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MLA · BC PROVINCIAL 2026

Port Moody-Burquitlam.
4 candidates, one seat.

This district elects one MLA. Voters mark one name on Saturday, October 24, 2026, and the candidate with the most votes wins the seat.

Port Moody-Burquitlam is a provincial electoral district at the eastern end of Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver. It takes in the City of Port Moody, the Villages of Anmore and Belcarra, and the Burquitlam neighbourhood of Coquitlam. The 2021 census counted 59,770 people in it, and the Electoral Boundaries Commission gives its area as 84 square kilometres.

The candidates

In alphabetical order
People, 2021 census
59,770
Area
84 km²
Registered voters, 2024
44,199
Turnout, 2024
58.72%
Median age
40.4
Median household income, 2020
$103,000
THE DISTRICT

Where Port Moody-Burquitlam is

84 km² · 59,770 people

Port Moody-Burquitlam lies at the eastern end of Burrard Inlet. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's final report of 3 April 2023 says it includes the City of Port Moody, the Villages of Belcarra and Anmore, and the Coquitlam neighbourhood of Burquitlam. It also includes the part of Eagle Ridge between Guildford Way and David Avenue. The southern boundary runs along Austin Avenue. The northwestern and eastern boundaries follow the municipal borders of Coquitlam, Port Moody, Belcarra and Anmore. The commission gave the district its name after it heard that Port Moody is closely tied to Burquitlam, and it left Westwood Plateau in Coquitlam-Burke Mountain.

The commission's map draws Burrard Inlet, Belcarra Regional Park, Buntzen Lake and part of Indian Arm Provincial Park inside the boundary. BC Geographical Names places Port Moody at the head of Burrard Inlet on its south-east side, Belcarra on the east side of the entrance to Indian Arm, and Anmore north of Port Moody. On the map, Pleasantside and Ioco Road lie on the north shore of the head of the inlet. The map also labels Coombe, Woodhaven and Bedwell Bay Road beside Belcarra, Sunnyside Road and East Road beside Anmore, and Clarke Road, Robinson Street and North Road in Burquitlam.

Barnet Highway follows the south shore of the inlet on the map, with Murray Street, Clarke Street and St Johns Street in Port Moody. TransLink's opening-day post for the Evergreen Extension, which began carrying passengers on 2 December 2016, names Moody Centre Station and Burquitlam Station on the SkyTrain line through the district.

  • Port Moody
  • Ioco
  • Pleasantside
  • Anmore
  • Belcarra
  • Coombe
  • Woodhaven
  • Burquitlam
  • Eagle Ridge (the part between Guildford Way and David Avenue)

Sources: British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission (opens in a new tab), Province of British Columbia (BC Data Catalogue) (opens in a new tab), BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab), BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab), BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab), TransLink (opens in a new tab)

HISTORY

The history of the area

Checked Thursday, October 8, 2026

Tsleil-Waututh, Kwikwetlem and other homelands

The City of Port Moody says that Port Moody is located on the ancestral and unceded homelands of eight Peoples: the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), qiqéyt (Qayqayt) and Stó:lō. Its Indigenous relations page says the Tsleil-Waututh had a village in Port Moody and have long stewarded the lands and waters of the inlet. The page says the Kwikwetlem take their name, Red Fish Up the River, from an early spring sockeye salmon run that once flourished in the Coquitlam River.

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation calls itself səlilwətaɬ, People of the Inlet. Its website says its people have lived in their traditional territory for thousands of years, based on archaeological evidence and oral history, and that the territory reaches north to Mount Garibaldi, east to Coquitlam Lake and west to Howe Sound. The Nation says that təmtəmíxwtən, which means the biggest place for all the people in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language, is the largest of its ancestral villages and was mainly a winter village. It says the Tsleil-Waututh occupied təmtəmíxwtən from time out of mind until colonization. The kʷikʷəƛ̓əm First Nation says on its website that its people have lived in their territory around the Coquitlam River Watershed since before remembered time.

Sources: City of Port Moody (opens in a new tab), Tsleil-Waututh Nation (səlilwətaɬ) (opens in a new tab), Tsleil-Waututh Nation (səlilwətaɬ) (opens in a new tab), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) First Nation (opens in a new tab)

Port Moody becomes the end of the railway, 1860 to 1913

BC Geographical Names says Captain Richards of HM surveying vessel Plumper named the port in 1860 after Richard Clement Moody, a Royal Engineers officer who arrived in the colony in December 1858 and served as commissioner of lands and works. The Port Moody post office opened on 1 October 1882. The Port Moody Station Museum says Canadian Pacific announced the official terminus in 1879 and finished the first station in 1882 on the south shore of the inlet, with a wharf for ships that brought supplies for the track being built eastward.

BC Geographical Names records that the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie took place on 7 November 1885. The museum says the first train to reach Port Moody was a work train that arrived the next day, and that the first scheduled passenger train from the east arrived on 4 July 1886. The railway then chose Vancouver as its terminus. The museum gives 23 May 1887 as the day the first transcontinental passenger train reached Vancouver, and says many Port Moody businesses left and the population shrank. BC Geographical Names records that Port Moody was incorporated as a city on 11 March 1913.

Sources: BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab), POMO Museum, Port Moody Heritage Society (opens in a new tab), POMO Museum, Port Moody Heritage Society (opens in a new tab)

North Road and the Burquitlam post office, 1859 to 1982

The City of Coquitlam's information sheet for the Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan lists North Road among the facts about the plan area. The sheet says the road was built in 1859 to connect New Westminster to Burrard Inlet and is one of the oldest roads in the Lower Mainland.

BC Geographical Names says the name Burquitlam comes from the positions of two adjoining municipalities, Coquitlam and Burnaby, and was made for the purpose of providing a post office. The Burquitlam Post Office opened on 1 October 1906 with Peter Lawson as postmaster. It became a sub-office of the New Westminster Post Office on 1 August 1946. The Geographical Names Office adopted the name for the post office on 3 May 1951 and changed it to a community on 3 July 1979. In June 1982 the Coquitlam Planning Department set the community's limits: north of the golf course, east of North Road, south of the Port Moody city limits and west of Robinson.

Sources: City of Coquitlam (opens in a new tab), BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)

Buntzen Lake, Anmore farms and the name Belcarra, 1905 to 1921

BC Geographical Names says the name Buntzen Lake was adopted on 3 June 1905, replacing Trout Lake. The lake honours Johannes Buntzen, managing director in London of the Vancouver Power Company and the BC Electric Railway Company. The record adds that the railway company's tunnel between Buntzen Lake and Coquitlam Lake was completed in 1905.

The Village of Anmore's history says homesteading began in earnest after a government land sale in 1914. A settler paid a $10 fee and $25 at the start, lived on the land for at least six months in three years, cleared two acres and built a home worth $300 or more. The Farmers' Institute formed in 1915, and a one-room school was built in 1916 at the corner of East and Sunnyside Roads. The history says settlers before 1915 had to cross Burrard Inlet by boat because no road ran around it.

BC Geographical Names records that Franklin John Lancaster applied for water rights on a creek on 19 November 1914 and made the name Annore from the first names of his wife Annie and his daughter Leonore. The Post Office decided the spelling Anmore on 5 April 1951. For Belcarra, the same office says William Norman Bole, a New Westminster lawyer who owned 260 acres there, gave the place its name, and that a 1921 map carries it. The record gives two explanations: Gaelic words meaning the fair land upon which the sun shines, and a village called Belcarra in County Mayo, Ireland, where Bole was from.

Sources: BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab), Village of Anmore (opens in a new tab), BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab), BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)

Ioco refinery and company town, 1912 to 2002

The Port Moody Station Museum says a spur track to the Imperial Oil Company refinery on the north shore was completed in 1912. Its Ioco pages say site clearing began in 1914 and the refinery began operating in January 1915. The museum says workers came from across the country, and because no road reached the site they travelled by boat. The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names says a company vice-president named the site Ioco from the initial letters of the company's name.

The City of Port Moody's Official Community Plan says the townsite was cleared in the fall and winter of 1920. It says 43 new houses were built in 1921 and 15 houses from elsewhere on the property were moved there, then 17 were added in 1922 and 6 in 1923, for a total of 81. The City says primary access was by water until Ioco Road was built in the 1930s. The Encyclopedia says a pipeline joined the plant to Alberta in 1953 and that the refinery closed in 1995. The plan describes the townsite as a Heritage Conservation Area, a part of the city protected for its heritage value, with development rules and maintenance standards set by two bylaws adopted on 10 September 2002. The City lists 13 houses, the community store, the community hall, one church and one school among the buildings that remain.

Sources: POMO Museum, Port Moody Heritage Society (opens in a new tab), POMO Museum, Port Moody Heritage Society (opens in a new tab), KnowBC (opens in a new tab), City of Port Moody (opens in a new tab)

The port, the station and the museum, 1945 to 1983

The Port Moody Station Museum says the railway moved the 1908 station in 1945, after local concerns, from beside the sulphur plant to the corner of Queen Street and Clarke Street. Railway workers carried it along the tracks in two sections. The museum's port history says Pacific Coast Terminals came to Port Moody in 1958 and grew into the largest export terminal of sulphur in the world. The Canadian Encyclopedia says lumbering was the main industry in the early days, that a steel-pipe mill, chemical plants and a major oil refinery followed the Second World War, and that a deep-sea port with automated bulk-loading facilities was completed in 1960.

Canadian Pacific closed the station on 25 September 1976, when it ended passenger service. A local society, now the Port Moody Heritage Society, bought the building in 1978. It was carried by flatbed truck to 2734 Murray Street, and the Port Moody Station Museum opened there on 1 July 1983.

Sources: POMO Museum, Port Moody Heritage Society (opens in a new tab), POMO Museum, Port Moody Heritage Society (opens in a new tab), Port Moody Station Museum, on Community Stories (Digital Museums Canada) (opens in a new tab), The Canadian Encyclopedia (opens in a new tab)

Belcarra and Anmore become villages, 1973 to 1987

BC Geographical Names records that Belcarra was incorporated as a village municipality on 22 August 1979. The Village of Anmore's history tells how Anmore came to incorporate. A 1978 plan prepared for the Greater Vancouver Regional District outlined roads to serve 15,000 residents by 1988, and the history says Anmore's residents had ten years to oppose it. They proposed putting 80% of their land in the Agricultural Land Reserve, and the history says the valley's unsuitability for farming made that plan unworkable.

The history says residents then promoted the Anmore Concept, a plan for houses on large lots, limited services and local control. It says the Ioco and Buntzen area proposed its own municipality in 1973 and the province chose not to act on it, and that joining Belcarra or Port Moody was rejected. A 1985 study found incorporation workable. BC Geographical Names records that Anmore was incorporated as a village municipality on 7 December 1987.

Sources: BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab), Village of Anmore (opens in a new tab), BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)

The Evergreen Extension, a plan for Burquitlam and a renamed park, 2016 to 2021

TransLink's opening-day post says the first public trips on the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line began at noon on 2 December 2016. The federal backgrounder says the extension is 11 kilometres long, has seven stations including six new ones, serves Burnaby, Port Moody and Coquitlam, and received $1.43 billion in funding from Canada, British Columbia and TransLink.

In October 2014 the City of Coquitlam published an update on its work to revise the Burquitlam and Lougheed plans before the line opened, for a plan area of more than 560 hectares. The City's servicing assessment says the Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan was adopted in 2017. Its April 2022 update projects an increase of 15,000 to 16,000 dwelling units, or 28,000 to 33,000 people, in the plan area, which also takes in Lougheed.

On 8 October 2021 the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Metro Vancouver announced that Belcarra Regional Park would become təmtəmíxwtən/Belcarra Regional Park. The Nation says the two parties signed a Cultural Planning and Co-operation Agreement for the park in February 2020.

Sources: TransLink (opens in a new tab), Transport Canada (opens in a new tab), City of Coquitlam (opens in a new tab), City of Coquitlam (opens in a new tab), Tsleil-Waututh Nation (səlilwətaɬ) (opens in a new tab), CTV News (opens in a new tab)

THE SEAT

Who has held the seat

Legislative Assembly records, 39th Parliament onward

Port Moody-Burquitlam is a new district name. The three electoral history volumes that Elections BC published for 1871 to 2013 list no district by this name, and its first results are those of the 43rd provincial general election, held on 19 October 2024. Rick Glumac of the BC NDP won with 13,488 votes (52.06%), ahead of Kerry van Aswegen of the Conservative Party with 10,493 votes (40.50%) and Samantha Agtarap of the BC Green Party with 1,927 votes (7.44%). Turnout was 58.72% of 44,199 registered voters. The commission's report of 3 April 2023 says that its preliminary report called the district Port Moody-Westwood Plateau and that it changed the name to Port Moody-Burquitlam.

Elections BC's conversion table matches the 70 voting areas of the district to three districts used from 2017 to 2024: 60 to Port Moody-Coquitlam, 6 to Coquitlam-Burke Mountain and 4 to Coquitlam-Maillardville. Glumac won the earlier district Port Moody-Coquitlam in 2017 with 11,754 votes (47.69%) and in 2020 with 12,783 votes (53.75%). Linda Reimer of the BC Liberal Party won it in 2013 with 9,675 votes (46.39%). Joe Trasolini of the BC NDP won the by-election of 2012 with 6,247 votes (54.34%). That by-election followed the resignation of Iain Black of the BC Liberal Party, who won the district in 2009 with 9,979 votes (52.15%). The Legislative Assembly lists Glumac as the member for Port Moody-Burquitlam in the 43rd Parliament.

Earlier volumes print other districts that carried the same place names. Barbara E. Copping of the NDP won Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain in 1991 with 9,821 votes (45.62%). Christy Clark of the Liberal Party won it in 1996 with 10,272 votes (44.73%). In 2001 Clark won Port Moody-Westwood with 16,500 votes (74.64%), and Harry Bloy of the Liberal Party won a district named Burquitlam with 11,131 votes (56.34%). In 2005 Black won Port Moody-Westwood with 14,161 votes (53.75%), and Bloy won Burquitlam with 10,054 votes (46.39%).

Sources: Elections BC (opens in a new tab), Elections BC (opens in a new tab), British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission (opens in a new tab), Elections BC (opens in a new tab), Elections BC (opens in a new tab), Elections BC (opens in a new tab), Elections BC (opens in a new tab), Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (opens in a new tab)

Members for Port Moody-Burquitlam
ParliamentIt satMemberElected asParty on the legislature’s record
43rd2025 to 2026Rick GlumacBC NDPBC NDP
Members for Port Moody-Coquitlam, which covered 60 of this district’s 70 voting areas before 2024
ParliamentIt satMemberElected asParty on the legislature’s record
42nd2020 to 2024Rick GlumacBC NDPBC NDP
41st2017 to 2020Rick GlumacBC NDPBC NDP
40th2013 to 2017Linda ReimerBC Liberal PartyBC Liberal Party
39th2009 to 2013Joe TrasoliniBC NDPBC NDP
39th2009 to 2013Iain BlackBC Liberal Party

“Elected as” is the affiliation Elections BC printed with the winning result. The last column is the party the legislature’s records give for that parliament, which differs when a member changed party while in office. A row with that column empty is a winner Elections BC prints whom the legislature’s records leave out. Source: Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (opens in a new tab)

Boundaries since 2024

Port Moody-Burquitlam has 70 voting areas. They overlap these districts from 2017 to 2024: Port Moody-Coquitlam (60), Coquitlam-Burke Mountain (6), Coquitlam-Maillardville (4).

The commission that drew the boundaries counted 59,769 people in the district, 11.2% above the average for a district, over 84 km².

Sources: British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission, Final report, April 3, 2023 (opens in a new tab), Elections BC, Voting area conversion table, 2017 to 2024 (opens in a new tab)

PAST RESULTS

Every result since 2009

From Elections BC
2024 Provincial General ElectionRick Glumac, BC NDP, 52.06%
CandidateAffiliationVotesShare
Rick GlumacElectedBC NDP13,48852.06%
Kerry van AswegenConservative Party10,49340.50%
Samantha AgtarapBC Green Party1,9277.44%

25,908 valid votes · 45 rejected ballots · 44,199 registered voters · 58.72% voted

Port Moody-Coquitlam, 2009 to 2020

2020 General ElectionRick Glumac, BC NDP, 53.75%
CandidateAffiliationVotesShare
Rick GlumacElectedBC NDP12,78353.75%
James RobertsonBC Liberal Party7,25330.50%
John LatimerBC Green Party2,80211.78%
Brandon FonsecaConservative8003.36%
Logan SmithLibertarian1440.61%

23,782 valid votes · 165 rejected ballots

2017 General ElectionRick Glumac, BC NDP, 47.69%
CandidateAffiliationVotesShare
Rick GlumacElectedBC NDP11,75447.69%
Linda ReimerBC Liberal Party9,91040.20%
Don BarthelBC Green Party2,98512.11%

24,649 valid votes · 137 rejected ballots

2013 General ElectionLinda Reimer, BC Liberal Party, 46.39%
CandidateAffiliationVotesShare
Linda ReimerElectedBC Liberal Party9,67546.39%
Joe TrasoliniBC NDP9,23844.29%
Billie HelpsBC Green Party1,7088.19%
Jeff MondsLibertarian2371.14%

20,858 valid votes · 133 rejected ballots

2012 Port Moody-Coquitlam By-electionJoe Trasolini, BC NDP, 54.34%
CandidateAffiliationVotesShare
Joe TrasoliniElectedBC NDP6,24754.34%
Dennis MarsdenBC Liberal Party3,48430.30%
Christine N. ClarkeConservative1,76615.36%

11,497 valid votes · 45 rejected ballots

2009 General ElectionIain Black, BC Liberal Party, 52.15%
CandidateAffiliationVotesShare
Iain BlackElectedBC Liberal Party9,97952.15%
Shannon WatkinsBC NDP7,61439.79%
Rebecca HelpsBC Green Party1,2616.59%
James FilippelliYour Political Party of BC (YPP)1981.03%
Donna VandekerkhoveBC Refed820.43%

19,134 valid votes · 102 rejected ballots

The boundaries changed before the 2009, 2017 and 2024 elections, so a result under the same name can cover a different area. Sources: Elections BC, Provincial Voting Results (opens in a new tab), Statement of Votes, 2024 Provincial General Election (opens in a new tab)

PEOPLE · 2021 CENSUS

Who lives in Port Moody-Burquitlam

59,770 residents · British Columbia beside each figure

Age

Median age
40.4BC 42.8
  • Under 1515.0%BC 14.3%
  • 15 to 6470.2%BC 65.3%
  • 65 and over14.8%BC 20.3%
  • 85 and over1.3%BC 2.4%

Households

Households
23,615
People per household
2.5BC 2.4

Who lives together

  • Couples with children30.7%BC 22.7%
  • Couples without children25.4%BC 26.4%
  • One-parent families8.7%BC 7.6%
  • Multigenerational households3.0%BC 3.7%
  • People living alone23.7%BC 29.4%

Household size

  • 1 person23.7%BC 29.4%
  • 2 persons34.3%BC 35.3%
  • 3 persons18.5%BC 14.5%
  • 4 persons16.2%BC 12.6%
  • 5 or more persons7.2%BC 8.2%

Homes

Median home value
$1,000,000BC $785,000
Median monthly rent and utilities
$1,640BC $1,370
Median monthly cost for owners
$1,740BC $1,320

Own or rent

  • Own their home70.6%BC 66.8%
  • Rent their home29.3%BC 32.8%

Type of home

  • Single-detached house31.1%BC 42.4%
  • Semi-detached house2.6%BC 3.1%
  • Row house13.8%BC 8.3%
  • Apartment or flat in a duplex9.4%BC 12.2%
  • Apartment in a building that has fewer than five storeys25.7%BC 20.4%
  • Apartment in a building that has five or more storeys16.9%BC 10.9%
  • Other single-attached house0.1%BC 0.2%
  • Movable dwelling0.4%BC 2.5%

When the home was built

  • 1960 or earlier6.7%BC 12.5%
  • 1961 to 198024.1%BC 27.0%
  • 1981 to 199014.4%BC 14.2%
  • 1991 to 200015.2%BC 16.5%
  • 2001 to 20057.8%BC 6.0%
  • 2006 to 201010.9%BC 8.0%
  • 2011 to 20156.6%BC 6.6%
  • 2016 to 202114.3%BC 9.1%

Housing costs

  • Renters paying 30% or more of income on housing36.3%BC 37.8%
  • Owners paying 30% or more of income on housing21.9%BC 19.3%
  • Renters in core housing need25.1%BC 24.7%
  • Owners in core housing need9.0%BC 8.0%
  • Renters in subsidized housing7.8%BC 11.0%
  • Owners with a mortgage62.1%BC 57.5%

Income

Income is for the year 2020.

Median household income
$103,000BC $85,000
After tax
$90,000BC $76,000
Median income per person
$46,000BC $40,800

Living on a low income (after-tax measure)

  • All ages9.3%BC 10.8%
  • Under 1810.1%BC 11.3%
  • 18 to 649.0%BC 9.7%
  • 65 and over9.4%BC 13.8%

Languages

First language learned

  • English58.0%BC 67.1%
  • Mandarin7.0%BC 4.1%
  • Korean6.0%BC 1.2%
  • Yue (Cantonese)4.1%BC 3.9%
  • Iranian Persian3.2%BC 0.9%
  • Spanish1.9%BC 1.2%
  • Russian1.7%BC 0.6%
  • Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)1.0%BC 1.7%
  • French1.0%BC 1.2%
  • Italian0.8%BC 0.4%

Spoken most often at home

  • English71.6%BC 78.5%
  • Mandarin5.4%BC 3.3%
  • Korean4.7%BC 0.9%
  • Yue (Cantonese)3.0%BC 2.8%
  • Iranian Persian2.1%BC 0.7%
  • Russian1.4%BC 0.3%
  • Spanish0.9%BC 0.6%
  • Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)0.5%BC 0.9%

English and French

  • English only89.7%BC 90.1%
  • English and French7.1%BC 6.6%
  • Neither English nor French3.2%BC 3.3%

Immigration

Born outside Canada (immigrants)
38.3%BC 29.0%
Non-permanent residents
3.7%BC 3.5%

Where immigrants were born

  • China14.1%BC 15.3%
  • Korea, South12.8%BC 3.3%
  • Iran8.1%BC 3.2%
  • Hong Kong6.3%BC 5.5%
  • United Kingdom5.4%BC 8.2%
  • Philippines4.7%BC 9.2%
  • United States of America3.5%BC 4.2%
  • Taiwan3.2%BC 2.8%
  • India3.0%BC 13.8%
  • Russian Federation2.0%BC 0.9%

When immigrants arrived

  • Arrived before 198013.4%BC 19.7%
  • 1980 to 199010.0%BC 11.5%
  • 1991 to 200023.3%BC 21.0%
  • 2001 to 201026.6%BC 22.2%
  • 2011 to 202126.7%BC 25.6%

Generations in Canada

  • First generation43.3%BC 33.7%
  • Second generation23.8%BC 21.7%
  • Third generation or more33.0%BC 44.5%

Identity and origins

Indigenous identity
2.5%BC 5.9%
Visible minority
42.7%BC 34.4%

Visible minority groups

  • Chinese16.1%BC 11.2%
  • Korean6.9%BC 1.5%
  • West Asian4.5%BC 1.4%
  • South Asian3.8%BC 9.6%
  • Filipino2.4%BC 3.5%
  • Multiple visible minorities1.9%BC 1.2%
  • Latin American1.8%BC 1.3%
  • Black1.5%BC 1.3%
  • Japanese1.3%BC 0.9%
  • Southeast Asian1.3%BC 1.5%
  • Arab0.8%BC 0.6%
  • Visible minority (other)0.3%BC 0.4%

Ethnic or cultural origins reported most often

  • English18.0%BC 20.7%
  • Chinese14.8%BC 10.5%
  • Scottish13.3%BC 15.8%
  • Irish10.8%BC 12.8%
  • Canadian8.3%BC 9.3%
  • German7.7%BC 11.0%
  • Korean6.6%BC 1.5%
  • Italian5.8%BC 3.3%
  • French5.2%BC 6.4%
  • Ukrainian4.0%BC 4.3%

Religion

  • No religion54.4%BC 52.1%
  • Christian35.8%BC 34.3%
  • Muslim4.5%BC 2.6%
  • Buddhist1.6%BC 1.7%
  • Other religions1.3%BC 1.0%
  • Hindu1.1%BC 1.7%
  • Sikh0.7%BC 5.9%
  • Jewish0.4%BC 0.5%
  • Traditional Indigenous spirituality0.1%BC 0.2%

Education

Highest level completed, ages 25 to 64.

  • No certificate, diploma or degree3.3%BC 8.0%
  • High school diploma18.9%BC 25.8%
  • College, trades or other certificate below a bachelor’s degree29.7%BC 31.2%
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher48.1%BC 35.0%

Work

In the labour force
68.0%BC 63.3%
Employed
62.8%BC 57.9%
Unemployment rate at the census
7.7%BC 8.4%

Industries with the most workers

  • Professional, scientific and technical services13.3%BC 9.2%
  • Health care and social assistance11.4%BC 12.3%
  • Retail trade10.7%BC 11.6%
  • Educational services8.5%BC 7.4%
  • Construction8.1%BC 9.0%
  • Public administration5.5%BC 5.5%
  • Manufacturing5.4%BC 5.9%
  • Accommodation and food services5.4%BC 7.0%

Kinds of work

  • Sales and service occupations23.7%BC 25.6%
  • Business, finance and administration occupations20.7%BC 17.1%
  • Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations13.5%BC 18.0%
  • Occupations in education, law and social, community and government services12.9%BC 11.9%
  • Natural and applied sciences and related occupations12.3%BC 8.0%
  • Health occupations6.6%BC 7.7%
  • Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport5.3%BC 4.2%
  • Occupations in manufacturing and utilities2.3%BC 3.4%
  • Legislative and senior management occupations1.8%BC 1.2%
  • Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations0.7%BC 2.8%

Getting to work

Where people worked

  • Worked at home31.9%BC 22.6%
  • Worked outside Canada0.5%BC 0.4%
  • No fixed workplace address12.5%BC 15.3%
  • Worked at a usual workplace55.2%BC 61.6%

How commuters travelled

  • Car, truck or van78.9%BC 79.9%
  • Public transit14.3%BC 9.3%
  • On foot3.9%BC 6.5%
  • Bicycle0.5%BC 2.0%
  • Other method2.4%BC 2.3%

Length of the trip

  • Less than 15 minutes19.3%BC 31.8%
  • 15 to 29 minutes28.9%BC 34.0%
  • 30 to 44 minutes27.9%BC 19.7%
  • 45 to 59 minutes14.5%BC 7.3%
  • 60 minutes and over9.4%BC 7.2%

Moving

Where residents lived five years before the census.

  • Lived at the same address58.0%BC 56.2%
  • Moved within the same municipality10.1%BC 16.1%
  • Moved from elsewhere in BC22.1%BC 17.0%
  • Moved from another province3.1%BC 4.6%
  • Moved from another country6.8%BC 6.1%

Counts in the census are rounded to the nearest 5, and shares are worked out from those counts. Source: BC Stats, from Statistics Canada tabulations, 2021 Census Profile for BC Provincial Electoral Districts (2023 Redistribution) (opens in a new tab)

QUESTIONS

Questions about Port Moody-Burquitlam

10 answers

Where is Port Moody-Burquitlam?

Port Moody-Burquitlam is a provincial electoral district at the eastern end of Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report says it includes the City of Port Moody, the Villages of Belcarra and Anmore, and the Coquitlam neighbourhood of Burquitlam. The commission gives its area as 84 square kilometres, and its southern boundary runs along Austin Avenue.

Which communities are in Port Moody-Burquitlam?

Port Moody-Burquitlam includes the City of Port Moody, the Village of Anmore, the Village of Belcarra and the Burquitlam neighbourhood of Coquitlam, according to the commission's 2023 final report. It also includes the part of Eagle Ridge between Guildford Way and David Avenue. The commission's map labels Ioco and Pleasantside on the Port Moody shore and Coombe and Woodhaven beside Belcarra.

Who is the member for Port Moody-Burquitlam?

Rick Glumac of the BC NDP is the member the legislature records for Port Moody-Burquitlam in the 43rd Parliament, after winning the district in 2024. He held the earlier district Port Moody-Coquitlam from 2017. Before him, Linda Reimer of the BC Liberal Party held it from 2013 to 2017, and Joe Trasolini of the BC NDP held it from 2009 to 2013.

How did Port Moody-Burquitlam vote in 2024?

Rick Glumac of the BC NDP won Port Moody-Burquitlam in the 2024 provincial general election with 13,488 votes, 52.06% of the valid vote. Kerry van Aswegen of the Conservative Party received 10,493 votes, 40.50%, and Samantha Agtarap of the BC Green Party received 1,927 votes, 7.44%. Turnout was 58.72% of the 44,199 registered voters.

How have the boundaries of Port Moody-Burquitlam changed?

Port Moody-Burquitlam is a new district for the 2024 election. Elections BC's conversion table matches its 70 voting areas to the districts used from 2017 to 2024: 60 to Port Moody-Coquitlam, 6 to Coquitlam-Burke Mountain and 4 to Coquitlam-Maillardville. The commission's final report names it Port Moody-Burquitlam instead of Port Moody-Westwood Plateau, the name in its preliminary report.

Who lives in Port Moody-Burquitlam?

The 2021 census counted 59,770 people in Port Moody-Burquitlam, with a median age of 40.4 years against 42.8 for British Columbia. Immigrants are 38.3% of residents, against 29% for the province. English is the first language of 58% of residents, Mandarin of 7%, Korean of 6%, Yue (Cantonese) of 4.1% and Iranian Persian of 3.2%.

Whose traditional territory is Port Moody-Burquitlam on?

The City of Port Moody says Port Moody is on the ancestral and unceded homelands of eight Peoples, among them the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). Its Indigenous relations page says the Tsleil-Waututh had a village in Port Moody. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation says təmtəmíxwtən, the largest of its ancestral villages, lies within Belcarra Regional Park, which the commission's map draws inside Port Moody-Burquitlam.

Why did Port Moody matter to the Canadian Pacific Railway?

Canadian Pacific announced Port Moody as the official end of its line in 1879, according to the Port Moody Station Museum, and the first scheduled passenger train from the east reached the town on 4 July 1886. The railway then chose Vancouver as its terminus. Port Moody, which lies in Port Moody-Burquitlam, was incorporated as a city on 11 March 1913.

When did Anmore and Belcarra become villages?

BC Geographical Names records that Belcarra was incorporated as a village municipality on 22 August 1979 and Anmore on 7 December 1987. Both villages lie in Port Moody-Burquitlam. The Village of Anmore's history says a 1978 regional plan for 15,000 residents by 1988 led its residents to seek incorporation, and that a study in 1985 found it workable.

Where does the name Burquitlam come from?

BC Geographical Names says Burquitlam comes from the positions of two adjoining municipalities, Coquitlam and Burnaby, and was made up to provide a post office. The Burquitlam Post Office opened on 1 October 1906. Burquitlam is the Coquitlam neighbourhood in the south of Port Moody-Burquitlam, and the district takes the second half of its name from it.

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Figures read Thursday, October 8, 2026
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