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Spring Brook (Burnaby)

Coordinates: 49°15′52″N 123°00′59″W / 49.264520°N 123.016296°W / 49.264520; -123.016296
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Spring Brook is one of many tributaries of Still Creek, an important stream in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.[1][2] It runs north just east of Boundary Road and joins Still Creek just west of Gilmore Station.[1][2]

The area was once known to Burnaby residents as Broadview.[1] Local old-time residents Margaret and Flora McCallum recall how the children of the neighbourhood waded and played in the creek during hot summers.[2] Local Chinese farmers used the low-lying parts of the creek to cultivate crops of watercress which would be harvested and sold in Vancouver's Chinatown.

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49°15′52″N 123°00′59″W / 49.264520°N 123.016296°W / 49.264520; -123.016296

  1. ^ a b c Waterways of Burnaby (PDF), City of Burnaby Community Heritage Commission Environment and Social Planning Committee, 2019
  2. ^ a b c Burnaby Heritage Creek Name Project (PDF), Community Heritage Commission, 6 February 1995