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City in British Columbia, Canada

New Westminster
Metropolis
The City of New Westminster
New Westminster in 2015
Flag Glaze of arms Logo
Nickname(s): "New West"[ane]
Motto(s): "In God We Trust"
Location of New Westminster in Metro Vancouver
Coordinates: 49°12′25″North 122°54′40″West  /  49.20694°N 122.91111°W  / 49.20694; -122.91111 Coordinates: 49°12′25″Northward 122°54′40″Westward  /  49.20694°Due north 122.91111°West  / 49.20694; -122.91111
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Regional district	Metro Vancouver
Founded	1858
Government
• Governing body	New Westminster City Council
• Mayor	Jonathan Cote
• Councillors	Nadine Nakagawa Patrick Johnstone Jaimie McEvoy Chuck Puchmayr Mary Trentadue Chinu Das
• MP	Peter Julian (NDP)
• MLA	Jennifer Whiteside (BC NDP) Aman Singh (BC NDP)
Surface area
• Full	fifteen.63 kmtwo (six.03 sq mi)
Elevation	60 chiliad (200 ft)
Population (2016)[2]
• Full	seventy,996
• Density	four,543.iv/kmii (11,767/sq mi)
• Private Dwellings	32,605
Fourth dimension zone	UTC−08:00 (PST)
Forward sortation surface area	V3L – V3M
Area code(s)	604, 778, 236, 672
Website	www.newwestcity.ca

New Westminster (colloquially known as New West) is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District. It was founded past Major-General Richard Moody equally the majuscule of the new-born Colony of British Columbia in 1858, and connected in that role until the Mainland and Island Colonies were merged in 1866. It was the British Columbia Mainland's largest city from that year until it was passed in population past Vancouver during the starting time decade of the 20th century.

It is located on the banks of the Fraser River as it turns southwest towards its estuary, on the southwest side of the Burrard Peninsula and roughly at the heart of the Greater Vancouver region.

History [edit]

Before the settlers arrived from various parts of the earth, the expanse at present known equally New Westminster was inhabited by Qayqayt Start Nation. The discovery of gold in B.C. and the inflow of gold seekers from the south prompted fear amid the settlers that Americans may invade to take over this land.

Richard Clement Moody arrived in British Columbia in Dec 1858, at the head of the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, having been manus picked to "found a second England on the shores of the Pacific".^[three] Moody 'wanted to build a city of beauty in the wilderness' and planned his city as an iconic visual metaphor for British dominance, 'styled and located with the objective of reinforcing the authority of the Crown and of the robe'.^[4] Subsequent to the enactment of the Pre-emption Act of 1860, Moody settled the Lower Mainland and selected the site and founded the new upper-case letter, New Westminster. Moody and the Regal Engineers were trained in settlement and selected the site because of its defensibility: it was farther from the American border than the site of the colony's announcement, Fort Langley, possessed "bang-up facilities for communication by h2o, also as by future great trunk railways into the interior",^[5] and possessed an excellent port.^[4] Moody was also struck by the regal dazzler of the site, writing in his letter to Blackwood:

The entrance to the Fraser is very striking—Extending miles to the correct & left are depression marsh lands (apparently of very rich qualities) & all the same fr [sic] the Groundwork of Superb Mountains—Swiss in outline, dark in woods, grandly towering into the clouds at that place is a sublimity that deeply impresses you. Everything is large and magnificent, worthy of the entrance to the Queen of England's dominions on the Pacific mainland. [...] My imagination converted the silent marshes into Cuyp-like pictures of horses and cattle lazily fattening in rich meadows in a glowing sunset. [...] The water of the deep clear Frazer was of a burnished stillness, not a ripple before us, except when a fish rose to the surface or broods of wild ducks fluttered away.^{[six] [7]}

Moody likened his vision of the nascent Colony of British Columbia to the pastoral scenes painted by Aelbert Cuyp.

Information technology was suggested by Moody and the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment that the site be proclaimed "Queensborough". Governor James Douglas proclaimed the new uppercase with this name on February xiv, 1859.^[8] The name "Queensborough", notwithstanding, did not appeal to London and it was Queen Victoria who named the city afterward Westminster,^[9] that part of the British capital of London where the Parliament Buildings were, and are to this day, situated. From this naming by the Queen, the City gained its official nickname, "The Purple City". A year after New Westminster became the first City in British Columbia to be incorporated and have an elected municipal government. Information technology became a major outfitting point for prospectors coming to the Fraser Golden Blitz, equally all travel to the goldfield ports of Yale and Port Douglas was by steamboat or canoe up the Fraser River.

Coquitlam City, of New Westminster

However, Colonial Office Secretary Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton 'forgot the practicalities of paying for clearing and developing the site and the town' and the efforts of Moody's Engineers were continuously hampered past insufficient funds, which, together with the continuous opposition of Douglas, 'fabricated it impossible for [Moody's] design to be fulfilled'.^[10]

Governor Douglas spent little time in New Westminster and had little affection for the city; and the feelings were amply repaid past the citizens of New Westminster, who avidly supported Colonel Moody'south city-building efforts and castigated the governor, who preferred to remain for the about office isolated in distant Victoria.^[eleven] In dissimilarity to Victoria, where settlers from England had established a potent British presence, New Westminster's early citizens were largely Canadians and Maritimers, who brought a more than business-oriented arroyo to commerce and dismissed the pretensions of the older community. Despite being granted a municipal quango, the mainlanders in New Westminster as well pressed for a legislative assembly to exist created for British Columbia,^[12] and were infuriated when Governor Douglas granted free port status to Victoria, which stifled the economic growth of the Fraser River city.^[13] Moreover, to pay for the expense of edifice roads into the Interior of the colony, Douglas imposed duties on imports into New Westminster.

In 1866, the Colony of British Columbia and the Colony of Vancouver Island were united as "British Columbia". Even so, the majuscule of the Colony of Vancouver Island, Victoria, located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, was made the capital of the newly confederate Colony of British Columbia, following a vote in the House of Associates. On the day of the vote one member of the assembly, William Cox (one of the colony's Golden Commissioners and a Victoria supporter), shuffled the pages of the speech that William Franklyn from Nanaimo (a New Westminster supporter) intended to give, so that Franklyn lost his place and read the commencement paragraph three times. Cox then popped the lenses of Franklyn's spectacles from their frames so that the Nanaimo representative could meet nothing at all of his spoken language. Afterwards a recess to settle the resulting uproar and allow the member from Nanaimo a chance to sort out his speaking notes and his spectacles, on the members' return to the House of Assembly, the Speaker John Sebastian Helmcken (from Victoria) refused to allow Franklyn a "2nd" chance to speak. The subsequent vote was 13 to 8 confronting New Westminster.^[xiv]

City of New Westminster in flames, September 10, 1898

With the entry of British Columbia into the Dominion of Canada in 1871, as the sixth province, New Westminster's economic prospects improved, but the Regal Metropolis would lose out again, this fourth dimension to the new railway terminus town of Vancouver, when the Canadian Pacific Railway was extended to the shores of Burrard Inlet, even though a spur of the railway did reach New Westminster in 1886. In 1879, the federal regime allocated iii reserves to the New Westminster Indian Band, including 104 acres (0.42 km^two) of the South Westminster Reserve, 22 acres (89,000 one thousand²) on the North Arm of the Fraser River, and 27 acres (110,000 mⁱⁱ) on Poplar Island.^[15] A smallpox epidemic devastated the New Westminster Band, reducing the band members from well-nigh 400 people to under 100. Many of the remaining Qayqayt were alloyed into other local reserves, such as the neighbouring Musqueam Indian Ring. Their reserve on Poplar Isle was turned into an Aboriginal smallpox victim quarantine area. For decades, the Poplar Island reserve was designated as belonging to "all coast tribes".^[16]

In 1898, a fire destroyed downtown New Westminster.,^[17] and in 1913 the federal government seized nigh of the New Westminster Band's reserve lands.^[xviii] In 1916 the remaining country on Poplar Island was turned over to the BC authorities.

From 1927 to 1969, the British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Programme was collecting coastal water temperature and salinity measurements from New Westminster every day for the Section of Fisheries and Oceans.^[19]

In 1991, the New Westminster Armoury was recognized equally a Federal Heritage building on the Annals of the Government of Canada Heritage Buildings.^[twenty] Forth with the rest of the Greater Vancouver region, in 2020 New Westminster experienced the worst air quality in the world due to the combined effects of the 2020 Western American wildfires and a fire at the old Pier at the quay.^[21]

Geography [edit]

New Westminster is located on the Burrard Peninsula, mainly on the north bank of the Fraser River. It is 19 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of the City of Vancouver proper, adjacent to Burnaby and Coquitlam and across the Fraser River from Surrey and Delta. A portion of New Westminster called Queensborough is located on the eastern tip of Lulu Island, adjacent to Richmond. The total land expanse is 15.three square kilometres (five.9 sq mi).

Historical urban geography [edit]

New Westminster has inverse markedly over fourth dimension and by the results of its incorporation into the wider urbanization of the Lower Mainland. (See also: Architecture of Greater Vancouver.)

B.C. Penitentiary [edit]

The BC Penitentiary being constructed c. 1877

In 1878, the Government of Canada opened the British Columbia Penitentiary, the first federal penitentiary west of Manitoba. "BC Pen", or simply "the Pen", as it was known (and also in old days as the "skookum house" in the English-Chinook Jargon patois common in early on BC), was located between the Sapperton neighbourhood and what is now Queen's Park. It housed maximum-security prisoners for the next 102 years, closing in 1980.^[22] The original centre block of the Pen still stands and has been converted into offices. The Gatehouse, steps leading up to it and old Coal Business firm withal stand. The rest of the Pen's grounds have been filled with newly built townhouses and condominiums and parkland. Below the main complex on the waterfront the prison's old armoury yet stands as part of a new waterfront park; this was besides the location of the prison'southward wharf which was much-used when steamboat was the principal means of transportation within the Lower Mainland and for some years after.

Woodlands [edit]

The mental hospital for children, was located to the w of the BC Pen and was side by side to the offramps of the Pattullo Bridge. After it was closed, the derelict main building was, except for the belfry entrance, destroyed by fire on July 9, 2008. In Oct 2011, all remaining old structures were leveled and cleared, to the joy of some sometime residents who had bad memories of their childhood experiences.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Chinatown [edit]

New Westminster's Chinatown was 1 of the primeval established in the mainland colony and initially the 2d-largest later on Victoria'south.^[23] Prior to the rise of Vancouver's Chinatown it was the largest on the mainland following Barkerville's wane every bit a centre of population.^{[ citation needed ]}

It was located along Forepart Street.^[24] A second Chinatown opened in an area known as "The Swamp" at the southwestern border of downtown,^[24] divisional roughly by Royal Avenue, Columbia Street, and eighth and 12th Streets. The "Swamp" name is because expanse was then boggy ground of low value for the stone and brick buildings of the primary office of downtown upward Columbia Street to the northeast; and also shut to the river and the railway.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Chinatown was destroyed in the Bully Burn of 1898 and only partly rebuilt subsequently,^[25] with a church and cultural and customs events hall the beginning to be started.^[26]

Columbia Street [edit]

Contrasting views of Columbia Street in 1932 and 2008

Until the 1964 completion of the Highway 1 freeway, which bypassed New Westminster to its north, Columbia Street, the downtown cadre of New Westminster close to the metropolis'south waterfront, was the principal commercial retail and service centre for the Fraser Valley and nearby areas of Burnaby and Coquitlam. Known every bit "the golden mile", it hosted major department stores such as Eaton's, Kresge'southward and Woolworths every bit well equally long-established New Westminster retailers. This was a time when road travel to Vancouver remained distant for Valley communities, and daily interurban runway service to and from Chilliwack was still in place (the service ended in 1950). The quality of shops was such that fifty-fifty Vancouverites would make the trip by interurban rail or, later on, via Kingsway (originally called the Westminster Highway or Westminster Road), to shop on Columbia Street. In addition to the retailers, Columbia Street was abode to major movie houses, the Columbia and the Paramount, rivalling in size and quality to those on Vancouver's Theatre Row. The motorway and the edifice of suburban malls with gratuitous parking is generally conceded to have "killed" Columbia Street, which fell into a slump despite the building of a large parkade above nearby Front Street in the 50s and 60s. Section stores (other than the Army and Navy) left downtown as the Uptown area continued to develop to go New Westminster's chief retail and services center. In October 2006, Columbia Street underwent reconstruction to change to one lane in both directions, with a wheel lane and opposite angle parking. This was washed to encourage more than human foot and bicycle traffic. Major high-ascension or renovation projects are completed or nearing completion. By May 2012, these include the Plaza 88 evolution which includes iii condominium towers, the complete renovation of the Columbia which is now a cabaret style theatre for concerts, weddings and fundraisers, and the home of Lafflines Comedy Club. The new $25 one thousand thousand Westminster Pier Park officially opened on June 16, 2012, and a new borough centre and role tower named The Anvil Centre on Columbia Street at Begbie Street completed Sept. 2014. The Salient Group built a tower on top of the Trapp + Holbrook buildings (while restoring the facade) and another condominium chosen Northbank was built at the east archway of Columbia Street. Close to the Trapp building, a major fire razed the E.L. Lewis Building and the Hamley Block on Oct 13, 2013, displacing 30 businesses and destroying a chunk of Columbia Street's historical graphic symbol. One of the most well-known of these businesses was Copp'southward Shoes, which had not inverse between its 1925 opening and its closure in early 2013.

Front Street [edit]

Originally a dockside street and market place, and also the location of the original Chinatown, Front Street was converted into a truck-route featherbed and elevated parkade during the 1960s in an try to provide increased parking for adjacent Columbia Street. In contempo decades it has been the focus of the city'due south thriving antiques and second-hand trade, which is besides full-bodied on 12 Street. It has as well been used as a location in feature films such as Rumble in the Bronx (substituting for the Bronx), I, Robot (as a futuristic Chicago), Shooter (doubling for Philadelphia, with the Fraser River beingness the Delaware River), and New Moon. In early 2016, a partial sabotage of the parkade commenced as function of the City'southward continued efforts to revitalize and amend their waterfront expanse.^[27]

Government House [edit]

The original colonial Authorities Business firm was located approximately where Purple City Manor is now. It was originally occupied by Colonel Richard Moody, who commanded the Columbia Disengagement of Royal Engineers who established the urban center. Rarely used by Governor Douglas, its first total-fourth dimension vice-regal resident was Governor Frederick Seymour.

New Westminster CPR Station [edit]

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Adjacent to the New Westminster SkyTrain Station, the city'south former Canadian Pacific Railway station was renovated and converted into a branch of The Keg restaurant chain in 1973. In 2013, The Keg restaurant closed its doors due to structural issues of the building. It is now occupied past a neighborhood pub.^[28]

The station is owned by Westminster Station Brewing Co., which signed a 15-yr lease with The Keg in 2002.

Queensborough [edit]

Queensborough was the name originally chosen for the colonial capital past Royal Engineer commander Colonel Richard Clement Moody. When Queen Victoria designated New Westminster instead as her new capital's name, the proper noun Queensborough became applied to New Westminster's portion of Lulu Isle, across the north arm of the Fraser from the southern finish of the city. Queensborough is today a growing housing area with its own singled-out identity. Some new condominium complexes have been built next to the Westminster Quay development. In the Chinook Jargon, "Koonspa", an adaptation of the proper name Queensborough, is the usual proper name for New Westminster as a whole.

A replica of a Queen Anne house opposite Queens Park

There are now some big-box stores such equally Walmart and Lowes, as well as the large Starlight Casino and a small shopping centre with outlet stores including Approximate, Aldo Shoes, Bench, The Gap, Assistant Republic, and Old Navy, among others.

Sapperton [edit]

Sapperton was originally a "suburb" of New Westminster, named for the Columbia Disengagement of Royal Engineers ("Sappers"), whose military camp was on the hill at present occupied by the Fraserview neighbourhood. It is the location of the historic Fraser Cemetery, which rivals Victoria's Ross Bay Cemetery for the number of historically pregnant graves and monuments. Sapperton is the home of the commencement commercial brewery to operate in British Columbia known as the "Urban center Brewery". Over the years the brewery changed easily and was operated by Labatts until it closed in 2005. In its place is a contempo condo development known equally the "Brewery District", although at that place is no brewery on the premises. New Westminster does have two breweries currently. One is named Steel & Oak which opened its doors in 2014 and is situated on the other finish of the Westminster Quay. The other brewery in New Westminster is named Some other Beer Co and it is located in Sapperton, close to where the Labatts Brewery was in the Brewery Commune, since 2019.^[29] Too located in Sapperton are the Regal Columbian Hospital, Sapperton Station, Braid Station, and the TransLink (British Columbia) headquarters.

Uptown "6th and 6th" [edit]

Development of an uptown commercial area around 6th Street and sixth Avenue started in 1954, with the opening of Woodward'due south department store. Added momentum came with the relocation of the public library from downtown to uptown in 1958. In 1992 Woodward'due south was expanded and modernized into a shopping centre and took the name Woodwards Identify. With the bankruptcy of Woodward's in 1993, the proper noun of the eye was changed to Imperial City Eye Mall. Moody Park is an important recreational surface area in the uptown area.

West End [edit]

View towards the West End and Uptown neighbourhoods from the Queensborough Bridge

Opposite Sapperton's north cease, New Westminster'south West End was one time adequately carve up from the metropolis proper, and has a neighbourhood commercial node along 12th Street and 20th Street approximately between London Street and 8th Ave. The 12th Street area features antique and one-of-a-kind stores.

Westminster Quay [edit]

Westminster Quay was a mid-1980s development to revitalize New Westminster and accompanied the development of the SkyTrain line to Vancouver. In improver to a large public market and a 2.5-diamond-rated hotel, The Inn at the Quay, a big condominium belfry and townhouse complex was built, accessed from the older Columbia Street area of downtown by an overpass. The impetus provided by this project has spilled over onto the inland side of the rail tracks, with new belfry developments focusing on the area southwest of eighth Street (the area known formerly every bit "the Swamp" and Chinatown). As of July 2007, the Quay's commercial component had noticeably decreased, with many vacancies, compared to the much more agile Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver. Responding to the decrease of business, the ownership group closed the Westminster Quay Market for renovations. The market re-opened as The River Market place in September 2010 with Donald's Market equally the master anchor.^[xxx] The Westminster Quay is likewise known to house the world's largest tin soldier which was given the championship by the Guinness Book of World Records back in 2002.^[31]

Demographics [edit]

Historical populations

Year	Popular.	±%
1921	14,495	—
1931	17,524	+20.ix%
1941	21,967	+25.4%
1951	28,639	+30.4%
1956	31,665	+10.6%
1961	33,654	+half-dozen.3%
1966	38,013	+xiii.0%
1971	42,835	+12.vii%
1976	38,393	−10.iv%
1981	38,550	+0.four%
1986	39,972	+three.seven%
1991	43,585	+9.0%
1996	49,350	+xiii.two%
2001	54,656	+10.8%
2006	58,549	+7.1%
2011	65,976	+12.7%
2016	70,996	+seven.6%
[32]

Religion in New Westminster (2011)^[33]

 Other or not religious (39.6%)

In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, New Westminster had a population of 78,916 living in 36,099 of its 37,737 total private dwellings, a change of 11.2% from its 2016 population of seventy,996. With a land area of 15.62 km² (six.03 sq mi), it had a population density of v,052.2/km^two (13,085.2/sq mi) in 2021.^[34]

Canada 2016 Census[35]		Population	% of total population (2016)
Visible minority group	South Asian	5,790	8.3%
	Chinese	vii,020	10%
	Blackness	ane,740	two.five%
	Filipino	5,755	8.two%
	Latin American	ane,275	1.8%
	Arab	570	0.8%
	Southeast Asian	795	1.one%
	West Asian	730	ane%
	Korean	i,500	ii.1%
	Japanese	945	1.4%
	Other visible minority	215	0.3%
	Mixed visible minority	870	1.2%
Total visible minority population		27,210	38.9%
Aboriginal group	First Nations	2,095	iii%
	Métis	935	1.three%
	Inuit	0	0%
Total Aboriginal population		two,905	four.2%
European		42,185	60.3%
Total population		69,905	100%

Languages [edit]

The 2016 census found that English was spoken equally mother tongue by fifty.47% of the population. The adjacent most common mother tongue language was Tagalog, spoken by 4.five% of the population, followed by Mandarin at 4.four%, and Punjabi at 3.5%.^[36]

Rank	Mother tongue	Population	Per centum
1	English	42,925	63.i%
2	Tagalog	3,075	four.5%
3	Standard mandarin	three,015	4.4%
4	Punjabi	2,410	iii.five%
5	Cantonese	2,105	three.i%
6	Spanish	ane,265	ane.9%
7	Korean	ane,245	1.eight%
8	Russian	1,035	i.5%
9	French	790	1.2%
10	Romanaian	740	one.1%

Commerce and industry [edit]

New Westminster secured a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) branch line in 1886, merely the completion of the main transcontinental line to Vancouver in 1887 shifted trade to Vancouver where the port was easier to access and never froze, unlike the Fraser River at New Westminster. Nonetheless, New Westminster weathered the loss, and remained an important manufacture and transportation middle. The local economy has always had a mix of industrial sectors, just it has evolved over the years, moving from a reliance on the master resource of lumber and line-fishing in the 19th century, to heavy industry and manufacturing in the get-go half of the 20th century,^{[ who? ]} to retail from the mid-1950s to the 1970s, to professional person and concern services in the 1990s, and finally to high-tech and fibre-optic industry in the early 21st century.^{[ who? ] [ citation needed ]}

Media [edit]

The Columbian, originally the British Columbian, British Columbia's 2d newspaper, was founded in New Westminster by John Robson (later Premier, every bit was the founder of the get-go newspaper, the British Colonist in Victoria, Amor de Creation). By the mid-20th Century it had long since been eclipsed by the Vancouver newspapers, and published its final result on November 15, 1983, later a life of 123 years.

CKNW, one of Canada's start individual news radio, hot-line and talk stations, began broadcasting from studios in New Westminster on April 1, 1944, originally in the Royal Windsor Hotel, and then at a few other locations in the metropolis, before moving to downtown Vancouver from its concluding New Westminster location at 8th and McBride, which it occupied from 1967 onwards.^[37] Although information technology has circulate from Vancouver for the amend part of one-half a century, it is still licensed to New Westminster and its callsign still includes the letters "NW" for New Westminster. It is a mainstay of the BC broadcasting industry where many notable reporters and broadcasters had their start.

Today New Westminster is served by the New Westminster Tape, function of the Glacier Media chain,^[38] which publishes one time a calendar week.

New Westminster also has a community humor magazine called Piffle. Piffle is the creation of Columbian Newspaper sports writer and Sapperton lad, Ron Loftus. When Ron retired, he sold Piffle to another Columbian Reporter and Sapperton lad, Chris Sargent who has published the magazine for the concluding xiv years.

Arts and culture [edit]

The city has several alive performance venues, ranging from the Massey Theatre adjacent to New Westminster High School, to the Burr Theatre, a converted cinema on Columbia Street, and two theatrical venues in Queens Park (One existence the Bernie Legge Theatre, home of the Vagabond Players, which were formed in 1937.) The Majestic City Musical Theatre, a long-established New Westminster tradition, uses the Massey, while one-act and mystery theatricals utilise the stages in Queens Park. Likewise in Queens Park is the Queens Park Arena, longtime habitation to the legendary New Westminster Salmonbellies professional lacrosse team, as well as an open-air stadium used for baseball and field sports. The Burr Theatre (originally the Columbia Theatre), named for New Westminster native Raymond Burr, was operated past the Raymond Burr Performing Arts Society who produced professional -quality mysteries and comedies between Oct 2000 and January 2005. February 2005 saw the theatre reopen as a vaudeville theatre with three major productions by The Heartaches Razz Band and in February 2006 collaboration with The Screaming Craven Theatrical Society produced the first Annual Vancouver International Burlesque Festival. The theatre was sold past the City of New Westminster through a public request for proposal process to the owner of Lafflines One-act Lodge. After extensive renovations to convert it into a cabaret style theatre, it is now chosen The Columbia, home of Lafflines One-act Club. Douglas College also offers post-secondary training in theatre, stagecraft and music, as well as non-credit courses in music for all ages and power levels, through the Douglas College Community Music Schoolhouse.^[39] Theatre productions and music concerts at Douglas Higher take place in the Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre and the smaller, more intimate Studio Theatre from September to Apr. Every year, New Westminster hosts the New Westward Cultural Crawl to showcase the metropolis'south unique and talented artists. The unique Mushtari Begum Festival of Indian Classical Music and Trip the light fantastic, debuted in 2012, is produced by internationally acclaimed artists Cassius Khan and Amika Kushwaha to preserve the rare Indian arts, and is partnered with the Massey Theatre.

The City of New Westminster operates ii visual art galleries : New Media Gallery, and the Community Art Gallery, both at Anvil Heart. New Media Gallery was founded in 2014 and curates unique, group exhibitions of leading international, national and regional artists working with and around technology. The third flooring gallery space is a flexible, 2000– 3000 sq ft and is redesigned and rebuilt for every exhibition. Staff Manager-Curators curate 3–5 exhibitions per year. NMG does not maintain an fine art collection and does not exercise solo exhibitions. The gallery has adult a comprehensive sustainability program related to exhibition building, shipping and design practices.

Heritage [edit]

The main feature of the New Westminster Museum and Archives (NWMA) is the 1865 Irving Business firm, which is said to exist the oldest intact firm in the BC Lower Mainland. In the museum are treasures such equally the 1876 charabanc used by Lord Dufferin, so Governor General of Canada, to bout the new province of British Columbia including Barkerville via the Cariboo Road. The city's archives hold corporate and personal treasures such every bit 1859 maps of the city drawn past the Imperial Engineers and official city records. Other heritage artifacts in the urban center include the 1937 Samson V paddlewheeler, the 1890s armouries, 1850s historic cannons, two of the old BC Pen buildings, numerous cemeteries, and dozens of heritage homes, many of which are from the 19th century. The Museum is affiliated with Canadian Museums Association, the Canadian Heritage Information Network, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

Hyack Festival and the Hyack Anvil Battery [edit]

May Day celebrations in 1913. Young girls trip the light fantastic toe around a maypole.

New Westminster'south May Day commemoration began in 1870 and continues today every bit an important civic tradition, lending the metropolis the stardom of having the longest-running May Twenty-four hour period celebration of its type in the British Commonwealth. Inside B.C., at to the lowest degree four other communities even so celebrate May Twenty-four hour period: Port Coquitlam, Ladner in Delta (whose May Twenty-four hours Festival began in 1896), Bradner in Abbotsford, and The Sunshine Declension's Pender Harbour.

Wayne Wright sets off an anvil shot during the 2008 Ancient and Honourable Hyack Anvil Battery Salute.

The May Day festival, held on the Victoria Twenty-four hour period weekend and more formally known as the Hyack Festival, is distinguished past the Ancient and Honourable Hyack Anvil Battery Salute, a tradition created by The New Westminster Fire Department during colonial times as a surrogate for a 21-gun salute. With no cannons available in the early on colony, the Fire Section—known equally the Hyacks, from the Chinook Jargon for "fast" or "quick", here derived from its apply as a command for "hurry up!"— improvised by placing gunpowder between two anvils, the tiptop one upturned, and igniting the charge from a prophylactic distance, hurling the upper anvil into the air.

Each year, in training for May Twenty-four hours, local schoolchildren are taught to trip the light fantastic toe around a maypole with colourful ribbons. Elections are held at uncomplicated schools in the city, and, from them i girl is selected to become the year's May Queen, and 2 students from each school to get members of her "May Queen Suite" and "Imperial Knights." On a Wednesday of the festival, unproblematic schoolhouse students assemble at Queen's Park Stadium to trip the light fantastic, and the May Queen is crowned.^[40]

Education [edit]

Douglas College, a major mail service-secondary institution in Greater Vancouver, has a campus in New Westminster. The college has an enrollment of 14,000 students and offers degrees, associate degrees, and two-yr career and Academy Transfer programs to local, national and international students.

The Justice Institute of British Columbia offers preparation to municipal police forces, fire departments, provincial corrections, court services, and paramedics with the British Columbia Ambulance Service. The Institute operates a Centre for Conflict Resolution, a Centre for Leadership and Community Learning, Executive Programs, a Public Safety Seminar Series, and the Ancient Leadership Diploma Plan.

Boucher Plant of Naturopathic Medicine (BINM), the only Naturopathic medical school in western Canada, offering the N.D. degree in Naturopathic Medicine in both 4-year and 6-twelvemonth programs is located here.

There is likewise a campus of the West Coast College of Massage Therapy (WCCMT) located on Columbia Street.

School District 40 New Westminster has i high school (New Westminster Secondary School), 3 middle schools, and 10 elementary schools.

Other institutes [edit]

• Sprott Shaw College
• Winston College

Transportation [edit]

Route network [edit]

Much of New Westminster'due south street network still conforms to the original grid laid out by the Royal Engineers at the fourth dimension of settlement. The filigree is oriented to the riverfront and therefore deviates from the compass directions: streets run northwest to southeast, and avenues run southwest to northeast.

The Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) is accessible from nearby Coquitlam, via the Brunette Avenue interchange, and Burnaby, via the Cariboo Road and Canada Way interchanges, and provides expressway access to Vancouver, the Due north Shore, and the Horseshoe Bay ferry last (to the west), and to the British Columbia interior and the communities of the Fraser Valley (to the east, via the Port Mann Bridge). On its northern and western edges, New Westminster is connected to Vancouver by the street system of the city of Burnaby. The three major arterial streets in Burnaby connecting New Westminster and Vancouver are Canada Way (until 1967 named the Grandview Highway, and called 8th St. once it enters New Westminster), Kingsway (twelfth St.), and Marine Way (Stewardson Mode). Kingsway connects New Westminster with the major shopping and entertainment district of Metrotown, in central Burnaby, and so proceeds to downtown Vancouver.

The Queensborough Bridge (part of Highway 91A) connects mainland New Westminster to Queensborough, Richmond, and, via the Alex Fraser Span, Delta. The Pattullo Bridge links New Westminster with Surrey. The lesser-used Derwent Way Bridge connects Queensborough with Annacis Island of Delta.

Due to the COVID-nineteen pandemic, the metropolis reallocated route infinite in New Westminster for cyclists and pedestrians as function of Streets for People in 2020 initiative.^[41]

Public transit [edit]

Public transportation is provided by TransLink. Forth with a number of double-decker routes, the urban center is served past the post-obit stations on the SkyTrain system:

• 22nd Street Station (Expo Line)
• Braid Station (Expo Line)
• Columbia Station (Expo Line)
• New Westminster Station (Expo Line)
• Sapperton Station (Expo Line)

The urban center is located inside Zone 2 of TransLink's fare construction.

Railways [edit]

The city is served past four railways: CN (Canadian National Railway), CP (Canadian Pacific Railway), BNSF (Burlington Northern and Santa Fe), and the shortline SRY (Southern Railway of British Columbia). None offer rider service.

Streetcars and the interurban [edit]

Until the 1950s, New Westminster was linked to Vancouver and other municipalities by the BC interurban tram network (a type of interurban electric railway) under British Columbia Electric Railway. The Central Park Line was operated from 1891 to 1958.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Sports and recreation [edit]

Memorial cenotaph at Grimston Park in New Westminster

The New Westminster Salmonbellies are one of the oldest professional lacrosse teams in Canada, and as well have inferior and midget teams. The 'Bellies, as they are also known, have won the Mann Cup twenty-iv times. New Westminster is also the location of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

The New Westminster Royals were a professional pocket-sized-league squad from 1911 through 1914, in the heyday of the Pacific Coast Hockey League. Their home rink was the Denman Arena in Vancouver, which they shared with rivals the Vancouver Millionaires.

Playing at Queen'south Park Loonshit were ii incarnations of a Western Hockey League junior squad, the New Westminster Bruins (1971–1981 and 1983–1988).

The Royal City Hyacks Football game Order offers football and cheerleading for youth aged 5–13, while the local high school, New Westminster Secondary School has high school football.

Pocomo Rugby Football Lodge and Douglas Rugby Lodge (both teams play in New Westminster) merged in 2005 to form the United Rugby Club. Pocomo moved to New Westminster in the tardily 1960s, eventually calling Hume Park its dwelling house field. Douglas was formed by Pocomo players attending Douglas College in 1972. United Rugby currently uses Hume Park and Queens Park for home venues.

Youth soccer in New Westminster is represented by the Royal City Youth Soccer Lodge, established in 1965, with teams for boys and girls anile 4 to 17 that participate in league play from September to March. Additionally, the club offers jump programs for children aged 4 to 9 and futsal for children aged ten to 17.

The Sapperton Rovers men's soccer team has a long history in New Westminster. Soccer in the Sapperton Community goes dorsum to mid 19th century; the first soccer game in BC was played in New Westminster on Victoria Day, May 24, 1862, in the Woodlands/Victoria Hill area.^{[ citation needed ]} The Columbian newspaper reported that the Victoria Twenty-four hours celebration included several sporting and cultural events, including a "football" (soccer) friction match between the Royal Engineers, known every bit the "Sappers" and the townsfolk. Sapperton Park was donated to the metropolis in 1907 for the sole purpose of being used equally a soccer venue. Many teams have since carried the Sapperton proper name.

The Hyack Swim Club, in functioning since 1973, trains swimmers at Canada Games Puddle, from a grassroots level upward to international contest. Swimmers from across the Lower Mainland come to Canada Games Pool to train with this swim gild. The swim club has trained many Olympians, Paralympians, and members of Canada'southward national team. Hyack Swim Gild hosts four meets each yr, two of which are held at Canada Games Pool. The premier meet each twelvemonth is held during the Hyack Festival, and attracts swimmers from beyond the province, Alberta, Washington, and Oregon. Mark Bottrill has been Hyack'due south Director of Swimming since 1999. Hyack Swim Club'southward Drew Christensen represented Canada at the 2008 Paralympic Games.

In July 2014, Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced plans to launch a USL-Pro team in New Westminster.^[42] If it had been canonical, the gild would have been the starting time division three club in Canada and the 6th professional person team in the country.

Notable residents [edit]

• Raymond Burr, actor^[43]
• Felix Cartal, musical artist
• Jon Cornish, football player
• Mary Ann Cunningham, social reformer and temperance activist
• Crystal Dahl, actress
• Bruno Gerussi, actor
• Jeanne Gilchrist, baseball actor of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Doug Grimston (1900–1955), ice hockey administrator and president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Clan^[44]
• Daryl Hine, poet
• Cody Husband, football actor
• Alexz Johnson, extra and musician
• Peter Julian, community activist
• Bill Kenny, lead vocaliser of The Ink Spots
• Cassius Khan, Indian classical Ghazal/Tabla musician
• Farhan Lalji, sportscaster TSN
• Robert Langlands, Wolf Prize winning mathematician
• Nicholas Lea, role player
• John Keefer Mahony, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Mandrake the Magician
• Eva Markvoort, blogger
• Katherina Matousek, pairs figure skating Olympian and 1984–1985 World statuary medallist
• James Moore, old politician
• Justin Morneau, baseball player
• David Political leader, football actor
• Belle Puri, journalist
• Bill Ranford, NHL goaltender, 1990 NHL Playoff MVP, Goaltending passenger vehicle, Los Angeles Kings
• Mike Reno, musician
• Renée Sarojini Saklikar, poet and writer, wife of Adrian Dix
• Ernest Smith (aka "Smokey" Smith), soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Snak the Ripper, rapper
• Dave Steen, decathlete, Olympic medalist
• Robert Thirsk, astronaut
• Devin Townsend, musician
• Kyle Turris, water ice hockey thespian
• Terry Yake, ice hockey player

International relations [edit]

Sister cities [edit]

• Moriguchi, Osaka, Nihon: The sister city human relationship between New Westminster and Moriguchi in 1962^{[45] [46]}–1963 was the commencement sister city agreement between Canadian and Japanese cities.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Quezon City, Philippines.^[46] The agreement was signed in June 1991.^{[47] [48]}
• Lijiang, Yunnan, Prc in 2002.^[46]

Friendship cities [edit]

• Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, Prc (2008) ^[46]
• Yunfu, Guangdong, China (2009)^[46]

Adopted city [edit]

• Anapa: During World State of war II, in 1944, New Westminster "adopted" Anapa, a town on the northeastern Black Sea coast. This was not a formal sister metropolis arrangement and information technology has lapsed in the intervening years.^[49]

Run across likewise [edit]

• Architecture of Greater Vancouver
• New Westminster (balloter districts)
• New Westminster Law Service – older than RCMP
• Royal Westminster Regiment

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External links [edit]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster

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