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Peace River Regional District, British Columbia
The Peace River Regional District is a regional district in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The regional district comprises seven municipalities and four electoral areas. Its member municipalities are the cities of Fort St. John and Dawson Creek, the district municipalities of Tumbler Ridge, Chetwynd, Taylor, and Hudson's Hope, and the village of Pouce Coupe. The district's administrative offices are in Dawson Creek. The regional district also has four regional district electoral areas: B, C, D and E. Six Indian reserves and one Indian settlement are located within the regional district's boundaries, but are not governed by the regional district. Its modern boundaries were established on October 31, 1987, when the Peace River-Liard Regional District was divided in two. The separated northern territories became the Fort Nelson-Liard Regional District, now the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality. Located east of the Rockies, the regional district is charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsay Keh Dene First Nation
The Tsay Keh Dene First Nation is one of the Sekani bands of the Northern Interior of British Columbia. The territories, settlements, and reserves surround Williston Lake in the Omineca region of central British Columbia. The locations range from about north of Prince George to northwest of the city. Identity Tsay Keh Nay (Tsek'ehne) means "People of the Mountain". While navigating the Parsnip River in 1793, Alexander MacKenzie of the North West Company (NWC) made the first European contact with the Tsek'ehne. In 1824, Samuel Black of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), who made the first European exploration of the Finlay River headwaters, encountered three Tse Keh Nay groups. During the early fur trade, the Tse Keh Nay went from being the unnamed Indians of MacKenzie's journal to the Sicannies and Thecannies of Harmon's, Black's and Stuart's journals. Now known as the Sekani, the Tse Keh Nay are currently subdivided into the four First Nations and corresponding communitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Nelson-Liard Regional District
The Northern Rockies Regional Municipality (NRRM), formerly the Northern Rockies Regional District (NRRD), and before that the Fort Nelson–Liard Regional District, is a single-tier municipality in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Although described as a regional municipality in its official name, and existing on the same administrative level as a List of regional districts of British Columbia, regional district, it is actually classified as a district municipality. The NRRM's offices are located in Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Fort Nelson, formerly an incorporated town that amalgamated with the NRRD on February 6, 2009, to form the NRRM. With the Peace River Regional District as the southern part, it was the northern part of the Peace River-Liard Regional District, which was split into two on October 31, 1987. The NRRM lies on the east slope of the Canadian Rockies, Rocky Mountains and comprises approximately 10% of the total area of the province of British Columbia, en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peace River-Liard Regional District
Peace River-Liard Regional District was a regional district in northeastern British Columbia, spanning from Tumbler Ridge in the southwest to Lower Post on the northwest, in the angle of British Columbia's borders with Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Alberta. It was created on October 31, 1967, and split into Fort Nelson-Liard Regional District and the Peace River Regional District on October 31, 1987. The Fort Nelson-Liard Regional District was renamed the Northern Rockies Regional District, then made into the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality on May 26, 1999. See also *List of regional districts of British Columbia The Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia is divided into Regional district, regional districts as a means to better enable municipalities and rural areas to work together at a regional level. These divisions ... References {{coord, 56, 40, 00, N, 122, 45, 00, W, display=title, source:BCNames, name=Peace River-Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Settlement
An Indian settlement is a census subdivision outlined by the Canadian government Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada for census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ... purposes. These areas have at least 10 status Indian or non-status Indian people who live more or less permanently in the given area. They are usually located on Crown land owned by the federal or provincial government and have not been set apart for the use and the benefit of an Indian band, as is the case with Indian reserves. See also * Indian Land Claims Settlements * List of Indian settlements in Alberta * List of Indian settlements in Quebec References Census divisions of Canada First Nations in Canada {{FirstNations-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Reserves
In Canada, an Indian reserve () or First Nations reserve () is defined by the ''Indian Act'' as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." Reserves are areas set aside for First Nations, one of the major groupings of Indigenous peoples in Canada, after a contract with the Canadian state ("the Crown"), and are not to be confused with Indigenous peoples' claims to ancestral lands under Aboriginal title. Demographics Canada has designated 3,394 reserves for over 600 First Nations, as per the federal publication "Registered Indian Population by Sex and Residence, Indian Status is granted to members of a registered band who are eligible to live on these reserves. By 2020, reserves provided shelter for approximately half of these band members. Many reserves have no resident population; typically they are small, remote, non-contiguous pieces of land, a fact which has led many t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional District Electoral Area
This is a list of Regional District Electoral Areas in the province of British Columbia, Canada, sorted by regional district. These are unincorporated areas outside of municipal boundaries. {{TOC_Right Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District * Alberni-Clayoquot A, British Columbia * Alberni-Clayoquot B, British Columbia * Alberni-Clayoquot C, British Columbia * Alberni-Clayoquot D, British Columbia * Alberni-Clayoquot E, British Columbia * Alberni-Clayoquot F, British Columbia Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako * Bulkley-Nechako A, British Columbia * Bulkley-Nechako B, British Columbia * Bulkley-Nechako C, British Columbia * Bulkley-Nechako D, British Columbia * Bulkley-Nechako E, British Columbia * Bulkley-Nechako F, British Columbia * Bulkley-Nechako G, British Columbia Capital Regional District * Juan de Fuca Electoral Area * Saltspring Island Electoral Area * Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area Cariboo Regional District * Cariboo A, British Columbia * Cariboo B, British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pouce Coupe, British Columbia
The Village of Pouce Coupe (; French for "cut thumb") is a small town in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Peace River Regional District. It was originally named 'Pouskapie's Prairie', after the name of the local native band chief. The municipality is home to 792 residents.Statistics Canada ''2016 Census'', June 9, 2018. The community was settled by European immigrant Hector Tremblay in 1898. Tremblay, a French speaker, rendered 'Pouskapie's Prairie' into the nearest French words of similar sound. Pouce Coupe is approximately southeast of Dawson Creek along Highway 2. It is approximately northwest of the Alberta border along Highway 2. The village is at an elevation of in the Peace River Country. Pouce Coupe's main industries today are petroleum, agriculture, and tourism. Popular recreational activities in the area include cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, fishing, hiking, and hunting. The village claims to be "the pioneer capital of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson's Hope, British Columbia
Hudson's Hope is a district municipality in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, in the Peace River Regional District. Having been first settled along the Peace River in 1805, it is the third-oldest European-Canadian community in the province, although it was not incorporated until 1965. Most jobs in the economy are associated with the nearby W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Peace Canyon Dam, and timber logging. There is debate about the origin of Hudson's Hope's name. One theory derives the word "Hudson's" from the Hudson's Bay Company and "Hope" from the Scottish word "hope" meaning a "small enclosed valley". Another theory has the name derived from a prospector named Hudson who came to the area searching for gold.Peace Liard Employment Development Association. (October 1985). ''Peace Liard Economic Profile''. page 53. The District of Hudson's Hope slogan is the "Playground of the Peace". History Nomadic aboriginal Dene zaa tribes originally occupied the area. Alexander Macken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia
Tumbler Ridge is a district municipality in the foothills of the B.C. Rockies in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Peace River Regional District. With a population of 2,399 (2021) living in a townsite, the municipality encompasses an area of of mostly Crown land. The townsite is located near the confluence of the Murray River and Flatbed Creek and the intersection of Highway 52 and Highway 29 and includes the site of the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and Tumbler Ridge Airport. It is part of the Peace River South provincial electoral district and the Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies federal riding. Tumbler Ridge is a planned community with the housing and infrastructure construct built simultaneously in 1981 by the provincial government to service the coal industry as part of the British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation's Northeast Coal Development. In 1981, a consortium of Japanese steel mills agreed to purc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District Municipality
A district municipality is a designation for a class of municipalities found in several locations, including Canada, Lithuania, and South Africa. Canada British Columbia Under provincial law, municipalities in British Columbia are to be designated "district municipalities" on incorporation if the area to be incorporated is greater than and has an average population density of less than . Municipalities may be incorporated under different classifications under the direction of the province's lieutenant governor, as is the case with the District of North Vancouver. Nova Scotia A district municipality, also called a rural municipality, is one of three municipal types, along with towns and regional municipalities. District municipalities and county municipalities are further considered rural municipalities. The province's twelve district municipalities are referred to as municipal districts by Statistics Canada. Ontario Currently, only one district municipality exists i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
