The Regional District of Bulkley–Nechako (RDBN) is a
regional district in the
Canadian province
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of
British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2016
census, the
population was 37,896. The
area is 73,419.01 square kilometres. The regional district offices are in
Burns Lake
Burns Lake is a rural village in the North-western-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, incorporated in 1923. The village had a population of 1,779 as of the 2016 Census.
The village is known for its rich First Nations heritage, and ...
.
Its geographical components are the
Bulkley Valley, the northern part of the
Nechako Country, and the
Omineca Country, including portions of the
Hazelton Mountains and
Omineca Mountains in the west and north of the regional district, respectively. The dominant landform is the
Nechako Plateau. Neighbouring regional districts are the
Kitimat-Stikine,
Central Coast,
Cariboo
The Cariboo is an intermontane region of British Columbia, Canada, centered on a plateau stretching from Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains. The name is a reference to the caribou that were once abundant in the region.
The Cariboo was the ...
,
Fraser-Fort George, and
Peace River Regional Districts; on its north the boundary with the southern edge of the remote
Stikine Region
The Stikine Region is an unincorporated area in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is the only area in the province that is not part of a regional district. The Stikine Region was left unincorporated following legislation that establishe ...
is separated from the Bulkley–Nechako Regional District by the
56th parallel north. The boundaries of the regional district near-entirely coincide with the territory of the
Dakelh or Carrier peoples, and also some of that of the
Dunneza (Beaver), but their reserves and governments lie outside the regional district system. Roughly identical in area to the old
New Caledonia fur district in the days of the
North West Company
The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in what is present-day Western Canada and Northwestern Ontario. With great weal ...
, it is still sometimes referenced as New Caledonia, but while trapping continues in some area, its economy is now based in forestry, mining, tourism (mostly ranching in southern areas).
Municipalities
Demographics
As a
census division
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in the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
References
Statistics Canada 2016 Community Profile: Bulkley–Nechako (Regional district)
External links
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Bulkley-Nechako
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