Brownsville
Brownsville was a former community in what is now the City of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as South Westminster, it was located where the city ran a small ferry across the Fraser River, today approximately where the east footing of the SkyBridge is, this was also the former site of qiqéyt, one of the main summer villages of the Kwantlen people and later, also the Musqueam people…- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Browns Landing” and “Brownsville, British Columbia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include SkyBridge and Pattullo Bridge.
SkyBridge
Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The SkyBridge is a cable-stayed railway bridge in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Built between 1987 and 1989, it carries trains of the Expo Line of TransLink's SkyTrain across the Fraser River between New Westminster and Surrey.
Pattullo Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Pattullo Bridge is a decommissioned through arch bridge that crosses the Fraser River and links the cities of New Westminster and Surrey in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.
New Westminster Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Buchanan-Hermit, Public domain.
The New Westminster Bridge is a swing bridge that crosses the Fraser River and connects New Westminster with Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. The bridge is owned by the Government of Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Westminster and Bridgeview.
New Westminster
Photo: Mhamilton1927, CC BY-SA 3.0.
New Westminster is a city of 79,000 people in British Columbia that is part of Vancouver's eastern suburbs. Its many Victorian-era houses and buildings remain giving the city a different feel than the rest of suburban Vancouver.
Bridgeview
Suburb
Bridgeview is a neighbourhood in the Whalley town centre of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, that stretches south from the Fraser River to King George Boulevard.
Whalley
Suburb
Whalley is the most densely populated and urban of the six town centres in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. It encompasses City Centre, the city's central business district, and is home to the Surrey City Hall, the main branch of Surrey Libraries, Central City, SFU Surrey and the site of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Civic Plaza campus.
Brownsville
- Categories: railway point in Canada and locality
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.20408° or 49° 12′ 15″ northLongitude
-122.89263° or 122° 53′ 34″ westElevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
84XV6434+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 7963937366OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
“Brownsville” goes by many names.
- French: “Brownsville”
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