Discover Burnaby 2020

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CONTENTS Our City Shopping Dining

Our City

9 Enjoy the Great Outdoors 11 This Sporting Life

Shopping

PUBLISHER Lara Graham

Dining

Arts & Culture 10 Creativity in the City EDITOR Chris Campbell

GRAPHIC DESIGN Gary Slavin

13 Dining Outside PROJECT COORDINATOR Aislinn Carey

Arts & Culture

5 North Road 8 The Heights

Outdoor Recreation

5 Discover Burnaby 5 Tourism Information 7 5 Amazing Things To Do

Outdoor Recreation

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Discover Burnaby

Tourism Information If you want to know what’s going on in Burnaby during your visit here, our city has a couple of key online sites to check out:

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ow is the best time ever to Discover Burnaby.

With COVID-19 throwing a wrench in people’s plans to travel outside of B.C., we’re here to help you explore the City of Burnaby, B.C.’s thirdlargest city with more than 248,000 residents. Our city stretches far and wide, with the mighty Fraser River to the south and the ocean waters of Burrard Inlet to the north. Burnaby is a study in contrasts. There are four bustling city centres – Edmonds, Metrotown, Brentwood and Lougheed – but our city is also loaded with so many natural places to explore. We have two large lakes, a mountain filled with trails, and dozens of tranquil parks to explore.

City changes mean more trails and parks areas have been added all around the city. The city also has a pretty fine dining scene, with restaurants offering cuisine from around the world. The jewel of the Heights, the Peartree, even landed on the top-100 list of the best restaurants in Canada.

So shake off that pandemic rust, and go out and discover the best that Burnaby has to offer.

• Burnabynow.com offers an extensive list of events compiled by the staff of the Burnaby NOW newspaper.

• Tourismburnaby.com is the city’s tourism bureau that can help you book anything you need for your visit.

• Burnaby.ca is the City of Burnaby’s official website.

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f you want to see just how diverse the City of Burnaby is, just head to the border.

Burnaby’s North Road, commonly known as Korea Town, is a vibrant and lively area that is the place to go for delicious food, fabulous shopping, and professional services. Located next to the Lougheed SkyTrain station just off the Lougheed Highway, North Road is easily accessible by vehicle or transit.

If it’s a caffeine boost you’re looking for, then you are in luck because North Road is quickly becoming known as Coffee City. With over a dozen different coffee shops, you will quickly find your new favourite coffee spot that is as unique as you are.

Dine around the world at award-winning restaurants featuring delicacies from Europe and Asia, with a North American twist. Treat your taste buds to Turkish, Thai, Chinese, and Vietnamese cuisine at North Road Square Mall (North Road and Cameron).

Just south of Lougheed Highway rests the three malls that make up Korea Town, the largest Korean shopping

district in Western Canada. Check out their website www.burnabynorthroadbia.ca to learn more about if the annual Korean community day is happening this September.

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THINGS TO DO

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Burnaby’s Mandarin Duck

Burnaby has its own version of “Where’s Waldo” with the city’s amazing Mandarin Duck. Nobody is exactly sure how the Mandarin Duck arrived in our city, but he’s brought in thousands of tourists who hit Burnaby Lake and Deer Lake trying to get a glimpse and a photo. The Mandarin Duck travels between both areas and you never know when he’ll pop up. “The mandarin, widely regarded as the world’s most beautiful duck, is a native of China and Japan,” explains the website Living with Birds. He’s a close relative of the North American wood duck–something Metro Vancouverites are very familiar with seeing in our local lakes and small waterways. Hope you find him!

Burnaby Village Museum, Deer Lake Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery. You can even stop off for a bite to eat after your hike at the Hart House Restaurant. Burnaby Lake Regional Park is just across the highway with 19 kilometres of walking and hiking trails, as well as plenty of paths for biking and horsebackriding to choose from. Both lakes are great spots for canoeing or kayaking. Check out one of the lookout points or the viewing tower at Burnaby Lake, and stop off at one of the picnic sites with your lunch.

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Head up to Burnaby Mountain: This is the highest point in the city, and home to Simon Fraser University.

Burnaby Mountain is known for its mountain biking trails and obstacles, as well as picnic areas and the famed rose garden. The area attracts riders of all skill levels from across the Lower Mainland. It also offers the finest views the city has to offer.

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Burnaby Lake & Deer Lake Park

Spend time in nature at the centre of the city at two of Burnaby’s best parks. Deer Lake’s peaceful, natural environment is also the centre for Burnaby’s cultural activity. There are walking trails connected to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts,

Burnaby Mountain

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corporate events. Get a workout at the fitness circuit with 12 outdoor fitness stations along the Trail of Hope, a 2.5-kilometre circuit around the park.

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Confederation Park

One of Burnaby’s best-kept secrets, Confederation Park has everything you could want in a recreation area: baseball diamonds, fields, tennis, off-leash trails, track and tennis courts to start. Visit the Library, Youth Centre or Seniors Centre, or go for a picnic and take a ride on the Model Steam Railway that runs every weekend during the summer. Cool off in the spray pool or go swimming at the Eileen Dailly Leisure Pool on a sunny day as the city plans to reopen it.

Central Park

Explore the forest on the wellmarked trails in Central Park. See the Douglas fir, western hemlock, cedar, poplar and maple grove trees, and the geese and ducks at the park’s two ponds. The park is known for its recreation facilities, and for good reason. There are tennis courts, an outdoor swimming pool, horseshoe pitch, a pitch-and-putt golf course, and, of course, Swangard Stadium, which hosts many sporting, cultural and 7

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The Heights

here’s no denying the charm of Burnaby Heights.

You’ll get that small-town feel right in the middle of the city, while spending time shopping at unique stores, or sitting down for a cup of coffee, ice cream or dinner at one of its many restaurants.

The Heights is right on top of one of the three hills in Burnaby facing the Burrard Inlet. Thousands of immigrants – many of them Italian, English and Irish – came here in the early 1900s with the opening of Hastings Street and the arrival of the streetcar in North Burnaby in 1908. Soon after that, the first merchants made their way to set up their shops.

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owned by second or third-generation merchants, while others are owned and operated by new immigrants of diverse cultures.

On the first Saturday in June is normally Hats Off Day with 50,000 of your neighbours at Burnaby’s biggest festival. Local businesses “tip their hats” to customers, but this year’s event was sadly cancelled due to COVID-19.

You’ll also find some festivities around Halloween and the Lunar New Year.

The Heights Merchants Association, which has been an official business

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LUNCH SPECIAL Monday to Friday

improvement area since 1994, focuses on issues affecting the area, including street beautification, cleaning and decorative signs, and, not to mention their fun seasonal events.

For information, go to burnabyheights.com

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Non-Veg Lunch Special $12.95 Your choice of Butter Chicken, Chicken Curry, Lamb Curry or Goat Curry served with one vegetable, daal, rice, raita, naan and gulab jamun.

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Enjoy the Great Outdoors

plenty of walking and biking trails, tennis courts, a pitch-andputt golf course, lawn bowling and horseshoe pitches, all under a lovely canopy of lush, native trees, including Douglas fir, western hemlock, cedar, poplar and maple.

There are also ball diamonds, a fitness circuit, outdoor pool, and kids’ playgrounds. Don’t forget the Swangard Stadium, which hosts a variety of sporting and cultural events over the year.

Scale Burnaby Mountain for breathtaking views of the Burrard Inlet and the North Shore.

You’ll find the Kamui Mintara (Playground of the Gods) totems on top of the hill, created by Japanese sculptors Nuburi Toko and his son Shusei, gifted to the city to show goodwill between

Burnaby and Kushiro, Japan, our sister city. There’s cycling, casual picnic sites, the 1,400-metre-long velodrome trail, and a lovely rose garden. For mountain bikers, there’s downhill trails for riders of varying difficulties, some with obstacles. The trails attract riders of all skill levels from across the Lower Mainland.

Appreciate the beauty of the Fraser River at Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park. The shoreline trail is popular for runners, or you can sit at one of the benches along the path and take in the scenery. The city has expanded its trail system here.

Deer Lake Park is known both for its scenic lake views and as the hub of Burnaby’s cultural and art activity. If you follow the walking trails, you might end up at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, the Burnaby Village Museum, Deer Lake Gallery or the Burnaby Art Gallery (facilities are expected to be reopened as the summer moves on). There’s lots of grassy areas to rest along the way. If you’re hungry, stop with your lunch at one of the picnic sites or get a bite to eat at the Hart House Restaurant.

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here’s plenty of outdoors to explore at the more than 150 parks in the city. With plenty of walking and cycling trails and outdoor amenities, you’ll never be short of things to do in Burnaby’s great outdoors.

The 86.4-hectare urban Central Park is one of our favourites and it’s gotten better after the city added an urban trail around most of the park. There are natural ponds,

For more information on Burnaby’s Parks and Recreation amenities, go to burnaby.ca.

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alk along Deer Lake Avenue and you’ll find yourself in the hub of Burnaby’s arts community, which has been reopening gradually throughout the summer as part of the province’s Phase 3 program.

The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, located at 6450 Deer Lake Ave., is an awardwinning, multi-purpose community arts facility, nestled between heritage buildings and the grasslands of Deer Lake Park. Arts are alive year-round with various performances, festivals, exhibitions and special events.

Get creative at one of Shadbolt’s art classes and programs in dance, music, visual arts, ceramics, theatre and literary arts for all skill levels.

For more info, go to shadboltcentre.com.

Take in an exhibit at the Burnaby Art Gallery at 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Open now for more than 50 years, the gallery now hosts lively public programs meant to enrich visitor experiences and appreciation of the arts. Artist talks and workshops on site hosted in conjunction with exhibitions are a regular occurrence at the gallery. Items not in use are stored offsite at the climate-controlled environment of the old Ceperley Mansion built in 1910.

Original hand-pulled prints make up 80 per cent of the collection, with drawings, collages, paintings and sculptures filling out the rest.

For more info, go to burnabyartgallery.ca.

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This Sporting Life

beautiful wild grasses, white tan bunkers and challenging water hazards. Visit the driving range to get your swing just right. There are 54 stalls, covered, climate-controlled and night-lit. It’s at 9001 Bill Fox Way, in South Burnaby.

Call 604-280-4653 for more info.

Head to Burnaby Mountain Golf Course, rated by Golf Digest as one of the best places to play on the continent. You’ll enjoy the serene, popular golf course with 5,800 to 6,400 yards of natural, tree-lined beauty and a gentle rolling hill terrain. You’ll need precise shot-making to achieve par, but recreational players find it forgiving. If you need some practice, get a few swings in at the new state-of-the-art heated and lit 60-stall driving range. It’s located at 7600 Halifax St., in North Burnaby. Call 604-280-7355 for more.

Looking for something more casual? Try one of Burnaby’s pitch and putt layouts. Central Park Pitch and Putt (3883 Imperial St.) is located in the heart of the city. You can practise your short game and enjoy a golfing experience in a beautiful park setting, great for players of all skills. For beginners, or if you don’t have time for a full round, you can still have the golf experience at Kensington Pitch and Putt (5889 Curtis St.). This course is great for all ages. Call Riverway or Burnaby Mountain for more information.

Sports Swangard Stadium is Burnaby’s showcase sports venue, a

multi-use facility that hosts regional, provincial, national, and international soccer, rugby, football and track and field events. The stadium is home to all kinds of sporting teams, recently with TSS FC Rovers, B.C.’s women’s soccer team being added to the list. The new team splits their home games between Swangard Stadium and Mercer Stadium in New Westminster.

The Bill Copeland Sports Centre has twin arenas, 2,000-seat capacity, and space for ice skating and other ice sports. The ice rink is NHL regulation size and features retractable seats and boards. After the city installed a new 17,000-square-foot portable maple wood lacrosse floor, the centre has been hosting some of the world’s best box lacrosse players.

The city is also home to Canlan Ice Sports Burnaby 8 Rinks, where recreational hockey players have a multitude of ice options, and a variety of cultural activities. The 250,000-square-foot-facility has six NHL-sized rinks, one indoor soccer field, and one dedicated figure skating rink, and hosts more than 1.5 million annual visits.

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njoy the luxury of private clubs at public courses when you play at Burnaby’s award-winning golf facilities.

Riverway Golf Course, the classic 18-hole championship course, is one of the premier golf courses in the Lower Mainland. The 5,400- to 7,000-yard course is designed with

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Dining Outside if you want to do a patio or outdoor eating experience? We’ve compiled a list of some of the best.

• Hop and Vine: This pub in Greystone Village near the Burnaby Mountain Golf Course has a sneaky-good patio that offers nice shade during the hot summer months.

• Red Robin: This popular burger joint next to Lougheed shopping centre has a large patio.

• Cora Breakfast and Lunch: In South Burnaby’s Highgate area.

• Cotto: This is an excellent Italian restaurant on Hastings in the Capitol Hill area. Try the meatballs.

• Pho 99: This Vietnamese restaurant is located in the UniverCity development on Burnaby Mountain next to SFU. Its patio is big, shaded and views tranquil water fountains.

• Vassilis Greek Taverna: Nice patio on Kingsway in South Burnaby.

• Hart House: This is the best patio

in all of Burnaby, offering incredible views of Deer Lake. The restaurant has expanded the patio out onto the grass to allow more distance. On a clear day, it’s absolute Zen. • 50’s Burgers: The traffic might get a little loud, but it’s a decent patio and they have outstanding burgers and milkshakes.

• White Spot on North Road: They have a patio and drive-in service so you can eat in your vehicle.

• Cactus Club, Joey, Earls: These three big-chain restaurants have multiple locations in Burnaby (near Brentwood and at Station Square) that include patios.

• La Villetta Ristorante: This Italian institution in the Heights area has a covered patio area in the front.

• Keg Burnaby: This is in the Still Creek area. Nice covered patio.

• Browns Social House: This is on Lougheed near Brentwood.

Dining

estaurants in Burnaby have reopened and you can literally eat your way around the world there are so many cultures represented.

And one of the coolest things is that so many Burnaby restaurants have patios for you to sit back and enjoy a meal with less worry about COVID-19 protocols.

Burnaby restaurants have opened up their patios with physically distanced tables. So, where do you go in Burnaby

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