Nearby Cities: Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody
Port Moody was established from the end of a trail cut by Royal Engineers, now known as North Road to connect New Westminster with Burrard Inlet. It was developed to defend New Westminster from potential attack from the south.. The town grew rapidly after 1859, following land grants to the Royal Engineers who then settled there. 
Port Moody was the Canadian Pacific Railway's original western terminus. The
first trans-continental train arrived from Montreal on July 4, 1886 with about
150 passengers. In 1887, however, the line was extended 20 km to downtown Vancouver.
Since then, Port Moody's industrial significance has diminished, but it is an
important residential community in the Lower Mainland. The availability of level
land around Port Coquitlam for workshops and yards attracted the Canadian Pacific
Railway, which in 1911 moved its freight operations there from Vancouver. Port Moody's first industry was a cedar sawmill in 1905, followed in 1915 with a large Imperial Oil Company oil refinery just west of the Port Moody boundary. The area was named after the company: Ioco, and many refinery workers lived in a shack village near the refinery until 1920 before the current Ioco townsite was built. 1913 saw Port Moody incorporated as a city. Port Moody continued to be primarily a mill town. With the outbreak of World War II, people of the community found steady employment. With the end of the war, the town began to spread out and Port Moody met the surrounding suburbs of Coquiltam and Burnaby. Over the decades develop continued with Andrés Wines, Gulf Oil, Weldwood, Interprovincial Steel, Reichold Chemicals and Pacific Coast Terminals opening up plants in the City. Port Moody takes its name from Colonel Richard Moody of the Royal Engineers
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These communities (often called
the Tri-Cities") grew up alongside Highway 7, the Lougheed Highway. Vancouver's
Hastings Street changes to become the Barnett Highway (7A) as it winds on the
Burrard Inlet side of Coquaby Mountain, passes through Port Moody until it joins
the Lougheed Highway in Coquitlam. 
The City of Coquitlam and the District Municipality of Coquitlam is named for
"the little red fish" or landlocked salmon in the Coast Salish Indian language.
Visit Mundy Park, southwest Coquitlam's large forest park with 435 acres, walking
trails and two pretty little lakes. The area includes Minnehada and Burke Mountain
regional parks with views of the Pitt River, and several popular lakes, including
Como and Buntzen. Coquitlam includes the French-speaking community of Maillardville,
where French-Canadians settled in 1909 to work in the Fraser Valley saw mills.
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