Greenwood, British Columbia

Greenwood is Canada's smallest incorporated city, a former copper-mining and smelter town on Crowsnest Highway 3 in the Boundary Country of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, incorporated in 1897 and known for its heritage buildings, its Japanese Canadian internment history and its award-winning "Greenwood Gold" drinking water. The City runs City Hall at 202 South Government Avenue, property taxes and quarterly water, sewer and garbage utility bills, its own water and sewer systems, roads and snow plowing, business and dog licences, bylaw enforcement under its Good Neighbour Bylaw, the Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department, the Greenwood Municipal Pool, the Nikkei Legacy Park campground, Greenwood Cemetery and the McArthur Centre community hall run by the Greenwood Community Association. The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary runs curbside garbage, organics and recycling collection, the West Boundary Landfill, building permits and the regional emergency program; BC Transit's Boundary system links Greenwood with Grand Forks; the RCMP police the city; health care is Interior Health's Boundary Hospital in Grand Forks; schools are School District 51 Boundary; and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.