Life
Burnaby city life
Burnaby is an exciting and lively city, full of attractions and places you can relax in the middle of nature. Outdoor activities are an important part of Canada and Burnaby makes no exception. Here, you can spend your spare time by visiting a number of cultural and heritage sites as well as wander through many parklands and enjoy various sport activities.
Interesting places to see in Burnaby are:
- Burnaby Village Museum and Carousel
- Burnaby Art Gallery and Century Gardens
- Central Park
- Burnaby Mountain Park
- Still Creek
If you want to wander through malls and stores, you can find large malls and modern shopping centres in Burnaby, like Metropolis.
Sports play a significant role in Burnaby’s life style, as it hosts many sport events, so you can watch matches of the local soccer, hockey, rugby and basketball teams. In Burnaby, you can attend the annual sports day (celebrated throughout all Canada) and engage in various sports yourself.
Burnaby is rich in terms of entertainment offer, you can have fun in some pretty cool nightclubs and bars.
Just minutes away outside Burnaby, in North Vancouver, you can enjoy nice places and activities, like the Capilano Suspension Bridge – suspended 230 feet above and 450 feet across Capilano River, or TELUS World of Science, fifteen minutes from Burnaby with the sky train. You are also less than 25 minutes away from downtown Vancouver by car.
International atmosphere in Burnaby
Burnaby is home to several ethnic communities, like Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indians and Arabs. According to local statistics, over 50% of Burnaby residents have a mother tongue that is neither English nor French.
Burnaby has worked on an economic development strategy that has attracted large foreign investments, especially from China, and a number of multinational companies worldwide that have placed an office here.
Weather Burnaby
Burnaby has four seasons, winters are mild, with mostly rainfalls and rare snows and summers are warm. The average high temperatures during summer are 21 – 22 °C (70 – 71 °F). Winter temperatures during the day are around 4 – 5 °C (42 °F).
