City of Burnaby cuts permitted size of new multiplex homes due to public outcry

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-small-scale-multi-unit-housing-policy-amendments 

While a 2 floor house might be cosy, a four-floor house simply provides more living space.

Back in the day, an owner could build as big as they wanted to, within reason. Would the no 4th floor crowd like to remove all of the historical evidence and history of Burnaby houses with 4 levels?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/burnaby-multiplex-housing-changes-9.6944251 

This might be more evidence of the the backwards BC mentality. Ignorant people don't seem to realize that over a century ago, many houses had 4 floors or levels.

https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/news/2025-10-16/city-council-cuts-height-size-of-new-province-mandated-developments 

So now there is a LETS GO BACKWARDS push to a time before the 4 floor houses.

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Planning_Images/_Unrestricted/SOS/BBY-3814-Oxford_2013.jpg?width=280 

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark495 "Constructed in 1909, this house was built for Angus MacDonald (1857-1943) and his wife, Margaret Isabella Thompson MacDonald (1862-1939)." 

So far, the anti 4th floor crowd hasn't been able to remove the historical evidence that a lot of older homes had 4 levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnaby_Art_Gallery , https://www.burnaby.ca/services-and-payments/venue-rentals/burnaby-art-gallery

Given today's land costs, a 3 floor house has less living area than a 4 floor house. You used to get more house for the money. There are plenty of 2 story jokes in Burnaby & the Greater Vancouver Region. 

https://burnabybeacon.com/p/uncovering-burnaby-hart-house-restaurant Counting the attic and basement level, this house easily has 4 floors.

https://evelazarus.com/overlynn-burnabys-most-haunted-mansion Another nice, big 4 story house that todays NIMBYs might not allow, if built today. 

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=2355 , https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark858

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription38429

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3799

https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/image-image.aspx?id=3799#i3 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/6522750987837395/posts/9414677511978047 BIG and wide, something that todays NIMBYs don't want. 

https://do604.com/venues/overlynn-manor , https://moviemaps.org/locations/10w 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/im-being-watched-paranormal-investigator-notes-presence-in-haunted-burnaby-mansion Unfortunatly, it's the NIMBYs that are watching to make sure that things are scaled back. 

https://theprovince.com/life/the-stories-behind-10-magnificent-mansions-of-metro-vancouver   

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=4+floor+houses

A square on a Station Square tower in Burnaby, BC

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/red-square-metro-vancouver-building-burnaby

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/complex/1224

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9743001

https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/burnabys-kingsway-corridor-grows-up-8234808

https://stationsquare.ca/

Despite being smaller in population & area, Burnaby is starting to think on a grander scale than Vancouver, in some ways. Unlike Vancouver, Burnaby never went to the absurd extent of creating so much red tape & B$. Indeed, Vancouver has imposed several restrictions throughout the decades, that it has become trapped within its own Gordian_Knot, where as Burnaby is able to cut right through it. 

https://www.urbanyvr.com/bosa-brentwood-west/

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/colossal-80-storey-73-storey-towers-approved-in-burnaby-with-1400-condos-9561791

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/burnaby-mall-redevelopment-plans-for-1440-new-homes-two-highrise-towers-9983656

https://www.urbanyvr.com/amazing-brentwood-and-lougheed-update/

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/document-reveals-how-much-developer-paid-to-demovicted-burnaby-renters-9541695

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/burnaby-needs-stronger-renter-protections-in-wake-of-new-bc-housing-laws-councillor-8684377

councillor-opposes-plan-for-80-storey-tower-in-burnaby

 https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/burnaby-councillor-opposes-plan-for-80-storey-tower-in-burnaby-5509305

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/14-levels-of-underground-parking-80-storey-burnaby-tower-lougheed-7125340

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/new-burnaby-condo-proposal-pitching-the-tallest-highrise-in-bc-5358787

https://globalnews.ca/news/9766455/burnaby-condo-tower-debate-14-levels-parking/

https://www.urbanyvr.com/82-storey-building-the-tallest-in-western-canada-proposed-for-burnaby/

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/tallest-tower-in-b-c-may-be-built-in-burnaby-as-part-of-skyscraper-project-1.5927875

https://biz.crast.net/bcs-tallest-tower-on-the-lougheed-skytrain-considered-by-burnaby-city-council-urban/

The Burnaby Mountain Gondola Saga

https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/rapid-transit-projects/burnaby-mountain-gondola

While winter is only a few crappy months out of the year, SW BC still gets cold, damp & depressing.

 https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/projects/burnaby-mountain-gondola 

Special mountain climbing busses, or in this case, a big hill known as Burnaby Mountain always needs good hill climbing busses during the winter.

https://vancouversun.com/news/translink-100-buses-winter-tires

A gondola would really improve transportation there. 

https://the-peak.ca/2024/10/what-grinds-our-gears-winter-commutes-to-burnaby-mountain

https://www.sfu.ca/gondola.html

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/sfu-top-universities-global-rankings There should be a crappy winter transportation award for SFU.

https://www.sfu.ca/srs/announcements/archive/be-prepared-for-winter-on-burnaby-mountain.html

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/sfu-burnaby-mountain-gondola-translink-delays

https://buzzer.translink.ca/2022/11/shuttle-buses-during-snow-days-explained/

Two weeks in February 2025 almost had 24hr freezing. One week in January 2024 had a week of almost 24hr freezing. Almost, because some of the days actually might have gotten to 1 or 2C, but the nights were always freezing. Nothing melts under such horrible conditions. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/translink-plans-winter-2017-2018-1.4385226 Unfortunatly, the #0 Not in Service is common during the winter.

Of course winter in Australia is mild when compared to Canada. Most of Canada has winters with -5C days and -10C nights. Some parts get the -10C days & the -20C overnight option & anything colder than that, you might as well just give up.

It's amazing that Australia doesn't have 14 million more people than Canada, but it's the other way around. http://www.bom.gov.au/places/

Burnaby Rail Corridor Improvements Project

 https://portvancouver.civilspace.io/en/projects/burnaby-rail-corridor-improvements-project

https://www.portvancouver.com/projects/road-and-rail/burnaby-rail-corridor-upgrades/

https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/projects/holdom-overpass

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/holdom-overpass-plans-move-forward-in-burnaby-5585167

https://vancouvergateway.ca/

https://www.portvancouver.com/news-and-media/news/burnaby-rail-corridor-improvements-complete-improving-access-to-north-shore-port-terminals/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/holdom-road-overpass-burnaby

https://canoladigest.ca/november-2020/story-about-a-bridge/

Why is Metro Vancouver Creating a New Downtown?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybMhTlj-l5s 

Unlike Seattle and Calgary, Vancouver has no office towers over 50 stories. There aren't even any 40 story office towers in BC. Vancouver is firmly against permitting any office tower from having a 40th floor. However, Vancouver cant stop Burnaby and especially Surrey from having an office tower over 40 stories. While a 50 story office tower anywhere in backwater BC still seems unlikely, Burnaby and Surrey will likely be the first 2 cities in BC to have at least a 45 story office tower. 

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/50-storey-tower-community-hub-edmonds-burnaby 

So far, stubborn and strict Vancouver has only permitted 2 buildings to be taller than the tallest in Bellevue,_Washington. 

Vancouver has only permitted one building to be taller than the tallest in Vaughan, Ontario.

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/cg-tower/32139 

Since Burnaby and Surrey aren't under the backwards and thwarting restrictions that Vancouver has, Burnaby and eventually Surrey, will have taller buildings than stumpy Vancouver. Indeed, Burnaby already has some buildings taller than Downtown_Bellevue. Surrey will eventually have some buildings taller than the Vaughan_Metropolitan_Centre.          

Vancouver will continue to limit the height of its buildings for as long as possible. Vancouver won't allow a bus and train tunnel near the lion Bridge, let alone a 6 lane highway tunnel. Despite the Iron Bridge needing a parallel bus bridge and a Skytrain bridge, progress remains at a snail's pace. There still seems to be no interest in building a bus bridge next to the Oak and Knight Bridges. A city on the moon and Mars might happen before stubborn Vancouver ever builds a new Fraser Street bus & bike bridge. Not only should there be a Boundary Road Bridge to Richmond, but at least a Boundary bus & bike bridge to the North Vancouver.  

Its like backwards BC keeps hoping that by symbolically refusing to build up proper big city size transportation infrastructure, people will stay away. However, its only because no one has been able to effectively challenge the bottleneck-chokepoint mentality, that not much has been done.

Burnaby apologizes for decades of discrimination against people of Chinese descent

 https://globalnews.ca/news/11528001/burnaby-apology-discrimination-against-chinese-community 

Asia is the most populated part of the world and until recently, China had the biggest population. Thus, people from China or people who are of Chinese descent, live all over the world. There was a strong, KEEP CANADA WHITE agenda, right into the mid 20th century. Of course this mentality wasn't just directed towards Asians, but towards anyone who was nonwhite. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_head_tax 

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/multiculturalism-anti-racism/chinese-legacy-bc/history/discrimination

It took until the 1970s for Multiculturalism to challenge the, KEEP CANADA AS A WHITE MAN'S PARADISE. 

https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/canadian-multiculturalism-policy-1971

https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/200920E#:~:text=In%201969%2C%20the%20Royal%20Commission,Its%20key%20objectives%20were%20these: 

https://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/LoPBdP/CIR/936-e.htm#:~:text=A%20Ministry%20of%20Multiculturalism%20was,fully%20participate%20in%20Canadian%20society. 1973 

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/multiculturalism

While Canada hardly has that much of a Pacific Coast, when compared to the US and Australia, the BC part of Canada should have had at least one major city on the scale of Montreal or Seattle, Brisbane or SF. Unfortunatly, Vancouver has retained several of its overlapping restrictions, which prevent it from being on a scale similar to that of Montreal, Seattle, Calgary, Brisbane & SF... 

Despite Burnaby & Grater Vancouver being multicultural for several decades, so much of the restrictive BC mentality remains like an old disruptive computer program that hasn't been deleted. Unfortunatly, after the WW2 era, Greater Vancouver and BC continued with a backwater mentality. Just look at how much bigger things are allowed to be in Australia's 4 largest cities. Look at the scale of Seattle & Calgary & see how much of Greater Vancouver is still held back. Look at how big Edmonton as a capital is, while Victoria remains as a small provincial backwater. 

Unlike Melbourne, SF and Toronto, backwards Vancouver made sure that it was one of the first cities to get rid if its streetcar and tram-train (interurban) network before the 1960s. To make matters worse, the Greater Vancouver Region had and still does, have a system of mostly narrow bridges. 

There was such a push to have a tracks to tires agenda, no one seemed to realize that all the bridges should be wide enough to accomodate 2 bus lanes, or at least build a bus bridge or tunnel next to an existing bridge. 

Just because Multiculturalism in Canada started to officially get going in the 1970s, the city & municipal councils and planning departments were still predominantly managed by people of European descent. For most of the Colonial and postcolonial history of BC, the main municipalities were Vancouver, Burnaby, NW & Victoria. It was that way right into the 1970s. 

Since the predominantly White civic structure was firmly in place well into the 1980s, there was plenty of time to implement and maintain a social engineering agenda. An unofficial (White) Urban Livability Plan was cleverly devised by scaling almost everything down. Since BC can't control non-white immigration, "Livability" had to be symbolically quite visible. Livability was an ingenious way to impose various overlapping restrictions throughout the decades. How does the Livability agenda work? Suppose that there was a mostly subconscious mentality to refuse building up proper big city infrastructure for non-white people. Thus, by symbolically constructing inadequate transportation infrastructure, it becomes a way demonstrating that you are not properly building for the future, despite most of the world being non-white. Now, Burnaby & the Greater Vancouver region are so far behind now, its difficult to catch up to other proper metropolitan areas around the world.  

Despite Canada being the 2nd largest country in overall size, it has such a small area on the Pacific_Rim and Asia is the most populated part of the world. By keeping most of the bridges narrow and the trains short compared to most cities, that fits right in with the symbolism of antigrowth towards a predominantly non-white world. Canada is nowhere near close to having 1% of the worlds population, but most of the world is non-white. Its been that way since the beginning.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Burnaby+apologizes

Burnaby’s municipal government is looking to put a greater emphasis on catalyzing economic and business growth

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-task-force-economic-growth

Burnaby might eventually have a taller office tower than what's allowed in stumpy Vancouver. In the meantime, taller residential towers exist in Burnaby, because Burnaby isn't under the the extrem Vancouver restrictions.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/concord-metrotown-metropolis-at-metrotown-construction-redevelopment

Stumpy Vancouver wont permit any residential tower to have 65 stories. No office tower in Vancouver has been allowed to have a 40th floor. 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-new-tallest-building-bc-gilmore-place

The Boundary Road corridor between North Vancouver, Burnaby and Richmond

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/boundary-road-vancouver-burnaby-shared-maintenance-history

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/driving-in-vancouver-the-worst

Boundary+Road should have had a bridge over Burrard_Inlet and over the North_Arm_of_the_Fraser_River by now. A North and South Boundary Road+Bridge could provide a good truck, bus & bike connection between the North Shore, Vancouver & Burnaby. Then between Burnaby & Richmond with a Number 8 Road Bridge. Then a Nelson Road Bridge to Delta and the Deltaport. However, such regional port city infrastructure still seems beyond what the backwater BC mentality can fathom.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/boundary-road-bridge-vancouver-burnaby-richmond An April Fools articale hightligted the absudity of Greater Vancouver ignoring or neglecting The Boundary Road corridor.

Boundary+Road has the potential to be a regional north-south axis for trucks, buses, cars & bikes, that would really enable more people & goods to efficiently get around.

holdom overpass

 https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/projects/holdom-overpass

https://www.portvancouver.com/project/burnaby-rail-corridor-improvements-project

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/holdom-avenue-overpass-burnaby-cn-railway-construction-design

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/200m-holdom-overpass-to-start-construction-in-burnaby-this-year-9194772

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/burnaby-votes-to-expropriate-half-acre-of-land-for-holdom-overpass-9502782

The goal to build one of Metro Vancouver's new tallest buildings

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/citizen-tower-anthem-properties-burnaby-metrotown-ipo

Unlike Calgary and Seattle, Vancouver won't permit any residential building to be this tall within its strictly controlled city limits. Fortunately, Burnaby, Coquitlam and Surrey will allow taller buildings.

https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/vancouver-developer-seeks-to-raise-82m-for-metrotown-project-via-ipo-9508936 This is Business Outside of Vancouver.

https://storeys.com/anthem-properties-burnaby-66-storey-citizen-metro-king-metrotown This is like an average semi-tall building in Toronto and the GTA.

https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/real-estate/two-more-towers-up-to-80-storeys-tall-more-rental-housing-could-be-coming-to-burnabys-brentwood-8461795 There has been an unwretten ruel in Greater Vancouver for several decades. As long as something is impressive by PG, Kamloops, Kelowna & especially Victoria standards, that's good enough for backwater BC.

https://www.burnabynow.com/local-news/burnaby-councillor-opposes-plan-for-80-storey-tower-in-burnaby-5509305 No buildings taller than 40 stories & no roads wider than 4 lanes is very symbolic of the, KEEP IT SMALL mentality of BC. Even the newer SkyTran cars still only form 4 car trains. The Canada Line only has 2 car trains. 

https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9875630 When the scale of things in BC have been kept back for several decades, its difficult for some people to fathom an attempt to have a taller or larger scale of developments and infrastructure. 

Even the mountains just north of LA are allowed to be taller than those of (Greater_Vancouver).

New pedestrian bridge above Highway 1 next to Burnaby Lake lifted into place

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-lake-deer-lake-highway-1-overpass-bridge-construction-lift-process-video  

This isn't a bike+and+bus+bridge, because only a bike and pedestrian crossing was necessary there.

https://www.burnaby.ca/our-city/projects/burnaby-lake-overpass 

https://yourvoice.burnaby.ca/pedestrian-cyclist-overpass-over-highway-1

City of Burnaby switches to height-based building policies, abandoning density limits

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/burnaby-height-based-development-framework

Fortunately, Vancouver can't stunt and stump Burnaby anymore than it could with Parramatta, NSW. Vancouver is trying its darndest to prevent any buildings from rising above 200 m. Unlike Vancouver, Burnaby doesn't try to look for any excuse to hold its city back.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=building+shadowing+policies

Group rejects TransLink’s proposed Bus Rapid Transit route with picnic protest in Burnaby, B.C.

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/group-rejects-translinks-proposed-bus-rapid-transit-route-with-picnic-protest-in-burnaby-bc/ 

Backwards thinking & planning is so ingrained in BC. The R5 is already a frequent bus route along Hastings. https://www.translink.ca/schedules-and-maps/route/r5/direction/0/map 

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/08/26/transit-advocates-push-for-brt-through-burnaby-heights/ 

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metrotown-north-shore-brt-route-options-burnaby-translink-public-consultation

https://www.translink.ca/news/2025/august/translink%20seeks%20feedback%20on%20metrotown-north%20shore%20bus%20rapid%20transit

https://ehq-production-canada.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com

A BRT route along Boundary Road would be much better in the long run. Especially, if someday there can be a serious BRT route running the entire length of Boundary Road between North Vancouver & Richmond. 

https://www.translink.ca/plans-and-projects/projects/bus-projects/rapidbus-projects 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BRT 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Boundary+Road

City of Burnaby makes formal apology for decades of discrimination against people of Chinese descent

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/burnaby-apology-discriminating-chinese-descent-9.6980642 

Since BC started out as a British Colonial outpost, people of European descent were at the orchestrated top of the human hierarchy. Chinese and Asians & nonwhites in general were a concern to the White majority of early BC.  

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/multiculturalism-anti-racism/chinese-legacy-bc/history/discrimination

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/people-and-stories/chinese-canadians

South Asians were also a concern to the colonial power structure.  

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru 

https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2016/08/the-komagata-maru-incident-of-1914.html 

Of course Indigenous and Black People were part of being categorized as a lesser class of human. 

It took a very long time for the British_Empire to respect the people of a multicultural world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_British_Empire 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_the_British_Empire#Decline_and_decolonization 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_the_British_Empire#Postmodern_and_postcolonial_approaches

Multicultural Canada has less than 1% of the world's population. Yet, so many smaller countries are able to have a higher density and larger population than Canada. 

Burnaby in Greater Vancouver is part of Canada's largest urban area on the Pacific_Rim. There are still many people who would like to thwart the scale of growth in Greater_Vancouver. They don't want the region to become as big and dynamic as Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Seattle, SFBA, Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane. 

A big & dynamic urban region means more Asians and more nonwhite people in general. Unfortunatly, some people are still too uncomfortable with that notion.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Burnaby+apologizes

lougheed-town-centre-tower-pinnacle-international-development-burnaby

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/lougheed-town-centre-tower-pinnacle-international-development-burnaby

https://images.dailyhive.com/20191031130557/pinnacle-international-development-9858-9898-Gatineau-Place-burnaby-11.jpg


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/9898-gatineau-place-burnaby-lougheed-tall-tower-pinnacle-development


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bentall-centre-vancouver-fifth-office-tower

The proposed plan to redevelop Metropolis at Metrotown mall

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metropolis-at-metrotown-mall-redevelopment-master-plan-concept

No chance now of BC ever having a mall as big as the West_Edmonton_Mall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Edmonton_Mall#Future_developments

However, Burnaby will gradually get to have a dense downtown core with potentially some taller buildings than Edmonton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Edmonton_Mall#West_Edmonton_Mall_Transit_Centre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_at_Metrotown#Transportation Perhaps the WE Mall might eventually become like a 2n core for Edmonton. However, since Vancouver won't permit buildings to be taller than the tallest in Montreal, Calgary & Edmonton. Thus, Burnaby, Coquitlam & Surrey will have to take on that roll. 

Metrotown_station will become the key downtown core stop in Burnaby. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_shopping_centres_in_Canada

For most of Canada's history, it was about keeping out or at least slowing down the influx of non-white people. Then in more recent years, its been about using environmental concerns to keep Canada in a perpetual slow growth mode, except for a few cities. Canada still doesn't even have half of 1% of the world's population. Yet, it's the 2nd or 3rd largest county in overall area. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm 41 million people. How is it that so many other countries can accommodate more people? Better urban planning can make all the difference.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/02/canadas-population-passing-42-million-in-2024-and-50-million-by-2031.html

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/population_and_demography

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population , https://www.census.gov/popclock/world

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-projected-reach-98-billion-2050-and-112-billion-2100

MT and Burnaby

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/2012/12/12/the-skytrain-revolution-metrotown-and-burnaby-city-centre/

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=207087&page=11

http://www.vancouver-real-estate-direct.com/buzz/2014/04/burnaby-4670-assembly-way/

http://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/sovereign-by-bosa-properties,
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1319727

http://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/metroplace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Burnaby#Buildings,
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1

The Telus building in Burnaby

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/5469899289701886/posts/32594624393469342 

This could have been the first 40 story office tower in Burnaby, as well as for backwater BC. It's not even 30. Vancouver and BC in general, still have no 40 story office towers. However, Burnaby or Surrey will likely have the first office tower over 40 stories, eventually.

Since Calgary and Seattle aren't affected by the BC mind virus & don't have anything like Vancouver's strict height restrictions, they can build taller structures. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bow_(skyscraper) 58 stories, but 60 floors in total above ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bow_(skyscraper)#Building_details 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Center 76 stories, but 79 floors in total. Standing on the roof would be 80 floors up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Center#Design

Burnaby

http://brentwoodstation.blogspot.ca/2015/07/view-from-brentwood-mall-food-court.html

https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/concord-place-brentwood ,

http://concordplacebrentwood.com ,
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Burnaby,+BC

http://brentwoodstation.blogspot.ca/2015/03/more-coverage-on-dragonwood-development.html ,

https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/solo-district-condos

http://brentwoodstation.blogspot.ca/2015/07/dragonwood-development-goes-to-public.html


https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Burnaby,+BC MT