south by Imperial Street, on the east by Royal Oak Avenue, and on the north by a series of local streets, giving an area of 2.97 km² (730 acres).^[3]^[4] Kingsway forms the central commercial spine for the neighbourhood, and is paralleled to the south by the SkyTrain tracks running alongside Central Boulevard. The area is served by the SkyTrain's Patterson and Metrotown stations, and its eastern edge is also covered by Royal Oak Station.

History

In the 1860s and 1870s, the Royal Engineers constructed a trail linking False Creek and New Westminster (the present-day Kingsway), and allocated space for a military reserve at a plateau along the road.^[5] With the construction of a parallel interurban line connecting Vancouver and New Westminster (which opened in 1891), the provincial government established a series of holding lots out of the military reserve in the 1890s to accommodate working class residents.^[5] The lots were drawn at right angles to the interurban line, which ran from the northwest to the southeast, accounting for the street orientation in modern-day Metrotown.^[5]

During the Great Depression, Burnaby reeve William Pritchard instituted a series of make-work programs to put the unemployed to work, using municipal funds and loans.^[5] This put a strain on Burnaby's finances, and in 1932 the province stepped in by suspending the functions of Burnaby's government and appointing a commissioner to run municipal affairs.^[5]^[6]

References

Footnotes

^ "Town Centres". City of Burnaby. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
^ "Metrotown City Centre". Metro Vancouver. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
^ Burnaby Planning Department, p.14
^ "Metrotown General Land Use Map" (PDF). City of Burnaby. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Terry Glavin (2006). "Lost Cities". Vancouver Review. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
^ "Young Burnaby: 1911-1943" (PDF). City of Burnaby. Retrieved 2012-12-21.

Bibliography

Burnaby Planning Department (1977-06). Burnaby Metrotown: a development plan (PDF) (Report). City of Burnaby. p. 14. Retrieved 2012-12-21. {{cite report}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

External links

[1] "Town Centres". City of Burnaby. Retrieved 2012-12-21.

[2] "Metrotown City Centre". Metro Vancouver. Retrieved 2012-12-21.

[3] Burnaby Planning Department, p.14

[4] "Metrotown General Land Use Map" (PDF). City of Burnaby. Retrieved 2012-12-21.

[Glavin06-5] Terry Glavin (2006). "Lost Cities". Vancouver Review. Retrieved 2012-12-21.

[6] "Young Burnaby: 1911-1943" (PDF). City of Burnaby. Retrieved 2012-12-21.

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