20 Facts About New Westminster

New Westminster is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District.

Governor Douglas spent little time in New Westminster and had little affection for the city; and the feelings were amply repaid by the citizens of New Westminster, who avidly supported Colonel Moody's city-building efforts and castigated the governor, who preferred to remain for the most part isolated in distant Victoria.

In 1991, the New Westminster Armoury was recognized as a Federal Heritage building on the Register of the Government of Canada Heritage Buildings.

New Westminster is located on the Burrard Peninsula, mainly on the north bank of the Fraser River.

New Westminster has changed markedly over time and by the results of its incorporation into the wider urbanization of the Lower Mainland.

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New Westminster's Chinatown was one of the earliest established in the mainland colony and initially the second-largest after Victoria's.

In 1892, when the official civic boundaries for New Westminster were set, they only included its original city and suburban lots, thus leaving District Lot 172 disincorporated.

The first of two referendums to vote on incorporating Connaught Heights Waterworks District into the City of New Westminster was held in 1961, which failed to achieve enough positive votes to proceed with incorporation.

Sapperton was originally a "suburb" of New Westminster, named for the Columbia Detachment of Royal Engineers, whose camp was on the hill now occupied by the Fraserview neighbourhood.

The other brewery in New Westminster is named Another Beer Co and it is located in Sapperton, close to where the Labatts Brewery was in the Brewery District, since 2019.

Westminster Quay was a mid-1980s development to revitalize New Westminster and accompanied the development of the SkyTrain line to Vancouver.

The New Westminster Quay is known to house the world's largest tin soldier which was given the title by the Guinness Book of World Records back in 2002.

Today New Westminster is served by the New Westminster Record, part of the Glacier Media chain, which publishes once a week.

School District 40 New Westminster has one high school, three middle schools, and ten elementary schools.

On its northern and western edges, New Westminster is connected to Vancouver by the street system of the city of Burnaby.

Until the 1950s, New Westminster was linked to Vancouver and other municipalities by the BC interurban tram network under British Columbia Electric Railway.

New Westminster Salmonbellies are one of the oldest professional lacrosse teams in Canada, and have junior and midget teams.

New Westminster is the location of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

New Westminster Royals were a professional minor-league team from 1911 through 1914, in the heyday of the Pacific Coast Hockey League.

Youth soccer in New Westminster is represented by the New West Youth Soccer Club, established in 1965, with teams for boys and girls aged 4 to 17 that participate in league play from September to March.