Tax Sale Properties in Burnaby, British Columbia

Burnaby is a city in British Columbia, Canada, bordering east of Vancouver. It is the third-largest city in British Columbia by population, surpassed only by Vancouver and nearby Surrey. Burnaby was incorporated in 1892 and achieved its City status in 1992, one hundred years after the incorporation. It is the seat of Metro Vancouver's regional government.

The city is served by the Expo Line and the Millennium Line. Metrotown station in downtown Metrotown is the second busiest station in the regional Vancouver's Skytrain system in 2018.

The main campuses of Simon Fraser University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology are located in Burnaby. Metropolis at Metrotown is the largest mall in British Columbia. It is home to high-tech companies such as Ballard Power (fuel cell), Clio (legal software), D-Wave (quantum computing), General Fusion (fusion power), and Capcom Canada.

At incorporation, the municipality's citizens unanimously chose to name it after the legislator, speaker, Freemason and explorer Robert Burnaby, who had been private secretary to Colonel Richard Moody, the first land commissioner for the Colony of British Columbia, in the mid-19th century. In 1859 Burnaby had surveyed the freshwater lake near what is now the city's geographical centre. Moody chose to name it Burnaby Lake.

In the first 30 to 40 years after its incorporation, the growth of Burnaby was influenced by its location between the expanding urban centres of Vancouver and New Westminster. It was developed as a rural agricultural area supplying nearby markets. Later, it served as an important transportation corridor between Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and the Interior, and continues to do so.

As Vancouver expanded and became a metropolis, Burnaby was one of the first-tier bedroom-community suburbs of Vancouver, along with the city and district of North Vancouver, and Richmond. During the suburbanization of Burnaby, "Mid-Century Vernacular" homes were built by the hundreds to satisfy demand by new residents, and these houses are still very common in the city. Burnaby has gradually become more urban in character.