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The Kitimat Valley is part of the most populous urban district in northwest British Columbia, which includes Terrace to the north along the Skeena River Valley. The city was planned and built by the Aluminum Company of Canada during the 1950s. Its post office was approved on 6 June 1952. [4] Kitimat's municipal area is 242.63 km 2 (93.68 sq mi ...
The Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine is a local government administration in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. [3] As of the 2021 Canadian census, it had a population of 37,790 living on a land area of 104,307.25 km 2 (40,273.25 sq mi). [2] Its administrative offices are in the city of Terrace.
Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia. As of 2024, British Columbia has 161 municipalities, [1] out of which 53 are classified as cities. [2] According to the 2021 Canadian census, British Columbia is the third most populous province in Canada, with 5,000,879 inhabitants, and the second largest province by land area, covering 920,686.55 square kilometres (355,479.06 square miles).
A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km 2. [1]
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Stikine Region had a population of 683 living in 386 of its 667 total private dwellings, a change of -7.7% from its 2016 population of 740. With a land area of 118,408.76 km 2 (45,717.88 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.0/km 2 (0.0/sq mi) in 2021. [6]
Kitimat-Stikine, Skeena-Queen Charlotte, Stikine, Bulkley-Nechako, Central Coast: Census subdivision(s) ... Total population 89,689 100% 88,920 100% 90,586
The population figures refer in the most cases to the respective municipality within its political boundaries, excluding politically independent suburbs. For Chinese cities, the urban population (urban settlement) of the respective city is given at prefecture, county or district level, which usually include large rural areas.
Regional districts came into being via an order of government in 1965 with the enactment of amendments to the Municipal Act. [1] Until the creation of regional districts, the only local form of government in British Columbia were incorporated municipalities, and services in areas outside municipal boundaries had to be sought from the province or through improvement districts.