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22-665: Westridge may refer to: Geography [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Westridge, British Columbia , a residential neighbourhood in Burnaby, British Columbia Westridge (Edmonton) , a residential neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta Westridge Shopping Centre Pakistan [ edit ] Westridge, Rawalpindi , a residential area in Cantonment board, Rawalpindi South Africa [ edit ] Westridge, Mitchells Plain ,

44-688: A girls' school Westridge High School in Zimbabwe Sport [ edit ] Westridge FC , a football team in Singapore Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Westridge . 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=Westridge&oldid=1043679163 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

66-551: A residential neighbourhood in Cape Town, Western Cape. United Kingdom [ edit ] Westridge, Isle of Wight , a suburb and industrial area of Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Aldworth neighbouring hamlet Westridge Green. United States [ edit ] Westridge, Arizona Westridge, California Westridge Park , Arizona Schools [ edit ] Westridge Elementary School Westridge School (Pasadena) ,

88-466: Is Barnet Marine Park with its beach and views of Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm . The small Westridge Park west of Inlet Drive near its intersection with Hastings Street offers a children's playground and some tennis courts. In July 2007, a large oil spill from a Kinder-Morgan pipeline ruptured by Cusano Contracting, working for the City of Burnaby, caused a major ecological damage to local residents' homes,

110-512: 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. Burrard Inlet opens west into

132-458: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Westridge, British Columbia Westridge is a residential neighbourhood in Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada . Westridge is located on the western slope of Burnaby Mountain . It is sliced almost in half by Inlet Drive . The western half of it lies close to the shores of Burrard Inlet and

154-525: 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, 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

176-502: Is widest (about 3 km or 1.9 mi) between the First and Second Narrows, also 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

198-565: 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 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,

220-513: 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 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

242-541: The Strait of Georgia to Port Moody . About two-thirds of 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

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264-403: 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 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

286-652: 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 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

308-477: The east and incises the peninsula. The extent of Burrard Inlet 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

330-478: The eastern end) oil refineries. Freighters waiting to load or discharge cargoes in 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

352-523: The forested slopes, and the marine wildlife on the southern shore of Burrard Inlet. It also led to months of traffic disruptions on the busy Barnet Highway during the cleanup operations. According to Burnaby Now (January 5, 2008), Kinder Morgan Canada and Trans Mountain Pipeline have launched legal action against the City of Burnaby and Cusano Contracting, hired by the city to do sewer work. Burrard Inlet Burrard Inlet ( Halkomelem : səl̓ilw̓ət )

374-546: The great facilities for constructing roads between 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

396-774: The inlet was again named by Captain George Vancouver , after his friend and former shipmate Captain Harry Burrard Neale . In 1888, 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

418-713: The mouth of the Seymour River , known as the Second Narrows , which is traversed by the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and 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

440-494: The neighbourhood was eventually discontinued, and the 135 was replaced by the 95 B-Line, which later became route R5 Hastings St . The R5 is still the nearest bus route, with stops along Hastings Street at Duthie Avenue. There is also the suburban 160 route, running along Inlet Drive, that serves commuters from Port Coquitlam . The biggest natural attraction in Westridge, in addition to the hiking trails of Burnaby Mountain itself,

462-457: The railway tracks on which West Coast Express runs between Downtown Vancouver and Port Moody . The eastern half of Westridge climbs quite steeply up Burnaby Mountain. Westridge is located near Simon Fraser University to which it is linked by the newly built Burnaby Mountain Parkway . Westridge was formerly served by the 135 bus route that ran between Downtown Vancouver and SFU; service through

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484-684: The shores of Burrard Inlet include Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby , and Port Moody. Three bridges, 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

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