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Active Streamkeepers Community Heritage Commission Environment and Social Planning Committee 2019 Water is vital to all life in our world. Keeping our local waterways clean and unpolluted is an important way to protect our natural heritage and environmental health. Burnaby is unique in that it has managed to keep so many of its historic waterways, WATERWAYS supported by an extensive open space system, in an open condition. Together with its Environment and Social Planning Committee, the Community Heritage Commission and its community partners, the City of Burnaby has undertaken numerous of Burnaby initiatives to protect, improve, and give identity to our waterways. This poster identifies Burnaby’s three watersheds, provides a listing and history of our unique waterway names, and provides residents and property owners with tips on how we can all be stewards of our waterways.

Preserving Our Natural Heritage Heritage Creek Names of Burnaby

Fish – especially salmon and trout – need clean, cool oxygen-rich water to grow and spawn. Salmon need unobstructed waterways to complete their life-cycle migration from freshwater to the ocean and back to the spawning grounds where they were born. Wildlife – birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects – need waterways and the “green” corridors that surround them for food, shelter and water. Burnaby’s waterways form a network of Burrard Inlet and Capitol Hill habitat corridors that allow wildlife to move through the City. Conservation Area viewed from The North Arm of the Fraser River Burnaby Mountain Burnaby Lake near the mouth of Brunette River at Burnaby’s Big Bend Waterways – are connected to their watershed, the land basin they drain. Healthy waterways that support fish and wildlife contribute to the well-being and livability of our community. People – stewards for our natural heritage – visit waterways to watch birds, observe nature, fish, canoe, walk along a stream, or “get away from it all”. Many have adopted stewardship roles in car- ing for Burnaby’s waterways through litter and stream clean-up campaigns, habitat improvement projects, release of salmon fry, storm drain marking and collection of environmental data.

Protecting Our Waterways Burrard Inlet Central Valley Fraser River Watershed Watershed Watershed The Burrard Inlet Watershed occupies the The Central Valley Watershed occupies Burnaby’s Fraser River Watershed northern section of the City and 17% of the City’s the City’s unique basin that drains both includes the southern slopes of land area. It is uniquely defined topographically the south slopes of Burnaby Mountain Burnaby and the peat bog in the Big by the steep northern slopes of Capitol Hill and and Capitol Hill and the north slope of Bend. It occupies 23% of Burnaby’s Burnaby Mountain. Its watercourses form a link the Kingsway ridge. Forming part of the area and includes major creeks that Protection of our City’s valuable waterways and the natural between the forested slopes and the marine Fraser River system this watershed covers flow directly into the Fraser River that The following toxic products should intertidal zone of Burrard Inlet. 60% of Burnaby’s land area. It includes are located in deep ravines that have environment is everyone’s responsibility. Many people are be recycled or disposed of safely, the large green spaces of Deer Lake Park, been dedicated as parks. unaware of how their actions can impact local waterways and and not poured down any drain: Aliceville Creek Burnaby Lake Regional Nature Park and the Still Creek, Cariboo, and Brunette River how our urban areas are connected to the natural ecosystem. AUTOMOTIVE This creek is named after the community of Byrne Creek Aliceville established at the foot of North Road conservation areas. The largest of South Slope creeks, Motor oil Lands surrounding all homes, businesses and City streets drain in 1884. This location served as a dock site for Byrne Creek was once known briefly Antifreeze rainwater directly into the storm sewer system through drain tiles a ferry that transported early travelers to Port Burnaby pioneer Claude Hill poses in his canoe on Deer Lake, 1905. as Woolard’s Brook which flowed Brake fluid and catch basins. All storm sewers discharge this run-off directly Moody and was also the site of two hotels until CITY OF BURNABY ARCHIVES eastwards through the Big Bend bog. Gasoline the turn of the century. When the Canadian DEER LAKE It was rerouted in 1893 by Pat and into waterways throughout Burnaby. Transmission fluid Pacific Railway was built along the inlet in Peter Byrne along Byrne Road and Degreaser 1886 a station stop was named Aliceville after Angelo Creek has been known as Byrne Creek ever This creek is named to recognize Burnaby The City’s Watercourse Bylaw was enacted to prevent the dis- PAINTS AND SOLVENTS Alice Webster, the daughter of one of the hotel Buena Vista Creek Kingfisher Creek Silver Creek since. charge of contaminants into storm-water and local waterways. owners. resident Mark Angelo who is an Order of This creek winds its way through the old This creek is named for the Belted This historic creek name is derived from the Paint Canada recipient and founder of World Lacquer and varnish Buena Vista subdivision which opened Kingfisher birds that have been observed old term “Silver Salmon” used to describe the Byrne Slough Do not use the storm-water drains and catch basins located Rivers Day. As the Chair of the Rivers in 1911 on the Burnaby Lake Interurban in the area. Coho species which once spawned here. Paint thinner Berry Point Creek This historic waterway is the last outside buildings, in underground parking areas, and on streets This creek was named after the landmark ‘Berry Institute of the BC Institute of Technology, trolley line. remaining section of the old Byrne Paint/varnish strippers to dispose of wastes. If you observe a spill of toxic or hazardous Point’ peninsula on Burrard Inlet. It received he has been instrumental in initiating and Lawson Creek Skid Creek Road ditch constructed for the Rustproof coatings promoting many watercourse restoration materials, inform the City’s Environmental Services Division im- this name in 1859 by the Royal Engineers which Cedar Creek This creek is named to recognize Doreen The gully of this creek was used for a skid transportation of logs in the 1890s. Shellac surveyed Burrard Inlet on the Royal Navy ship – projects in Burnaby’s Central Valley. Named after the large stand of Western Lawson who served as Burnaby Councillor road built by the B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Byrne Road was named after Pat and mediately at 604-294-7460 during office hours or 604-294-7200 CLEANING the H.M.C. Plumper. The name was printed on Red Cedar trees which dominate the for 23 years and who championed the Company to drag timber by horse teams from Peter Byrne, brothers from Ireland, Beaver Creek after hours. Detergents the first hydrographic chart of the area published ravine through which the creek flows. preservation of Burnaby Lake and the their lands on the slope of Burnaby Mountain with Peter serving as Burnaby This creek, since the 1930s, has been Drain and toilet cleaner in 1860, however its origin is unknown. city’s many watercourses. in 1906. A portion of the old skid road still Councillor from 1894-1905 and Reeve named after the beavers which call it home Chub Creek remains preserved in Burnaby Lake Park from 1906-1910. It is easy to recycle common household hazardous wastes, Rug and upholstery cleaner and continue to dam its waters. Dry cleaning agents Capitol Creek The historic name of Chub Creek was Lost Creek nearby. such as leftover household paint, motor oil, flammable liquids, used for this northern branch of Still This creek, which flows open just north Car wash detergents This name emphasizes the origin of the creek’s Boundary Creek headwaters draining the north slope of Capitol Buckingham Creek Creek and named after the chub fish that of Cameron Street, is lost under the Skunk Cabbage Creek A modern creek name which refers to gasoline and some pesticides, at the City’s Eco-Centre (4885 Still Leather preservatives Creek Drive). Hill. This neighbourhood of Burnaby was named This name is derived from the creek’s path once frequented its muddy waters. pavement at Lougheed Mall, only to This creek is named for the Skunk Cabbage the location of the creek at Boundary PESTICIDES AND DISINFECTANTS in 1912 after a residential subdivision promoted through the historic 1912 Buckingham reappear at Lougheed Highway, and plant which is found throughout this area and Road. Street subdivision which was named after To obtain more information on the safe disposal of toxic or haz- Insecticides during the real estate boom. Coldicutt Creek then is lost again until it resurfaces at the Burnaby Lake Regional Nature Park. Flea collars this Saxon place name in England. Historically known as Coldicutt Creek, Brunette River. Froggers Creek ardous materials, please telephone the BC Recycling Hotline at Fungicides Cougar Creek this name was derived from Coldicutt Spartan Creek This creek flowed from a large pond Chickadee Creek 604-732-9253, email [email protected] or visit www.rcbc.bc.ca. Herbicides This name was adopted to commemorate the Street which recognized Burnaby Lozells Creek The Spartan Oil Well Company located their located north of Sidley Street which The creek was named after the black- Slug bait large population of magnificent cougars that pioneer Thomas D. Coldicutt who moved This creek is named for nearby Lozells unsuccessful operation near this creek in 1922 was famous locally for containing a once populated the Burnaby Mountain area. capped and chestnut-backed chickadee to East Burnaby in 1908 and served as Avenue, which in turn is named for to explore natural tar and oil deposits found in large number of frogs. Residents and business owners can also telephone the City’s Disinfectants birds which are found in abundance in this Swimming pool water Burnaby Councillor from 1910-1911. Lozells, the historic name of this district the peat bog. Sanitation Division at 604-294-7972 or visit www.burnaby.ca/ forested area. established in 1908 and named by the Wood preservatives Crab Creek Glen Brook sanitationandrecycling. Named after the numerous Crabs found on the Corvus Creek pioneer Ward family formerly of Lozells Squint Lake This lost creek of East Burnaby was shoreline of the estuary where this creek meets Deer Lake Brook This creek is located near one of Metro Parish, Birmingham, England. This pond, created by the beavers on Eagle one of the major creeks of New Burrard Inlet. As the only outflow of Deer Lake, this Vancouver’s largest roost sites for the Creek, was named Quinte Lake by a property Westminster and once entered the creek has had this historic name since Northwestern Crow, which has the latin Lubbock’s Creek owner who proposed to build a tourist resort Fraser River at Sapperton. Crabtown Creek the 1880s. Once known as Little Lake species name of Corvus Caurinus. This creek runs through the Lubbock’s here in 1912 and who wanted to convey the This creek is named to commemorate the people or Small Lake from the 1860s-1870s, in Woods Park which was once part of the majestic image of Quinte Bay of Lake Ontario. Glen-Lyon Creek Burnaby’s Streamkeepers who lived along an area of Burnaby’s Burrard relation to the larger Burnaby Lake, Deer Crab-Apple Creek farm at the corner of Canada Way and However, local residents joked that you had to Named after the beautiful Glen-Lyon Program is a community- Inlet shoreline in a village called Crabtown from Lake was named circa 1880 after local In the 1890s a thick growth of wild crab- Burris Street operated by the Lubbock squint to see it and the name Squint Lake stuck. estate and mansion built by Duncan the 1920s to 1957. hunters discovered its abundant game. apple trees created a bowered tunnel family between 1912-1975. Campbell MacGregor in 1902 which based volunteer initiative along this section of Still Creek which Spring Brook is preserved as a designated heritage that supports individuals and Dynamite Creek Edgar Creek was a favoured spot for boaters who Osprey Creek The name was established by local residents building beside this waterway. groups interested in ‘stream This creek was named to remember the old Named after Robert and Maude Edgar who admired the blossoms in the springtime. Named after the small population of of the Broadview district and refers to the Dominion Explosives Company which was built the first house on the south shore of osprey in Burnaby Lake Park. brook having flowed throughout the summer Gray Creek stewardship’ – the act of located on this part of the waterfront from Deer Lake, which still stands today as a Cranberry Creek months from an artesian spring which kept the Named after nearby Gray Avenue caring for and learning about c.1913-1920. designated City-owned heritage building. This creek is named for the native Phillips Creek water cold and clear. which was named after Peter Gray, a our waterways. cranberry shrubs that grew in Named for Phillips Avenue which follows pioneer resident of the Central Park Gull Creek First Beach Creek abundance in the peat bogs surrounding this creek and which was named after Station Creek District. This creek is named for the Gull bird populations This creek and its silt created the beach Burnaby Lake and which were harvested Lozells pioneer George Phillips. Named after the Burnaby Lake Station which can be found along Burrard Inlet’s known as the “first beach” by local by the First Nations. established on the Great Northern Railway Jerry Rogers Creek Burnaby Streamkeepers children in the 1930s. foreshore area. Pole Line Creek near this creek in 1904. Named historically after “Jerry Rogers Crayfish Creek This creek is a historic ditch built to drain ditch”. Rogers, a pioneer West Coast Heron Creek Flume Creek Named after the small crustacean that Pole Line Road built in 1905 for the power Stickleback Creek logger used this creek to feed a This creek runs through the forested ravine that This creek was used to fill a water flume to resides in this creek and is well known to transmission line from Buntzen Lake This creek is named for the Stickleback fish system of canals to float logs to the Burnaby’s Streamkeepers Program is a community-based volunteer initiative that supports is home to a Heron Rookery. transport “shingle bolts” from the hillside children locally. Power Plant. The road was renamed to species that have been identified in the Fraser River in the 1870s and 1880s. to the Deer Lake Lumber Mill located on individuals and groups interested in ‘stream stewardship’ – the act of caring for and learning Sperling Avenue in 1912. watershed. Huckleberry Creek Sperling Avenue from 1905 - 1920. Cutthroat Creek John Matthews Creek about our waterways. Streamkeepers undertake hands-on stewardship projects such as This creek is named for the many huckleberry This creek is named for the cutthroat Pollywog Creek Still Creek This creek was named in 1972 cleaning creeks, learning about the ecology of a stream, enhancing habitat for fish and wildlife shrubs which are important to wildlife habitat on Oakalla Creek trout that have been identified This name was used by neighbourhood As one of Burnaby’s largest waterways this when the park was dedicated John This creek was created as a drainage and increasing awareness in the community about the importance and sensitivity of waterways. Burnaby Mountain and Burrard Inlet. historically in the Central Valley kids in the 1920s who liked to capture little creek was named in the 1890s because of Matthews Creek Ravine Park after this channel by the prisoners of the watershed. tadpoles (frogs) in the creek which they the placid surface of the waterway which active member of the Parent Advisory Any person or community group can volunteer to become involved. For more information go to Kask’s Camp Creek Oakalla Prison Farm and is named called pollywogs. meandered through the bog of the Central Committee for Clinton Elementary www.burnaby.ca/streamkeepers or telephone the City’s Planning Department at 604-294-7530. This name commemorates the Kask’s Camp to commemorate this historic prison Dragonfly Creek Valley. School. established by William and Jenny Kask on Barnet constructed in 1911. This creek is named for the dragonfly Ramsay Creek Road nearby in 1925. They rented land for the species that are found in the Still Creek This historic creek name commemorates Stoney Creek Kaymar Creek construction of cabins that were served by a Owl Creek area. the Ramsay family that were the first This creek name has been in use since the Named after Kaymar Drive this name steam bath, general store and service station. This creek is named recognition of the residents of Robert Burnaby Park from 1960s and refers to the stoney stream bed of replaced the name of Dump Creek Great Horned Owls that have roosted in Eagle Creek 1905 to c.1925. Burnaby Mountain’s largest waterway. used in the 1930s which referred to Mill Creek the forest here. This name refers to a pair of Bald Eagles the garbage dump that filled the ravine Cedar trees around this creek were logged at the which nested high in a fir tree at the Rayside Creek Sumner Creek above Rumble Street. Community turn of the century and sent to mills including the Second Beach Creek mouth of this creek at Burnaby Lake in This creek is located near Rayside Street, Old survey plans show this waterway named nearby Burrard Lumber Company for shingle and This creek and its silt created a beach the early 1900s and were known to the and the old location of Rayside station of “Sumner’s Ditch”. It was named after the Power House Creek lumber production. known as “second beach” by local children community of Lozells. the Burnaby Lake interurban trolley line. Sumner Ironworks Company which proposed This now small arm of Byrne Creek Development in the 1930s. Rayside was named in 1911 after Arthur G. to build a factory here in 1911. once provided the water to feed the Nichols Creek Elk Creek Ray and Samuel S. Ray, pioneers of the steam-powered electric generating Named after the Nichols Chemical Company, this Third Beach Creek This creek is named for the elk that were Burnaby Lake District. Sunken Engine Creek engines of the Westminster and and Ecosystem creek had been originally used for the plant’s This creek and its silt created a beach numerous in Burnaby’s Central Valley Named after the famous Burnaby story of Vancouver Railway Company Power production since it was established at Barnet in known as “third beach” by local children in prior to 1900. Rudolph Creek the Great Northern Railway train engine that House located at Griffiths Avenue. 1905. the 1930s. This creek is named to recognize Elmer disappeared into a sink hole being filled by Protection Guichon Creek Rudolph, who has been instrumental as railway workers at the peat bog in 1912 where Salmon Slough Rainbow Creek Turtle Creek This historic name was derived from part of the Sapperton Fish and Game Club this creek enters Still Creek. This slough area provides a natural Rainbow Creek is the historic waterway of This creek is named after the several turtle the Charles Laurent Guichon family in reviving and protecting the Brunette ecosystem created for fish habitat Confederation Park that was named in 1912 after species found throughout Deer Lake Park. who owned District Lot 33 from 1883 River. He is a 1996 Burnaby Environmental Thomas Creek restoration including salmon the Rainbow Trout that spawned there. to 1908 and had a hunting cabin at the Award recipient. This creek is named after historic Thomas enhancement channels. ravine near Willingdon and Moscrop. Street which this waterway forms a major Simon Creek Willingdon Avenue, which crosses this Salamander Creek drainage ditch. Sanctuary Slough This name has been used for many years and BURNABY LAKE creek, was named Guichon Road in 1912. Named after the many salamanders that This watercourse name celebrates The City through its various bylaws has actively maintained an open watercourse policy was derived from the property being once part of dwell in this creek. Trolley Creek its peaceful respite from the urban Ancient Grove Creek the Simon Fraser University lands. Holmes Creek To commemorate the historic Burnaby Lake setting and also a sanctuary for fish since the 1970s and more recently has initiated numerous strategies to address and reduce This creek commemorates the old growth This creek was named to commemorate Salmonberry Creek interurban trolley line which was operated by and wildlife. forest (100 to 200 years old) of Red Cedar, impacts of urbanization on watercourses and fish habitat. In managing and guiding growth and Squatter’s Creek the William & Charlotte Holmes family This creek is named for the native the BC Electric Railway Company from 1911- Sikta Spruce, and Western Hemlock development, the City meets all legislative requirements as set out in the Federal Fisheries Act, This creek name commemorates the community who were Burnaby’s first settlers on salmonberry shrubs found in this area. 1953 and where this creek in part follows its Sturgeon Slough species found in the Brunette River of squatter’s that occupied the Burrard Inlet North Road in 1860 and received British now abandoned railbed. This watercourse is named for the and Provincial Water Sustainability Act, and Riparian Areas Regulation under the Riparian Areas Conservation Area. foreshore and used this creek as a water supply. Columbia’s first crown grant to District Sculpin Creek White Sturgeon fish which is found in Protection Act. Lot 1. This creek is named for the Prickly Sculpin Willow Creek the Fraser River. Ardley Creek Starfish Creek fish which have been identified historically This creek is named for the willow shrubs Named after the historic district and post This creek is named for the Purple Ochre Sea in the Brunette River. found along the banks of Still Creek in this Sussex Creek All new developments occurring adjacent to waterways in Burnaby are subject to review office which took its name from the old Star (starfish) which can be found along the area. Named after nearby Sussex Avenue Great Northern Railway Station established with regards to the City’s policies and bylaws for protection and enhancement of streamside foreshore area in Burrard Inlet. which was opened in 1912 and named here in 1904 and named Ardley Station in (riparian) areas. Visit the following City webpages to learn more about how our ecosystems after Sussex, England. 1909. It appears to have been taken from Submarines Creek 1912 and waterways are protected and enhanced when land is redeveloped: www.burnaby.ca/ the old English word meaning meadow. This creek was named to commemorate the Swing Bridge Slough ecosystemprotection and www.burnaby.ca/erc. history of the Russian Submarines assembled as This watercourse runs parallel to the Beecher Creek a top secret project at the old Western Canada western side of the CNR Railroad This creek was named after Jimmy Fish Plant during World War I on Burrard Inlet. tracks and the steel swing bridge Beecher, who owned a farm on Springer constructed in 1930. Avenue where Beecher Park is located. Takaya Creek This creek is named for the aboriginal word Tillicum Slough Black Bear Creek Takaya, which means ‘wolf’ in the language This watercourse was the mouth of Waterways of Burnaby is a joint project This creek is named for the black bears BURNABY CITY COUNCIL of the Tsleil-Wauthuth First Nation of Burrard an old drainage channel at the foot of of Burnaby’s Community Heritage that were abundant in the area until the Inlet, and who through their legends consider Tillicum Street. Tillicum is a “Chinook Commission and Environment and 1920s. Mayor Mike Hurley Social Planning Committee. themselves the ‘Children of Takaya’. Jargon” term meaning ‘people’. Chinook Jargon was the historic trade Bog Creek Thluk-Way-Tun Creek language of the Fraser River and Councillors: This creek name recognizes the large peat This name was recorded from the memory of Pacific Northwest and incorporates the bog ecosystem of the Central Valley. Pietro Calendino local First Nations Squamish Chief Haatsalano language of the Salish First Nations. Sav Dhaliwal This map was prepared as a general guide for public information about watercourses as their ancient name for the Barnet Beach Brunette River Dan Johnston within the City of Burnaby and is not intended for legal purposes. For detailed mapping area. It means “where bark gets peeled in the This is Burnaby’s oldest known waterway Colleen Jordan information and regulations regarding development adjacent to watercourses, spring time.” This is one of the few documented name having been placed on the first please contact the City of Burnaby Planning Department. aboriginal names recorded in Burnaby. Joe Keithley hydrographic chart of the Fraser River Paul McDonell printed in 1860. It was named upon its Tunnel Creek Nick Volkow discovery in 1858 by Robert Burnaby and This creek is located adjacent to the City’s James Wang the Royal Engineers because its water was This printed piece has been produced on paper that is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council historic water distribution system opened in stained the colour brown by the peat bog and made from 10% post-consumer recycled content. The printed piece is also 100% carbon neutral. 1911 with a water tunnel under Burrard Inlet 2019 SEPTEMBER Greenhouse gas emissions from the paper lifecycle, the transport, and the printing of this item have been of Burnaby Lake. Photo-montage of Brunette River, offset through investments in energy efficiency and non-fossil fuel energy technologies. connected to the Seymour Reservoir. Today Today (colour) and 1912 (sepia). CITY OF BURNABY ARCHIVES