Port Coquitlam, British Columbia

Port Coquitlam ("PoCo") is a Metro Vancouver city of about 61,000 people between the Coquitlam and Pitt rivers and the Fraser River, east of Coquitlam, with the 25-kilometre Traboulay PoCo Trail around its edge. The City of Port Coquitlam runs planning and building permits, business and dog licences, Bylaw Services and animal control, roads, snow and ice control, water distribution and sewers, drainage pump stations and dikes, its own curbside green, blue and grey cart collection with glass bins, Port Coquitlam Fire and Emergency Services, emergency preparedness, parks, the Port Coquitlam Community Centre and Hyde Creek Recreation Centre, and the cemetery. Policing is the Coquitlam RCMP detachment, which also serves Coquitlam, Anmore and Belcarra, with two community police stations in the city. Metro Vancouver supplies the drinking water, treats the sewage, sets summer watering restrictions and runs the regional transfer stations; TransLink runs the buses and the West Coast Express; the Terry Fox Library is part of the Fraser Valley Regional Library; health care is Fraser Health; schools are School District 43; and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.