Burnaby

[bur-nuh-bee]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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"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.

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Production nestled in British Columbia connecting with the lush Canadian surroundings for exteriors, including an old cedar mill to fill in for the fishing village of Osaka, while Mammoth Studios in Burnaby was home to the ornate sets built for the palace quarters, ceremonial hall and samurai houses.

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On May 22, the first oil tanker left the newly expanded Trans Mountain pipeline terminal in Burnaby, B.C., bound for China with 550,000 barrels of tar-sand oil.

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This milestone comes 12 years after the pipeline’s original owner — Kinder Morgan — filed a proposal with the National Energy Board of Canada to construct a second pipeline alongside the one built in 1953, connecting the massive tar-sand deposits in Alberta to a tanker port in Burnaby near Vancouver, B.C.

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