City in the Park

Connaught Hill Interurban Tram Station - 1930

"Photograph of Connaught Hill station on the Central Park Interurban right-of-way at 10th Avenue. To the right, a spur line to the gravel pit used as ballast on tract beds near the Stride garbage dump. The Skytrain maintenance centre was later located there."

"The interurban link between New Westminster and Vancouver stimulated the early settlement of Stride Avenue. Infilling of the area took place in the early 1950s and the pace of development had slowed considerably by 1970. Duplexes became a popular feature in the decade between 1970 and 1980 and in the late 1980s, the neighbourhood was incorporated into the Edmonds Town Centre South plan."
- From City of Burnaby Archives (www.heritageburnaby.ca)

Stride Hill Landfill - 1954

"The residential areas that are located within the Stride Hill Neighbourhood were primarily developed in the 1950s during Burnaby's post-war building boom. The area lying to the south of Byrne Creek Ravine Park was used as a municipal garbage dump until the 1960s and as a landfill site for yard waste disposal until the early 1990s at which point the area was incorporated into the Edmonds Town Centre Plan and the land was made into park and open space."
- From City of Burnaby Archives (www.heritageburnaby.ca)

Stride Gravel Pit - 1950

Stride Gravel Pit was located on the site of what is now the GREEN housing development on Southpoint Drive.
- From City of Burnaby Archives (www.heritageburnaby.ca)

Edmonds Town Centre South Land Use Map - 1987

- From City of Burnaby Archives (www.heritageburnaby.ca)

Edmonds Town Centre South Development Plan - 1989

The proposed plan laying out the transition that would happen from the neighbourhood first known as Stride Hill, then Edmonds Town Centre South, to the current incarnation: City in the Park
- From City of Burnaby Archives (www.heritageburnaby.ca)