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Marlborough, Burnaby

neighbourhood in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ85783959 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marlborough is a neighbourhood in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, located on the southern part of Burnaby. The neighbourhood is bounded by Dover Street, Royal Oak Avenue to the east, Kingsway to the south and Nelson Avenue to the west. It is from walking to Metropolis at Metrotown, making it an attractive area.

Description

The neighbourhood has mainly businesses on the southern part on Kingsway such as an IHOP and a 7-Eleven. Marlborough Ave runs from Kingsway and terminates at Marlborough Elementary School. The neighborhoods main housing consists, of Nelson Towers, and Horizon Towers.

Services

There is a Fire Station on Marlborough Avenue south of Kingsway.

The 110, and 144 run parallel on Nelson Avenue and provide service from Lougheed Station, and SFU to Metrotown respectively. The 119 and N19 Nightbus run on Kingsway. The 119 goes from Edmonds to Metrotown, while the N19 goes from Downtown to Surrey Central Station during late hours.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Marlborough, Burnaby” is neighbourhood in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Marlborough, Burnaby and neighbourhood, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 153-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Marlborough, Burnaby and neighbourhood is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “neighbourhood in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85783959. Authority coordinates are 49.228, -122.992. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marlborough, Burnaby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.