Sechelt Indian Government District is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
Sunshine Coast region of southwest
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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. It was incorporated on March 17, 1988.
[ The district consists of 33 separate pieces of land, of which 32 are located within the ]Sunshine Coast Regional District
The Sunshine Coast Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the southern mainland coast, across Georgia Strait (part of the Salish Sea) from Vancouver Island. It borders on the qathet Regional Distri ...
and the remaining piece located within the Powell River Regional District.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada
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, the Sechelt Indian Government District 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.
See also
*List of communities in British Columbia
Communities in the province of British Columbia, Canada can include incorporated municipalities, Indian reserves, unincorporated communities or localities. Unincorporated communities can be further classified as recreational or urban.
Indian ...
*List of Indian reserves in British Columbia
The Government of Canada has established at least 316 reserves for First Nation band governments in its westernmost province of British Columbia. The majority of these reserves continue to exist while a number are no longer in existence.
See ...
*List of municipalities in British Columbia
British Columbia is the third-most populous province in Canada, with 5,000,879 residents as of 2021, and is the second-largest in land area, at . British Columbia's 161 municipalities cover only of the province's land mass yet are ho ...
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References
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Indian government districts in British Columbia
Shishalh
Former Indian reserves in British Columbia
Populated places in the Sunshine Coast Regional District