Port Moody, British Columbia

Port Moody is the "City of the Arts" at the head of Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver, between Burnaby and Coquitlam, on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. The City runs planning and building permits, business and dog licences, bylaw enforcement, roads and snow clearing, water distribution and sewers, curbside garbage, recycling, green waste and glass collection with bear-resistant carts, Port Moody Fire Rescue, emergency preparedness with Alertable, parks including Rocky Point Park and the Shoreline Trail, the Recreation Complex and Kyle Centre, Inlet Theatre and the Port Moody Public Library. Policing is the City's own Port Moody Police Department. Metro Vancouver supplies the drinking water, treats the sewage, sets summer watering stages and runs the regional transfer stations; TransLink runs the buses, the Millennium Line SkyTrain (Moody Centre and Inlet Centre stations) and the West Coast Express; health care is Fraser Health (Eagle Ridge Hospital); schools are School District 43; and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.