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The Museum was established in 1969 through the efforts of the Port Moody Historical Society (which became the Port Moody Heritage Society in 1979 [1]).. First housed in a now-demolished building on Kyle Street behind Port Moody's former City Hall, the Port Moody Historical Society moved the collection to the city's second CPR train station in 1978.
Port Moody is a city in British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District.It envelops the east end of Burrard Inlet and is the smallest of the Tri-Cities, bordered by Coquitlam on the east and south and by Burnaby on the west.
Vancouver BC 49°16′47″N 123°05′31″W / 49.2798°N 123.092°W / 49.2798; -123.092 ( Lord Strathcona Community Vancouver municipality ( 11304 )
website, local history, operated by the Port Hardy Heritage Society Port McNeill Heritage Museum: Port McNeill: Mount Waddington: History: Local history [16] PoMo Museum: Port Moody: Greater Vancouver: History: Local history, located in a historic railway station building Pouce Coupe Museum: Pouce Coupe: Peace River: History
The first regular transcontinental train from Montreal, Quebec arrived at a temporary terminus at Port Moody, British Columbia, in July 1886, and service to Vancouver itself began in May 1887. That year Vancouver's population was 1,000; by 1891 it reached 14,000 and by 1901 it was 26,000.
The Tri-Cities are an informal grouping of the three adjacent suburban cities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Port Moody, along with the two villages of Anmore and Belcarra in the northeast sector of Metro Vancouver in British Columbia. [1] [2] Combined, these five communities had a population of 246,701 residents in 2021.
The 26 km (16 mi) long Highway 7A largely followed a parallel route alongside the Canadian Pacific Railway.The highway started off in the west at Seymour Street in Downtown Vancouver, and went 8 km (5.0 mi) along Hastings Street, passing its junction with Highway 1 en route, until it reached Boundary Road, where the highway crossed into Burnaby.
Burrard Inlet (Halkomelem: səl̓ilw̓ət) is a shallow-sided fjord in the northwestern Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2] Formed during the last Ice Age, it separates the City of Vancouver and the rest of the lowland Burrard Peninsula to the south from the coastal slopes of the North Shore Mountains, which span West Vancouver and the City and District of North Vancouver to the ...