The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District is a quasi-municipal administrative area in
British Columbia
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, Canada. It stretches from
Britannia Beach in the south to
Pavilion in the north.
Lillooet,
Pemberton,
Whistler and
Squamish are the four municipalities in the regional district. Its administrative offices are in the
Village of Pemberton, although the
district municipalities of Squamish and Whistler are larger population centres. The district covers 16,353.68 km² (6,314.19 sq mi) of land area.
The southern end of the regional district comprises the northern part of the traditional territory of the
Squamish people, and the northern half constitutes the traditional homeland of the
St'at'imc people.
Demographics
As a
census division in the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional 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.
Communities
Incorporated municipalities
Electoral Areas
Squamish-Lillooet Electoral Area A, British Columbia
Electoral Area A comprises the basin of the
Bridge River valley above its confluence with the
Yalakom River The Yalakom River is a tributary of the Bridge River, which is one of the principal tributaries of the Fraser River, entering it near the town of Lillooet, British Columbia
Lillooet () is a district municipality in the Squamish-Lillooet region o ...
at
Moha. The only towns in the area are
Bralorne,
Gold Bridge and
Brexton. Other communities or localities include
Gun Lake,
Tyaughton Lake and Gun Creek Road.
Population as of 2016 Canadian Census: 186
Squamish-Lillooet Electoral Area B, British Columbia
Electoral Area B comprises the basin of the Bridge River below its confluence with the Yalakom River at
Moha, the valley of Seton and Anderson Lakes (excepting D'Arcy), and the rest of the upper portion of the SLRD surrounding Lillooet and adjoining parts of the Fraser Canyon. Communities include
McGillivray Falls McGillivray may refer to:
People
* McGillivray (surname)
Places
* McGillivray Creek (British Columbia), a creek in the Lillooet Country of British Columbia
** McGillivray, British Columbia (formerly McGillivray Falls) in the Lillooet Country of ...
,
Seton Portage,
Shalalth
Shalalth and South Shalalth are unincorporated communities on the northern shore near the western end of Seton Lake in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. The localities are by road about northwest of Lillooet, but o ...
,
Texas Creek,
Bridge River (meaning Moha and the lower Bridge River communities),
West Pavilion
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Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some R ...
,
Pavilion and
Fountain and
Fountain Valley.
Population as of 2016 Canadian census: 363
Squamish-Lillooet Electoral Area C, British Columbia
Electoral Area C comprises the
Pemberton and
Gates Valleys and the valley of the
Green River north of Whistler. Communities include
Pemberton Meadows,
Mount Currie,
Owl Creek,
Birken,
Devine,
D'Arcy, and
McGillivray (formerly McGillivray Falls).
Population as of 2016 Canadian Census: 1663
Squamish-Lillooet Electoral Area D, British Columbia
Electoral Area D comprises the valleys of the
Cheakamus and
Squamish Rivers and the Sea-to-Sky Corridor south to the SLRD boundary on Howe Sound. Communities include
Britannia Beach,
Woodfibre
Woodfibre, originally Britannia West, was a pulp mill and at one time a small company town, on the west side of upper Howe Sound near Squamish, British Columbia. The mill closed in March 2006.
History
In 1912, a mill opened at the site where Mil ...
,
Furry Creek
Furry Creek is a community in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on Howe Sound in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, north of Vancouver and south of Squamish.
History
The creek was named in the 1870s after early prospect ...
, the Pinecrest and Black Tusk subdivisions nearer Whistler and the uninhabited former recreational settlement of
Garibaldi
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as ''Gioxeppe Gaibado''. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as ''Jousé'' or ''Josep''. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, pat ...
.
Population as of 2016 Canada Census: 1057
References
;Notes
;Sources
Community Profile: Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia; Statistics Canada*
External links
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Squamish-Lillooet
Southern Interior of British Columbia
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