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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.
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.
This is a list, arranged by region, of films and television series shot in the Lower Mainland, including several prominent filming locations in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, plus those in the adjoining Sea-to-Sky Corridor and Sunshine Coast regions.
Moody likened his vision of the nascent Colony of British Columbia to the pastoral scenes painted by Aelbert Cuyp Moody designed the first Coat of arms of British Columbia. Moody designed the roads and the settlements of New Westminster, [14] and his Royal Engineers, under Captain John Marshall Grant, [14] built an extensive road network ...
Rocky Point Park. Rocky Point Park, also known as Rocky Point, is situated along Burrard Inlet in Port Moody, British Columbia, next to the PoMo Museum.It is 3.8 hectares in size, and is the most well-known park in Port Moody.
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.
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 ...