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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.
English: A map of Port Moody in the GVRD. Port Moody is shown in red. The map, and the others in this series, were originally derived from this png map made by Qyd.
For motorists, the Trans-Canada Highway provides freeway access to Burnaby, Vancouver, Surrey, and other municipalities in the Lower Mainland. Lougheed Highway is an alternative route to the Trans-Canada, entering Coquitlam via Maillardville, continuing north to Coquitlam Centre before turning sharply east through Port Coquitlam and then into Pitt Meadows via the Pitt River Bridge.
Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Greater Vancouver A, Coquitlam 2, Anmore, Belcarra Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam was a federal electoral district in British Columbia , Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2015.
Port Moody-Burquitlam is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada. [ 1 ] The district of Port Moody-Coquitlam was established by the Electoral Districts Act, 2008 , and was first contested in the 2009 general election .
The shorter arm, known as Port Moody Arm or Moody Inlet, courses further east for another 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) past a 320-metre-wide (1,050 ft) strait (traversed only by overhead powerlines) between Burnaby Mountain and the bluffs of Belcarra Regional Park. Port Moody Arm is almost completely encompassed by the City of Port Moody.
Ioco is an area of Port Moody, British Columbia, located on the northern shore of the Burrard Inlet. Ioco, an abbreviation of Imperial Oil Corporation, [1] was originally a townsite for an Imperial Oil refinery. The refinery began operation in January 1915. By 1917, there were 200 people living in a shack town, which had a school and two ...
Municipalities on the peninsula include — in roughly west-to-east order—the Cities of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody, Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.The University Endowment Lands and the main campus of University of British Columbia occupy the unincorporated territory of Point Grey at the far west end of the peninsula.