New Westminster
New Westminster is a memorial in British Columbia, Canada. New Westminster is situated nearby to the historic building Governor’s Castle, as well as near the cemetery British Columbia Penitentiary.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include British Columbia Penitentiary and Royal Columbian Hospital.
British Columbia Penitentiary
Cemetery
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The British Columbia Penitentiary was a federal maximum security prison located in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. The BC Penitentiary operated for 102 years, from 1878 until it was decommissioned in 1980. British Columbia Penitentiary is situated 330 metres southwest of New Westminster.
Royal Columbian Hospital
Hospital
Royal Columbian Hospital is among the oldest hospitals in British Columbia and one of the busiest in the Fraser Health Authority. It is located in New Westminster overlooking the Fraser River and is the only hospital in the Lower Mainland that is immediately adjacent to a Skytrain station. Royal Columbian Hospital is situated 1 km north of New Westminster.
Sapperton station
Metro station
Sapperton is an elevated station on the Expo Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system. The station is located on Brunette Avenue, above a Canadian Pacific Kansas City rail right-of-way in the Sapperton neighbourhood in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. Sapperton station is situated 1 km northeast of New Westminster.
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.
Fraser Mills
Suburb
Fraser Mills was a municipality in British Columbia on the north bank of the Fraser River that was incorporated in 1913, but has since amalgamated with the City of Coquitlam. Fraser Mills is situated 2½ km northeast of New Westminster.
New Westminster
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “In 1859 military considerations induced Colonel Richard Moody to select the site of New Westminster as the capital of the new colony of British Columbia. Jointly developed until 1863 by civilians and the Royal Engineers, whose campground was here, the tow”
- Category: historic site
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.21825° or 49° 13′ 6″ northLongitude
-122.89499° or 122° 53′ 42″ westOperator
Parks CanadaOpen location code
84XV6494+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 416112537OpenStreetMap feature
highway=turning_loopOpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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