Boroughs of Vancouver

The City of Vancouver, the most populous lower-tier municipality in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) and Western Canada, and the third-most populous in Canada, as well as the economic and cultural centre of the Lower Mainland and by extension the rest of Southern BC, consists of 17 boroughs. While the municipal corporation responsible for Vancouver handles the great majority of civic services, from roads, electricity and other infrastructure to libraries, public schools and parks, the 17 boroughs each have their own borough council which consists of 10 to 20 members elected by their borough's residents.

The primary function of the borough councils and by extension the boroughs is local accountability: each borough council elects one of its members as borough councillor. In addition to opening, presiding over, moderating and closing borough council sessions (which typically meet weekly), a borough councillor is also responsible for attending meetings of the Vancouver City Hall, and either bringing to the meeting otherwise unaddressed issues affecting the councillor's borough, bringing back to the borough council information on plans and decisions from city hall, or both. For example, if the municipal government was planning the development of a highway or other piece of major infrastructure infrastructure which would seriously disrupt the quality of life of a borough's population, the borough council would call upon its councillor to clearly oppose the project to city hall.

List of boroughs

 * 1) Downtown Vancouver
 * 2) Downtown Eastside
 * 3) West End
 * 4) Strathcona
 * 5) Commercial Corridor
 * 6) Hastings–Sunrise
 * 7) West Broadway
 * 8) Mount Pleasant
 * 9) Kitsilano
 * 10) Point Grey
 * 11) South Granville
 * 12) Cambie Village
 * 13) Shaughnessy
 * 14) Joyce–Collingwood
 * 15) Nanaimo
 * 16) Oakridge
 * 17) Arbutus