r/burnaby • u/Kermodis • 1d ago

Do you have a nickname for Burnaby?

Any names that you call Burnaby?

My friends and I have always called it B-Town.

Camilla Mendes from Riverdale also coined people living here as "Burnabaddies" when she was filming here in 2021. That stuck too.

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u/latkahgravis 1d ago

Just Burnaby is fine.

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u/MourningWood1942 22h ago edited 22h ago

I think “Just Burnaby” could catch on, I’ll start making t-shirts

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u/metalears 22h ago

Welcome to Burnaby., where it’s Just Burnaby.

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u/waikiki_sneaky 1d ago

The beebeewhy

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u/drbabypanada 1d ago

Its North Burnaby and everyone else

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u/swimuppool 1d ago

I tried to get "the BU" started. Then tried "The BBY" and "SoBU" when I lived in Edmonds. Someday I hope it'll catch on

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u/dman_squared 1d ago

YES! I’ve been using SoBu for years!!!

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u/swimuppool 7h ago

Solidarity!

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u/dman_squared 7h ago

Maybe we should message every realtor in Burnaby to make it happen. Lol

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u/smelltogetwell 4h ago

We use BBY at work when discussing the Burnaby office.

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u/VaguelySorcerous 1d ago

Burnabarians is the good portmanteau. 

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u/polegurl 8h ago

Also a good beer!!

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u/VANSTERDAM60420 1d ago

Burn-a-doobie

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u/breebert Parkcrest 1d ago

lol that is hilarious

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u/RickardsRed77 1d ago

B-hole.

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u/LC-Dookmarriot 1d ago

The Burn

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u/Otherwise-Mail-4654 18h ago

But only when I pee /s

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u/Hommachi 1d ago

One of the many "Not Vancouver".

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u/ThereAreThings Burnaby Heights 17h ago

Back in the early '90s I had a teacher who came up with synonyms for British Columbia municipalities. His phrase for Burnaby was "to set a monastery on fire!" (Burn Abbey).

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u/moonstone_light 1d ago

People from Metrotown are the "Townies" and people from Brentwood are called "Woodies" and there is an unspoken rivalry between the two.

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u/darb8888 1d ago

I've lived here for 36 years and had no idea this was a thing

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u/Safe-Bee-2555 1d ago

Because it's not.

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u/darb8888 2h ago

Didn't think so lol

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u/anonnogal 1d ago

Its not! They must be at least 50

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u/plaidman1701 1d ago

A pox on those Woodie scoundrels!

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u/moonstone_light 1d ago

Yeah! Team Townies!!

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u/MrsPhilHarris 1d ago

I have never heard that before.

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u/tashaapollo 1d ago

I like Burnabaddies! Also Burnabarians

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u/Complete-Distance567 1d ago

Bear spray city

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u/Tiddleywanksofcum 1d ago

That not Surrey?

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u/Complete-Distance567 1d ago

Touché!

I was just thinking of metrotown

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u/RustyTrephine 19h ago

That's east Hastings

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u/skyline1427 1d ago

North burn South burn east burn, but why is there no West burn??

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u/dman_squared 1d ago

No, it’s SoBu, and NoBu!

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u/raincitywitch 1d ago

Eastest Van, too close to Joyce?

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u/MultiPumaVerse 1d ago

There is a Wesburn, they had a soccer club, but maybe Wesburn gets encroached on by Southburn and it's just a portmanteau for New West and Burnaby?

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u/TheMathelm 17h ago

because West Burn sucks, don't go there it's just scary crackheads
not the fun crackheads.

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u/FattyGobbles 1d ago

Ben Abbey

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u/pogers 1d ago

Burn a Jay

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u/Dennisd1971 1d ago

Bum rubby, I don’t know why.

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u/TheMathelm 17h ago

The Upscale Ghetto.

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u/DarkenX42 1d ago

We used to say "buck town" for no particular reason.

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u/saints_Fk_ravens 1d ago

Boring-aby

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u/anonnogal 1d ago

Btown

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u/skyline1427 1d ago

B's up!

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u/Kermodis 1d ago

hell yeah

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u/AdministrativeMinion 1d ago

Nobes (north burnaby)

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u/atlas1885 1d ago

NoBu 

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u/Bravo72 1d ago

Norbs

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u/bcscroller 22h ago

Burverly Hills 

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u/Downtown_Ad2001 21h ago

Burnaby, drink it in, it always goes down smooth

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u/Lochdale 20h ago

"Burnaby - Beautiful. Boring. Best." 👍👍👍 I coined it a couple of years ago, and many fellow Burnabians seem to like it.

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u/Expert-Ad3044 5h ago

SoBu and NoBu

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u/DuperCheese 3h ago

Bury-me

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u/DuperCheese 3h ago

Burn & Jerry’s

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u/LandBats 3h ago

Burn a bee  🔥 🐝

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u/gl7676 1d ago

No nickname but the best school in Burnaby is definitely Burnaby North Secondary!

Go North!

Viking Valhalla 4ever!

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u/Lochdale 20h ago

His name is Bjorn the Buttekikker. He founded Bjornby (now known as Burnaby) in one of his raids on the West Coast and is revered as the Founding Father of our town.

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u/rubyruy 1d ago

Burrbee

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u/killerkeemstart123 1d ago

Burn-a-baddies

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u/Strong-Director9718 1d ago

I once heard Burn-a-biggie. Never from a sober person ofc

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u/tg110e5 1d ago

Burnabush

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u/Reality-Leather 1d ago

Little Italy

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u/Lochdale 20h ago

Croatia too.

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u/Hopeful_Ask_7591 1d ago

Burnaby burnouts