White Rock, British Columbia

White Rock is a small seaside city of about five square kilometres on Semiahmoo Bay, on the unceded territory of the Semiahmoo First Nation, surrounded by Surrey in Metro Vancouver. The City runs City Hall at 15322 Buena Vista Avenue, property taxes, its own water utility (eight wells, a treatment plant and quarterly metered bills, City-owned since 2015), the sewer and drainage pipes, roads and snow routes, a hand-collected curbside garbage and Green Can program for houses and small residential buildings, dog licences, bylaw enforcement and parking (pay parking on the waterfront and resident permits), building permits and business licences, the pier and promenade, parks and the recreation centres, and White Rock Fire Rescue. Metro Vancouver treats the sewage and runs the regional transfer stations; Recycle BC's Blue Box, Red Box and Yellow Bag program is collected by City crews under contract; the White Rock RCMP detachment polices the city; TransLink runs the buses; the library is the Fraser Valley Regional Library's White Rock branch; Peace Arch Hospital is Fraser Health's; schools are Surrey Schools (School District 36); and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.