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METROTOWN (Regional Town Centre) City of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Metrotown is community that has its formation at a City of Burnaby council meeting in which a new community plan was unveiled in June of 1977 with Bill Lewarne as the mayor of Burnaby. The name, Metrotown, was chosen served as a nickname for a downtown area. What comprises the area of Metrotown was to serve as one of the regional town centres throughout the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Metrotown is considered all of the land mass between Imperial Street on the south, Bond Street on the north, Boundary Road on the west, Royal Oak Avenue on the east. Metrotown is served by two stations of the Automated Light Rail Transit (the elevated SkyTrain system). A third station at Royal Oak Avenue is a two-block walk from the southeast corner of Metrotown. Metrotown is not considered the official name for the community, it is only a coined terminology for a downtown area. The official name of the community is West Burnaby with its assortment of neighbourhoods (Central Park, McKay, Maywood, Jubilee).