Canada's most influential punk scene wasn't born in gritty urban streets—it emerged from the split-level basements of Burnaby Mountain. How childhood friendships in a bedroom community produced D.O.A., The Subhumans, and the country's first indoor skatepark.
Artom Butenko · 17 min read
For 48 years, Canada's most celebrated modern painter worked from a skylit studio on a Burnaby mountainside, transforming wartime trauma into butterflies and leaving behind the community arts centre that bears his name.
Brenda · 10 min read
Forty years ago, a world's fair transformed Vancouver. But its true legacy isn't the pavilions or the fireworks. It's the concrete pillars carrying trains above Burnaby's streets every day. It's the route you may have taken this morning.
Artom Butenko · 10 min read
A beaver pond that became a real estate joke. A garbage dump where children now dig for treasure. A cenotaph built by the veteran it honours. Four Burnaby parks hiding stories that never made it onto plaques.
Ilarion Bohatyrov · 11 min read
A walking tour of Hastings Street, where stumps were blasted, fortunes lost, and the neon still swings
Artom Butenko · 14 min read
Black History in Burnaby: What the Archives Don't Tell Us — and What the Community Is Building Now
Brenda · 8 min read
Burnaby's oldest surviving brick school has seen it all — from a tent in the forest to the towers on the horizon
Ilarion Bohatyrov · 8 min read
Her will funded Stanley Park's most beloved playground. Her house became Burnaby's first art gallery. In her lifetime, she rarely spoke in public.
Artom Butenko · 10 min read