Burnaby

American  

[bur-nuh-bee] / ˈbɜr nə bi /

noun

1. a city in SW British Columbia, Canada near Vancouver.

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Example Sentences

Burnaby was tall—6 feet 4 inches—and many said he was the strongest man in the British Army, capable of carrying a pony under each arm.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1884, the redoubtable Burnaby volunteered for service in the Sudan, where the governor-general, Charles Gordon, had been besieged in the capital Khartoum by the Ansar followers of Muhammad Ahmed, the self-proclaimed Mahdi; called “Dervishes” by the British, they had embarked upon a jihad to overthrow Egyptian rule of the territory.

From The Wall Street Journal

Wolseley planned to reach Gordon by ascending the Nile, but he encountered daunting cataracts along the river and then sent out a camel-mounted detachment, with Burnaby as second-in-command, in a shortcut across the desert.

From The Wall Street Journal

Jagmeet Singh resigned as NDP leader after finishing third in his British Columbia seat of Burnaby Central, while the Green Party's co-leader Jonathan Pedneault came fifth in Outremont, Quebec.

From BBC

"This study is important because it provides insight into both the mechanisms and the clinical implications of concussion in the maturing adolescent brain," said co-lead author Alex I. Wiesman, Ph.D., assistant professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

From Science Daily