What is "burnaby"

Burnaby is a city in British Columbia, Canada, located immediately to the east of Vancouver. It is the third-largest city in British Columbia by population, surpassed only by nearby Surrey and Vancouver.

It was incorporated in 1892 and achieved City status in 1992, one hundred years after incorporation. It is the seat of the Greater Vancouver Regional District's government, the board of which calls itself Metro Vancouver.

Burnaby was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988.

This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Burnaby—Richmond—Delta, Burnaby—Seymour and New Westminster ridings

It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Burnaby—Kingsway and New Westminster—Burnaby ridings.

Burnaby was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia that first appeared on the hustings in the 1924 election. For the federal electoral district of the same name, please see Burnaby (electoral district).

Burnaby is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Andrew Burnaby (1732–1812), English clergyman and travel writer
• Davy Burnaby (1881–1949), British stage and film actor
• Edwyn Burnaby (1798–1867), English landowner and British Army officer
• son Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (1830–1883), British Army general and Member of Parliament; son of the above
• Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (1842–1885), English army officer and traveller
• John Burnaby (1891–1978), Anglican clergyman and Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University
• Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (1832–1918), great grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II; daughter of Edwyn Burnaby (née Caroline Louisa Burnaby)
• Robert Burnaby (1828–1878), British Columbian politician
• William Burnaby (disambiguation)
  • Sir William Burnaby, 1st Baronet (c. 1710–1776), British naval officer

Burnaby is a city in British Columbia, Canada.

Burnaby may also refer to:

Places in British Columbia:

• Burnaby (provincial electoral district), a former district that was partitioned prior to the 1966 election
• Burnaby (electoral district), a federal electoral district from 1976 to 1987
• Burnaby Range, a small mountain range
• Burnaby Mountain
• Burnaby Lake (see Burnaby Lake Regional Park)
• Burnaby Island

Other places:

• Pointe Burnaby, a minor summit in the Swiss Alps
• 4719 Burnaby, an asteroid
• Burnaby, a community in the township of Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada

People:

• Burnaby (surname)
• George Burnaby Drayson (1913–1983), British Conservative Member of Parliament

Other uses:

• Burnaby baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
• Burnaby-class ferry, two ferries serving in British Columbia