Daycare near Harbour Place Coquitlam

Looking for daycare in Harbour Place? Love Kids Daycare Coquitlam is under 10 minutes south along Como Lake Avenue, licensed under BC's Child Care Licensing Regulation, and now enrolling ages 3 and up for September.

Harbour Place is a small central-Coquitlam pocket sitting between Harbour Chines to the west and Chineside to the east, and bordering Port Moody along St John Street to the north. The neighbourhood runs from St John Street down to Como Lake Avenue, which is the main east-west spine your family already uses every day. We sit at 3007 Pasture Cir in Ranch Park, one east-turn off that spine. If you can find Como Lake Village, you can find us.

Getting to Us from Harbour Place

From most parts of Harbour Place you head south to Como Lake Avenue, follow it east past Chineside to Mariner Way, and drop south-east into Ranch Park to 3007 Pasture Cir. Off-peak that is under 10 minutes. It is the same corridor the 151 Como Lake Ave bus traces between Burquitlam Station and Coquitlam Central via Clarke, Spuraway, Ranch Park, and Mariner, so the route is familiar territory even if you have never driven it.

Harbour Place commute patterns usually take one of three routes. North on St John Street to catch the Millennium Line at Moody Centre or Inlet Centre. South on Como Lake Avenue to Burquitlam Station. East on Como Lake to Coquitlam Central. In all three you are already on the road that goes past us. Dropping off before your SkyTrain does not add a real detour.

What Harbour Place Actually Feels Like

Harbour Place is quiet in a way that shows up in the numbers. AreaVibes puts the neighbourhood at a livability score of 92 out of 100, with crime running 76% lower than the BC average and the area rated family-friendly and safe at night. Population is small, roughly 1,772, and median age is 42.8. That is an established-family and older-family demographic, not a churn of renters.

Ownership sits at 84%. Median household income is around $146,478, well above the BC average. Housing is almost entirely detached single-family homes on larger lots, many backing greenbelt, some with views of Burke Mountain, the North Shore Mountains, and the Burrard Inlet. The families we get from Harbour Place tend to have bought for the long haul and are looking for childcare that matches, not something they will churn through in a year.

Weekends here revolve around Mundy Park at 641 Hillcrest Street, which is the largest park in Coquitlam. It has multiple playgrounds, an outdoor pool, a disc-golf course, Mundy Lake and Lost Lake, and a 5.5-km multi-use pathway that families walk with strollers. Como Lake Village Shopping Centre at 1960 Como Lake Avenue is the everyday amenity anchor, roughly 99,000 square feet anchored by No Frills and Shoppers Drug Mart with a produce shop, Starbucks, liquor store, sushi, Chinese food, and a pharmacy in the same lot. It is the version of a strip mall you actually use.

Head north across St John Street into Port Moody and you hit Rocky Point Park, which has a boat launch, pier, outdoor spray park and pool, walking trails along the Burrard Inlet, the Boathouse restaurant, and Rocky Point Ice Cream. St John's Street itself is a commercial strip of shops, restaurants, medical and financial services, and Brewers Row (four craft breweries) sits on the same corridor. Poirier Sport and Leisure Centre, with hockey, curling, swim, and fitness, is a short drive south. That is the geography Harbour Place kids grow up inside.

Schools Harbour Place Kids Feed Into

Catchment matters, and it drives when families start looking for us. Harbour Place sits in the Harbour View Elementary catchment for K-5. Harbour View is at 960 Lillian Street, Coquitlam V3J 5C7, phone 604-936-1494, with office hours 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. It is a standard SD43 K-5 catchment school for west Coquitlam, no specialty programs.

From there, Harbour Place kids feed into Como Lake Middle or Hillcrest Middle for grades 6-8, then Dr Charles Best Secondary or Centennial Secondary for grades 9-12. That is the SD43 path most Harbour Place parents are planning around before their child even hits kindergarten. Our preschool room aligns to that path. We work on the readiness skills SD43 kindergarten teachers actually look for: circle time, sharing, name recognition, gross motor, and following two-step instructions. The neighbourhood's 91% high-school graduation rate tells you Harbour Place parents notice which parts of the day we spend on real learning versus glorified babysitting. We tell you.

Programs for Harbour Place Families

The typical Harbour Place family has two working parents, one or two young kids, a detached home with a yard, and a commute that either goes to a SkyTrain station or into Burnaby or Vancouver. That shapes what they need from a daycare. Long enough hours to cover a real workday, an ECE-trained team, and a program that actually prepares a child for kindergarten at Harbour View. Here is what we run:

• Preschool for ages 3 to 5 in the year or two before Harbour View kindergarten. Play-based, ECE-led, focused on the readiness skills SD43 teachers actually assess.
• Full-Day Daycare from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm Monday to Friday, sized for parents who commute out of Coquitlam.
• Family Daycare for mixed-age siblings who should stay in the same room. Common in Harbour Place's larger homes where families have two or three kids close in age.
• Group Childcare for the ages 3 to 5 group setting that gets your child comfortable in a peer group before kindergarten.
• Subsidized Child Care with BC Childcare Subsidy accepted. We will help you check whether you qualify.
• Infant Care and Toddler Care are on a waitlist right now. BC licensing caps us at three children under 3 and all three seats are held. Get on the list and we will call the moment one opens.

Questions Harbour Place Parents Ask

Nearby Areas We Also Serve

• Childcare in Harbour Chines
• Daycare near Chineside
• Central Coquitlam daycare
• Family daycare around Como Lake
• Ranch Park child care options

Come See the Space

Harbour Place is a neighbourhood where people move in and stay. If you are choosing daycare for a family that plans to stay put, you want a program with the same longevity. Sixteen years in Coquitlam, ECE-certified across the whole team, licensed the entire time. Call (604) 338-8020 and we will book you a tour Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm.