Talk:Burrard Peninsula
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[edit] "Burrard Peninsula" - Downtown/Stanley Park?
I've never heard Point Grey included in "Burrard Peninsula" before, which I always assumed was the near-islets of downtown/West End and Stanley Park; usually a peninsula is not delimited by a river (or in this case, two rivers). Thoughts?Skookum1 19:44, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
- I've seen the Downtown-West End-Stanley Park area referred to as "Coal Peninsula" (for nearby Coal Harbour) in one or two places, though I can't recall where now. There seems to be a general consensus that the Burrard Peninsula encompasses the entire area between Burrard Inlet and the North Arm of the Fraser River.
- I added that the term is rarely used in everyday speak here by pretty well anyone (excluding geographers and urban planners perhaps). I actually only heard it for the first time within the past few years. Not to take that as authoritative, but I do wonder about the origins of it.--Keefer4 12:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Burrard Peninsula ends at Coquitlam River?
What is the source for this definition of Burrard Peninsula? There's no doubt that the area east of the Coquitlam River is distinct from the rest of the peninsula—a low-lying prairie punctuated by the isolated Mary Hill—but is there an authoritative source for making the Coquitlam River the peninsula's eastern boundary?
Different sources seem to use different definitions. A 1996 GVRD Demographic Bulletin implicitly includes only Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, and UBC/UEL as comprising "Burrard Peninsula," with the Tri-Cities, Anmore, and Belcarra comprising the "North East Sector" (PDF document; http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/growth/pdfs/Census1996-Migration.pdf , p. 2). Granted, this definition seems to be more for administrative or statistical convenience.
On the other hand, a 2004 study of traffic on Highway 1 defines the peninsula as including all the municipalities between UBC and the Pitt River, and extending north to Anmore and Belcarra (PDF document; http://www.livableregion.ca/pdf/port_mann_8percent_trucks.pdf , p. 1 (map)). This seems to be a more intuitive definition. The Pitt River is a much larger natural barrier than the Coquitlam River. Since the Pitt River and the lower reaches of the Fraser River carry salt water upstream (in addition to freshwater downstream) and are subject to tidal influence—all the way up to Pitt Lake—then if we define the Peninsula as being bounded on the north and west by Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm and on the south and east by the Fraser and Pitt Rivers and Pitt Lake, we end up with a clearly defined body of land bounded on its two long sides by salt water. This definition also encompasses the highlands north of the low trench running east from the eastern end of Burrard Inlet.
Sewing - talk 19:02, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, it's been over a year and no one's responded. I've cleaned up, expanded, and generally rewritten the article. In the absence of any explanation for why the Coquitlam River was arbitrarily chosen as the eastern boundary of the peninsula, I've expanded the definition to extend eastwards to the more intuitive Pitt River, thus including Port Coquitlam, since what other landform could it be considered to be a part of? -Sewing 20:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
