Burkeville, British Columbia

[1][2] With rubber shortages and restrictions on gasoline usage, the government considered the community essential in order to house the employees of the Boeing Aircraft Factory close to their workplace.

[4] The homes lacked lawns, garages, insulation, and furnaces, relying on wood or coal burning kitchen stoves for heat.

Initially, the Richmond Council was averse to absorbing the new village, due to concerns that pre-existing landowners would be saddled with an increased property tax to cover the costs of services required by Burkeville.

Subsequently, the city took possession of the neighbourhood's houses and committed to resurfacing the community's roads and building an elementary school.

[1] After the war, residents of Burkeville quickly began demanding an elementary school to accommodate their growing families and remove the need for children to be bused off of the island for education.

[citation needed] Burkeville is represented in Canadian census dissemination area 59153602, which covers the entirety of Sea Island.