New Westminster (can)

New Westminster

New Westminster ranks 1,234th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Valletta, Alcalá de Henares, and Bitola. Memorable people born in New Westminster include Raymond Burr, Robert Langlands, and Nicholas Lea. Memorable people who died in New Westminster include Terry Fox. New Westminster has been the birth place of many actors, and athletes and the death place of many athletes. New Westminster is located in Canada.

New Westminster is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District. It was founded by Major-General Richard Moody as the capital of the Colony of British Columbia in 1858 and continued in that role until the Mainland and Island colonies were merged in 1866. It was the British Columbia Mainland's largest city from that year until it was passed in population by Vancouver during the first decade of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia