North Burnaby is a general name for a large neighbourhood in the City of Burnaby , British Columbia , that includes a number of smaller ones. It stretches from Boundary Road in the west to Burnaby Mountain with Simon Fraser University in the east and is bounded by Burrard Inlet to the north and the Lougheed Highway to the south. It is a desirable place to live for many local and immigrant families, which is reflected by real-estate prices that keep climbing and have doubled in the last 15 years.
13-672: A number of major arteries run through this neighbourhood, primarily the high-traffic Hastings Street connecting North Burnaby with Downtown Vancouver and Port Moody , Willingdon Avenue linking it to Kingsway and Metrotown , and Kensington Ave going south to Canada Way and New Westminster . The neighbourhood is served by several bus routes, including the R5 RapidBus , which runs along Hastings Street and provides connections to downtown Vancouver and Simon Fraser University . The West Coast Express commuter train runs through North Burnaby along Burrard Inlet , but does not have any stations in
26-549: A part of the decommissioned Highway 7A . In the central business district of downtown Vancouver , it is known as West Hastings Street ; at Carrall Street it becomes East Hastings Street and runs eastwards through East Vancouver and Burnaby. In Burnaby, there is no east-west designation. The street ends in Westridge , a neighbourhood at the foot of Burnaby Mountain where it joins Burnaby Mountain Parkway and diverges from
39-721: A recently rebuilt store at Hastings and Willingdon and a smaller Kensington store further east. The historic Heights area north of Hastings still has a number of old homes representing the 1900s–1920s residential architecture. There are several parks in North Burnaby — for example, Confederation Park just west of Capitol Hill , Montrose Park on the shore of the Inlet a common venue for birdwatching , and Willingdon Heights Park off Douglas Road and Kensington Park with its ice skating arena and public golf facilities (pitch and putt). Just off Inlet Drive heading towards Port Moody, there
52-409: Is also a seashore park called Barnet Marine Park, with a beach that overlooks Belcarra Regional Park across the narrow passage. 49°16′N 122°59′W / 49.267°N 122.983°W / 49.267; -122.983 Hastings Street (Vancouver) Hastings Street is an east–west traffic corridor in the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby , British Columbia, Canada. It used to be
65-488: The SoHo Playhouse . VFS offers one-year, hands-on production programs, including Film Production, 3D Animation & Visual Effects, Classical Animation, Acting for Film & Television, Digital Design, Entertainment Business Management, Foundation Visual Art & Design, Game Design, Makeup Design for Film & Television, Sound Design for Visual Media, and Writing for Film & Television. The school also runs
78-672: The Great White Way because of its neon displays, and which is today the Downtown Eastside . Through the East End, after a stretch of warehouse-type commercial and wholesale businesses, the street forms one of the commercial cores for Vancouver's Italian community in a mixed-ethnicity retail area in the area of Nanaimo Street, just east of which the Pacific National Exhibition and Playland are on
91-765: The city of Vancouver's eastern fringe. After leaving Vancouver, Hastings forms the core of a Burnaby retail neighbourhood known as the Heights and then traverses Capitol Hill to the Lochdale and Westridge areas. From west to east. Cape Horn Interchange Vancouver Film School Vancouver Film School ( VFS ) is a private entertainment arts school located in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada . Founded in 1987, it has achieved international recognition. The Vancouver Film School has campus locations around Downtown Vancouver and comprises six buildings. As part of
104-677: The city's original courthouse) and the Woodward's Building ; located in the old Dunn's Tailors building at Homer and West Hastings is the campus of the Vancouver Film School , while on the corner of Cambie is the Carter-Cotton Building, the former headquarters of the Vancouver Province newspaper. East of Woodward's, the street forms the heart of Vancouver's historic original downtown, once known as
117-732: The continuation of the former Highway 7A as the Barnet Highway, to Port Moody , British Columbia. Formally named in 1885 for Rear-Admiral George Fowler Hastings of the Royal Navy , the street runs past such well-known Vancouver landmarks as the Marine Building , the Vancouver Club , Sinclair Centre , Harbour Centre (once Spencer's, Eaton's, then Sears and now the downtown campus of Simon Fraser University ), Dominion Building and Victory Square (the location of
130-885: The first Game Design programs in North America. Recent milestones in the school's history include hosting the annual Game Design Expo in Vancouver, which began in January 2007, and partnering with YouTube to launch a 2008 scholarship competition for the creators of three videos submitted and voted upon by the YouTube community. In 2018, VFS announced three ' Kevin Smith Scholarships' in Acting, Writing and Film Production covering full-tuition. Smith also funded thirteen partial-scholarships. Smith personally selected
143-528: The neighbourhood. The Heights commercial district between Boundary Road and Gamma Avenue is home to several Italian , Portuguese and Chinese restaurants, delis, bakeries and barbershops. Brentwood Town Centre is a popular shopping centre located near the intersection of Willingdon Ave and Lougheed Highway. The nearby Madison Centre at Lougheed Highway and Rosser Avenue also contains a number of shops and services, including Save-On-Foods and Winners stores. There are two Safeway stores along Hastings Street —
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#1732780439358156-571: The recipients from over nine hundred applications. In February 2019, the school announced the ' Emily Bett Rickards Acting Scholarship', a partnership between VFS and Rickards, to fund a full scholarship for both of the school's acting programmes, as well as additional partial funding of $ 250,000 for other students. Rickards will also select the recipients. In May of the same year, VFS announced they would be supporting Vancouver-based Reality Curve Theatre in their off-Broadway production of Zayd Dohrn's Reborning , headlined by Rickards, to be performed at
169-636: The school's 20th anniversary in 2007, in August 2006 one million dollars was set aside in scholarships for new students. In March 2008, Vancouver Film School and YouTube launched a competition for three full-tuition scholarships for the creators of the three videos submitted and voted as favorites by the YouTube community. VFS opened in January 1987 with a single class of six film students and has steadily expanded since. In 2004 VFS opened its first international Admissions office in Mumbai, India and launched one of
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