The Regional District of Bulkley–Nechako (RDBN) is a
regional district in the
Canadian province
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of
British Columbia
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, Canada. As of the 2021 census, the
population
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was 37,737. The
area
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is 73,419.01 square kilometres. The regional district offices are in
Burns Lake
Burns Lake is a rural village in the British Columbia Interior, north-western-central interior of British Columbia, Canada, incorporated in 1923. The village had a population of 1,659 as of the 2021 Census.
The village is known for its rich F ...
.
Its geographical components are the
Bulkley Valley
The Bulkley Valley is in the northwest Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
Geography
The Bulkley, a stream running through Houston, British Columbia, joins the larger Morice River about to the west. At the confluence, they become no ...
, the northern part of the
Nechako Country, and the
Omineca Country
The Omineca Country, also called the Omineca District or the Omineca, is a historical geographic region of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, roughly defined by the basin of the Omineca River but including areas to the south which allowed ...
, including portions of the
Hazelton Mountains and
Omineca Mountains
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in the west and north of the regional district, respectively. The dominant landform is the
Nechako Plateau
The Nechako Plateau is the northernmost subdivision of the Interior Plateau, one of the main geographic regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It spans the basin of the Nechako River and its tributaries the Stuart River and Enda ...
. 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 (North America), caribou that were once abundant in the reg ...
,
Fraser-Fort George, and
Peace River Regional District
The Peace River Regional District is a regional district in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The regional district comprises seven municipalities and four electoral areas. Its member municipalities are the cities of Fort St. John and Da ...
s; 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 establi ...
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
The Dakelh (pronounced ) or Carrier are a First Nations in Canada, First Nations Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous people living a large portion of the British Columbia Interior, Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The Dakel ...
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
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, 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
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
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.
Notes
References
Statistics Canada 2016 Community Profile: Bulkley–Nechako (Regional district)
External links
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