The Cariboo Regional District spans the Cities and Districts of

Quesnel Quesnel or Quesnell means "little oak" in the Picard language, Picard dialect of French language, French. It is used as a proper name and may refer to: Places * Le Quesnel, a commune the Somme department in France * Quesnel, British Columbia, a c ...

, Williams Lake,

100 Mile House 100 Mile House is a district municipality located in the South Cariboo region of central British Columbia, Canada. History 100 Mile House was originally known as Bridge Creek House, named after the creek running through the area. Its origins ...

, and Wells in the Central Interior of

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Geography

The Cariboo Regional District (CRD) in the Central Interior of BC encompasses 80,252 square kilometers of land. The

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 (North America), caribou that were once abundant in the reg ...

and

Coastal A coast (coastline, shoreline, seashore) is the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake. Coasts are influenced by the topography of the surrounding landscape and by aquatic erosion, su ...

mountain ranges hug the CRD on its west and east side boundaries. The region straddles Highway 97 from

70 Mile House 70 Mile House is a community situated on Highway 97 in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. Its name is derived from its distance from Lillooet, which was Mile 0 of the Old Cariboo Road. Other examples of towns named by their distan ...

in the south to 5 km south of Hixon in the north. It belongs to the PDT/PST time zones.

Incorporated municipalities

* District Municipality of 100 Mile House * City of Quesnel * District Municipality of Wells * City of Williams Lake

Communities

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* Kersley * Red Bluff * Rich Bar

Other communities

* Alexis Creek * Anahim Lake * Horsefly * Lac La Hache * Likely * Lone Butte * McLeese Lake * Nazko * Nimpo Lake * Riske Creek * Tatla Lake * Forest Grove *

150 Mile House 150 Mile House (also referred to as "the 50") is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community of 1,172 people in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. It is located 15 km (9 mi) southeast of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Willia ...

Features and Amenities

The Cariboo Regional District provides region-wide library services, recreational facilities, and local fire protection.

Demographics

As a

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in the

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conducted by

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, the Cariboo 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.

Rural Representative Elections

Electoral directors

Twelve electoral area directors and four municipal directors govern the affairs of the Cariboo Regional District. The electoral area directors are elected by area voters, and municipal directors are appointed by their municipal council. All directors serve for a four-year term.

Electoral areas

Regional District Electoral Areas are A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L. Electoral areas have no administrative or governmental significance; they are used only to elect rural representatives to regional district boards.

Literature

The Cariboo District and 100 Mile House are featured prominently in Al Purdy's poem "The Cariboo Horses" to examine the tradition of equinity against human civilization.Christopher Wang, "Only Horses: Adventures in Time and Space."
Accessed 18.05.2014.

Notes

References

Community Profile: Cariboo Regional District, British Columbia; Statistics Canada

External links

* {{Coord, 52, 00, N, 122, 00, W, region:CA_type:adm2nd_source:GNS-enwiki, display=title Regional districts of British Columbia