Internet and utilities
Gas, hydro, water, and waste are consistent. Internet is not — fibre is a per-unit, sometimes per-strata, question.
Utilities (the easy layer)
Electricity: BC Hydro. Burnaby is not in Fortis Electric territory.
Natural gas: FortisBC. Most original Greentree townhouses heat and make hot water with gas. Some owners have added heat pumps; that is a unit-level change and may need strata approval.
Water, sanitary sewer, storm: City of Burnaby.
Waste: City of Burnaby curbside garbage, recycling, and food scraps. Collection day is by address on the city website. Bulky items follow the city’s rules plus whatever your strata adds for common-property staging.
Internet (the messy layer)
Two physical networks reach almost every Burnaby street: TELUS (fibre or remaining copper) and Rogers (the former Shaw coaxial plant, sold as Ignite).
Resellers such as Lightspeed run on those same wires.
In a 1970s townhouse village, fibre-to-the-home is not automatic. TELUS often needs a common-property pull and a strata vote or council blessing. Neighbouring clusters on Garden Grove Drive can differ.
The atlas internet layer shows the typical picture: fibre-plus-cable on many north and central clusters, cable-first with fibre-to-confirm on some south and crescent pockets. Always check with your unit number.