Ioco, an abbreviation of Imperial Oil Corporation,
is an area of
Port Moody,
British Columbia. It is located on the northern shore of the
Burrard Inlet. Ioco was originally a
townsite for an
Imperial Oil
Imperial Oil Limited (French: ''Compagnie Pétrolière Impériale Ltée'') is a Canadian petroleum company. It is Canada's second-biggest integrated oil company. It is majority owned by American oil company ExxonMobil with around 69.6 percent ...
refinery.
The refinery began operation in January 1915. By 1917, there were 200 people living in a shack town, which had a school and two grocery stores. The company wanted to buy land from the Federal government to build a townsite, but due to the land being a military reserve they refused. Instead they bought land from a private seller. The land was cleared and construction on houses began in 1920. In all there were 83 houses built. The townsite also had a grocery store, community hall, a tennis court and lawn bowling green, and two churches.
As of 2015, the Ioco townsite has been sold to a Vancouver developer.
References
Port Moody
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