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Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District

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Capital
  
Prince Rupert

Province
  
British Columbia

Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District

Points of interest
  
Tow Hill, Museum of Northern British Co, Delkatla Wildlife Sanctuary, North Pacific Cannery, Pacific Mariners Memorial

Destinations
  
Prince Rupert, Gwaii Haanas National, Khutzeymateen Provincial Park, Haida Gwaii, Ninstints

The Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District is a quasi-municipal administrative area in British Columbia. It is located on British Columbia's west coast and includes Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands), the largest of which are Graham Island and Moresby Island. Its administrative offices are in the City of Prince Rupert.

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Map of Skeena-Queen Charlotte, BC, Canada

Description

  • Area: 19,716.14 km²
  • Population (2006): 19,664

    • Electoral areas

  • Area A - Skeena North: 29
  • Dodge Cove (unincorporated community): 29 (down from 52 in 2011)
  • Area C - Skeena South: 147
  • Oona River (unincorporated community): 147 (up from 37 in 2011)
  • Area D - Haida Gwaii North: 524
  • Rural Graham Island: 524 (down from 607 in 2006)
  • Tlell
  • Tow Hill
  • Lawn Hill
  • Miller Creek
  • Area E - Haida Gwaii South: 317
  • pop 2011 was 317, down from 402 in 2006
  • Sandspit (unincorporated community): 297 (down from 387 in 2006)

    • Municipalities

  • City of Prince Rupert: 12,815
  • Village of Queen Charlotte: 948
  • Village of Masset: 940
  • District of Port Edward: 557
  • Village of Port Clements: 440

    • Indian reserves

    In addition to 7,700 aboriginal persons listed in the regional district's community profile at Statistics Canada, there are four separate Indian reserve communities within the regional district whose populations are not included within the regional district's figures, and which are governed separately by their respective band governments. These Indian reserves are:

  • Old Massett (Masset Indian Reserve No. 1);
  • Skidegate (Skidegate Indian Reserve No. 1);
  • Metlakatla; and
  • Lax Kw'alaams (Port Simpson Indian Reserve No. 1).

    • References

    Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District Wikipedia
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