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Archive for April, 2002
Hitting the Heights
Thursday, April 25th, 2002 by GetawayBC.com
The Heights commercial strip in North Burnaby offers visitors and residents an old-time shopping experience.
The Heights area, which still boasts a few buildings from the era, was created when Hast
A walk through Burnaby
Thursday, April 25th, 2002 by GetawayBC.com
A walk is one of the most pleasant ways to ease stress and experience nature. Burnaby offers such a range of trails, that everyone from casual strollers to seasoned hikers will find something that app
Discover shopping
Thursday, April 25th, 2002 by GetawayBC.com
Burnaby offers the ultimate in shopping variety – from the tourist-destination trio of malls that make up Metrotown to the neighborhood shops and services of Hastings Heights.
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Each day
A trip back to another time
Thursday, April 25th, 2002 by GetawayBC.com
If you are looking for a walk through the past, you have no farther to travel than the Burnaby Village Museum.
Nestled in the outskirts of Deer Lake Park is a four-hectare open air museum, featurin
Burnaby’s field of dreams
Thursday, April 25th, 2002 by GetawayBC.com
Lacrosse, field hockey, soccer and football players are revelling in the extra hours and prime conditions available to them since last fall’s installation of three new artificial turf fields at the Bu
History a part of Barnet Marine Park
Thursday, April 25th, 2002 by GetawayBC.com
Walking the path through Barnet Marine Park, it’s hard to believe that a village of almost 1,000 sawmill workers and their families once thrived nearby.
Few visible traces remain of that village ca
A tour that keeps you in the know
Thursday, April 25th, 2002 by GetawayBC.com
The summer months are usually a time to give your mind a rest. Light romance novels and magazines replace heavy Russian tomes on the bedside or beach-side table and Hollywood movies get even lighter a
Burnaby’s crowning jewel
Thursday, April 25th, 2002 by GetawayBC.com
Change is coming to Burnaby Mountain, although the hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians who play there aren’t likely to notice the effects of it this season.
Burnaby council approved a new bluep
It’s even better from the air
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002 by GetawayBC.com
By Merv Unger
Vacations usually mean traveling forever and spending vast sums of money in exotic far-off locations.
But that’s hardly necessary when you live in British Columbia, the Canadi