The north shore is Port Moody's waterfront edge, a string of quiet streets along Ioco Road and Alderside Drive with the inlet at the bottom of the hill. Detached houses climb the slope, the heritage cottages of the old Ioco townsite sit at the far west end, and Shoreline Circle holds the pocket's one cluster of condos and townhouses.
There is no village here and nobody pretends otherwise. What there is is the beach, the trail, the trees and the quiet, with the city's shops and stations a short drive south down Ioco Road.
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801 to 839 Alexander Bay and 902 to 916 Britton Drive and 843 to 967 Blackstock Road and 860 to 891 Cunningham Lane
525 to 571 Ioco Road and 15 to 25 Mercier Road
Life on the north shore is built around the water and the woods. The beach and the trail do the daily work, and the shopping, coffee and services cluster where Ioco Road meets the centre, a few minutes south. Here is the honest shape of it.
No grocery store operates inside the pocket. The full shop sits at the foot of Ioco Road, Save-On-Foods at 221 Ioco with its pharmacy, open early to late, or Thrifty Foods across the inlet head in Suter Brook. Newport Village covers the small shop layer, the produce market, the fish shop and the butcher.
Coffee means the Starbucks in the 221 Ioco plaza, the Waves Coffee House inside the Recreation Complex, or Gallagher's over in Newport Village. Inside the residential pocket itself there is no cafe, and residents will tell you that is part of why they live here.
Services cluster at the same foot of Ioco Road, the plaza, the Recreation Complex and Newport Village just beyond it. Eagle Ridge Hospital sits a few minutes past the village by car. Banking runs through the village branches in Newport and Suter Brook.
Old Orchard Park is the pocket's front yard, a sandy swimming beach, playground and covered picnic shelter at the end of Alderside Drive. The Shoreline Trail starts here and runs about six kilometres of paved path and boardwalk along the inlet to Rocky Point Park. Old Mill Site Park adds a small beach and heron watching off San Remo Drive.
The Ioco townsite is the pocket's story. Imperial Oil built its refinery here in 1914 and a planned company town beside it in the early 1920s, houses, a hall, a store, a school and two churches. The townsite is now a designated heritage conservation area. Old Orchard Hall by the park runs city programs and rentals.
Ioco Road is the one road in and out, running from the townsite down to St. Johns Street. The 181 and 182 buses work the road and tie the pocket to Moody Centre Station, where SkyTrain and the West Coast Express run. Everything on this shore is measured by that one scenic drive.
Pleasantside Elementary
Kindergarten to grade 5, right here in the pocket on Barber Street. The catchment elementary for the townsite and Shoreline side of the pocket. The pocket's east edge runs the other way, Eagle Point on Lehman Place feeds Eagle Ridge Elementary in Coquitlam.
Eagle Mountain Middle
Grades 6 to 8. This pocket sits in a split catchment, some streets feed Eagle Mountain Middle up in Anmore beside Heritage Woods Secondary and others feed École Moody Middle on St. Johns, so the exact address decides it. Eagle Point addresses feed Scott Creek Middle in Coquitlam.
Heritage Woods Secondary
Grades 9 to 12, at the top of David Avenue. The catchment secondary for most of the pocket. Eagle Point on Lehman Place is the exception, it feeds Gleneagle Secondary in Coquitlam.
Catchments are set by School District 43 and they do shift over time. Before you buy on a school, confirm the exact address with the district school locator. And ask Lucas. He reads these catchments the way every parent here does, with his own kid in mind.
North shore homes trade on waterfront and quiet, and they rarely shout when they come up. Join the watch list for this pocket and Lucas will flag new north shore listings as they land, plus the ones that never make the public sites.