Burrard Inlet ( Halkomelem : səl̓ilw̓ət ) is a shallow-sided fjord in the northwestern Lower Mainland , British Columbia, Canada. Formed during the last Ice Age , it separates the City of Vancouver and the rest of the lowland Burrard Peninsula to the south from the coastal slopes of the North Shore Mountains , which span West Vancouver and the City and District of North Vancouver to the north.
22-698: See also: Coal Harbour and Cold Harbour (disambiguation) Cole Harbour may refer to: Bodies of water [ edit ] Cole Harbour (natural harbour) in Nova Scotia Communities [ edit ] Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia , a community in the Halifax Regional Municipality Cole Harbour (Guysborough), Nova Scotia , a community in Guysborough, Nova Scotia Cole Harbour 30, Nova Scotia ,
44-600: A 320-metre-wide (1,050 ft) strait (traversed only by overhead powerlines ) between Burnaby Mountain and the bluffs of Belcarra Regional Park . Port Moody Arm is almost completely encompassed by the City of Port Moody . What is now known as Burrard Inlet has been home to the Indigenous peoples of the Musqueam , Squamish and Tsleil-waututh Bands , who have resided in this territory for thousands of years. In 1791,
66-652: A Mi'kmaq reserve Coleharbor, North Dakota Electoral districts [ edit ] Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage , a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia Dartmouth—Cole Harbour , a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia Cole Harbour (electoral district) , a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia Dartmouth-Cole Harbour (provincial electoral district) , which
88-586: A community centre designed by architect Gregory Henriquez . To the east is Deadman's Island , the site of the naval station and museum HMCS Discovery , where the harbour itself opens up to the Burrard Inlet. Towards the Financial District in the southeast, the neighbourhood is dominated by high-rise office buildings, hotels and numerous apartment towers. Immediately south lies Vancouver's Luxury Zone along Alberni Street . Coal Harbour
110-589: Is defined as a line between Point Atkinson and Point Grey on the west, the end of Port Moody Arm on the east, and the head of Indian Arm on the north. The inlet is about 31 kilometres (19 mi) long from the Strait of Georgia to Port Moody , or about 44 kilometres (27 mi) from the Strait of Georgia to the head of Indian Arm. Settlements on the shores of Burrard Inlet include Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby , and Port Moody. Three bridges,
132-497: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Coal Harbour Coal Harbour is a section of Burrard Inlet lying between Vancouver 's Downtown Peninsula and the Brockton Point of Stanley Park . It has also now become the name of the neighbourhood adjacent to its southern shoreline. Coal Harbour is used to designate the relatively new official neighbourhood of
154-517: Is home to Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome , located a few blocks from Canada Place and the Vancouver Convention Centre . Within the harbour is a floating gas station for marine vessels. The 2010 Winter Olympics cauldron is installed at Jack Poole Plaza . The discovery of coal in the harbor in 1862 inspired the name. In the days when the area along West Pender Street was an upper-class residential district, Coal Harbour
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198-656: The City of Vancouver bounded by roughly Burrard Street and Pender near the Financial District to West Georgia Street near the West End in the south to Stanley Park in the north. The neighbourhood consists of numerous high-rise residential apartment and condominium towers with luxury townhome podiums. The northwestern section near Stanley Park features picturesque parkland, private marinas , several rowing and boating clubs, high-end shops and restaurants, and
220-725: The Lions Gate Bridge . The inner inlet then widens into Vancouver Harbour , which hosts the Port of Vancouver , Canada's largest port. At the eastern end of the harbour, Burrard Inlet narrows again into a 350-metre-wide (1,150 ft) strait between Burnaby Heights and the mouth of the Seymour River , known as the Second Narrows , which is traversed by the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and
242-591: The Second Narrows Rail Bridge . After the Second Narrows, it widens again and continues east until the headland near Dollarton , where it splits into two arms . The longer arm, known as Indian Arm , extends northerly between Mount Seymour and Eagle Mountain until it meets the deltas of Indian River mouth. The shorter arm, known as Port Moody Arm or Moody Inlet , courses further east for another 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) past
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#1732791249960264-613: The 1792 expedition of Dionisio Alcalá Galiano , which was to determine the exact nature of the Canal de Floridablanca. Galiano spent many days exploring the general area, realizing that there was a great river there and sighting Burrard Inlet itself on June 19, 1792. Just days later, the inlet was again named by Captain George Vancouver , after his friend and former shipmate Captain Harry Burrard Neale . In 1888,
286-733: The First Narrows Bridge (alias Lions Gate Bridge ) (built in the 1930s), the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing (1960) and the CNR railway bridge (1969) at the Second Narrows, and the SeaBus passenger ferry, cross the inlet. Aside from just east of the inlet's mouth (where it includes English Bay), it is widest (about 3 km or 1.9 mi) between the First and Second Narrows, also
308-452: The busiest part of Vancouver's port . Protected from the open ocean, the calm waters of Burrard Inlet form Vancouver's primary port area, an excellent one for large ocean-going ships. While some of the shoreline is residential and commercial, much is port-industrial, including railyards, terminals for container and bulk cargo ships, grain elevators, and (towards the eastern end) oil refineries. Freighters waiting to load or discharge cargoes in
330-544: The elongated inner Burrard Inlet to the east. The southeastern portion of the outer inlet is an open bay known as English Bay , which has a narrow eastern inlet called False Creek . The 400-metre-wide (1,300 ft) strait between Prospect Point and the sandbanks just east of the Capilano River mouth , which connects the inlet's outer and inner sections, is known as the First Narrows , traversed by
352-462: The first European explorers in the region, Juan Carrasco and José María Narváez , sailing under orders of Francisco de Eliza , entered the western part of the inlet in their ship, Santa Saturnina . They failed to find the Fraser River , mistaking the lowland of the river's delta as a major inlet of the sea, which they named Canal de Floridablanca. This led to one of the prime objectives of
374-492: The inlet often anchor in English Bay , which lies south of the mouth of the inlet and is separated from it by Vancouver's downtown peninsula and Stanley Park . On the main inlet, a few park areas remain forested as they were centuries ago, but the steep slopes of Indian Arm are so impassable that most have seen no development, despite the proximity of such a major city. Only in 2003 was a rough wilderness hiking trail around
396-587: The inlet was described in The British Columbia Pilot published by the British Admiralty as follows. Burrard inlet differs from most of the great sounds of this coast in being comparatively easy of access to steam vessels of any size or class, and in the convenient depth of water for anchorage which may be found in almost every part of it; its close proximity to Fraser river, with the great facilities for constructing roads between
418-430: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cole_Harbour&oldid=1050878032 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
440-567: The two places, and its having become the terminus of the Pacific and Canadian Railway, likewise add considerably to its importance. It is divided into three distinct harbours, viz., English bay or the outer anchorage; Vancouver (formerly called Coal harbour), above the First Narrows; and Port Moody at the head of the eastern arm of the inlet. The inlet runs almost directly east from the Strait of Georgia to Port Moody . About two-thirds of
462-561: The way east from the mouth of the inlet, the steep-sided Indian Arm branches off to the north between Belcarra and Deep Cove on into the Pacific Ranges . Near the mouth of the inlet, a small section of the inlet along the curved stretch of the Burrard Peninsula is named English Bay . From English Bay, a small inlet named False Creek branches off to the east and incises the peninsula. The extent of Burrard Inlet
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#1732791249960484-466: Was known as Blueblood Alley because of the many large mansions along it. Notable inhabitants and developments in Coal Harbour's past include: Burrard Inlet Burrard Inlet opens west into the Strait of Georgia between Point Atkinson and Point Grey . Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula protrudes northwesterly into the inlet, separating it into the wide outer Burrard Inlet to the west and
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