Burnaby Mountain
SFU paleobotanist discovers ancient fossils on Burnaby Mountain
May 11, 2023New research from SFU paleoecologist Dr. Rolf Mathewes reveals evidence for what the geography and plant life on Burnaby Mountain would have looked like over 40-million years ago. When Mathewes was an SFU undergraduate, he discovered ancient plant fossils on Burnaby Mountain with his mentor, Dr. Robert Brooke, whom Mathewes’ most recent paper is dedicated to. “At the time we collected them, neither I nor Dr. Brooke [ . . . ] knew what they were. Neither one of us was a paleobotanist. So we collected these things [. . . ] and we boxed them up, and put them…
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What’s next after the gondola? Walkways along Gaglardi and the Parkway
February 8, 2023Content warning: mentions of car accidents and assault. After a decade of lobbying by students, the BC TransLink Board announced plans to construct a gondola system to provide easier access to the SFU Burnaby campus when the city council voted…
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SFU students host celebration for the approval of the Burnaby gondola project
October 12, 2022SFU celebrated the approval of the long-awaited Burnaby Mountain gondola by hosting a gathering on Tuesday, September 13. Community members, students, alumni, and staff gathered in the Student Union Building to hear remarks from student organizers and SFU president Joy…
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What Grinds Our Gears: We’re not in a state of perpetual panic over the tank farm
June 15, 2022We complain, but SFU’s Burnaby campus is a uniquely beautiful spot for a school. Secluded at the top of a mountain, we’re as close as you can come to a literal ivory tower of education. But thanks to the Burnaby…
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SFU Burnaby is doomed to always be a commuter campus
April 11, 2022In 1963, after achieving formal assent in the BC Legislature, Dr. Gordon M. Shrum, first chancellor of SFU, decided that the best place for the new SFU would be atop Burnaby Mountain, ensuring two things: that we’d have beautiful views,…
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Gondola town hall presenters share benefits of proposed project
February 8, 2022On January 21, 2022 Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS), Graduate Student Society (GSS), and SFU collaboratively presented a virtual gondola town hall where the external relations representatives from each group delivered a presentation. The presentations highlighted the benefits of the…
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The City of Burnaby and SFU plan for new firehall on Burnaby Mountain
November 2, 2021The City of Burnaby is working with SFU to push forward the design phase of a new firehall at Discovery Park on Burnaby Mountain. Construction is set to begin in 2024 at the southeast corner of SFU Burnaby campus. This…
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TransLink launches Phase 2 of the SFU gondola project following feedback report from Phase 1
November 25, 2020TransLink has completed Phase 1 of their planning for the Burnaby Mountain Gondola Transit project. Phase 1 consisted of gathering community feedback on the proposed project and TransLink looked for route option preference, and aimed to discover the community’s main…
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Wildfire extinguished on Burnaby Mountain
September 12, 2020On Friday, September 11 a fire burned on the northern side of Burnaby Mountain. The Burnaby Fire Department was called at 12:20 p.m. for a fire that was “500 to 600 feet across,” according to assistant fire chief Dave Younger…
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Trans Mountain pipeline construction continues during COVID-19 pandemic
July 14, 2020Construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP) is continuing in BC and Alberta during the COVID-19 pandemic. In BC, construction is currently underway in Kamloops and on Burnaby Mountain at the Burnaby and Westridge Marine and Terminals. The Public…
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