The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) is a local government federation, consisting of four municipalities in

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Lillooet Lillooet () is a district municipality in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. The town is on the west shore of the Fraser River immediately north of the Seton River mouth. On BC Highway 99, the locality is by road abo ...

, Pemberton, Whistler and Squamish. It stretches from

Britannia Beach Britannia Beach ( Sḵwx̱wú7mesh: Shisháyu7áy, ) is a small unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District located approximately 55 kilometres north of Vancouver, British Columbia on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sou ...

in the south to

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in the north. 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

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, and the northern half constitutes the traditional homeland of the St'at'imc people.

Demographics

As a

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in the

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conducted by

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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. *Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.

Communities

Incorporated municipalities

Electoral Areas

Squamish-Lillooet Electoral Area A, British Columbia

Electoral Area A comprises the basin of the

Bridge River The Bridge River is an approximately long river in southern British Columbia. It flows south-east from the Coast Mountains. Until 1961, it was a major tributary of the Fraser River, entering that stream about six miles upstream from the town of L ...

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. In frontier times it was also known as the North Fork of the Bridge Riv ...

at Moha. The only towns in the area are

Bralorne Bralorne ( ) is a historic Canadian gold mining community in the Bridge River District of British Columbia, some 130 km on dirt roads west of the town of Lillooet Lillooet () is a district municipality in the Squamish-Lillooet region o ...

Gold Bridge Gold Bridge is an unincorporated community in the Bridge River Country of British Columbia, Canada. Although numbering only around 40 inhabitants, Gold Bridge is the service and supply centre for the upper basin of the Bridge River Valley, whic ...

and Brexton. Other communities or localities include Gun Lake,

Tyaughton Lake Tyaughton Lake, also known as Tyax Lake, is a lake in the Bridge River Country of the West-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located to the north of Carpenter Lake, a reservoir along the Bridge River formed by Terzaghi Dam of the Br ...

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,

Seton Portage Seton Portage () is a community on a narrow strip of land between Anderson Lake and Seton Lake in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia. The community is home to two Seton Lake First Nation communities at either end of the porta ...

Shalalth Shalalth and South Shalalth are unincorporated communities on the northern shore near the western end of Seton Lake in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. The localities are by roa ...

, Texas Creek,

(meaning Moha and the lower Bridge River communities), West Pavilion,

and

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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 Pemberton Meadows is an unincorporated community on the west shore of the Lillooet River in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. On Pemberton Meadows Road, the locality is by road about north of Vancouver, north of W ...

, 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 River The Squamish River is a short but very large river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its drainage basin is in size. The total length of the Squamish River is approximately . Course The Squamish River drains a complex of basins in the ...

s and the Sea-to-Sky Corridor south to the SLRD boundary on Howe Sound. Communities include

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, Squamish, British Columbia. The mill closed in March 2006. History In 1912, a mill ...

, Furry Creek, the Pinecrest and Black Tusk subdivisions nearer Whistler and the uninhabited former recreational settlement of

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. Population as of 2016 Canada Census: 1057

Notes

References

;Notes ;Sources
Community Profile: Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia; Statistics Canada
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