Vancouver Relocation Guide 2017

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WEST COAST LIVING With an outdoor lifestyle, cultural diversity and a solid economy with strong ties to Asia, Vancouver mixes business and pleasure

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Relocation briefs

Vancouver tops in sustainability

Foreign-buyer tax not a long-term deterrent

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trong employment and solid work-life balance are two of the reasons Vancouver is No. 1 in North America when it comes to sustainability, according to an Arcadis report released last October.

The study ranks 22 cities across the continent, as well as several other world cities, and measures sustainability using quality of life, environmental and economic factors.

The city also scored well when it comes to air pollution; in fact, it received the highest score worldwide in this measure. It also did well in

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T terms of transit infrastructure.

Areas of potential improvement for Vancouver include pricing on consumer goods and the need to increase affordable housing. It also received less-than-optimal scores in the categories of crime, green space and connectivity.

Globally, Vancouver came in at No. 23. Zurich took top spot in the world.

he 15 per cent tax on foreign real estate buyers enacted last summer may have dampened foreign interest in the short term, but Vancouver will remain attractive to investors from other countries, according to RBC Economics.

Once the initial shock from the tax has run its course, the city will continue to attract wealthy individuals, particularly from China, “given the strong connection already established,” RBC says.

In addition to foreign buyers, wealthy immigrants, who are not subject to the tax, will continue to

Air Canada, YVR have busy 2016

River District retail coming together

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ir Canada has launched a flurry of new flights out of Vancouver International Airport (YVR), including the first-ever non-stop flight from Vancouver to India: the Vancouver-New Delhi thrice-weekly flight that launched October 20.

Canada’s national airline announced in September of last year that new routes to Nagoya, Japan, and Taipei, Taiwan, would launch in June 2017.

The thrice-weekly flights to Nagoya will be the only non-stop flights between that coastal city

in central Honshu and Vancouver.

Air Canada will join Eva Air and China Airlines by offering daily non-stop flights on the Taipei route, assuming it is able to get government approval, which is required for that route.

The airline also launched the only non-stop flights between YVR and Brisbane, Australia, in June of last year.

etailers are starting to sign leases for space in the River District in southeast Vancouver, although occupancy is not expected until spring 2017. Save-On-Foods, TD Bank, Westminster Savings and Starbucks are some of the retailers that have already signed on the dotted line, according to Wesgroup vice-president of corporate development David Wesik.

The River District project is part of a 120-acre site in southeast Vancouver that borders the Fraser River and Boundary Road.

About 500 residents have moved

Car2Go replaces most of its Vancouver fleet

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ar-share company Car2Go announced last September it was replacing 650 of its 1,000 Vancouver vehicles with newer cars.

The new cars are 2015 Smart cars. The company also has a small fleet of four-door MercedesBenz B-Class vehicles.

“The new Car2Go is equipped with the technology and features our members have come to love from our four-door MercedesBenz Car2Gos,” says Car2Go Vancouver general manager Chris Iuvancigh.

Features of the new cars

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include a more powerful motor and seat warmers.

T h e c a r-s h a re s e r v i c e h a s 118,000 members in Vancouver.

The company estimates each one of its cars has removed nine vehicles from the city’s roads, for a total of 8,200 vehicles.

Car2Go has satellite parking spots in Richmond, the city of North Vancouver and Burnaby.

-commerce giant Amazon. com Inc. is now offering free same-day deliveries to Metro Vancouverites who are Prime members, which is a designation that costs $79 per year.

To qualify for free same-day delivery, the Prime members’ orders must be received by noon and be at least $25.

People who have not paid the $79 for an annual Prime membership can still get same-day delivery in most parts of Metro Vancouver, although they have to pay $11.99 for shipping.

play a strong role in the market, RBC says. Their impact is more likely to be felt at the higher end of the market.

“High-net-worth individuals are drawn to Vancouver for the same reasons as foreign investors, as well as other factors such as good schools, clean environment and the ‘global passport’ that Canadian citizenship offers.”

in to hundreds of homes in the development, and another 1,100 homes are expected to be complete by mid-2018.

The retail hub of the project is th e tow n square: a s et of four buildings offering a total of 163,428 square feet of commercial space. The first of those buildings will be complete in April or May 2017, Wesik says.

In addition to free shipping, Prime members also get free access to cloud storage for photos.

Amazon operates two fulfilment centres in Metro Vancouver. The company’s Amazon.ca website has a function for Prime members to enter their postal code to see if they are close enough to Metro Vancouver to be eligible for free shipping.

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B.C. by the numbers

BUSINESS INCORPORATIONS IN GREATER VANCOUVER, 2015

LIONS BAY 6

GREATER VANCOUVER REGIONAL DISTRICT 27,706

BOWEN ISLAND 21 WEST VANCOUVER 505

NORTH VANCOUVER 1,140

BELCARRA 4 ANMORE 8 BURNABY TRI-CITIES 1,739 1,392 PITT MAPLE MEADOWS RIDGE NEW WESTMINSTER 122 301 430

VANCOUVER 12,594 RICHMOND 2,854

SURREY 4,765 DELTA 513

LANGLEY 910 WHITE ROCK 193

BIGGEST SOURCES OF JOBS IN GREATER VANCOUVER Sales and service Business, finance and administration Trades, transport and equipment operators and related Education, law and social, community and government services Management occupations Natural and applied sciences and related Health occupations Art, culture, recreation and sport Manufacturing and utilities Natural resources, agriculture and related production 50

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Vancouver offers a lifestyle for everyone, with recreational, cultural and neighbourhood diversity

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nown as an outdoor enthusiasts’ mecca, Vancouver attracts people from around the globe wanting to experience an authentic West Coast lifestyle.

Consistently ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world, Vancouver is a culturally diverse metropolitan area where one can casually mix business with pleasure. Boasting a lively recreational lifestyle, it’s a place where one can golf and ski on the same day, easily access downtown business networking functions, wear flip-flops and shorts to work, stroll to the beach, enjoy tasty international cuisine and take in world-class entertainment.

Harpreet Aujla moved to Vancouver from Toronto in June 2016 and currently rents a condo in the city’s downtown entertainment district. He chose a central location that offers access to business connections, transit, restaurants, nightlife and the waterfront.

“It’s a good way to get to know the city, being right downtown,” says Aujla. “Everything is walkable.”

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Originally from India, Aujla moved to Vancouver to take on the position of squad general manager at the Burnaby-based cloud consulting and software development firm Traction on Demand. Besides moving for work, the 32-year-old bachelor says he also relocated here because of the lifestyle and to be closer to friends.

Aujla got his first taste of Vancouver 10 years ago during a four-month internship at Telus while completing his bachelor of applied science in systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo.

“I had nothing but positive experiences during the internship,” he recalls.

Active in basketball, volleyball, softball and snowboarding, Aujla says Vancouver offers countless indoor and outdoor opportunities to stay fit. He’s still adjusting to relocating from Toronto, where he found the nightlife

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The SkyTrain has a really good reach. I also like the proximity and the ease of getting away to Whistler or Vancouver Island for the weekend

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more active and the city larger with more downtown diversity, but he says he appreciates Vancouver’s focus on living a healthy lifestyle.

“A friend of mine has a drone, so we’ve been going to the beach and taking panoramic shots of the water. The area encourages you to live an outdoors lifestyle.”

For Aujla, who commutes from downtown to Burnaby for his job, some of the benefits of living in Vancouver include the public transit system, as well as easy access to nearby cities, towns and resorts.

“The SkyTrain has a really good reach. I also like the proximity and the ease of getting away to Whistler or Vancouver Island for the weekend.”

And while getting around the city is relatively simple, Aujla has a suggestion for improvement: “I would like to see Uber here. Driving across the city can take a while.”

Also interested in mixology and entertaining at home, Aujla, who works up to 50 hours a week, has found it relatively easy to meet people socially since his relocation. “We have a pretty good culture at the office, so that’s helped me a lot.”

One of the major cons of living in Vancouver is finding suitable housing at affordable prices.

“The cost of living is high, and the process of finding a place that was decent in a desirable neighbourhood was quite painful,” Aujla says. “I want to start looking

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West Coast living

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at buying a place, but I’m just trying to get the lay of the land first.”

As executive talent acquisition director at Vancouverbased Lululemon Athletica, Christine Clay recruits executives and senior managers from around the world to work for the high-end yoga-wear retailer. Clay relocated herself in 2010 when she and her husband moved to Vancouver, where they now rent a house in the city’s funky Kitsilano neighbourhood.

“We’re big snowboarders, so we wanted easy access to the snow and mountains,” says 35-year-old Clay. “We hike a lot and play beach volleyball as well.”

While moving from Ohio was a major lifestyle change, Clay and her husband soon discovered the city’s climate creates a haven for outdoor enthusiasts.

“We chose Kitsilano because we have two dogs and there’s quick access to the beach. We have four parks within a couple of blocks, so we can run with the dogs.”

From waterfront neighbourhoods like the West End, Kitsilano and Coal Harbour to urban Yaletown and Gastown and trendy Mount Pleasant and Commercial Drive, Vancouver is made up of a wide variety of unique areas.

“There are distinct neighbourhoods that speak to different lifestyles,” Clay says. “I believe there is a neighbourhood in this city for everyone.”

Clay recommends that those relocating to Vancouver first do their homework by connecting with people who live in the city, rather than relying solely on information found online.

“Connecting with another human being is key. For companies, it’s really important to have mobility [relocation] specialists.”

With world-class recreational activities right outside her door, Clay says maintaining a healthy work-life balance is simple.

“I wouldn’t call it work-life balance. I just call it balance.”

And when it comes to dealing with the rainy winters, Clay takes a Zen approach.

“I just throw up my hood like a real Vancouverite. I might get wet, but that’s OK.” É

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ECONOMIC SCORECARD 2016 How Greater Vancouver stacks up against other metropolitan regions around the world

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2016 report released by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, based on research conducted by the Conference Board of Canada, examined how Greater Vancouver performs in relation to 19 other international metropolitan regions on key economic and social indicators.

To achieve this, it first looked back to assess changes that have shaped the Greater Vancouver region and identify the industries that have contributed to its success. It then looked forward to consider the trends that will shape Greater Vancouver in coming years and decades.

And it asked: Is the region competitive and attractive to businesses and people? Can it continue to prosper and grow?

It created a scorecard from the results.

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metro regions that assesses attractiveness to highly Ǥ ■ ͖͔ ͖͔ Ǥ ■ ǡ ǡ Ǧ ǡ ϐ ǡ Ǥ ■Past, present and future successes of Greater Vancouver’s economy are closely linked to growing ties with Asia, with the transportation sector identified as a key industry cluster.

Greater Vancouver is defined as the Vancouver census metropolitan area (CMA), which encompasses 39 census subdivisions, including the city of Vancouver.

It is Canada’s third-largest metro region, in population and economic activity, behind Toronto and Montreal. It boasts nearly 2.5 million residents and in 2014 produced goods and services valued at $119 billion – 58 per cent of British Columbia’s real gross domestic product.

On the surface, the results appear bullish. Greater Vancouver’s real GDP per capita growth has outpaced the national average since 2005. Between 2010 and 2014, the metro region’s annual average real GDP per capita growth was 1.9 per cent, 0.5 points above the national average of 1.4 per cent. Real GDP surpassed three per cent growth in four of the past five years.

The region’s recent economic success can be largely attributed to strong in-migration, an influx of businesses and private investment, and the growing importance of its role as Canada’s Pacific gateway to Asia.

There’s no doubt Greater Vancouver’s economy has benefited from its close and growing ties with Asia – the importance of transportation and warehousing is evident in the board of trade’s analysis, with these industries coming out on top in terms of recent performance.

Foreign investment is also likely partly responsible for the region’s boom in residential real estate, even though evidence for this is still being gathered.

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But Greater Vancouver has a lot more going for it. Financial services, insurance, tourism and information technology are some of the sectors, or clusters, where the metro region has demonstrated its competitive advantage in relation to the rest of Canada.

Overall, though, the service sector has dominated the labour market – on both the higher and lower ends of the skills spectrum.

In recent years, professional, scientific and technical services employment – largely knowledge-based occupations – has been on the rise. Today this broad sector is Greater Vancouver’s third-largest employer.

The region’s recent performance by no means guarantees future success. Looking ahead, globalization will continue to increase competition among nations and the regions within them. Lower trade and investment

TABLE 1 THE BIG PICTURE: SINGAPORE RANKS FIRST Ranking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

CMA Singapore Copenhagen Hong Kong Calgary* Seattle Barcelona Sydney San Francisco Greater Vancouver Toronto Portland Seoul Rotterdam Montreal Houston* Halifax Manchester Shanghai Los Angeles Miami

* Results for Calgary and Houston do not take into account the impact of the collapse in oil and gas prices.

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Economic scorecard 2016

TABLE 2 ECONOMY RANKING Ranking

CMA

Value

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Singapore Hong Kong Shanghai Calgary* Seattle Copenhagen Houston* San Francisco Greater Vancouver Seoul Sydney Rotterdam Toronto Halifax Barcelona Montreal Portland Los Angeles Manchester Miami

0.65 0.52 0.51 0.49 0.45 0.45 0.44 0.44 0.43 0.40 0.39 0.39 0.39 0.37 0.37 0.36 0.36 0.33 0.30 0.29

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*Results for Calgary and Houston do not take into account the impact of the collapse in oil and gas prices.

barriers and rapid advances in transportation and information communications technologies will drive this process. The information technology revolution has also accelerated the shift to the knowledge economy, increasing the demand for more highly skilled workers.

This is happening while aging populations are leaving the workforce in significant numbers in many countries.

The situation will leave Canada and its metro regions competing for global talent.

GATEWAY TO ASIA Q The importance of Greater Vancouver’s role as Canada’s gateway to Asia cannot be overstated.

Port Metro Vancouver and Vancouver International Airport have a geographic edge – both being the closest large North American facility in their respective industry to many fast-growth Asian markets.

Vancouver’s airport offers 110 non-stop destinations worldwide, served by 53 different airlines. Top global freight companies operate at the airport and skyrocketing volumes of e-commerce have boosted activity at its new mail processing facility – which handles over 30,000 parcels daily from Asia alone.

Likewise, Port Metro Vancouver is Canada’s largest, busiest and most diversified port, connecting the country to more than 160 trading economies annually, mainly those located in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Trade with Asia will receive a boost if the recently signed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal is ratified.

Countries in the TPP accounted for almost two-thirds of British Columbia’s international exports in 2014.

Many of these goods are shipped through Port Metro Vancouver. In addition, Canada is currently negotiating a comprehensive trade agreement with India, another big and growing destination for goods moving through Port Metro Vancouver. India and China are poised to generate continued robust growth in real income per household. Both countries will remain sources of growing demand for Canada’s resources, but more and more they are becoming consumer economies providing markets for Canadian goods and services that are higher up the value chain.

Having said that, it is important to note that the U.S. remains B.C.’s largest trading partner, with B.C. exporting nearly $18 billion of merchandise to the U.S. in 2014.

It will remain the top trade market for the foreseeable future, given the size of the U.S. economy and its proximity to B.C. Indeed, B.C.’s export volumes to the U.S. jumped by over 15 per cent in 2014 and were up 4.5 per cent through 11 months in 2015. The continued weakness of the Canadian dollar and a healthy U.S. economy point to further strengthening in the province’s export volumes to the U.S., at least in the near term.

KEY CLUSTERS Q Traded clusters are groups of related industries that service markets beyond the region in which they are located. The board of trade’s report confirmed that the transportation sector is one of the key traded clusters in Greater Vancouver, along with tourism, information and culture, high tech and finance.

Greater Vancouver is an attractive destination for tourists from across Canada and the world, making this segment an important cluster. While many of the visitors are Canadian, growth in the number of international visitors has been solid. Asia’s influence on tourism is also growing. In particular, the number of Chinese tourists visiting Metro Vancouver reached 230,000 in 2014, up from 89,000 in 2009 when Canada was granted “approved destination status” by the Chinese government.

A weaker Canadian dollar vis-a-vis the greenback is also helping to boost U.S. visits.

Overall, cruise ships, convention capacity and the “Whistler effect” of the nearby resort city helped spur more than 8.9 million people to visit and stay at least one night in Greater Vancouver in 2014. Spending by tourists on accommodations, food, travel and activities has a significant impact on Greater Vancouver’s economy, generating billions of dollars in revenue and supporting thousands of jobs each year.

The information and cultural sector, particularly the motion picture and sound recording industries, is an important and growing industry in Greater Vancouver.

Generous provincial and federal tax incentives, proximity to Los Angeles, skilled crews, industry infrastructure and attractive scenery have made Greater Vancouver and British Columbia a popular location for foreign film and television production. Over the past few years, foreign producers spent roughly $1.1 billion annually in B.C. – an amount likely to grow, because the depreciated

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Economic scorecard 2016

TABLE 3 GREATER VANCOUVER’S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Indicator

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KPMG’s total tax index Office rents (US$ per square foot) Port cargo tonnage per $1 million of GDP Labour productivity growth Employment growth Venture capital investment per $1 million of GDP

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Port container traffic (TEUs) per $1 million GDP

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Real GDP per capita growth Number of cruise vessel calls After-tax income growth Number of participants at international association meetings Inbound airport cargo tonnage per $1 million of GDP High-tech employment share Unemployment rate Inbound airport seats per capita Marginal effective tax rate on capital investment for businesses International visitors Labour productivity After-tax income per capita Real GDP per capita Market size

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7 (20) 7 (18) 8 (19)

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9 (19) 10 (20) 10 (20)

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10 (17)

C C C C D

11 (20) 12 (20) 13 (20) 14 (20) 16 (20)

dollar lowers costs for U.S. producers filming in Canada.

Greater Vancouver ranks fourth in North America in motion picture and television production spending – behind Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. Many other jurisdictions in Canada and the United States offer tax credits and subsidies to attract producer spending, but the weak Canadian dollar coupled with the expertise of the local workforce in film, television and visual effects should help Vancouver maintain its status as “Hollywood North.”

Greater Vancouver’s information and communications technology sector is rapidly expanding, boasting well-established global companies like Telus and a steady stream of startups. Over the past five years, employment in this sector has risen by four per cent annually to more than 58,000 jobs in 2014 – 4.5 per cent of Greater Vancouver’s total employment. Specifically, two high-tech-related sectors – computer and electronic manufacturing and computer-system design services – have been identified as traded clusters.

Existing high-tech companies are attracted to Greater Vancouver by the highly skilled workers that call

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Vancouver home, many of whom are graduates of postsecondary institutions with campuses in the region, such as the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Vancouver’s finance sector has been quickly rising in prominence internationally – ranking 14th as a global financial hub, three spots below Toronto and ahead of Montreal. In 2014, 41,900 people worked in finance, while 20,400 people worked in the insurance industry.

Greater Vancouver’s well-educated workforce, strong economic growth and investments in transportation infrastructure are thought to be adding to the success of finance and insurance firms.

The future for the region’s finance and insurance sectors looks bright. Continued trade with the AsiaPacific region in the coming years should help Greater Vancouver’s finance sector grow in worldwide importance. Rising trade with China opens the possibility that Vancouver could become a direct trade settlement hub using Chinese currency, the renminbi. Canada’s insurance industry has also been taking advantage of underserved markets in China and Asia.

The region has benefited from its close ties with, and proximity to, China and other fast-growth Asian markets. Growth in transportation infrastructure has bolstered gateway activity and attracted significant private investment. The economy has also benefited from the highly skilled workforce supplied by its many educational institutions, and its attractiveness to interprovincial and international migrants. Greater Vancouver’s continued success will likely depend on these very same factors – its ability to continue to draw private investment and skilled workers, competing globally with other metro regions.

THE SCORECARD Q One of the main purposes of the

report was to assess, through benchmarking, Greater Vancouver’s relative performance and potential in attracting labour and business investment against 19 other global metro regions.

Given the strategic importance of transportation to Vancouver’s economy, 18 of these 19 comparator regions were selected because they are also major transportation gateways. Calgary, the lone metro region without an outsized transportation sector, is included in the rankings because its relative proximity to Vancouver makes it a key competitive measuring stick.

The results of the Greater Vancouver Scorecard are based on 32 indicators in two domains: Economy and Social. A report card-style ranking of A, B, C and D letter grades is used to assess the performance of metropolitan areas for each indicator.

The report assigned grades using the following method: for each indicator, it calculated the difference between the top and bottom performer and divided this figure by four. A metropolitan area received a scorecard ranking of A on a given indicator if its score was in the top quartile, a B if its score was in the second quartile, a C if its score was in the third quartile and a D if its score was in the bottom quartile.

Greater Vancouver ranks ninth overall in the scorecard,

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the combination of a seventh-place finish in the Social domain and a ninth-place spot in Economy. Despite its relatively high Social ranking, the domain still highlights three factors that negatively impact the region’s livability: housing affordability, inadequate public transit and road infrastructure, and educational attainment rates that fall short of the scorecard’s leaders.

Greater Vancouver finishes in ninth place with a B grade in the Economy domain. It earns an A grade on KPMG’s total tax index, which measures the total taxes paid by similar corporations in a particular location and industry, calculated as a percentage of total taxes paid by similar corporations across the United States. Greater Vancouver’s high marks on this indicator are also a result of its lower statutory labour costs (payroll-based taxes) relative to its U.S. comparators.

Greater Vancouver ranks fourth out of 11 metro areas on venture capital investment per $1 million of GDP, but it remains well behind leaders San Francisco, Houston and Seattle.

On a positive note, Greater Vancouver performs well on the transportation-oriented indicators. In particular, it can boast North America’s top-ranked port for both container traffic and tonnage, relative to the size of its economy. Moreover, Greater Vancouver is home to Canada’s largest cruise ship port. Activity at Greater Vancouver’s airport is more middle-of-the-pack.

Finally, Greater Vancouver also gets good grades for its affordable office rents, which on a square-foot basis trail only Montreal’s among North American metro regions.

But this is offset by very poor housing affordability, which limits Vancouver’s attractiveness to the highly skilled workers that businesses seek.

The Social domain shows how 20 metro areas are performing on 11 measures of a region’s socio-economic, environmental and quality-of-life attributes. These measures underpin a region’s ability to lure muchneeded educated, creative and diverse people to fill cities now and in the future. They will consider regional quality of life as they choose where to live.

Greater Vancouver ranks seventh overall with a B grade, placing it higher than all of its Canadian counterparts except Toronto.

It gets high scores for its clean air – it leads all cities and regions surveyed for the report – for its large proportion of foreign-born residents, and low homicide rate, all of which are attractive to potential residents. Its ranking confirms that Greater Vancouver is one of the world’s most livable metro regions.

Greater Vancouver’s near-term economic outlook appears bright. Its many traded clusters seem poised to take advantage of growing trade, in both goods and services, with Asian markets, while a low-flying loonie should also help it leverage economic activity with an improving U.S. economy.

However, the region’s longer-term performance will depend on the ability of its leaders to deal with seven important challenges revealed in the study: housing affordability, land scarcity for enabling trade, lack of investment in roads and public transit, low productivity levels, educational attainment rates, high marginal tax rates for business, and attracting head offices. É

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TABLE 4 GREATER VANCOUVER’S SOCIAL PERFORMANCE Indicator

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Air quality

A

1 (20)

Proportion of population foreign born

A

2 (19)

Homicide rate

A

9 (20)

Proportion of population that is employed in cultural occupations

B

10 (20)

Climate

B

12 (20)

Proportion of population with at least a bachelor’s degree

C

9 (20)

Non-car commuting

C

8 (17)

Average travel time to and from work

C

10 (19)

Income inequality

C

11 (20)

Proportion of population aged 25-34

D

7 (19)

Housing affordability

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15 (17)

TABLE 5 OVERALL RANKING

How metropolitan areas compare on general Economy and Social indices CMA Singapore

Overall

Economy

Social

1

1

16

Copenhagen

2

6

2

Hong Kong

3

2

12

Calgary

4

4

11

Seattle

5

5

6

Barcelona

6

15

1

Sydney

7

11

3

San Francisco

8

8

10

Greater Vancouver

9

9

7

Toronto

10

13

5

Portland

11

17

4

Seoul

12

10

14

Rotterdam

13

12

13

Montreal

14

16

9

Houston

15

7

19

Halifax

16

14

15

Manchester

17

19

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Shanghai

18

3

Los Angeles

19

18

17

Miami

20

20

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CYCLING CITY

Thousands of kilometres of bike lanes, a bicycle-friendly civic government and a new bike-share system make for an easy ride

MARKE ANDREWS

ELLIE LAMBERT |

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, HUB CYCLING

Vancouver is the leading cycling city in North America

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ess than two decades ago, cycling lanes were scattered in Vancouver, some running only a few blocks and all undivided from automobile traffic. Today, the city has 3,000 kilometres of bike lanes, almost all still integrated with vehicle traffic, but most clearly marked and a few with physical dividers.

According to statistics provided by the City of Vancouver, 10 per cent of Vancouverites commuted by bicycle in 2015, with residents making 131,025 trips daily. That represents a 32 per cent increase in cycling trips over the previous year.

“Vancouver is the leading cycling city in North America,” says Ellie Lambert, director of communications for HUB Cycling, a non-profit organization established in 1998 (then called Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition) to improve cycling conditions in Metro Vancouver. In tandem with a bicycle-friendly civic government, HUB Cycling has made inroads into getting better and safer bike lanes, integrating cycling with public transit and making the region’s many bridges safer for two-wheelers.

Cycling trips in the city will likely further increase

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Bicycle routes extend through Pacific Spirit Regional Park and beyond

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A cyclist on the seawall in Stanley Park rides past downtown Vancouver | DESTINATION BC/PATRICE HALLEY

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in 2017 with last summer’s launch of an urban bikeshare system, Mobi, run by Vancouver Bike Share Inc., a subsidiary of CycleHop. Mobi currently has bikes at 82 docking stations, mostly located in the downtown, False Creek, Mount Pleasant, Kitsilano and Arbutus Street neighbourhoods. Mobi has signed up 3,675 founding members, as well as many monthly members. By summer, Mobi plans to have 1,500 bikes at 150 stations throughout the city.

Mobi members can choose a $20 monthly plus pass (unlimited 60-minute rides), a $15 monthly standard pass (unlimited 30-minute rides) or a $7.50 day pass (unlimited 30-minute rides). Trips that exceed the limits incur small overage fees.

Mobi’s five-year, $5 million contract is only with the City of Vancouver. Those who live in the suburbs and

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Cycling city

In an unusual setup, a stretch of Vancouver’s Union Street has cyclists travel between the curb and street parking | HUB CYCLING

commute into the city cannot access a Mobi bike until they reach the city.

Bringing a bike to the city isn’t onerous. Suburban commuters can mount bicycles on the front of buses – or carry them aboard commuter trains – operated by TransLink, the region’s transportation authority. HUB

Cycling, through its suburban committees, has worked on an “Ungap the Map� strategy, making cycling more accessible outside the city limits, and making cycling (and walking) safer on the many bridges running to and from the city.

While cycling offers health and esthetic benefits, the one advantage I experience as a bicycling commuter is time. Car and transit trips can vary wildly from trip to trip, but I can plan a bike commute almost to the minute. If traffic or construction causes a major delay on a road, you can take the nearest alley to get around the problem. And with businesses and the city making bike cages and stalls more available, you don’t need to hunt for a parking place.

All is not rosy. Bike thefts in Vancouver total 2,000 annually, with Granville Island a popular hunting ground for thieves. Cyclists are encouraged to register their bikes and their serial numbers with Project 529, an online bike registry affiliated with the Vancouver Police Department and RCMP detachments in Surrey, West Vancouver and Richmond.

If you prefer riding for pleasure to commuting by bike, there are numerous scenic routes. The seawall route begins at Coal Harbour downtown and runs around Stanley Park, past English Bay and Sunset Beach, along False Creek’s north side and south side (including Granville Island) and out to Kitsilano, where you can join another cycle path that takes you around the University of British

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Columbia and, if you like, through Pacific Spirit Regional Park (see map).

Another good route is along the West Dyke and South Dyke of Richmond and Steveston, an area as flat as the Canadian Prairies for cycling.

Those looking for something more adventurous can, with the right bike, travel the region’s many mountain biking trails. Good trails run throughout the North Shore and the Fraser Valley, and if you want something farther afield, head for Whistler. The Whistler Mountain Bike Park has 65 trails of varying degrees of difficulty, encompassing 1,500 vertical metres. É

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IN SEARCH OF

CHILD CARE

Advance planning, persistence and luck can overcome long wait-lists in Vancouver

PETER MITHAM

SANDRA MENZER |

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VANCOUVER SOCIETY OF CHILDREN’S CENTRES

It would be very rare for someone to get child care quickly

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V

ancouver may be one of the most livable cities on the planet, but some young families can find it tough to raise kids here.

It’s not that there aren’t lots of amenities, from playgrounds and parks to community events. Some of the schools rank among the best in the country, and of course there are the acres of wilderness that open a child’s eyes to the natural splendour of the world.

But finding child care – and affordable child care, at that – can be difficult. As Aaron Hildebrandt wrote in a muchshared blog post, “The moment we became a family, the city spit us out. And there was no way around it.”

Wait-lists are long, and the spots that do become available can cost $2,000 a month. Families without friends and without resources can find themselves in a bind. Add that to the lack of affordable, family-sized housing, and some families decamp for other locales.

Debbie Roque, a marketing manager with Telus, was on maternity leave when she moved to Calgary with her husband, Curtis, and daughter, Adalyn, in September 2014.

Roque had begun joining wait-lists for child care in Vancouver when she was four months pregnant, but none had come through by the time of her move to Calgary.

She wasn’t about to stop waiting, however. Vancouver was home, and when an opportunity came to move back to B.C. in August 2016, she began following up.

“Most of them said that [Adalyn] was still on the waitlist and that they had no timeline or time frame as to

when she would get a space,” Roque says.

Since her daughter attended Kids & Co. – a child-care provider with locations in six provinces – in Calgary, Roque contacted its Vancouver location hoping a transfer might be possible.

“They weren’t sure if she would get a spot,” she says.

“I kept hassling them, and at the beginning of June they confirmed that she would have three days a week come August 1.”

That left two days to fill, but no one would meet with her till she was in town. She contacted nannies, but those without experience charged $15 an hour and experienced caregivers wanted a full-time role.

Having family step in wasn’t ideal, so Roque tapped the pool of backup care that Telus offers its staff in partnership with Kids & Co. Finally, after six months, she obtained a full-time placement at Kids & Co. – but at a 50 per cent premium to what she had paid in Calgary.

Roque knows she got lucky, however, something Sandra Menzer, executive director with the Vancouver Society of Children’s Centres, confirms.

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Child care can be expensive and hard to find in B.C., where wait-lists can be two years or longer | DGLIMAGES/ SHUTTERSTOCK

“We have 3,200 children on our waiting list for our centres, so it would be very rare for someone to get child care quickly,” she says.

It’s particularly difficult to find care for children the age of Roque’s two-year-old daughter, adds Pam Preston, executive director with Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre, one of the key resources mothers mentioned during interviews for this story.

“The waiting lists can be two to three years or more.

Some programs have 3,000 children on their wait-lists,” she says.

Preston encourages parents not to limit their search to traditional daycare centres. Children at centres are typically in large groups (12 for infants and toddlers up to three years; 25 for children aged three to five). However, licensed and registered providers who provide care in their own homes are limited to smaller groups. By law, caregivers can look after no more than two children besides their own (sibling groups are excepted, though a sibling group of three, for example, maxes out the caregiver’s legal capacity).

None of it comes cheap, however, with Westcoast’s annual rate survey indicating a price range of between $600 and $2,125 a month for infant and toddler care. Care for older children is slightly more affordable at $550 to $1,615 a month – but in all cases the average cost is $950 to $1,450. Many centres require registration fees and deposits, which aren’t necessarily refundable.

The costs reflect the province’s tight supply of spaces.

Preston notes that approximately 80 per cent of B.C. children need some kind of daycare, but there’s room for just 20 per cent of them. Approval times for new centres

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are a significant hurdle in expanding capacity.

In retrospect, the difficulties make Roque secondguess the timing of her move back to Vancouver.

“Looking back, if we had preplanned a little bit more, we would have come closer to [Adalyn] coming into kindergarten here to avoid some of the hassles that we had to go through.” É

RESOURCES Persistence and advance planning (as in: get started as soon as you know you’re pregnant) are key when searching for child care in B.C. Here are a few helpful resources:

■B.C. government website for information on child care: www2.gov. bc.ca/gov/content/family-social-supports/caring-for-young-children/ child-care ■B.C.’s Child Care Resource and Referral programs offer quality childcare and community referrals, resources and support to child-care providers and families across the province: www.ccrr.bc.ca ■Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre provides information, referrals, training and resources to families and organizations seeking care and early learning for children: www.wstcoast.org ■Vancouver Society of Children’s Centres is a non-profit, communitybased organization that develops and delivers a range of licensed childcare services and family resource programs in downtown Vancouver: www.vsocc.org

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DAY TRIPPER’S DELIGHT

A wealth of recreational options within easy reach of Vancouver is one of the city’s big draws

EVAN DUGGAN

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hen Susan Tomaine moved to Vancouver from New York City in 2007, she didn’t know much at all about the West Coast city or the region. She learned quickly. “People get up earlier here, people eat dinner earlier and people are way more active with different priorities and different lifestyles,” says Tomaine, a partner at the law firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon in Vancouver.

“I kept waiting for it to get hot, and it never did,” she says.

“The winter was pretty dark.”

Tomaine decided to embrace her new setting and took a day trip up the Sea-to-Sky Highway to Whistler Blackcomb, the world-class ski resort just an hour and a half from downtown Vancouver. “I did a half-day ski lesson and learned how to ski.”

Tomaine fell in love with the idea of being able to get in a full day’s work and an evening of skiing on the same day on one of the local North Shore mountains.

“My friend and I got a pass to Cypress Mountain, and every Monday night after work we’d go up there and ski for a couple of hours,” she says.

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“I was just chasing her down the hill, and then we’d go and have beers and it was fantastic,” she says. “I remember telling my friends back in New York, ‘You’re never going to believe what I did on a Monday night after a full work day: I went and skied on the mountain for three hours, a half-hour from downtown Vancouver.’”

Day trips from the city are a great way for Vancouver newbies to get their feet wet in the province’s deep pool of recreational outings, says Destination BC spokeswoman Fiona Tso. One of the most popular day trips from Vancouver is Squamish, known as the Outdoor Recreation Capital of Canada and located about 65 kilometres north of

The Stawamus Chief, a renowned rock climbing destination in Squamish, less than an hour’s drive from Vancouver | DESTINATION BC/BOB YOUNG

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SUSAN TOMAINE |

PARTNER, BLAKE, CASSELS & GRAYDON

People get up earlier here, people eat dinner earlier and people are way more active with different priorities and different lifestyles

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Day tripper’s delight

World-class ski resort Whistler Blackcomb is just an hour-anda-half drive from downtown Vancouver | DESTINATION BC/RANDY LINCKS

DAVE BANNS |

VICEPRESIDENT, B.C. DIVISION, THE HEADHUNTERS

I’ve skied up at Whistler and been back down here to golf at the back end of the day. That’s pretty cool to be able to do that

A 20-minute scenic BC Ferries ride takes visitors from the mainland to Bowen Island | DESTINATION BC/ALEX GUIRY

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Vancouver’s downtown core.

“Squamish has local provincial parks, rivers and the sparkling waters of Howe Sound,” Tso says. “And the town’s oceanfront, mountainside community is rich in railway, mining and forestry history.”

Tso says the community’s nature-loving residents and regional visitors make it a habit to go rock climbing, river rafting and mountain biking. The New York Times named Squamish in its list of 52 places to go in 2015.

On Vancouver Island, B.C.’s capital of Victoria offers a quainter and quieter experience than Metro Vancouver.

Tso says Victoria is perfect for a day trip of sightseeing, shopping or whale watching, with short seaplane flights departing daily from Vancouver’s downtown harbour.

Other options include island hopping in the nearby Gulf Islands, enjoying a coastal drive along the Sunshine Coast or heading east for a dip at Harrison Hot Springs, all just a couple of hours from Vancouver – although best enjoyed over a long weekend.

Dave Banns is vice-president of the B.C. division at the Headhunters, a firm that specializes in recruiting top talent to Vancouver and other communities in the province. Attracting the best and brightest to Vancouver has a few unique challenges, but the city and its surrounding area help make his job easier, he says.

“Vancouver is great. It’s got the outdoors and it’s ranked well globally,” he says. “It’s safe.”

Banns says the biggest challenge he has is the city’s infamously high housing costs and the general cost of living. “I think everything has gone up.”

But for many newcomers the outdoor recreation options more than make up for the high costs, he says.

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“People love the outdoors. It’s beautiful.�

Banns says he often steers clients toward the many local golf courses and to the ski hills on the North Shore mountains, which are visible and accessible from downtown Vancouver.

Cypress Mountain is the Vancouver area’s biggest ski resort and Western Canada’s largest night-skiing operation, says Joffrey Koeman, director of sales and marketing at the North Shore resort, which offers daily clothing and equipment rentals and lessons for newcomers. “We have 53 ski downhill runs, six chairlifts, 2,010 vertical feet, 19 kilometres of cross-country ski trails, 11 kilometres of snowshoe trails and a snow tube park,� he says. “We have something for everyone.�

It’s a short drive to Cypress Mountain from downtown Vancouver via the Lions Gate Bridge. “The beauty of being in Vancouver is you can be on the mountain in 45 minutes,� Banns, the recruiter, says. “I’ve skied up at Whistler and been back down here to golf at the back end of the day. That’s pretty cool to be able to do that.�

He says Vancouver also serves well as a hub to destinations farther afield with direct flights from Vancouver to major cities in Canada, the U.S. and holiday destinations in Mexico and overseas.

Tomaine says that even though she’s been here for nine years, taking a BC Ferries ride to Victoria, the Sunshine Coast or the Gulf Islands is still “pretty novel and cool.�

When friends visit, Bowen Island, a mere 20-minute ferry ride away, is a great place to enjoy interesting restaurants and hiking, Tomaine says. She notes she was never a hiker until she moved to Vancouver. “I still think that’s really fun.â€? É

Victoria, B.C.’s capital, is perfect for a day trip of sightseeing, shopping or whale watching | DESTINATION BC/REUBEN KRABBE

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A robust economy and burgeoning tech industry invite workers to Vancouver

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Offering advanced technology like this 1,000-qubit quantum computer processor, Burnaby’s D-Wave Systems is part of Greater Vancouver’s fast-growing tech sector | D-WAVE SYSTEMS

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hat Google would be using a NASA lab to test a quantum computer developed in a low-key suburb of Vancouver might surprise more than a few of the city’s ubiquitous yoga practitioners. It’s no surprise for Time magazine, or Forbes, or Wired, or, for that matter, any of a host of technophile publications around the world. Burnaby’s D-Wave Systems, creators of the world’s first quantum computing company and makers of the computer being used by Google, has been around since 1999.

The industry is well aware that Vancouver is home to some of the world’s leading tech companies. Often referred to as Silicon Valley North, some of the city’s more famous companies include Hootsuite, Electronic Arts and Sierra Systems.

But the story of Vancouver’s tech industry, of its garage entrepreneurs and dorm-room dreamers, is only part of the picture. B.C. is booming. A WorkBC report projecting employment trends to 2025 predicts provincial economic growth of 2.2 per cent will drive employment growth at an average of 1.2 per cent per year across most sectors.

Nearly one million jobs can be expected to open up during the next 10 years with around two-thirds of them due to retirement. Eighty-nine thousand job openings are predicted for 2017, with a peak of over 97,000 job openings in 2024.

According to Statistics BC, as of September 2016 the province’s five biggest industry-sector employers were retail, health care, construction, tech services, and

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accommodation and food services. The WorkBC report projects the greatest growth will be seen in health and social assistance, professional services, retail trade, arts, recreation and hospitality, and construction.

The single greatest job potential is in health and social assistance, with 149,400 jobs coming available between now and 2025. Professional services, information technology and the construction sector also offer significant employment opportunities.

At least some post-secondary education and training will be required for nearly three-quarters of all job openings projected to 2025, with 42 per cent requiring at least a diploma, certificate or apprenticeship training. The second-largest group, 36 per cent, will require a bachelor’s, graduate or first professional degree, including related work experience.

Training and education are key, suggests the report, and for those with a degree, diploma or certificate, the opportunities will continue to increase. What the

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numbers don’t readily show, however, takes us back to the importance of technology in the provincial economy.

All economic sectors are increasingly incorporating technology into a spectrum of their operations. The rise of knowledge-based industry in B.C. has been steady since the 1960s, when the province’s biggest revenue generators – forestry, mining, transportation and the public sector – began applying tech to their operations.

For example, the B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources reported in 2009 that since 1980, gold production in B.C. mines had tripled while the number of industry employees working in extraction had decreased by more than two-thirds. The gold flecks in the bottom of that pan of sand reveal B.C.’s penchant for industry-specific innovation and a successful application of technology to increase productivity while decreasing overhead.

But a significant portion of industry statistics don’t capture the technological underpinnings of many of today’s business operations. The local affinity for backyard chicken coops and our penchant for all things kale may not be so simply regarded as traditional agriculture.

Many modern greenhouses, among other farm processes, are run by computers. Even five years ago, a B.C. Ministry of Agriculture report showed 11,208 B.C. farms reported the use of computers for the farm business.

B.C.’s manufacturing sector, for another example, saw immense growth in 2014. A 2015 Statistics BC report showed that industry’s high-tech gross domestic product grew 8.8 per cent, due in large part to the rise of processes such as the automation of prefabricated

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building construction. In fact, the report showed that the province’s high-tech sector has consistently outpaced the provincial economy.

Tech industry jobs pay well here too: 66 per cent more than the B.C. average salary, higher than the Canadian tech industry as a whole, and all against a backdrop of the third-highest employment growth rate in B.C. industries between 1999 and 2012. And that means more money to spend on the many after-work activities that B.C. has on offer. É

Vancouver is home to leading tech companies like Hootsuite, known for its cool offices with features like this sunken lounge with fireplace, beanbag chairs, wooden antler chandeliers and ski decor | HOOTSUITE

TEN-YEAR TOTAL JOB OPENINGS BY MAJOR INDUSTRY GROUP, 2015-25 Health and social assistance Professional services Retail trade Arts, recreation and hospitality Construction Education Finance, insurance and real estate Manufacturing Transportation, warehousing and storage Government Wholesale trade Other private services Information and culture Agriculture and primary Utilities

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83,400 79,400 64,900 48,400 57,800 49,900 41,100 51,300 41,300 30,800 24,600 27,800 15,000 21,800 4,400

66,000 46,800 42,500 38,400 15,200 17,100 16,400 900 10,100 11,400 9,400 3,200 12,500 2,200 -100

Total 149,400 126,200 107,400 86,800 73,000 67,000 57,500 52,200 51,400 42,200 34,000 31,000 27,500 24,000 4,300

SOURCE: WORKBC, BRITISH COLUMBIA 2025 LARBOUR MARKET OUTLOOK

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Key Regional Transit Connections west vancouver Horseshoe Bay Ferry

north vancouver

Park Royal 250 239

Lonsdale Quay

257

239 130

Phibbs Exchange

239

SeaBus

250

Capilano University

Lynn Valley Centre

229

257

To Langdale, Nanaimo and Bowen Island

burrard inlet

ZONE 2

130

ZONE 1

stanley park

Waterfront Burrard

West Coast Express

Cambie St– W Hastings

10

Vancouver City–Centre

20

Granville St– W Hastings St

Willin Ha

130 160

95 B-Line Commercial Dr– E Hastings St

Main St– E Hastings St

Kootenay Loop

Nanaimo St– Renfrew St– E Hastings St E Hastings St

Gilmore Ave– Hastings St

Granville

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Stadium– Chinatown 10

20

3

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Yaletown– Roundhouse

Li ne

Main Street–Science World

84

Sasamat St– W 10th Ave

49

Macdonald St– W Broadway

Granville St– W Broadway

41

84

Main St– E Broadway

VCC– Clark

Fraser St– E Broadway

99 B-Line

Willow St– W Broadway

Commercial– Broadway Renfrew

Rupert

Gilmore

Clark Dr– E Broadway

Nanaimo

vancouver

43

Broadway– City Hall

Arbutus St– W Broadway

ZONE 2

UBC

84

Alma St– W Broadway

ZONE 1

Allison Rd– University Blvd

Olympic Village

King Edward

10

20

3

41

41

43

43

Oakrdige– 41st Avenue

49

43

Joyce– Collingwood

Canada Line

10

49

41

Patterson

20

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29th Avenue pacific spirit regional park

130

Langara– 49th Avenue

49

49

49

430

430

Metrotown 10

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Marine Drive

100

430

100

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Bridgeport

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100

richmond

Sea Island Templeton

430 351

sea isl and

Aberdeen

410 601 620

410

Lansdowne

301

301 410

301

351

430

601 620

Richmond– Brighouse

fraser r

410

Steveston

640

601 620 640

burns bo

601 620

Ladner Exchange

620

delta

351

601

Tsawwassen Ferry To Victoria, Nanaimo and Southern Gulf Islands

georgia strait

South Delta Exchange

boundar

Tsawwassen map not to scale

For transit information call 604.953.3333 or visit translink.ca

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SkyTrain High frequency rail service.

Early morning to late evening, seven days a week.

Canada Line Expo Line

Duthie Ave– Hastings St

160

Hythe Ave– Hastings St

Bus

Lincoln 160

160

Coquitlam Central Other Transit Services

Inlet Centre

Moody Centre

burnaby

Key regular service bus routes connecting urban centres and transportation hubs, seven days a week.

160

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145

169

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Lake City Way

Port Coquitlam

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701 791

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701 791

maple ridge

Columbia

Port Haney

Scott Road surrey bend regional park

fraser river

New Westminster

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Edmonds

Gateway

319

22nd Street

555

640

Whalley Blvd– 104th Ave

140th St– 104th Ave

96 B-Line

Surrey Central

340

100

Haney Place

Maple Meadows

791

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Sapperton

555

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West Coast Express peak hours.

ZONE 2

Lougheed Town Centre

123

Commuter rail service, weekday

701

port coquitlam

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Production Way– University

Frequent passenger ferry service. Early morning to late evening, seven days a week.

SeaBus

160

Sperling– Burnaby Lake

Bus routes providing fast and frequent service. Early morning to late evening.

B-Line

SFU

SFU Transportation Centre

Holdom Ave– Kensington Ave– Hastings St Hastings St

Brentwood Town Centre Holdom

Lafarge Lake– Douglas

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ngdon Ave– astings St

130

Millennium Line

port moody

410

144th St– 104th Ave

148th St– 104th Ave

Guildford 595

501

320 501

321 502 503

King George

340

green timbers urban forest

96th Ave– King George Blvd

319 410

501

320

640

555

Carvolth Exchange

301

88th Ave– King George Blvd

Connection to Route 66 FVX to Abbotsford and Chilliwack via BC Transit

502 503

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80th Ave– King George Blvd 301

river

340

Fleetwood

501

595

640

76th Ave– King George Blvd 301 301

321 320

319

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Newton Exchange

Scottdale Exchange

Willowbrook

321

501 531

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351 320

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Cloverdale

South Surrey Park and Ride

Langley Centre

321 503

351

Aldergrove

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White Rock Centre

white rock

Connection to Route 21 to Abbotsford via BC Transit

© 2016 SOUTH COAST BRITISH COLUMBIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY DOING BUSINESS AS TRANSLINK. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Key Regional Transit Connections – Effective December 19, 2016 – 0KRT01

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GREATER VANCOUVER AREA PROFILES LIONS BAY

BOWEN ISLAND WEST VANCOUVER | 41 DISTRICT OF NORTH VANCOUVER | 41 CITY OF NORTH VANCOUVER | 41

ANMORE BELCARRA

PORT MOODY | 43

VANCOUVER | 36

COQUITLAM | 43 PORT COQUITLAM | 43

BURNABY | 39

PITT MEADOWS | 43

NEW WESTMINSTER | 39 RICHMOND | 39

SURREY | 45

DELTA | 45

CITY OF LANGLEY | 45

WHITE ROCK

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From downtown urban chic to the mountain playground of the North Shore and the more affordable eastern suburbs, Greater Vancouver has an area to suit everyone. Use this section to find the right neighbourhood for you.

MAPLE RIDGE | 43 CHILLIWACK | 47 MISSION | 47

TOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY | 45

ABBOTSFORD | 47

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Vancouver

THE CITY BEAUTIFUL A stunning backdrop sets the stage for a city of livable communities

sailors into a modern metropolis. While residents lament the lack of historic landmarks, renovations and redevelopments point to the future. Densification is revitalizing streetscapes in the Oak Street, Cambie Street, Fraser Street and Kingsway corridors. Meanwhile, ambitious new residential and office towers are transforming the skyline from a city of glass to one with class.

With a backdrop of mountains and water, Vancouver consistently ranks among the most livable cities in the world | DESTINATION BC/ALBERT NORMANDIN

Off-leash dog area at Kitsilano’s Vanier Park | TOURISM VANCOUVER/KITSILANO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

PETER MITHAM

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ancouver regularly ranks among the most livable cities in the world. Residents revel in its gleaming downtown towers and vibrant cultural mix, but it’s the backdrop of mountains and water that stands out for the thousands of people who choose to live and play here every year.

Its coastal location also makes it Canada’s gateway to Asia, an entry point for goods and people from around the globe. Its petite downtown peninsula is packed with neighbourhoods yet easy to navigate on foot, bicycle or transit. English, Chinese and Punjabi are the top local languages, but listen closely and you’ll hear a world more.

Some of the best Chinese food outside of China is made here, while Filipino workers mingle with a jet set hailing from Europe, the Middle East and Asia in the city’s network of civic spaces.

Within living memory, migration from within Canada and across the world has transformed a city of loggers and

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DOWNTOWN Q Vancouver boasts one of the most compact and livable urban cores in the world, thanks to a mix of office towers and condos that define high-density West Coast living. Gastown and Chinatown are downtown’s core residential neighbourhoods, constantly reinventing themselves with chic restaurants and contemporary residences. Rogers Arena and BC Place, the city’s primary sports venues, are a short distance from galleries and theatres. Trains, buses, float planes and ferries lead to destinations throughout the province.

WEST END, COAL HARBOUR Q The West End, one of Canada’s most densely populated neighbourhoods, and Coal Harbour lie west of Burrard Street between English Bay and Burrard Inlet. While the West End has long been a favourite of renters, developers are giving it a makeover with plans for new towers with international flair designed to rival Coal Harbour, an upscale precinct of multimillion-dollar condos that have transformed the former Canadian Pacific Railway yards on the harbourfront. Just minutes from downtown offices, the area’s homes have marinas, beaches and the 1,000-acre urban oasis of Stanley Park for their backyard, while Robson, Denman and Davie streets provide shopping and entertainment.

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YALETOWN Q A forest of condo towers has transformed

this former warehouse district into a model for urban planners around the world. Expo 86 set the stage for Concord Pacific to redevelop the north shore of False Creek, and jobs followed as tech companies set up shop in adjacent warehouse properties. More recently, towers have sprouted toward the Granville Street Bridge on the south side of downtown. Yet the heart of Yaletown remains Davie and Mainland streets, where Canada Line trains shuttle passengers to and from Vancouver International Airport.

WEST POINT GREY Q West of Alma Street, overlooking Jericho, Locarno and Spanish Banks beaches, West Point Grey attracts both prosperous professionals and students.

Once its own municipality, West Point Grey is home to some of the most expensive properties in the city. An influx of new owners has led to the redevelopment of many properties, while students attending the neighbouring University of British Columbia (UBC) rent others. Shops, restaurants and services cluster around West 10th Avenue and Sasamat Street. Transit routes run along the key eastwest streets, connecting residents to UBC and downtown.

Neighbourhood

Houses

Townhouses

Apartments

Arbutus Ridge Cambie, Oakridge, South Cambie Downtown Dunbar, MacKenzie Heights, Southlands East Vancouver (Main, Fraser, Knight, Victoria) Fairview, False Creek, Mount Pleasant West Fraserview, Champlain, Killarney, South Vancouver Grandview, Mount Pleasant East Hastings, Hastings East Kitsilano Marpole Renfrew, Renfrew Heights, Collingwood Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale, Quilchena South Granville, Southwest Marine University West End, Coal Harbour West Point Grey Yaletown

$3,680,000 $3,008,000 NA $3,480,000 $1,560,000

$1,352,000 $1,379,900 $861,250 $1,130,000 $952,500

$450,750 $623,000 $571,000 $601,500 $434,400

$2,638,000

$859,010

$605,000

$1,588,000

$634,000

$522,080

$1,460,000 $1,482,000 $2,659,000 $2,302,000 $1,395,000 $4,250,000 $3,608,000 $5,100,000 $1,612,500 $3,568,000 NA

$988,250 $849,500 $1,291,500 $1,198,800 $938,000 $1,590,000 $1,598,800 $1,315,000 $1,198,000 $740,000 $1,398,000

$506,000 $365,000 $546,000 $453,500 $353,650 $762,000 $620,000 $746,750 $700,000 $565,000 $750,000

SOURCE: REBGV; MEDIAN SALE PRICE, ROLLING 12 MONTHS AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

life who can be found mingling at Kitsilano Beach, in the upscale restaurants and boutiques of West 4th Avenue, or at the neighbourhood’s annual Khatsahlano and Greek Day festivals. Transit along West 4th Avenue and Broadway connects with SkyTrain, while cycling is a popular means of transportation.

DUNBAR, MACKE N ZIE HEIG HT S , SOUTH LANDS Q Southlands is a riverfront neighbourhood

south of Southwest Marine Drive that’s home to riverfront trails, equestrian estates and the city’s last remaining agricultural land. This secluded corner of Vancouver is a bucolic contrast to the established single-family neighbourhoods of Dunbar and MacKenzie Heights with their manicured lawns and city views. West 41st Avenue and Dunbar Street are key arteries and home to shops, services and transit connections.

ARBUTUS RIDGE Q This affluent, family-friendly

UNIVERSITY Q UBC’s campus on the western edge of West Point Grey is home to some of the city’s best-known cultural jewels as well as a fast-growing residential community. Comprising more than 3,000 acres, the UBC campus, the University Endowment Lands and Pacific Spirit Regional Park provide a refuge from city life and connection with the city’s ancient forests and bogs. Wesbrook Village, the newest neighbourhood on campus, is home to shops and restaurants that give the neighbourhood its own flair.

neighbourhood has welcomed an influx of apartments in recent years that complement a well-established stock of single-family homes. A generous mix of parks and community centres attracts young children and seniors, while stunning views continue to draw buyers in the prime of life. A greenway through the Arbutus corridor is a new and evolving amenity. Arbutus Shopping Centre, the main retail complex, anchors the neighbourhood with its central location, while buses provide links to UBC, downtown and SkyTrain.

KITSILANO Q Kitsilano (“Kits” to locals) is conveniently located between West Point Grey and downtown. The neighbourhood is a crossroads for people from all walks of

SHAUGHNESSY, KERRISDALE, QUILCHENA Q The tony precincts of Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale and Quilchena have historically been home to some of Vancouver’s most

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Restaurants line Mainland Street in Yaletown | TOURISM VANCOUVER/CANADIAN TOURISM COMMISSION

Cherry blossom trees line a street in East Vancouver | BRIAN GANTER/SHUTTERSTOCK

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appreciate the area’s transit connections to Langara College and UBC. SOUTH GRANVILLE, SOUTHWEST MARINE Q The south end of Granville Street overlooks the Fraser River and is home to a mix of single-family homes and rental apartments. The area’s appeal lies in its proximity to the airport and home prices that compare favourably to neighbouring Shaughnessy and Kerrisdale. Riverside trails off Southwest Marine Drive and the expansive Fraser River Park provide recreational opportunities. The neighbourhood is underserved by transit, making a vehicle essential for getting around.

The Granville Island Public Market is popular with both locals and visitors | TOURISM VANCOUVER/CLAYTON PERRY

affluent residents and the estates designed to preserve their privacy. Some of the city’s priciest properties are located here, many enjoying protected heritage status, beneath the boughs of ancient trees that speak to the area’s old-fashioned splendour and prestige. Quilchena Park attracts ballplayers and picnic groups; shopping is available on Granville Street and West 41st Avenue.

Students take public transit to local schools and UBC, but private vehicles carry the rest.

FAIRVIEW, FAL SE CREEK, MOUNT PLEASANT WEST Q Together, these three neighbourhoods are the

heart of the Broadway corridor, which boasts the region’s largest cluster of offices outside of downtown Vancouver.

Vancouver General Hospital, life science companies and tech stars such as Hootsuite provide jobs for the professionals and families who call the area home. Townhomes and low-rise apartment blocks dominate, but highrises along False Creek are part of the area’s evolution. A cut more expensive than areas farther east, homes are within walking distance of Granville Island and transit services.

GRANDVIEW, MOUNT PLEASANT EAST Q Grandview and Mount Pleasant East are the heart of working-class Vancouver, with warehouses, rail lines and port lands just a few blocks away. Development of the Great Northern Way Campus is transforming the area into a high-tech hub, boosting its popularity with young professionals, and city planners have opened the door to fresh housing development to the east. SkyTrain, express buses and feeder routes to the Trans-Canada Highway place the area within a short distance of neighbourhoods across the city and region.

CAMBIE, OAKRIDGE, SOUTH CAMBIE Q Convenient connections to Vancouver International Airport and downtown, as well as proximity to Oakridge Centre and Langara College, contribute to the appeal of housing in this trio of west-side neighbourhoods. Redevelopment promises to add a host of new community amenities, complementing Queen Elizabeth Park, the highest point in Vancouver, and VanDusen Botanical Garden. Students

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MARPOLE Q Marpole, long known for aging walk-ups, is undergoing a transformation as highrise towers take root.

Situated between downtown Vancouver and Richmond, Marpole is an ideal bedroom community with a tightknit spirit. A new marina and bar add to local amenities, which include riverfront trails and parks. Proximity to the airport and highway connections to the U.S. complement transit, making Marpole a home for people on the go.

EAST VANCOUVER (MAIN, FRASER, KNIGHT, VICTORIA) Q East of Queen Elizabeth Park and south of 16th

Avenue, the vibrant East Vancouver neighbourhoods of Main, Fraser and Knight streets and Victoria Drive are home to relatively affordable single-family homes and a growing number of new low-rise apartments. A rich mix of cultures means everything from congee to kielbasa is available in local shops. Better yet, it’s just 20 minutes from downtown by transit or bicycle.

FRASERVIEW, CHAMPLAIN, KILLARNEY, SOUTH VANCOUVER Q Fraserview, Champlain, Killarney and

South Vancouver are oriented to the Fraser River, where the River District development is creating a new residential community with up to 10,000 people. Better transit services and paths for urban hikers and bikers are taking shape, but a vehicle remains essential for crossing the city.

Affordable housing has made these neighbourhoods ideal for immigrants and young families.

HASTINGS, HASTINGS EAST Q Running from the downtown core to Burnaby, Hastings Street includes both the underprivileged and the up-and-coming. Railtown and the shopping area east of Nanaimo Street showcase the city’s industrial roots and immigrant cultures. In between, craft breweries and condos are fuelling urban renewal. Hastings Park offers a swath of green space on the edge of Burnaby. Transit routes link Hastings Street with Simon Fraser University, North Vancouver and Port Coquitlam.

R E N F R E W, R E N F R E W H E I G H T S , C O L L I N G WOOD Q Grandview Highway and a pair of SkyTrain

lines cut across this easternmost trio of neighbourhoods, creating a convenient alternative to areas farther south.

Grandview is the commercial heart of the area, with Broadway Tech Centre, film studios and light manufacturing supporting well-paying jobs, while transit provides links to downtown and Burnaby’s office parks. É

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE SUBURBS Vancouver’s immediate neighbours have unique histories, characters PETER MITHAM

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urnaby, Richmond and New Westminster are Vancouver’s closest neighbours this side of the Fraser River. Cities in their own right, they look onto the working waterfront of the Fraser River like three amigos, each with its own personality. A range of services and amenities lets them stand shoulder to shoulder with the region’s core metropolis at the heart of Metro Vancouver. Thanks to rapid transit connections, all three municipalities are enjoying boom times from the region’s outward growth – something likely to continue for decades to come.

BURNABY OR BUST Q Immediately east of Vancouver, Burnaby is B.C.’s third-largest municipality and home to the province’s biggest mall, Metropolis at Metrotown. Yet the city is defined by transit routes that carry commuters to stations across Burnaby in as little as 25 minutes. These facilitate travel to the city’s two postsecondary institutions, Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), with their programs in the arts, sciences and trades, as well as business parks in the Still Creek and Lake City locales. Complementing the transit lines, upgrades to the Trans-Canada Highway have eased congestion and improved access to offices and industrial parks on the Fraser River to the south.

The banks of the Fraser River are also home to walking trails that offer verdant retreats steps from offices and warehouses. Indeed, the city boasts one of the highest ratios of parkland to residents in North America.

Burnaby Lake and Deer Lake parks in the heart of the community are also popular venues for festivals and arts events.

Metropolis at Metrotown is not the only game in town when it comes to shopping. The city’s triple crown includes the Lougheed Town Centre and Brentwood Town Centre developments. Residential developments around all three malls take advantage of the amenities they offer as well as transit lines to draw homebuyers from around the world. Metrotown is also a hub for office development, drawing in workers who can find a cosmopolitan range of options for lunch in the surrounding streets. Whether it’s Italian cuisine in Burnaby Heights or Chinese fare at eateries in Crystal Mall, the local restaurant scene is as varied and multicultural as the city’s residents.

STRIKE IT RICHMOND Q Vancouver’s southern sister features fabulous retailers and exciting attractions.

Alexandra Road boasts 200-plus restaurants within three blocks, while the International Summer Night Market is a slice of Asia’s vibrant street life.

The visually stunning Olympic Oval offers public

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Totem poles against a sweeping view of Burnaby and Vancouver from Burnaby Mountain | EDWIN CHRISTOPHER/SHUTTERSTOCK

The Canada Line SkyTrain runs through downtown Richmond | TOURISM RICHMOND/AL HARVEY

skating adjacent to riverside trails that wind around the city to historic Steveston, one of the city’s enduring attractions. Historic sites such as the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, Britannia Heritage Shipyard and London Heritage Farm preserve the area’s roots as a farming and fishing community, a place where the day’s catch can still be bought fresh off the boats of local fishers not far from where Belted Galloway cattle of the Steves Farm graze coastal pastures.

Richmond is a first stop for immigrants travelling through Vancouver International Airport, located on Sea Island at the mouth of the middle arm of the Fraser River. A visible reminder of the city’s cultural diversity is the more than 60 temples, mosques, churches and chapels located in the city, many of which congregate

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HOME PRICES Neighbourhood

Detached

Attached

Apartments

Burnaby East Burnaby North Burnaby South New Westminster Richmond

$1,228,900 $1,565,300 $1,689,400 $1,085,500 $1,686,300

$516,300 $538,000 $586,400 $535,600 $721,300

$531,000 $466,600 $532,100 $384,400 $439,000

SOURCE: REBGV; BENCHMARK PRICES AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Work is also a local affair, with No. 3 Road designated as the spot for new office development alongside existing office and industrial parks in East Richmond. The city is also home to farms, food processors and distribution facilities that serve the region, and the world.

With a large stock of single-family homes and several highrise developments, not to mention campuses for Kwantlen Polytechnic University, BCIT and Trinity Western University, as well as nearly 50 choices for elementary and secondary schooling, Richmond is the educated choice for many families.

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE:

Condominium towers along the shore of the Fraser River in New Westminster | MAX LINDENTHALER/SHUTTERSTOCK

The Richmond Night Market, open during the summer months, attracts visitors from around the world for its ethnic food and entertainment | RONNIE CHUA/SHUTTERSTOCK

Deer Lake Park, Burnaby | JOSEF HANUS/SHUTTERSTOCK

along No. 5 Road (known locally as the “Highway to Heaven”).

Rapid transit connections to both downtown Vancouver and Surrey make getting around easy, but numerous big-box stores as well as the Richmond, Aberdeen and Yaohan shopping centres mean residents never have to travel far to find whatever they’re seeking. The outlet shops of McArthurGlen on Sea Island serve travellers staying at the area’s several airport-oriented hotels.

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GO NEW WEST Q The original capital of B.C., New Westminster is a city of nearly 72,000 people that retains the friendliness of its frontier roots. Those roots are celebrated in events such as the annual Hyack Festival, originally held in 1870 and said to be the longest-running May Day celebration of its kind in the Commonwealth.

Similarly, RiverFest pays annual tribute to the Fraser River that edges a large portion of town. Other public parties include a culture crawl, music festival, food truck festival, Victorian Christmas and multicultural fest.

SkyTrain loops through the city from neighbouring Burnaby, connecting New Westminster with the SFU campus on Burnaby Mountain as well as with Surrey on the opposite side of the Fraser River. In between, workers hop on and off on their way to the city’s 13 neighbourhoods. Among the most popular with young families is Queensborough, which lies off transit but close to cycling paths and job opportunities. Older neighbourhoods on the north shore of the Fraser offer heritage homes and family-run shops. The revitalized River Market at the foot of 8th Street, with its mix of artisans and food vendors, anchors the emerging communities along the bustling waterfront with its boardwalk.

A dozen primary and secondary schools lay a local foundation for learning, while post-secondary institutions include Douglas College, the Justice Institute of BC and the Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine.

For entertainment, there’s the long-established Royal City Musical Theatre players at the Massey Theatre and comedy or mystery shows on Queen’s Park’s stages. The park’s sports arena is home to the New Westminster Salmonbellies, one of the oldest professional lacrosse teams in Canada. É

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North Vancouver ■West Vancouver

ON THE SLOPES The North Shore offers mountainside luxury, waterfront ambience

PETER MITHAM

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hree in one and one in three, a trinity of communities lies at the foot of the Coast Mountains north of Burrard Inlet. Known collectively as the North Shore, the city of West Vancouver and the city and district of North Vancouver were established as a single entity in 1891. Prosperity at the turn of the century led to the formation of the city of North Vancouver as the commercial core of the region in 1907, while West Vancouver, wishing to distinguish itself from the industrial zone east of the Capilano River, separated in 1912.

Today, the three municipalities are home to a multicultural population that tends to stick close to home, often working at neighbourhood businesses or in one of the many commercial areas along the waterfront.

Rush hour on the Lions Gate and Ironworkers Memorial bridges is defined more by when parents take children to school than by workers commuting to downtown. The homes clustered along the ragged shore from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove form several close-knit communities, including Eagle Harbour, Caulfeild, Lynn Valley and Maplewood.

NORTH VANCOUVER Q North Vancouver is really two municipalities – the city and district – under one moniker. Together, the pair occupy the area east of the Capilano River. The city includes the commercial heart along Lonsdale Avenue north to 29th Street, as well as the area from MacKay Road in the west to Mountain Highway in the east. The district, simply put, is everything else.

Highrises clustered in the Lower Lonsdale area define the city, which stretches north along the spine of Lonsdale Avenue to 29th Street. Upscale restaurants and condos to rival Yaletown’s give way to family-run shops and restaurants, but redevelopment is bringing new amenities and employment opportunities.

Capilano Mall and Park & Tilford serve as retail bookends for the city, with new shops providing exciting new opportunities along Marine Drive west of MacKay Road. The Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier is popular with visitors, while shops along Lonsdale Avenue offer plenty of goods and services. Lonsdale is also home to several galleries, but the best known is the Presentation House Gallery on Chesterfield Avenue, part of an arts centre within the city.

The district is a larger municipality dominated by single-family residences ranging from mountainside villas to creekside cottages. Some properties, especially

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SeaBus crosses Burrard Inlet from downtown Vancouver toward North Vancouver and its snowy mountain backdrop | ROMAKOMA/ SHUTTERSTOCK

West Vancouver’s Dundarave Beach features a popular promenade for walking, with residential towers and Lions Gate Bridge in the distance | JOSEF HANUS/SHUTTERSTOCK

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HOME PRICES Neighbourhood

Detached

Attached

Apartments

North Vancouver West Vancouver

$1,663,500 $3,363,700

$878,600 $1,550,000

$453,600 $901,200

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The Grouse Grind hiking trail up North Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain is a rite of passage for local residents | LIJUAN GUO/SHUTTERSTOCK

Skiers look west from atop Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver | TOURISM VANCOUVER/CANADIAN TOURISM COMMISSION

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around Deep Cove, rival the luxury homes of West Vancouver, while others are older homes slated for redevelopment and densification. High-density construction on former industrial sites in the Seylynn area is extending urban amenities from Lower Lonsdale to other parts of the municipality.

Mount Seymour is a favoured winter destination for skiers and snowboarders, while the famous Grouse Grind takes hikers up Grouse Mountain. A rite of passage (and endurance test) for local residents, it’s a great place to mingle with the locals while getting in touch with nature. The 48-kilometre Baden-Powell Trail runs from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay, connecting bikers, joggers and hikers with West Vancouver and the North Shore’s natural splendour.

WEST VANCOUVER Q A city of many neighbourhoods, West Vancouver encompasses both the toniest and most rustic areas of Metro Vancouver. A short distance from downtown, it offers homes synonymous with the West Coast’s good life. Ocean views from forest-clad slopes just below the Cypress Mountain ski area make West Vancouver a retreat as well as a wealthy suburb where the amenities of the Dundarave and Ambleside neighbourhoods offer quaint, old-time shopping experiences.

Ambleside Park is a key venue for festivals and home to a popular dog park. A seawall promenade connects it with Dundarave farther west. Several community centres provide indoor recreational facilities.

Horseshoe Bay is home to a busy marina and ferry connections to Bowen Island, Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. The secluded enclave of Eagle Harbour is home to the West Vancouver Yacht Club, and nearby Lighthouse Park provides a touch of unspoiled wilderness for those not keen to follow the trails leading above to Eagle Bluffs.

Caulfeild Elementary and Rockridge Secondary schools are the choice for many West Vancouver students, but plenty of other top-rated options exist, including Mulgrave and Sentinel Secondary schools.

Park Royal is the municipality’s premier retail destination and Canada’s oldest enclosed shopping centre.

An ambitious redevelopment of the mall’s south side has added exciting new retail and entertainment space.

The mall is also the hub for West Vancouver’s iconic Blue Buses that link the North Shore with downtown Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay. É

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Coquitlam ■Port Coquitlam ■Port Moody ■Maple Ridge ■Pitt Meadows

THE FABULOUS FIVE Rustic living is an easy commute from Vancouver by car or public transit

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lustered at the foot of the Garibaldi Ranges lies a cluster of five communities – Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and the trio collectively known as the Tri-Cities – offering a blend of urban charms and rural simplicity a mere hour from downtown Vancouver. Situated east of North Vancouver, at the head of Burrard Inlet, the area is linked to the rest of the region by Lougheed Highway (Highway 7) and the Golden Ears Bridge, just a 30-minute drive from the U.S. border. The new Evergreen Extension brings SkyTrain service to Coquitlam, connecting commuters with the West Coast Express rail service that links the area with downtown Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

THREE’S COMPANY Q Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody, collectively known as the Tri-Cities, have seen a boom in residential development in recent years in anticipation of the Evergreen rapid transit line running north from Burnaby. While the multimilliondollar homes in Coquitlam’s ritzy Westwood Plateau area may not suit every budget, the duplexes of River Heights and towers of Coquitlam Centre offer more affordable options. Best of all, more development is coming because it’s among the region’s most popular and affordable destinations.

The westernmost municipality, Port Moody, sits on Burrard Inlet and offers local residents picture-perfect conditions for a plethora of water sports, including swimming, boating and cold-water scuba diving. Cultural pursuits are abundant here, too, earning Port Moody the moniker City of the Arts. An annual film festival in March and July’s Golden Spike Days Festival, which celebrates the city’s railroading roots, are key events.

Commercial activities occur mostly in Newport Village, home to urban condo towers, while single-family housing is available in the College Park, Glenayre and Harbour Heights neighbourhoods.

Coquitlam, just east of Port Moody on Highway 7, is home to a large francophone community. The annual Festival du Bois in Maillardville celebrates the city’s distinctive cultural character, and several French-language schools are a legacy of the city’s forebears.

Port Coquitlam, once a heavily rural area, is now a large residential community with a variety of industrial and commercial activities, including metal fabrication, technology and transportation. Nevertheless, it retains a rustic, relaxed feel. Residents and visitors alike flock to its expansive parkland and extensive trail network.

Cultural activities are also a draw: Port Coquitlam plays host to open-air concerts, farmers markets, parades and public festivals all year long.

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Coquitlam city centre, as seen from above in 2015 | CITY OF COQUITLAM/ JON BENJAMIN PHOTOGRAPHY

Fishing the Coquitlam River in fall | CITY OF COQUITLAM The pier at Rocky Point Park in Port Moody | CITY OF PORT MOODY

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HOME PRICES Neighbourhood

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Coquitlam Port Coquitlam Port Moody Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows

$1,211,000 $888,500 $1,386,200 $719,900 $793,600

$524,000 $543,500 $545,600 $398,000 $474,900

$346,500 $311,800 $480,200 $203,900 $305,200

SOURCE: REBGV; BENCHMARK PRICES AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

MAPLE RIDGE AND PITT MEADOWS Q Across the Pitt River from the Tri-Cities lie Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge, close-knit communities known for their large berry plantations and stunning alpine vistas. A quick 45-minute drive east of Vancouver, the two cities are home to 95,000 residents and a range of housing, employment and recreational opportunities. From trout fishing in Pitt Lake to hiking in nearby Golden Ears Provincial Park, outdoor enthusiasts will find plenty to do when the workday’s through.

Maple Ridge’s expanding downtown core is a hub of shops and services, while significant warehouse development at Pitt Meadows Airport is yielding wellpaying employment opportunities. A number of incentives are helping attract fresh commercial and residential development to Maple Ridge, building on the city’s established mill sector.

The communities’ rustic roots provide inspiration for many local artisans, from food processors to artists. Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge host more than a dozen public festivals and celebrations each year, from art studio tours to sports events, trade shows, farmers markets and outdoor concerts. É CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE:

Blueberry farm in winter near Maple Ridge | LIJUAN GUO/SHUTTERSTOCK

Various sporting activities take place in Coquitlam’s Poirier Sport & Leisure Complex | CITY OF COQUITLAM Golden Ears Bridge lit up at night, with Coast Mountains backdrop | STEVE SMITH/SHUTTERSTOCK

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Delta ■Surrey ■Langley

SOUTHBOUND GROWTH Delta, Surrey and Langley attract those looking for affordable housing

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he area south of the Fraser River is just 45 minutes from downtown Vancouver yet a world apart. Affordable housing that draws young families and a rich mix of cultures boosts population growth, making this one of the province’s fastest-growing regions.

Jobs run the gamut from office and professional work to highly skilled blue-collar opportunities in agriculture, manufacturing and distribution. Universities have fostered clusters of technology companies, while significant investments in local road and rail networks support connections with Vancouver’s port.

Recreational opportunities and summer festivals abound, offering room to play as well as work. Transportation connections, the Golden Ears Bridge and the expanded Port Mann Bridge place the region at the centre of the Lower Mainland and make it a crossroads for traffic from across the country or travelling to and from the U.S.

DELTA, PORT OF CALL Q Sitting on the south bank of the Fraser River, Delta encompasses the communities of Tsawwassen, Ladner and North Delta. It also neighbours Tsawwassen First Nation, which is undertaking ambitious residential and industrial developments, not to mention two major new shopping malls. Tsawwassen is largely residential, while Ladner is home to the municipality’s administrative centre and Roberts Bank, slated for a major new container terminal. Agriculture is also a significant industry, supplying greenhouse vegetables, berries and field crops to Vancouver and the world. Commercial development adjacent to the new South Fraser Perimeter Road, which provides a beeline from Tsawwassen to Langley, promises residents job opportunities well into the future, while housing and amenities keep pace.

North Delta is home to a vibrant mix of cultures and shops and housing that is typically cheaper than in Tsawwassen or Ladner. Situated along the Fraser River, it includes Annieville, the area’s historic heart, as well as numerous parks and conservation areas boasting networks of walking and cycling trails. Here, as throughout the municipality, agricultural land doubles as green space. Highway 99 and the Tsawwassen ferry terminal connect Delta with the U.S. and Vancouver Island.

SURREY, THE CENTRAL CITY Q Surrey, designated by regional planners as home of the region’s second downtown, is the southeastern terminus of the region’s SkyTrain rapid transit line. A new civic centre and highrise condos mark the city’s core, which lies at the heart of a swath of industrial land. Highway 1 and the South Fraser Perimeter Road are key east-west transportation

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Surrey’s city centre is known for its stunning architecture, beautiful works of public art and a bustling innovation hub | TOURISM SURREY/ CHRISTOPHER BRADFORD

The BC Ferries terminal in Tsawwassen connects Delta with the U.S. and Vancouver Island | VOLODYMYR KYRYLYUK/SHUTTERSTOCK

routes that provide rapid access from Surrey to surrounding municipalities and ports.

Subdivisions, farmland and parks stretch south to the Canada-U.S. border, a lush backyard to the city’s urban core. Morgan Crossing, Grandview Corners and other shopping destinations anchor residential communities, while Campbell Valley Regional Park and the White Rock waterfront offer recreational opportunities.

Cloverdale, which has a long farming history, is home to a new night market.

Surrey is home to several well-regarded public and private schools, as well as campuses of Simon Fraser University and Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

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North Delta Ladner Tsawwassen Surrey-North Surrey-Central Surrey-Cloverdale South Surrey-White Rock Langley

$875,900 $1,064,800 $1,269,700 $870,700 $886,300 $887,500 $1,459,800 $882,000

$492,100 $639,200 $637,900 $345,500 $433,700 $463,900 $565,700 $430,300

$199,300 $408,900 $427,700 $229,100 $238,800 $297,200 $339,900 $261,400

SOURCE: REBGV, FVREB; BENCHMARK PRICES AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

200 Street commercial corridor contrasts with the secluded acreages south of 8 Avenue. The city encompasses Langley’s commercial heart, while the township is a separate municipality where bucolic equestrian acreages sit alongside prosperous berry farms. Wineries and roadside stands are popular tourist stops, and a chance for locals to stock up, too.

Relatively cheap land prices keep local housing in demand and have also attracted warehouses with their well-paying jobs. Pitt Meadows and other municipalities north of the Fraser are now within the ambit of Langley residents thanks to the Golden Ears Bridge. U.S. border crossings in Surrey and Aldergrove are minutes away.

Transit connections link the Langleys to SkyTrain in Surrey, while Highway 10 leads to Delta and the Tsawwassen ferry terminal. Abbotsford International Airport, a short distance east, is a convenient alternative to Vancouver International Airport, thanks to regular WestJet schedules.

In addition to primary and secondary schools, the Langleys are home to internationally acclaimed Trinity Western University and Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s School of Horticulture. É CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE:

Crescent Beach in South Surrey is one of the best spots in Metro Vancouver to catch the sunset | TOURISM SURREY/ CHRISTOPHER BRADFORD

Heritage building at Fort Langley National Historic Site | DESTINATION BC/ DANNIELLE HAYES

U-pick fields such as those at Krause Berry Farms are a popular attraction in Langley | DESTINATION BC/ALBERT NORMANDIN

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Abbotsford ■Mission ■Chilliwack

COUNTRY LIVING A rich farming heritage gives the Fraser Valley a sustainable edge

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he Fraser Valley, an hour’s drive from Vancouver via the Trans-Canada Highway, accounts for more than half of B.C.’s agricultural revenue.

But if Abbotsford has historically laid claim to being the raspberry capital of Canada, urban amenities are sweetening the pie for major centres in Abbotsford, Mission and Chilliwack.

ABSOLUTE ABBOTSFORD Q Abbotsford lies roughly 70 kilometres east of Vancouver on Highway 1 and is home to an international airport that many consider a convenient alternative to Vancouver International Airport. Aerospace and transportation companies have joined farming among the area’s most important industries, and they provide local jobs, too: 60 per cent of Abbotsford’s 141,500 residents work locally, making for an easy commute.

The city’s stock of residential housing has increased in response to the economic growth, offering a range of options for young families and first-time buyers. Keeping pace with residential growth, Abbotsford School District operates 46 public elementary, middle and secondary schools. The city is also home to a campus of the University of the Fraser Valley.

Shopping includes farm stands and markets selling locally grown produce, while downtown features a variety of local retailers. Sumas Way and the new Highstreet development at the Mount Lehman interchange are home to many brand-name retailers.

Rural pursuits such as four-wheeling are big here, but fitness junkies can hike up Sumas Mountain or try the Abby Grind up Glen Ryder Trail. Those who wish to sit back and watch others play can take in two of the city’s most popular annual events: the Abbotsford International Airshow and Abbotsford Agrifair.

MISSION POSSIBLE Q The district of Mission, on the north bank of the Fraser River east of Maple Ridge and opposite Abbotsford, is home to 39,000 residents. Commuters can either travel the Lougheed Highway through Maple Ridge and the Tri-Cities to reach Vancouver or hop on the West Coast Express commuter train. The train connects with the Evergreen rapid transit line in Port Moody, where passengers can make links to Burnaby, New Westminster and Surrey.

Unlike other Fraser Valley municipalities, Mission is mostly forested; more than 40 per cent of the district has been a municipal tree farm for more than 50 years, and the forestry sector remains a significant employer.

Other jobs lie in manufacturing and hydroelectricity.

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Mission celebrates its history through a number of heritage sites, including the Xa:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre at Hatzic Rock, one of the oldest inhabited sites in B.C. Westminster Abbey, a Benedictine monastery established in 1939, is home to approximately 30 monks who operate a seminary and raise cattle, pigs and chickens on more than 70 hectares of land.

The town itself features many roadside stands and farm markets. A thriving arts community welcomes visitors to its studios while boutique retailers and family-friendly

Mount Baker serves as a stunning backdrop for Abbotsford’s rolling countryside | TOURISM ABBOTSFORD

Historic downtown Abbotsford | TOURISM ABBOTSFORD

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Abbotsford Mission Chilliwack

$668,100 $546,500 $436,000

$299,600 $319,700 $309,900

$198,600 $208,300 $162,500

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With the rise of craft beer popularity, hop farms are settling in Abbotsford and surrounding areas due to the rich soil and perfect climate for growing hops | TOURISM ABBOTSFORD Mission’s Westminster Abbey, a Benedictine monastery established in 1939, is home to approximately 30 monks who operate a seminary and raise cattle, pigs and chickens on more than 70 hectares of land | MAX LINDENTHALER/SHUTTERSTOCK

Hiker on the ridge of Lady

eateries round out the offerings. Mission also hosts many public events at its Fraser River Heritage Park, including a folk festival, twilight concerts and car shows. The Mission Candlelight Parade, Canada’s largest night parade, occurs annually in December.

Peak in the Cheam Range near Chilliwack | MARIUS M. GRECU/SHUTTERSTOCK

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CHILLIWACK CHECKS IN Q Since its establishment in 1873, Chilliwack has grown from a rural community to a vibrant city of 87,000 people with many distinct

neighbourhoods. Bordered by mountains and recreational areas such as Cultus Lake and Chilliwack Lake provincial parks, it’s a great place to relax and connect with nature. Some of the province’s warmest daytime temperatures let residents enjoy a variety of outdoor activities year-round, from field sports to hiking. Chilliwack is also a centre for arts and culture, with two classical orchestras and thousands of artists and artisans.

The city hosts a variety of cultural events throughout the year, including the Chilliwack International Film Series. The local arts council offers classes in dance, cooking and theatre, and organizes its popular Chilliwack Christmas Craft Market in December. Vedder Road is the key shopping strip, while the city’s historic downtown features specialty stores and a weekly farmers market. The epicentre of B.C.’s hops renaissance, Chilliwack is also home to craft brewers including Old Yale and Chaos & Solace. É

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Business associations and professional organizations

Appraisal Institute of Canada – British Columbia 10451 Shellbridge Way Suite 210, Richmond V6X 2W8 p: 604-284-5515 f: 604-284-5514 w: www.aicanada.ca/province-british-columbia/ british-columbia Architectural Institute of British Columbia 440 Cambie St Suite 100, Vancouver V6B 2N5 p: 604-683-8588 f: 604-683-8568 w: www.aibc.ca Asia Pacific Foundation Canada 675 Hastings St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6B 1N2 p: 604-684-5986 f: 604-681-1370 w: www.asiapacific.ca Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC 4010 Regent St Suite 200, Burnaby V5C 6N2 p: 604-430-8035 f: 604-430-8085 w: www.apeg.bc.ca BC Chamber of Commerce 750 Pender St W Suite 1201, Vancouver V6C 2T8 p: 604-683-0700 f: 604-683-0416 w: www.bcchamber.org BC Economic Development Association 5428 Highroad Cres, Chilliwack V2R 3Y1 p: 604-795-7119 f: 604-795-7118 w: www.bceda.ca BC Road Builders & Heavy Construction Association 8678 Greenall Ave Suite 307, Burnaby V5J 3M6 p: 604-436-0220 f: 604-436-2627 w: www.roadbuilders.bc.ca BC Tech Association 887 Great Northern Way Suite 101, Vancouver V5T 4T5 p: 604-683-6159 f: 604-683-3879 w: www.wearebctech.com Better Business Bureau Mainland BC 788 Beatty St Suite 404, Vancouver V6B 2M1 p: 604-681-0312 f: 604-681-1544 w: mbc.bbb.org British Columbia Council for International Education 409 Granville St Suite 603, Vancouver V6C 1T2 p: 604-637-6766 f: 604-637-6765 w: www.bccie.bc.ca British Columbia Environment Industry Association 1130 Pender St W Suite 305, Vancouver V6E 4A4 p: 604-683-2751 f: 604-677-5960 w: www.bceia.com

British Columbia Real Estate Association 701 West Georgia St Suite 1420, PO Box 10123, Pacific Centre, Vancouver V7Y 1C6 p: 604-683-7702 f: 604-683-8601 w: www.bcrea.bc.ca British Columbia Restaurant & Foodservices Association 890 Pender St W Suite 600, Vancouver V6C 1J9 p: 604-669-2239 f: 604-669-6175 w: www.bcrfa.com British Columbia Trucking Association 20111 93A Ave Suite 100, Langley V1M 4A9 p: 604-888-5319 f: 604-888-2941 w: www.bctrucking.com Building Owners and Managers Association of British Columbia 409 Granville St Suite 556, Vancouver V6C 1T2 p: 604-684-3916 f: 604-684-4876 w: www.boma.bc.ca Burnaby Board of Trade 4555 Kingsway Suite 201, Burnaby V5H 4T8 p: 604-412-0100 f: 604-412-0102 w: www.bbot.ca Business Council of British Columbia 1050 Pender St W Suite 810, Vancouver V6E 3S7 p: 604-684-3384 f: 604-684-7957 w: www.bcbc.com Canadian Bar Association - BC Branch 845 Cambie St Suite 1000, Vancouver V6B 5T3 p: 604-687-3404 f: 604-669-9601 w: www.cbabc.org Canadian Federation of Independent Business - BC 625 Howe St Suite 1430, Vancouver V6C 2T6 p: 604-684-5325 f: 604-684-0529 w: www.cfib.ca Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association - BC 13353 Commerce Pky Suite 2163, Richmond V6V 3A1 p: 604-713-7800 f: 604-713-7801 w: bc.cme-mec.ca Chamber of Shipping of British Columbia 1111 Hastings St W Suite 100, Vancouver V6E 2J3 p: 604-681-2351 f: 604-681-4364 w: www.cosbc.ca Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia 555 Hastings St W Suite 800, Vancouver V6B 4N6 p: 604-872-7222 w: www.bccpa.ca

Creative BC 2225 Broadway W, Vancouver V6K 2E4 p: 604-736-7997 f: 604-736-7290 w: www.creativebc.com Digital Media and Wireless Association of BC (DigiBC) 887 Great Northern Way , Vancouver V5T 4T5 p: 604-602-5237 f: 604-683-3879 w: www.digibc.org Genome British Columbia 575 8th Ave W Suite 400, Vancouver V5Z 0C4 p: 604-738-8072 f: 604-738-8597 w: www.genomebc.ca Greater Vancouver Board of Trade 999 Canada Pl Suite 400, Vancouver V6C 3G3 p: 604-632-9668 w: www.boardoftrade.com Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association 7495 132 St Suite 1003, Surrey V3W 1J8 p: 778-565-4288 f: 778-565-4289 w: www.gvhba.org Human Resources Management Association 1111 Hastings St W Suite 1101, Vancouver V6E 2J3 p: 604-684-7228 f: 604-684-3225 w: www.hrma.ca Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of British Columbia 3823 Henning Dr Suite 211, Burnaby V5C 6P3 p: 604-298-7795 f: 604-298-2246 w: www.icba.ca Law Society of British Columbia 845 Cambie St, Vancouver V6B 4Z9 p: 604-669-2533 f: 604-646-5913 w: www.lawsociety.bc.ca LifeSciences British Columbia 1285 Broadway W Suite 580, Vancouver V6H 3X8 p: 604-669-9909 f: 604-669-9912 w: www.lifesciencesbc.ca Mining Association of British Columbia 808 Hastings St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6C 2X4 p: 604-681-4321 f: 604-681-5305 w: www.mining.bc.ca Motion Picture Production Industry Association of BC 555 Brooksbank Ave, North Vancouver V7G 3S5 p: 604-983-5980 f: 604-983-5981 w: www.mppia.com

New Westminster Chamber of Commerce 309 Sixth St Suite 201, New Westminster V3L 3A7 p: 604-521-7781 f: 604-521-0057 w: www.newwestchamber.com North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce 124 1st St W Suite 102, North Vancouver V7M 3N3 p: 604-987-4488 f: 604-987-8272 w: www.nvchamber.ca Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver 2433 Spruce St, Vancouver V6H 4C8 p: 604-730-3000 f: 604-730-3100 w: www.rebgv.org Retail Council of Canada - MyStore 890 Pender St W Suite 410, Vancouver V6C 1J9 p: 604-736-0368 f: 604-736-3154 w: www.retailcouncil.org Richmond Chamber of Commerce 5811 Cooney Rd Suite 202 (North Tower), Richmond V6X 3M1 p: 604-278-2822 f: 604-278-2972 w: www.richmondchamber.ca Small Business BC 601 Cordova St W Suite 54, Vancouver V6B 1G1 p: 604-775-5525 f: 604-775-5520 w: www.smallbusinessbc.ca Surrey Board of Trade 14439 104 Ave Suite 101, Surrey V3R 1M1 p: 604-581-7130 f: 604-588-7549 w: www.businessinsurrey.com Tourism Vancouver 200 Burrard St Suite 210, Vancouver V6C 3L6 p: 604-682-2222 f: 604-682-1717 w: www.tourismvancouver.com Trade and Invest British Columbia 999 Canada Pl Suite 730, Vancouver V6V 3E1 p: 604-775-2100 w: www.britishcolumbia.ca Vancouver Economic Commission 401 Georgia St W Suite 1500, Vancouver V6B 5A1 p: 604-632-9668 f: 604-632-9788 w: www.vancouvereconomic.com West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce 2235 Marine Dr, West Vancouver V7V 1K5 p: 604-926-6614 f: 604-926-6436 w: www.westvanchamber.com

New York Institute of Technology Vancouver p: 604-639-0942 w: www.nyit.edu/canada SFU Beedie School of Business Burnaby p: 778-782-3708 w: www.beedie.sfu.ca TWU School of Business Langley p: 604-888-7511 w: www.twu.ca/academics/school-business UBC Sauder School of Business Vancouver p: 604-822-8500 w: www.sauder.ubc.ca

Canadian as a Second Language Institute 188 Nelson St, Vancouver V6B 6J8 p: 604-683-2754 w: www.csli.com Canadian College of English Language 1050 Alberni St Suite 450, Vancouver V6E 1A3 p: 604-688-9366 w: www.canada-english.com Columbia College 438 Terminal Ave, Vancouver V6A 0C1 p: 604-683-8360 w: www.columbiacollege.ca Dorset College 1212 Broadway W Suite 300, Vancouver V6H 1G7 p: 604-879-8686 w: www.dorsetcollege.bc.ca

EC English Language Centres 570 Dunsmuir St Suite 200, Vancouver V6B 1Y1 p: 604-683-1199 w: www.ecenglish.com EF International Language Schools Vancouver 929 Granville St Suite 400, Vancouver V6Z 1L3 p: 604-633-0505 w: www.ef.com ELS Language Centres Vancouver 549 Howe St Suite 600, Vancouver V6C 2C2 p: 604-684-9577 w: www.elscanada.com Eurocentres Vancouver 815 Hastings St W Suite 250, Vancouver V6C 1B4 p: 604-688-7942 w: www.languagecanada.com

Education Business Schools Acsenda School of Management Vancouver p: 604-430-5111 w: www.acsenda.com BCIT School of Business Burnaby p: 604-434-1610 w: www.bcit.ca/business Capilano University School of Business North Vancouver p: 604-984-4960 w: www.capilanou.ca/business KPU School of Business Surrey p: 604-599-2100 w: www.kpu.ca/business Langara School of Management Vancouver p: 604-323-5255 w: www.langara.bc.ca/departments/langaraschool-of-management

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Language Schools Berlitz Canada 789 Pender St W Suite 1010, Vancouver V6C 1H2 p: 604-685-9331 w: www.berlitz.ca

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GEOS Languages Plus 322 Water St Mezzanine Level, Vancouver V6B 1B6 p: 604-684-6407 w: www.geosvancouver.com Global College 1199 Pender St W Suite 298, Vancouver V6E 2R1 p: 604-669-1603 w: www.gcc-canada.com Global Village English Centres 888 Cambie St, Vancouver V6B 2P6 p: 604-684-2112 w: www.gvenglish.com inLingua Vancouver 150 Water St Suite 300, Vancouver V6B 1B2 p: 604-605-0960 w: www.inlinguavancouver.com International House 88 Pender St W Suite 2001, Vancouver V6B 1R3 p: 604-739-9836 w: www.ihvancouver.com International Language Academy of Canada 1199 Pender St W Suite 100, Vancouver V6B 1P1 p: 604-484-6660 w: www.ilac.com International Language Schools of Canada 555 Richards St, Vancouver V6B 2Z5 p: 604-689-9095 w: www.ilsc.com iTTTi Vancouver 605 Robson St Suite 300, Vancouver V6B 5J3 p: 604-681-5550 w: www.ittti.ca Kaplan International Vancouver IELTS Test Centre 755 Burrard St Suite 300, Vancouver V6Z 1X6 p: 604-688-7350 w: www.kaplanvancouver.ca LSI Language Studies International 808 Nelson St Suite 101, Vancouver V6Z 2H2 p: 604-683-7654 w: www.lsi.edu OHC Vancouver 322 Water St, Vancouver V6B 1B6 p: 604-647-1011 w: www.ohcenglish.com Pacific Gateway International College 1155 Robson St Suite 300, Vancouver V6E 1B5 p: 604-687-3595 w: www.pgic.ca Pera College 1520 Pemberton Ave, North Vancouver V7P 2S2 p: 604-770-4504 w: www.peracollege.ca SEC - Study English in Canada 549 Howe St Suite 500, Vancouver V6C 2C2 p: 604-678-8148 w: www.sec-canada.com SELC Vancouver 321 Water St Suite 200, Vancouver V6B 1B8 p: 604-639-9075 w: www.selc-canada.ca St Giles International Language Centres Canada 1130 Pender St W Suite 400, Vancouver V6E 4A4 p: 604-685-0291 w: www.stgiles-international.com Tamwood International College Vancouver 889 Pender St W Suite 200, Vancouver V6C 3B2 p: 604-899-4480 w: www.tamwood.com UBC English Language Institute 2121 West Mall, Vancouver V6T 1Z4 p: 604-822-1555 w: www.eli.ubc.ca Vancouver International College 549 Howe St Suite 200, Vancouver V6C 2C2 p: 604-893-8423 w: www.vicenglish.com

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VanWest College 1016 Nelson St Suite 200, Vancouver V6E 1H8 p: 604-731-5256 w: www.vanwest.com VGC Language School 411 Hastings St W, Vancouver V6B 1L4 p: 604-688-9057 w: www.vgc.ca

Universities & Colleges & Business Schools Academy of Learning Vancouver p: 604-876-8600 w: www.academyoflearning.com Alexander College Vancouver p: 604-681-5815 w: www.alexandercollege.ca Arbutus College Vancouver p: 604-622-4446 w: www.arbutuscollege.com Art Institute of Vancouver, The Vancouver p: 604-683-9200 w: www.artinstitutes.edu/vancouver Ashton College Vancouver p: 604-899-0803 w: www.ashtoncollege.com Brighton College Burnaby p: 604-430-5608 w: www.brightoncollege.com British Columbia Institute of Technology Burnaby p: 604-434-1610 w: www.bcit.ca Canadian Tourism College Vancouver p: 604-736-8000 w: www.tourismcollege.com Capilano University North Vancouver p: 604-986-1911 w: www.capilanou.ca CDI College p: 604-685-8585 w: www.cdicollege.ca Centre for Digital Media Vancouver p: 778-370-1001 w: www.thecdm.ca Columbia College Vancouver p: 604-683-8360 w: www.columbiacollege.ca Coquitlam College Coquitlam p: 604-939-6633 w: www.coquitlamcollege.com Cornerstone International Community College of Canada Vancouver p: 604-620-1111 w: www.ciccc.ca Douglas College New Westminster p: 604-527-5400 w: www.douglascollege.ca Emily Carr University of Art + Design Vancouver p: 604-844-3800 w: www.ecuad.ca Erickson College Vancouver p: 604-879-5600 w: www.erickson.edu Eton College Vancouver p: 604-677-3866 w: www.etoncollege.ca Fairleigh Dickinson University Vancouver p: 604-682-8112 w: www.fdu.edu/vancouver Greystone College Vancouver p: 604-682-3880 w: www.greystonecollege.com Justice Institute of British Columbia New Westminster p: 604-525-5422 w: www.jibc.ca King George International Business College Canada TESOL Centre Vancouver p: 604-683-7528 w: www.kgibc.ca Kwantlen Polytechnic University Surrey p: 604-599-2000 w: www.kpu.ca

Langara College Vancouver p: 604-323-5511 w: www.langara.ca LaSalle College Vancouver Vancouver p: 604-683-2006 w: www.lasallecollegevancouver.com MTI Community College Vancouver p: 604-682-6020 w: www.mticc.com New Image College of Fine Arts Vancouver p: 604-685-8807 w: www.newimage.ca Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts Vancouver p: 604-734-4488 w: www.picachef.com Simon Fraser University Burnaby p: 778-782-3111 w: www.sfu.ca Sprott-Shaw Community College Vancouver p: 604-683-7400 w: www.sprottshaw.com Stenberg College Surrey p: 604-580-2772 w: www.stenbergcollege.com Trinity Western University Langley p: 604-888-7511 w: www.twu.ca UBC Vantage College Vancouver p: 604-827-0337 w: www.vantagecollege.ubc.ca University Canada West Vancouver p: 778-655-3702 w: www.ucanwest.ca University of British Columbia Vancouver p: 604-822-2211 w: www.ubc.ca University of the Fraser Valley Abbotsford p: 888-504-7441 w: www.ufv.ca Vancouver Academy of Music Vancouver p: 604-734-2301 w: www.vancouveracademyofmusic.com Vancouver Career College Vancouver p: 800-651-1067 w: www.vccollege.ca Vancouver College of Counsellor Training Vancouver p: 604-683-2442 w: www.vcct.ca Vancouver Community College Vancouver p: 604-871-7000 w: www.vcc.ca Vancouver Film School Vancouver p: 604-685-5808 w: www.vfs.edu Vancouver Institute of Media Arts Vancouver p: 604-682-2787 w: www.vanarts.com VSO School of Music Vancouver p: 604-915-9300 w: www.vsoschoolofmusic.ca

Independent Schools Abbotsford Christian School Abbotsford p: 604-755-1891 w: www.abbotsfordchristian.com Agassiz Christian School Agassiz p: 604-796-9310 w: www.agassizchristianschool.com Alcuin College for the Liberal Arts North Vancouver p: 604-360-8656 w: www.alcuin.ca Aldergrove Christian Academy Aldergrove p: 604-856-2577 w: www.rosbc.com/aca BC Christian Academy Port Coquitlam p: 604-941-8426 w: www.bcchristianacademy.ca BC Muslim School Richmond p: 604-270-2511 w: www.bcmuslimschool.ca

Bibleway Christian Academy Surrey p: 604-576-8188 w: www.biblewayacademy.org Bodwell High School Inc. North Vancouver p: 604-998-1000 w: www.bodwell.edu Boundary Bay Montessori School Delta p: 604-946-9814 w: www.bbmschool.ca Brockton Preparatory School North Vancouver p: 604-929-9201 w: www.brocktonschool.com Burnaby Montessori School Burnaby p: 604-298-1661 w: www.burnabymontessori.com Canadian Reformed Schools of the Fraser Valley Surrey p: 604-576-2144 w: www.credochs.com Canyon Springs Montessori School Coquitlam p: 604-945-0566 w: www.canyonspringsmontessori.com Carver Christian High School Burnaby p: 604-523-1580 w: www.carverchristian.org Cascade Christian School Chilliwack p: 604-793-7997 w: www.cascadechristian.ca Catholic Independent Schools of Vancouver Archdiocese Vancouver p: 604-683-9331 w: www.cisva.bc.ca Century High School Vancouver p: 604-730-8138 w: www.centuryhighschool.ca Children of Integrity Montessori Academy Coquitlam p: 604-461-1223 w: www.childrenofintegrity.com Children’s Hearing and Speech Centre of BC Vancouver p: 604-437-0255 w: www.childrenshearing.ca Choice School for Gifted Children Richmond p: 604-273-2418 w: www.choiceschool.org Cloverdale Lutheran Christian School Surrey p: 604-576-6313 w: www.cloverdalechristianschool.ca Collingwood School West Vancouver p: 604-925-3331 w: www.collingwood.org Cornerstone Christian Academy Richmond p: 604-303-9181 w: www.cornerstonechristianacademy.ca Cornerstone Christian School Abbotsford p: 604-859-7867 w: www.cornerstoneschool.ca Cornerstone Montessori School Surrey p: 604-599-9918 w: www.cornerstone-montessori.ca Crofton House School Vancouver p: 604-263-3255 w: www.croftonhouse.ca Dasmesh Punjabi School Abbotsford p: 604-826-1666 w: www.dasmeshschool.com Deer Lake School Burnaby p: 604-434-5844 w: www.deerlakeschool.ca Delta Christian School Delta p: 604-946-2514 w: www.deltachristianschool.org Diamond Elementary and Relevant Schools Surrey p: 604-576-1146 w: www.relevanthighschool.ca Eaton Arrowsmith School White Rock p: 604-538-1710 w: www.eatonarrowsmith.com Eaton Arrowsmith School Vancouver p: 604-264-8327 w: www.eatonarrowsmith.com École Française Internationale Cousteau North Vancouver p: 604-924-2457 w: www.cousteauschool.org

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École St-Sacrement Vancouver p: 604-876-7211 w: www.ecolesaintsacrement.ca Family Montessori School Vancouver p: 604-224-2643 w: www.familymontessori.com Fawkes Academy Richmond p: 604-261-8782 w: www.fawkesacademy.ca Fraser Academy Vancouver p: 604-736-5575 w: www.fraseracademy.ca Fraser Valley Adventist Academy Aldergrove p: 604-607-3822 w: www.fvaa.net Fraser Valley Elementary School Langley p: 604-427-2282 w: www.fves.bc.ca GAD Elementary School Surrey p: 604-595-0888 w: www.gadschool.com Gatehouse Montessori School West Vancouver p: 604-925-1437 w: www.gatehousemontessori.com Glen Eden Multimodal Centre Richmond p: 604-821-1457 w: www.gleneden.org Global Montessori School Langley p: 604-534-1556 w: globalmontessorischool.com Holy Trinity School North Vancouver p: 604-987-4454 w: www.holytrinityschool.ca Hope Lutheran Christian School Port Coquitlam p: 604-942-5322 w: www.hopelcs.ca iLearn DL BC Secondary School Surrey p: 604-590-5504 w: www.ilearndl.com Iqra Islamic School Surrey p: 604-583-7530 w: www.iqraschool.com Island Pacific School Bowen Island p: 604-947-9311 w: www.islandpacific.org James Cameron School Maple Ridge p: 604-465-8444 w: www.jcs.bc.ca John Calvin School Chilliwack p: 604-823-6814 w: www.jcss.ca John Knox Christian School Burnaby p: 604-522-1410 w: johnknoxbc.org Kenneth Gordon Maplewood School North Vancouver p: 604-985-5224 w: kgms.ca Khalsa School Surrey p: 604-591-2248 w: www.khalsaschool.ca King David High School Vancouver p: 604-263-9700 w: www.kdhs.org King’s School, The Langley p: 604-888-0969 w: www.thekingsschool.org Langley Christian School Langley p: 604-533-2118 w: www.langleychristian.com Langley Montessori School Langley p: 604-532-5667 w: www.langleymontessori.ca Lions Gate Christian Academy North Vancouver p: 604-984-8226 w: www.lgca.ca Lions Gate Montessori Vancouver p: 604-687-6701 w: www.lionsgatemontessori.org Little Flower Academy Vancouver p: 604-738-9016 w: www.lfabc.org

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Madrona School Vancouver p: 604-499-7303 w: www.madronaschool.com Magnussen School Vancouver p: 604-264-8327 w: www.eatonarrowsmith.com Maple Ridge Christian School Maple Ridge p: 604-465-4442 w: www.mrcs.ca Meadow Montessori School Maple Ridge p: 604-465-3492 w: www.meadowmontessori.ca Meadowridge School Maple Ridge p: 604-467-4444 w: www.meadowridge.bc.ca Mediated Learning Academy Coquitlam p: 604-937-3641 w: www.mediatedlearningacademy.org Mennonite Educational Institute Abbotsford p: 604-859-3700 w: www.meischools.com Mount Cheam Christian School Chilliwack p: 604-794-3072 w: www.mccs.ca Mulgrave Independent School West Vancouver p: 604-922-3223 w: www.mulgrave.com Noah’s Ark Montessori Reggio School Richmond p: 778-990-3520 w: www.noahsarkschool.ca North Star Montessori Elementary North Vancouver p: 604-980-1205 w: www.northstarmontessori.ca Pacific Academy Surrey p: 604-581-5353 w: www.pacificacademy.net Pacific Rim Montessori Academy Richmond p: 604-726-8428 w: www.pacificrimmontessori.com Pacific Spirit School Vancouver p: 604-222-1900 w: www.pacificspiritschool.org Pacific Torah Institute Vancouver p: 604-261-1502 w: www.ptibc.org PALS Autism School Vancouver p: 604-251-7257 w: www.palsautismschool.ca Pattison High School Vancouver p: 604-608-8788 w: www.pattisonhighschool.ca Purpose Independent Secondary School New Westminster p: 604-526-2522 w: www.purposesecondary.org Pythagoras Academy Richmond p: 604-370-0199 w: www.pythagorasacademy.ca Regent Christian Academy Surrey p: 604-599-8171 w: www.regent.bc.ca Richmond Christian School Richmond p: 604-274-1122 w: www.myrcs.ca Richmond Jewish Day School Richmond p: 604-275-3393 w: www.rjds.ca Roots and Wings Montessori Surrey p: 604-510-2588 w: www.rootsandwingsbc.com Royal Canadian College Vancouver p: 604-738-2221 w: www.royalcanadiancollege.com Seabird College Agassiz p: 604-796-6839 w: www.seabirdcollege.ca Sikh Academy Surrey p: 604-599-3828 w: www.sikhacademy.ca Southpointe Academy Tsawwassen p: 604-948-8826 w: www.southpointe.ca

Southridge School Surrey p: 604-535-5056 w: www.southridge.bc.ca St George’s School Vancouver p: 604-224-1304 w: www.stgeorges.bc.ca St John’s International School Vancouver p: 604-683-4572 w: www.stjohnsis.com St John’s School Vancouver p: 604-732-4434 w: www.stjohns.bc.ca St Joseph the Worker Catholic Elementary Richmond p: 604-277-1115 w: www.stjosephtheworker.ca St Paul School Richmond p: 604-277-4487 w: www.stpaulschool.ca St Thomas More Collegiate Burnaby p: 604-521-1801 w: www.stthomasmorecollegiate.ca Stratford Hall Vancouver p: 604-436-0608 w: www.stratfordhall.ca Surrey Christian School Surrey p: 604-498-3233 w: www.surreychristian.com Surrey Muslim School Surrey p: 604-599-6608 w: www.surreymuslimschool.ca Traditional Learning Academy Coquitlam p: 604-931-7265 w: www.traditionallearning.com Unity Christian School Chilliwack p: 604-794-7797 w: www.unitychristian.ca Urban Academy New Westminster p: 604-524-2211 w: www.urbanacademy.ca Valley Christian School Mission p: 604-826-1388 w: www.valleychristianschool.ca Vancouver Christian School Vancouver p: 604-435-3113 w: www.vancs.org Vancouver College Vancouver p: 604-261-4285 w: www.vc.bc.ca Vancouver Hebrew Academy Vancouver p: 604-266-1245 w: www.vhebrewacademy.com Vancouver Montessori School Vancouver p: 604-261-0315 w: www.vancouvermontessorischool.com Vancouver Talmud Torah Vancouver p: 604-736-7307 w: www.talmudtorah.com Vancouver Waldorf School North Vancouver p: 604-985-7435 w: www.vws.ca West Coast Christian School Vancouver p: 604-255-2990 w: www.westcoastchristianschool.ca West Point Grey Academy Vancouver p: 604-222-8750 w: www.wpga.ca Westside Montessori School Vancouver p: 604-731-6594 w: www.westsidemontessori.ca Westside School, The Vancouver p: 604-687-8021 w: www.thewestsideschools.ca White Rock Christian Academy Surrey p: 604-531-9186 w: www.wrca.ca Wind and Tide Kindergarten Surrey p: 604-575-0549 w: www.windandtide.com York House School Vancouver p: 604-736-6551 w: www.yorkhouse.ca

Public School Districts French School Board (Conseil Scolaire Francophone) 13511 Commerce Pky Suite 100, Richmond V6V 2J8 p: 604-214-2600 f: 604-214-9881 w: www.csf.bc.ca School District No. 034 (Abbotsford) 2790 Tims St, Abbotsford V2T 4M7 p: 604-859-4891 f: 604-852-8587 w: www.sd34.bc.ca School District No. 041 (Burnaby) 5325 Kincaid St, Burnaby V5G 1W2 p: 604-296-6900 f: 604-296-6910 w: www.sd41.bc.ca School District No. 033 (Chilliwack) 8430 Cessna Dr, Chilliwack V2P 7K4 p: 604-792-1321 f: 604-792-9665 w: www.sd33.bc.ca School District No. 043 (Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody) 550 Poirier St, Coquitlam V3J 6A7 p: 604-939-9201 f: 604-939-7828 w: www.sd43.bc.ca School District No. 037 (Delta) 4585 Harvest Dr, Delta V4K 5B4 p: 604-946-4101 f: 604-952-5375 w: www.deltasd.bc.ca School District No. 035 (Langley) 4875 222 St, Langley V3A 3Z7 p: 604-534-7891 f: 604-533-1115 w: www.sd35.bc.ca School District No. 042 (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows) 22225 Brown Ave, Maple Ridge V2X 8N6 p: 604-463-4200 f: 604-463-4181 w: www.sd42.ca School District No. 075 (Mission Public Schools) 33046 4th Ave, Mission V2V 1S5 p: 604-826-6286 f: 604-826-4517 w: www.mpsd.ca School District No. 040 (New Westminster) 811 Ontario St, New Westminster V3M 0J7 p: 604-517-6240 f: 604-517-6390 w: www.sd40.bc.ca School District No. 044 (North Vancouver) 2121 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver V7M 2K6 p: 604-903-3444 f: 604-903-3445 w: www.nvsd44.bc.ca School District No. 038 (Richmond) 7811 Granville Ave, Richmond V6Y 3E3 p: 604-668-6000 f: 604-233-0150 w: www.sd38.bc.ca School District No. 036 (Surrey) 14033 92 Ave, Surrey V3V 0B7 p: 604-596-7733 f: 604-596-4197 w: www.surreyschools.ca School District No. 039 (Vancouver School Board) 1580 Broadway W, Vancouver V6J 5K8 p: 604-713-5000 f: 604-713-5049 w: www.vsb.bc.ca School District No. 045 (West Vancouver) 1075 21st St, West Vancouver V7V 4A9 p: 604-981-1000 f: 604-981-1001 w: www.sd45.bc.ca

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Relocation services Accommodation Providers Accent Inns Vancouver Airport 10551 St Edwards Dr, Richmond V6X 3L8 ...............p: 604-273-3311 f: 604-273-9522 e: rst.germain@accentinns.com www.accentinns.com Best Western Plus Chateau Granville Hotel & Suites Conference Centre 1100 Granville St, Vancouver V6Z 2B6 .............. p: 604-669-7070 f: 604-669-4928 e: res@chateaugranville.com www.chateaugranville.com Best Western Plus Coquitlam Inn Convention Centre 319 North Rd, Coquitlam V3K 3V8 .............. p: 604-931-9011 f: 604-931-7298 e: guestservices@bestwesterncoquitlam.com www.bestwesterncoquitlam.com Best Western Plus Sands Hotel 1755 Davie St, Vancouver V6G 1W5 ............ p: 604-682-1831 f: 604-682-3546 e: sands@bwsands.com www.bestwesternsandshotelvancouver.com Carmana Plaza 1128 Alberni St, Vancouver V6E 4R6 ...............p: 604-683-1399 f: 604-683-1391 e: sales@carmanaplaza.com www.carmanaplaza.com Comfort Inn Downtown 654 Nelson St, Vancouver V6B 6K4 Neil Deshmukh .. p: 604-605-4341 f: 604-605-4334 e: neil@comfortinndowntown.com www.comfortinndowntown.com Comfysuites Rentals Inc 1010 Howe St, Vancouver V6Z 1P5 Alicia Chia ......................................p: 778-855-2442 e: info@comfysuites.com www.comfysuites.com DB Relocation Services Inc 1156 Millstream Rd, West Vancouver V7S 2C9 Julia Morley .................................. p: 778-227-7456 e: julia@dbrelocationservices.com www.dbrelocationservices.com Delta Vancouver Suites 550 Hastings St W, Vancouver V6B 1L6 Melanie Koller ... p: 604-689-8188 f: 604-899-3029 e: melanie.koller@deltahotels.com www.marriott.com/yvrdv Empire Landmark Hotel & Conference Centre 1400 Robson St, Vancouver V6G 1B9...............p: 604-687-0511 f: 604-687-7267 e: schan@empirelandmarkhotel.com www.empirelandmarkhotel.com English Bay Apartment Hotel Ltd 1150 Denman St, Vancouver V6G 2M9 .............p: 604-685-2231 f: 604-685-2291 e: engbay@telus.net www.englishbayhotel.com

Fairmont Waterfront, The 900 Canada Place Way, Vancouver V6C 3L5 .............. p: 604-691-1991 f: 604-691-1999 e: thewaterfronthotel@fairmont.com www.fairmont.com/waterfront-vancouver Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver 791 Georgia St W, Vancouver V6C 2T4 .............. p: 604-689-9333 f: 604-689-3466 e: vcr.sales@fourseasons.com www.fourseasons.com/vancouver Georgian Court Hotel 773 Beatty St, Vancouver V6B 2M4 Susan Leung ...... p: 604-682-5555 f: 604-682-5669 e: susan@georgiancourt.com www.georgiancourt.com Holiday Inn & Suites North Vancouver 700 Old Lillooet Rd, North Vancouver V7J 2H5 ...............p: 604-985-3111 f: 604-985-0857 e: gm@hinorthvancouver.ca www.hinorthvancouver.com

Rosedale on Robson Suite Hotel 838 Hamilton St, Vancouver V6B 6A2.............. p: 604-689-8033 f: 604-689-4426 e: jamesm@rosedaleonrobson.com www.rosedaleonrobson.com

L’Hermitage Hotel 788 Richards St, Vancouver V6B 3A4.............. p: 778-327-4100 f: 778-327-4109 e: guest.services@lhermitagevancouver.com www.lhermitagevancouver.com

Sandman Hotel Vancouver City Centre 180 Georgia St W, Vancouver V6B 4P4 .............. p: 604-681-2211 f: 604-681-8009 www.sandmanhotels.ca

Lamond Properties 1755 Robson St, Vancouver V6G 3B7 Wendy Lamond .. p: 604-684-4649 f: 604-685-2510 e: info@lamondproperties.com www.lamondproperties.com

Sandman Suites on Davie Street 1160 Davie St, Vancouver V6E 1N1 Pam Banda ......... p: 604-694-6241 f: 604-669-8284 e: pbanda@sandman.ca www.sandmanhotels.com Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel 7551 Westminster Hwy, Richmond V6X 1A3 Brad Nakagawa ..p: 604-233-3950 f: 604-278-1062 e: sales@sheratonvancouverairport.com www.sheraton.com/vancouverairport

Relocation and Business Stays 30 - 90 Days Superbly Furnished Wow! Harbour and Mountain Views

Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel 1088 Burrard St, Vancouver V6Z 2R9 Sean Antonson ...p: 604-893-7210 f: 604-331-1001 e: santonson@wallcentre.com www.sheratonvancouver.com

Lions Gate Executive Suites .......................................................p: 844-913-9111 e: lionsgatesuites@telus.net www.lionsgatesuites.com

Lord Stanley Suites on the Park 1889 Alberni St, Vancouver V6G 3G7 Wendy Krasovec .p: 604-688-9299 f: 604-688-9297 e: info@lordstanley.com www.lordstanley.com Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver 645 Howe St, Vancouver V6C 2Y9 .............. p: 604-687-1122 f: 604-602-7844 e: reservations@van.metropolitan.com www.metropolitan.com/vanc MODE Suites Rental Services Inc 1118 Homer St Suite 216, Vancouver V6B 2W9 Paula Robinson .. p: 877-501-6633 f: 778-331-3846 e: info@modesuites.com www.modesuites.com

Fairmont Hotel Vancouver 900 Georgia St W, Vancouver V6C 2W6 .............p: 604-662-1915 f: 604-662-1907 e: hvc.concierge@fairmont.com www.fairmont.com/hotelvancouver

Pacific Gateway Hotel at Vancouver Airport 3500 Cessna Dr, Richmond V7B 1C7 Donald Pinkney ...p: 604-276-1979 f: 604-276-1975 e: dpinkney@pacificgatewayhotel.com www.pacificgatewayhotel.com

Fairmont Pacific Rim 1038 Canada Pl, Vancouver V6C 0B9 ...............p: 604-695-5300 f: 604-695-5301 e: pacificrim@fairmont.com www.fairmont.com/pacificrim

Pan Pacific Vancouver 999 Canada Pl Suite 300, Vancouver V6C 3B5 Kathryn Poole......p: 604-662-8111 f: 604-891-2861 e: kathryn.poole@panpacificvancouver.com www.panpacificvancouver.com

Fairmont Vancouver Airport 3111 Grant McConachie Way Vancouver International Airport, Richmond V7B 0A6 Lesliann Kuhn .... p: 604-207-5200 f: 604-248-3219 e: lesliann.kuhn@fairmont.com www.fairmont.com/vancouverairport

Park Inn & Suites by Radisson Vancouver 898 Broadway W, Vancouver V5Z 1J8 Darian Tooley ..... p: 604-872-8661 f: 604-872-2270 e: sales@parkinn-vancouver.ca www.parkinn.com/vancouverca

Times Square Suites 1821 Robson St, Vancouver V6G 3E4 Jacqui McMullen p: 604-684-2223 f: 604-684-2225 e: jacqui@timessquaresuites.com www.timessquaresuites.com Looking for a Vancouver-based home away from home? Or a place to live while moving? Located in Vancouver’s West End. Enjoy the comfort of home with the perks of a hotel.

Unique Real Estate Accommodations Inc 1010 Queens Rd W, North Vancouver V7R 4S9 Nina Ferentinos . p: 604-984-7368 f: 604-984-7323 e: info@uniqueaccommodations.com www.uniqueaccommodations.com Vancouver Relocation Services 1965 4th Ave W Suite 101, Vancouver V6J 1M8 Andrew Kuras .... p: 604-318-2497 f: 604-738-6398 e: andrew@vancouverrelocation.com www.vancouverrelocation.com Vancouver Short Stay North Vancouver Daniel Pennell................................p: 604-710-3527 e: info@vancouvershortstay.com www.vancouvershortstay.com Westin Wall Centre Vancouver Airport 3099 Corvette Way, Richmond V6X 4K3 Sean Antonson ...p: 604-893-7210 f: 604-331-1001 e: santonson@wallcentre.com www.westinvancouverairport.com

Outstanding Relocation Choice.

Business & Holiday Suites, 30 Plus Days.

Well Furnished, Harbour & Mountain Views. www.lionsgatesuites.com Toll free: 1-844-913-9111

Executive Airport Plaza Hotel and Conference Centre 7311 Westminster Hwy, Richmond V6X 1A3...............p: 604-278-5555 f: 604-278-0255 e: dos.richmond@executivehotels.net www.executivehotels.net/airport

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Residence Inn by Marriott Vancouver Downtown 1234 Hornby St, Vancouver V6Z 1W2 Susan Fregona ....p: 604-688-1234 f: 604-689-1762 e: sfregona@silverbirchhotels.com www.marriott.com/yvrdr

Sterling Furnished Suites 862 Renfrew St, Vancouver V5K 4B6 Kelly Shih ............p: 800-909-6088 f: 888-505-5442 e: bookings@sterlingfurnishedsuites.com www.sterlingfurnishedsuites.com SuiteLiving Rentals Ltd 862 Renfrew St, Vancouver V5K 4B6 Kelly Shih ............p: 800-909-6088 f: 888-505-5442 e: bookings@suiteliving.ca www.suiteliving.ca Sylvia Hotel, The 1154 Gilford St, Vancouver V6G 2P6 Ross Dyck............p: 604-681-9321 f: 604-682-3551 e: rdyck@sylviahotel.com www.sylviahotel.com

Employment Agencies: Temporary & Permanent Staffing BBW International Inc 999 Canada Pl Suite 404, Vancouver V6C 3E2 Lois Jackalin ...... p: 604-984-0352 f: 604-608-3510 e: vancouver@bbwinternational.com www.bbwinternational.com Executive Waiter Resources Inc 1975 16th Ave W, Vancouver V6J 2M5 Chris Monk......... p: 604-689-0640 f: 604-689-3670 e: info@executivewaiter.com www.executivewaiter.com Expert Recruiters 883 Helmcken St, Vancouver V6Z 1B1 Darcia Bower ......p: 604-689-3600 f: 604-689-7541 e: jobs@expertrecruiters.com www.expertrecruiters.com Hunt Personnel/Temporarily Yours 789 Pender St W Suite 760, Vancouver V6C 1H2 Greg Colborne .... p: 604-688-2555 f: 604-688-1536 e: greg@tyhunt.ca www.hunt.ca Immigrant Services Society of BC 2610 Victoria Dr, Vancouver V5N 4L2 Chris Stephenson...........................p: 604-684-2561 f: 604-684-2266 e: info@issbc.org www.issbc.org

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Envision Financial (A Div of First West Credit Union) 6470 201 St, Langley V2Y 2X4 ���������������p: 604‑539‑7300 f: 604‑539‑7315 e: communications@envisionfinancial.ca

www.envisionfinancial.ca Relocation and Business Stays 30 - 90 Days Superbly Furnished Wow! Harbour and Mountain Views

Lions Gate Executive Suites �������������������������������������������������������p: 844‑913‑9111 e: lionsgatesuites@telus.net

www.lionsgatesuites.com Outstanding Relocation Choice.

Business & Holiday Suites, 30 Plus Days.

Well Furnished, Harbour & Mountain Views. www.lionsgatesuites.com Toll free: 1-844-913-9111 Lock Search Group 1040 Georgia St W Suite 810, Vancouver V6E 4H1 Frank Joe ������������p: 604‑669‑8806 f: 604‑669‑5385 e: fjoe@locksearchgroup.com

www.locksearchgroup.com McNeill Nakamoto Recruitment Group 860 Homer St Suite 407, Vancouver V6B 2W5 Cheryl Nakamoto p: 604‑662‑8967 f: 604‑662‑8927 e: askme@mcnak.com

www.mcnak.com Nannies on Call 788 Beatty St Suite 302, Vancouver V6B 2M1 Silvana Felix ��������p: 604‑734‑1776 f: 604‑648‑8362 e: info@nanniesoncall.com

www.nanniesoncall.com Premium Staffing Solutions 1661 2nd Ave W Suite 101, Vancouver V6J 1H3 Brad Bates ������������������������������������ p: 604‑602‑9193 e: brad@premiumsolutions.ca

www.premiumsolutions.ca Randstad 701 Georgia St W Suite 200, Vancouver V7Y 1C6 Shannon Brown ��p: 604‑408‑2772 f: 604‑408‑2792 e: shannon.brown@randstad.ca

www.randstad.ca Randstad Technologies 701 Georgia St W Suite 200, Vancouver V7Y 1C6 Michael Cvitkovich ������������������������p: 778‑331‑2417 f: 604‑687‑5397 e: mike.cvitkovich@randstad.ca

www.randstadtechnologies.ca Strive Recruitment Inc 409 Granville St Suite 468, Vancouver V6C 1T2 Michael Dha ������ p: 604‑336‑8844 f: 604‑336‑8849 e: michael@striverecruitment.ca

www.striverecruitment.ca TPD 595 Howe St Suite 1205, Vancouver V6C 2T5 ���������������p: 604‑685‑3530 f: 604‑689‑5981 e: info@tpd.com

www.tpd.com

Financial Services BlueShore Financial 1250 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver V7M 2H6 ��������������������������������������� p: 604‑982‑8000 e: info@blueshorefinancial.com

www.blueshorefinancial.com

EY 700 Georgia St W Suite 2300 Box 10101 Pacific Centre, Vancouver V7Y 1C7 ���������������p: 604‑891‑8200 f: 604‑643‑5422

www.ey.com/ca G&F Financial Group 7375 Kingsway, Burnaby V3N 3B5 ���������������������������������������� p: 604‑419‑8888 e: inquiry@gffg.com

www.gffg.com Investors Group Financial Services Inc 2052 41st Ave W Suite 200, Vancouver V6M 1Y8 Ida Templeton ���� p: 604‑228‑7777 f: 604‑228‑7776 e: ida.templeton@investorsgroup.com

www.investorsgroup.com Raymond James Ltd 925 Georgia St W Suite 2100, Vancouver V6C 3L2 �������������� p: 604‑659‑8000 f: 604‑659‑8099 e: webcomments@raymondjames.ca

www.raymondjames.ca RBC Dominion Securities - Edward Teodoro 745 Thurlow St Suite 2000, Vancouver V6E 0C5 Edward Teodoro �����������������������������p: 778‑327‑5481 e: edward.teodoro@rbc.com

www.edwardteodoro.com

District of Mission - Economic Development 7337 Welton St Suite B, Mission V2V 3X1 Stacey Crawford p: 604‑820‑3789 f: 604‑820‑6738 e: scrawford@mission.ca

www.mission.ca

Home Inspection Amerispec Home Inspection Services 3665 Kingsway Suite 300, Vancouver V5R 5W2 Sharon Martin ���� p: 604‑430‑0343 f: 604‑628‑0128 e: vancouver@amerispec.ca

www.home-inspection-vancouver.ca Duxbury & Associates - Building Inspection and Consulting Ltd 125 DeBeck St, New Westminster V3L 3H7 Glenn Duxbury ��� p: 604‑524‑2502 f: 888‑877‑0630 e: info@glennduxbury-inspections.com

www.glennduxbury-inspections.com

Home Staging House to Home ReDesigns & Real Estate Staging Vancouver Leah J Armstrong ������������������������� p: 604‑319‑7546 e: info@realestatemakeovers.ca

www.realestatemakeovers.ca Les Clutter Services 360 2nd St E Suite 404, North Vancouver V7L 4N6 Leslie Wilshire ������������������������������ p: 604‑813‑1985 e: lesclutter@shaw.ca

www.lesclutterservices.com

Vance Financial Group Inc 5811 Cooney Rd Unit 201, Richmond V6X 3M1 Daphne Wu �������� p: 604‑233‑0123 f: 604‑271‑4863 e: daphnewu@vancefinancial.net

www.vancefinancial.ca

Ready Set Show Staging Inc 106 Garden Ave, North Vancouver V7P 3H2 Trisha Scott �������� p: 604‑984‑7469 f: 604‑984‑7469 e: info@readysetshow.ca

www.readysetshow.ca

ZLC Financial 666 Burrard St Suite 1200, Vancouver V6C 2X8 �������������� p: 604‑688‑7208 f: 604‑688‑7268 e: info@zlc.net

www.zlc.net

HR Consultants Expert Recruiters 883 Helmcken St, Vancouver V6Z 1B1 Darcia Bower ������p: 604‑689‑3600 f: 604‑689‑7541 e: jobs@expertrecruiters.com

www.expertrecruiters.com

Government Agencies City of Coquitlam - Economic Development 3000 Guildford Way, Coquitlam V3B 7N2 David Munro �������p: 604‑927‑3442 f: 604‑927‑3525 e: economicdevelopment@coquitlam.ca

www.coquitlam.ca/economicdevelopment

Relocation and Business Stays 30 - 90 Days Superbly Furnished Wow! Harbour and Mountain Views

Lions Gate Executive Suites �������������������������������������������������������p: 844‑913‑9111 e: lionsgatesuites@telus.net

www.lionsgatesuites.com Outstanding Relocation Choice.

Business & Holiday Suites, 30 Plus Days.

Well Furnished, Harbour & Mountain Views. www.lionsgatesuites.com Toll free: 1-844-913-9111

City of Langley 20399 Douglas Cres, Langley V3A 4B3 ��������������p: 604‑514‑2800 f: 604‑530‑4371

www.city.langley.bc.ca Vertical Bridge Corporate Consulting Inc 1275 6th Ave W Suite 300, Vancouver V6H 1A6 City of New Westminster Economic Dawn Longshaw p: 604‑682‑2262 f: 604‑676‑1043 Development Office e: info@verticalbridge.ca 511 Royal Ave, New Westminster V3L 1H9

www.verticalbridge.ca Blair Fryer ������������������������������������� p: 604‑527‑4536 e: info@investnewwest.ca Industry Associations/

www.investnewwest.ca City of Richmond 6911 No 3 Rd, Richmond V6Y 2C1 Neonila Neonila ���������������������������� p: 604‑276‑4000 e: economicdev@richmond.ca

www.businessinrichmond.ca

Deloitte 1055 Dunsmuir St Suite 2800, Vancouver City of Surrey - Economic Development V7X 1P4 ���������������p: 604‑669‑4466 f: 604‑685‑0395 13450 104 Ave, Surrey V3T 1V8

www.deloitte.ca Stephen Wu ��������p: 604‑591‑4128 f: 604‑594‑3055 e: econdev@surrey.ca

www.surrey.ca

Insurance Providers - Health

David Cummings Insurance Services Ltd 2083 Alma St Suite 350, Vancouver V6R 4N6 Jason Cummings �p: 800‑818‑3188 f: 604‑228‑9807 e: jason@david-cummings.com

www.david-cummings.com TFG Global Insurance Solutions Ltd 701 Georgia St W Suite 1500, Vancouver V7Y 1C6 David Tompkins ���p: 604‑628‑0426 f: 604‑259‑0652 e: info@tfgglobal.com

www.tfgglobal.com

Insurance Services (other than health) AllWest Insurance Services Ltd 1681 Chestnut St Suite 315, Vancouver V6J 4M6 ������������� p: 604‑736‑1969 f: 604‑736‑5973 e: info@allwestins.com

www.allwestins.com Aon Canada 401 Georgia St W Suite 1200 PO Box 3228, Vancouver V6B 5A1 Susan Kowan ����� p: 604‑443‑2513 f: 604‑682‑4026

www.aon.ca Jardine Lloyd Thompson Canada Inc 1111 Georgia St W Suite 1600, Vancouver V6E 4G2 Sandy Millar ������ p: 604‑682‑4211 f: 604‑682‑3520

www.jltcanada.com

Lawyers/Legal Services

Furniture Leasing Services Home Ingredients 65 7th Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 1L4 ���������������p: 604‑876‑9959 f: 604‑876‑9951 e: info@homeingredients.ca

www.homeingredients.ca

Languages Canada 27282 12B Ave, Aldergrove V4W 2P6 Linda Auzins �������p: 604‑574‑1532 f: 888‑277‑0522 e: info@languagescanada.ca

www.languagescanada.ca

James Dobney Inspections 1833 Coast Meridian Rd Suite 63, Port Coquitlam V3C 6G5 �������������� p: 604‑942‑8272 f: 604‑945‑7114 e: admin@jamesdobney.com

www.jamesdobney.com

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC Financial Group) 1055 Georgia St W, Vancouver V6E 3S5 ������������������������������������������p: 800‑769‑2511

www.rbc.com

Vancity 183 Terminal Ave, Vancouver V6A 4G2 ��������������p: 604‑877‑7000 f: 604‑877‑8292 e: mediarelations@vancity.com

www.vancity.com

Human Resources Management Association 1111 Hastings St W Suite 1101, Vancouver V6E 2J3 Kara Douglas ������p: 604‑684‑7228 f: 604‑684‑3225 e: info@hrma.ca

www.hrma.ca

Chambers of Commerce

Appraisal Institute of Canada BC (AIC-BC) 10451 Shellbridge Way Suite 210, Richmond V6X 2W8 ������������ p: 604‑284‑5515 f: 604‑284‑5514 e: info@appraisal.bc.ca

www.aicanada.ca/province-british-columbia/ british-columbia BC Restaurant and Food Services Association 890 Pender St W Suite 600, Vancouver V6C 1J9 ���������������p: 604‑669‑2239 f: 604‑669‑6175 e: info@bcrfa.com

www.bcrfa.com

Society of Notaries Public of BC 625 Howe St Suite 700 Box 44, Vancouver V6C 2T6 GW Wayne Braid p: 604‑681‑4516 f: 604‑681‑7258

www.notaries.bc.ca

Mortgage Brokers Mortgage Brokers Association of BC 1769 8th Ave W Suite 101, Vancouver V6J 5C6 Samantha Gale ���p: 604‑408‑9989 f: 604‑608‑0977 e: admin@mbabc.ca

www.mbabc.ca

Move Management & Space Planning Orderly Concepts & Solutions 3363 Rosemary Heights Cres, South Surrey V3Z 0X8 Janis Nylund ��������������������������������� p: 604‑536‑1288 e: janis@orderlyconcepts.com

www.orderlyconcepts.com

Packing & Shipping Suppliers Allworld Packaging Supplies Ltd 1023 Clark Dr, Vancouver V5L 3K1 Janet Nixon ���������p: 604‑253‑5577 f: 604‑254‑4987 e: sales@allworldpackaging.com

www.allworldpackaging.com

Personal Goods Moving & Storage AMJ Campbell - Vancouver 9924 River Rd, Delta V4G 1B5 Allan Brown ��������p: 604‑940‑4208 f: 604‑940‑2385 e: abrown@amjbc.ca

www.amjbc.ca

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Relocation services Harbour Management Inc 970 Burrard St Suite 240, Vancouver V6Z 2R4 Ron Jones ..................................... p: 604-876-8895 e: harbourmgt@shaw.ca

Vehicle Rental & Leasing car2go Vancouver 321 Water St Suite 330, Vancouver V6B 1B8 Justin MacDonald ..........................p: 855-454-1002 e: vancouver@car2go.com www.car2go.com

New Century Real Estate Ltd 535 Howe St Suite 400, Vancouver V6C 2Z4 ......................................... p: 778-317-6393 e: firststaybc@gmail.com www.firststaybc.com Canadian International Relocations 7371 Westminster Hwy Suite 705, Richmond V6X 0B4 Hans Martens .....p: 604-275-4280 f: 604-275-4012 e: vancouver@cirelo.com www.cirelo.com Downtown U-Lok Storage Ltd 915 Cordova St E, Vancouver V6A 4B8 Yvonne De Valone ......................... p: 604-215-2156 f: 604-215-2220 e: staff@ulok.com www.ulok.com Ellis Moving & Storage 1580 Columbia St, North Vancouver V7J 1A4 James Ellis ......... p: 604-986-9817 f: 604-986-6714 e: info@ellismoving.com www.ellismoving.com Getting It Together 301 Capilano Rd Suite 1603, Port Moody V3H 0G6 Rowena List .................................. p: 604-520-9550 e: rowena@gettingittogether.ca www.gettingittogether.ca Great Canadian Van Lines Ltd 17828 65A Ave Unit 208, Surrey V3S 1Z3 Mark Valliant ..... p: 604-540-6683 f: 604-540-6640 e: info@greatcanadianvanlines.com www.greatcanadianvanlines.com Highland Van & Storage Ltd 8238 Swenson Way, Delta V4G 1J6 ...............p: 604-581-2300 f: 604-581-2325 e: info@highland-worldwide.com www.highland-worldwide.com Kary Movers 8840 210th St Unit 505 Box 301, Langley V1M 2Y2 John Cousineau...p: 604-687-1746 f: 604-951-8331 e: info@karymovers.com www.karymovers.com PODS of BC 5350 Byrne Rd, Burnaby V5J 3J3 Mellanie Siteman ......................... p: 604-434-6005 f: 866-658-4898 e: podsbc@gmail.com www.pods.com Salmon’s Transfer Ltd 9500 Van Horne Way Suite 100, Richmond V6X 1W3 Doug Kellough ... p: 604-273-2921 f: 604-273-4963 e: salmons@salmonstransfer.com www.salmonstransfer.com

Royal LePage Sussex - Mander Group 2403 Marine Dr Suite 202, West Vancouver V7V 1L3 Diana and Kristin Mander .............p: 604-925-2911 f: 604-926-9199 e: diana@mandergroup.com www.mandergroup.com Vancouver Relocation Services 1965 4th Ave W Suite 101, Vancouver V6J 1M8 Andrew Kuras .... p: 604-318-2497 f: 604-738-6398 e: andrew@vancouverrelocation.com www.vancouverrelocation.com

EasyRent Real Estate Services Ltd 1290 Homer St Suite 100, Vancouver V6B 2Y5 ...............p: 604-662-3279 f: 604-608-9187 e: info@easyrent.ca www.easyrent.ca

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Visa & Immigration Services/ Consultants Archway Immigration & Consulting Services Inc 10820 No 5 Rd Suite 403, Richmond V6W 0B5 Olivia Omoya................................. p: 604-779-0354 e: archwayimm@gmail.com www.archwayimmigration.com

National Appraisal Group Ltd 5718 Owl Crt, North Vancouver V7R 4V7 Azim Jamal ........ p: 604-904-9676 f: 604-904-9690 Niemi LaPorte & Dowle Appraisals Ltd 8678 Greenall Ave Suite 312, Burnaby V5J 3M6 ............. p: 604-438-1628 f: 604-438-2886 e: info@nldappraisals.com www.nldappraisals.com

Royal LePage Sterling Realty - Barrie Vattoy 3137 St Johns’s St, Port Moody V3H 2C8 Barrie Vattoy ................................. p: 604-618-8108 e: vattoy@shaw.ca www.relocationbc.com

Penny & Keenleyside Appraisals Ltd 319 Governors Crt Suite 202, New Westminster V3L 5S5 .............. p: 604-525-3441 f: 604-525-9313 e: values@pkappraisals.com www.pkappraisals.com

Sotheby’s International Realty 858 Beatty St Suite 210, Vancouver V6B 1C1 Jacob Krause................................. p: 778-229-5000 e: info@jacobkrause.com www.vancouverspaces.com

Embarkation Law Corp 609 Hastings St W Suite 600 Box 26, Vancouver V6B 4W4 Laura Best .......... p: 604-662-7404 f: 604-662-7466 e: info@embarkation.ca www.embarkation.ca

Westech Appraisal Services Ltd 197 Forester St Suite 411, North Vancouver V7H 0A6 Henk den Breejen ..........................p: 604-986-2722 f: 604-986-2552 e: mail@westechappraisal.com www.westechappraisal.com

Sutton Group West Coast Realty 5511 West Blvd Suite 200, Vancouver V6M 3W6 Judith Adamick ...p: 604-351-4116 f: 604-263-8402 e: judithadamick@gmail.com www.judithadamick.com

Higher Options - HR & Immigration 535 Thurlow St Suite 500, Vancouver V6E 3L2 Amelia Chan........p: 604-801-5895 f: 778-800-9922 e: mail@hr-options.com www.hr-options.com

Real Estate Appraisal

Realtors Anson Realty Ltd 3378 Cambie St, Vancouver V5Z 2W5 Stephen Kwok.....p: 604-876-9222 f: 604-876-9225 e: anson@anson-realty.com www.anson-realty.com CBRE Ltd 1021 Hastings St W Suite 2500, Vancouver V6E 0C3 ......................................... p: 604-662-3000 www.cbre.ca

Vancouver Relocation Services 1965 4th Ave W Suite 101, Vancouver V6J 1M8 Andrew Kuras .... p: 604-318-2497 f: 604-738-6398 e: andrew@vancouverrelocation.com www.vancouverrelocation.com

Relocation Management Services

Relocation and Business Stays 30 - 90 Days Superbly Furnished Wow! Harbour and Mountain Views

Lions Gate Executive Suites .......................................................p: 844-913-9111 e: lionsgatesuites@telus.net www.lionsgatesuites.com

Colliers International - Commercial 200 Granville St Suite 1900, Vancouver V6C 2R6 .............. p: 604-681-2655 f: 604-661-0849 www.colliers.com Holly Wood - Sotheby’s International 235 15th St, West Vancouver V7T 2X1 ...............p: 604-561-9699 f: 604-684-4155 e: hollywood@sothebysrealty.ca www.coalharbourcondos.info

Best Place Immigration 1500 Georgia St W Suite 1300, Vancouver V6G 2Z6 Ron Liberman ..... p: 604-970-0629 f: 604-608-4723 e: info@bestplace.ca www.bestplace.ca

Sutton Group West Coast Realty 1508 Broadway W Suite 301, Vancouver V6J 1W8 Norris Phillippe .. p: 604-714-1700 f: 604-738-1888 e: norris@sutton.com www.suttonwestcoast.com

Chandler Realty Ltd 1648 6th Ave W, Vancouver V6J 1R3 ..........................................p: 604-328-0077 e: maggiechandler@telus.net www.maggiechandler.ca

Property Management

Downtown Suites Ltd 1174 Pender St W, Vancouver V6E 2R9 Nicholas Meyer . p: 604-694-8801 f: 604-682-5634 e: nic@downtownsuites.com www.downtownsuites.ca

RE/MAX Austin Kay Realty 6086 Russ Baker Way Suite 110, Richmond V7B 1B4 Anita Chan .................................... p: 604-258-8866 e: anita@anitachan.com www.austinkay.com

Zipcar 654 Seymour St, Vancouver V6B 3K4 Elliott Dew ......... p: 604-697-0550 f: 604-697-0560 e: edews@zipcar.com www.zipcar.com

RE/MAX Central 5050 Kingsway Suite 1, Burnaby V5H 4C2 Francine Legault ........................... p: 604-723-4404 e: francinerealtor@gmail.com www.francinelegault.com

World Cargo Inc 9295 Shaughnessy St, Vancouver V6P 6R4 Matt Bryson ........p: 604-305-0337 f: 604-608-5562 e: matt.bryson@goworldcargo.com www.goworldcargo.com

Advent Real Estate Services 1168 Hamilton St Suite 204, Vancouver V6B 2S2 Michelle Farina ...p: 604-736-6478 f: 604-608-9292 e: info@adventvancouver.com www.adventvancouver.com

NKF Devencore 543 Granville St, Vancouver V6C 1X8 Jon Bishop..................................... p: 604-681-3334 e: jcunningham@devencorenkf.com www.devencorenkf.com

Zeemac Vehicle Lease Ltd 2293 Douglas Rd, Burnaby V5C 5A9.............. p: 604-298-8789 f: 604-291-7330 e: rentals@zeemac.com www.zeemac.com

Outstanding Relocation Choice.

Business & Holiday Suites, 30 Plus Days.

Well Furnished, Harbour & Mountain Views. www.lionsgatesuites.com Toll free: 1-844-913-9111 Tippet-Richardson 8035 North Fraser Way, Burnaby V5J 5M8 ..............p: 604-324-5015 f: 604-324-2047 e: trvancouver@tippetrichardson.com www.tippetrichardson.com

Relocation and Business Stays 30 - 90 Days Superbly Furnished Wow! Harbour and Mountain Views

Lions Gate Executive Suites .......................................................p: 844-913-9111 e: lionsgatesuites@telus.net www.lionsgatesuites.com Outstanding Relocation Choice.

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