Daycare Near Lincoln Park, Port Coquitlam

Daycare in Lincoln Park: Where We Fit on Your Map

Looking for daycare in Lincoln Park? Love Kids Daycare Coquitlam sits at 3007 Pasture Cir, a short drive south down Coast Meridian Road from the Lincoln Park core. We are licensed, ECE-certified, and open Monday to Friday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm. Ages 3 and up are open for September enrollment right now. Under-3 spots are full and running on a waitlist.

Lincoln Park is a north-side Port Coquitlam neighbourhood, not the City of Coquitlam proper. The boundary runs right along the neighbourhood edge and Coast Meridian Road is the corridor that stitches the two cities together. Because our daycare sits just south of that boundary, Lincoln Park families end up inside a normal drop-off radius even though our address reads Coquitlam. On a search for "daycare Coquitlam near me" from a Prairie Avenue home, we are one of the closest licensed centres you will get.

What Lincoln Park Actually Looks Like

Lincoln Park reads like a mature family neighbourhood. Most homes are single-family detached built between the 1970s and the 1990s, many with large yards, full basements, and suite potential. Townhomes run roughly $750K to $950K in early 2025, detached sat in the $1.1M to $1.4M range around the same time. The block pattern is wide streets and cul-de-sacs, mature trees overhead, mountain views in the frame.

The main artery is Coast Meridian Road along the west and south edge of the neighbourhood, lined with restaurants, bars, and coffee shops. Prairie Avenue runs west to east through the middle of Lincoln Park. The Prairie and Coast Meridian intersection is the local shopping hub with groceries, coffee, and dental offices in walking distance. Big-box shopping is 5 to 10 minutes away at Riverwood, where Costco, Save-On Foods, Walmart, and Home Depot cluster. Coquitlam Centre Mall is about 15 minutes down the road.

The neighbourhood pitch is young families, first-time buyers, and long-time locals side by side. Families gravitate here for the school density and the cul-de-sac layout.

How Close Is Love Kids Daycare to Lincoln Park?

From most parts of Lincoln Park you are looking at a 10 to 15 minute drive. Head south down Coast Meridian Road out of the neighbourhood, cross into Coquitlam, then turn into the Pasture Cir residential circle. There are no highway merges and no complicated turns. It is a residential corridor the whole way.

If your morning ends at Port Coquitlam Station for the West Coast Express, or on bus 160 heading to Coquitlam Central SkyTrain, dropping your child off on Pasture Cir first fits inside that same trip. You are not doubling back. You are moving in the direction you were already going.

Schools Lincoln Park Kids Grow Into

The K to 5 catchment for the Lincoln Park and Cedar Drive area is Cedar Drive Elementary at 3150 Cedar Drive, Port Coquitlam. That is the elementary school most of the kids in your daycare cohort will start at. From there they move up to Minnekhada Middle School at 1390 Laurier Avenue for grades 6 to 8. Minnekhada sits right on Coast Meridian Road, a three-minute walk from the southbound Coast Meridian bus stop at Laurier, so it is easy to plan around for older siblings. Grade 9 through 12 is Terry Fox Secondary. Families who want the francophone track use Ecole des Pionniers as the French immersion option in the area.

The reason this matters for daycare is simple: our preschool program is built around kindergarten readiness for the exact schools your child will feed into. Letter recognition, listening in a group, small-motor work, and the social pattern of "listen, take turns, contribute" that a Cedar Drive kindergarten class expects on day one.

Parks and Places Lincoln Park Kids Already Know

Evergreen Park sits inside Lincoln Park with a playground, soccer field, and basketball and tennis courts. Sun Valley Park is the second family park in the neighbourhood, with a playground and tennis courts of its own. Hyde Creek Recreation Centre is the nearest civic rec facility, and it is a real one at 55,000 square feet with a lap pool, leisure pool, water slide, sauna, climbing wall, gym, and racquetball and squash courts. Between those three, most Lincoln Park families already have a weekly rhythm of park time and rec time before their child ever walks into daycare.

We plan our outdoor and gross-motor time to line up with that rhythm. Kids come to us used to running, kicking, climbing, and being outside, so the transition into a structured daycare day feels natural instead of jarring.

Why Lincoln Park Families Pick a Licensed Daycare Just South of the Line

We have been running this daycare for over 16 years. Every staff member holds an ECE diploma. That is a firm hire requirement, not a preference. We are licensed under the BC Child Care Licensing Regulation, which sets provincial standards for staffing, ratios, safety, and programming, and we are inspected on a regular schedule.

Ratios are kept low on purpose. Under 3, BC licensing caps us at three children total, so those three seats get one-to-one style attention. In the 3 to 5 room, the numbers stay tight enough that every child gets responded to when they ask a question. We send daily updates to parents so you know how your child ate, how they slept, what they worked on, and how they were feeling. Downtown Vancouver commuter or Riverwood-shift worker, you get the same rundown either way.

We also accept the BC Affordable Child Care Benefit. Lincoln Park is a real mix of first-time buyers and long-time locals, and a good number of families qualify for a meaningful monthly reduction without realising it. We help you figure out the paperwork when you come in for a tour.

Programs for Lincoln Park Families

• Preschool for ages 3 to 5 built around Cedar Drive Elementary kindergarten expectations. Early literacy, group listening, and social routines your child will need on day one.
• Full-day daycare for parents on a West Coast Express or bus 160 SkyTrain commute. Doors open at 7:30 am, close at 5:30 pm.
• Family daycare for a smaller, home-like group. A good fit for Lincoln Park families whose child does better in a quieter mixed-age room than a big centre floor.
• Group daycare in the 3 to 5 room with ECE-certified educators and structured play-based learning.
• Subsidized child care using the BC Affordable Child Care Benefit. We walk you through the application.

Childcare in Lincoln Park

Every Lincoln Park family who enrolls here gets a real credential stack behind the care. Sixteen-plus years in operation. Every educator holds an ECE diploma. Our licence caps the under-3 room at three children and the 3-to-5 room stays intentionally small. Kids leave here with the social base that Cedar Drive Elementary kindergarten expects, and with Health Canada safe-sleep routines built in from the very first nap.

Infant Daycare Near Lincoln Park

Infant daycare near Lincoln Park is tight right now. BC licensing lets us take three children under 3 at 3007 Pasture Cir, and all three seats are held. Get your name on the waitlist and we will call the moment a spot opens up. Every infant slot follows Health Canada safe-sleep positioning, and your baby stays with the same ECE-certified caregiver the whole day rather than being rotated between rooms.

Getting Here from Lincoln Park

From anywhere in Lincoln Park, head to Coast Meridian Road. Turn south. Follow Coast Meridian across the Port Coquitlam-Coquitlam boundary and stay on it as the road runs through residential Coquitlam. Turn into Pasture Cir. Number 3007 is ours. The whole route is residential streets. There are no expressway sections and no left-turns across a highway.

If Prairie Avenue is your usual east-west run to Port Coquitlam Station, treat the daycare drop as a pre-Prairie stop. Coast Meridian south to us, then back up to Prairie to catch the train. Adds a few minutes to the morning, but keeps you inside your normal Tri-Cities commute geometry. Port Coquitlam is 27 km east of downtown Vancouver on the north bank where the Fraser and Pitt Rivers meet, and the West Coast Express runs five trains each direction on weekdays into Waterfront.

First time in? Call (604) 338-8020 and we will guide you in. Pasture Cir is quiet enough that street parking outside the door is basically always available.

Questions Lincoln Park Parents Ask Us

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We'd Love to Meet Your Family

Lincoln Park is a real family neighbourhood. Mountain views over the cul-de-sacs, kids on the playground at Evergreen Park, weekend swims at Hyde Creek. Our daycare tries to feel the same way.

Call (604) 338-8020 to book a free tour. We are open Monday to Friday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm. Come see the rooms, meet the ECE-certified team, and ask everything on your mind.