North Vancouver, British Columbia

The City of North Vancouver is the compact, dense core of the North Shore, centred on Lonsdale Avenue and the Shipyards waterfront across Burrard Inlet from downtown Vancouver, on the territories of the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. It is a separate municipality from the much larger District of North Vancouver that surrounds it, and many services are shared across the North Shore: North Vancouver Recreation and Culture runs the recreation centres and Centennial Theatre for the City and District, North Shore Emergency Management covers all three North Shore municipalities, the North Vancouver RCMP detachment polices the City and District, and the North Shore Recycling and Waste Centre is Metro Vancouver's. The City itself runs planning and building permits, business and dog licences, Bylaw Services and animal control, roads and snow clearing, water distribution and sewers, curbside garbage and Green Can collection (Recycle BC's contractor collects recycling), the North Vancouver City Fire Department, parks and greenways, the North Vancouver City Library, the cemetery and Lonsdale Energy. Metro Vancouver supplies the water and treats the sewage, TransLink runs the buses and the SeaBus, health care is Vancouver Coastal Health (Lions Gate Hospital), and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.