Current Issue · No. 07
4 stories from Burnaby
Until 1952, a sick person in Burnaby went to Vancouver or New Westminster, or stayed home and waited for the doctor. Then residents raised a hospital of their own, a door-knock and a raffle ticket at a time, on a hill in Cascade Heights.
Artom Butenko · 7 min read
In 1982 two Burnaby teenagers wrote a computer game about evolution, and a ten-year-old tester talked them into adding a beaver. The company they built around that game became EA Canada, and the reason the FIFA series was made in Burnaby.
Ilarion Bohatyrov · 6 min read
In the autumn of 1969 a whole department at Simon Fraser walked out on its own university. The strike lasted six weeks. The firings took two years, and the sources still disagree on how many there were.
Artom Butenko · 7 min read
Vancouver's mayor called Typhoon Freda the worst storm in the life of his city. Burnaby wrote it down the way a municipality does: a repair list on the Monday, and two weeks later a new line in the budget.
Artom Butenko · 6 min read