The Kootenay Land District is a

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subdivision of the province of

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, created with rest of those on Mainland British Columbia via the Lands Act of the

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in 1860. The British Columbia government's

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system, a subdivision of

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, defines a land district as "a territorial division with legally defined boundaries for administrative purposes" All land titles and surveys use the Land District system as the primary point of reference, and entries in BC Names for placenames and geographical objects are so listed.

Description

The land district comprises all those parts of the

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and

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basins in the southeast corner of the province, excepting the drainages of the

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, Granby,

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and Kettle Rivers, i.e. all those sub-basins of the Columbia on the west and south of the summit-line of the

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. Also not in the land district is the northernmost part of the Columbia's basin, north of

Boat Encampment Boat Encampment is a ghost town in the East Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The locality was at the tip of the Big Bend on the north shore of the Columbia River. The general vicinity, on the former Big Bend Highway, was by road a ...

and

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, northwest of which is the

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. To the Kootenay Land District's west is the

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, which includes the Kamloops-Shuswap, Okanagan and Boundary Country regions of the province. While most land districts are primarily defined by lines of latitude and longitude and survey parcel boundaries, the boundaries of the Kootenay Land District are near-entirely the summit-line of the encasing mountain ranges, namely the aforementioned Monashee Mountains on the west, and the border with Alberta along the line of the

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British Columbia Online Cadastre
To use this system to view Land District boundaries, pan or zoom to the approximate location, or use

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to pick a Land District by name. Open

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tab along dark blue navigation bar, then open the Administrative Boundaries folder and select "Land Districts (outlined)", also click "pointer" (will highlight turquoise). To substantially speed up refresh time, deselect Survey Parcels, cadastral fabric (etc) that might be part of the default suite; to remove the distracting map grid, open the Base Map folder and deselect "Grids". Whenever you make a change to the base, scroll to bottom of folders list and efresh Mapor select utomatically Refresh Map/ref>

References

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