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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.
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 ...
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.
N.B. this category is only for articles pertaining to items under the jurisdiction of the regional district. For geographic locations, Indian Reserves, provincial parks and other subjects not related to regional district powers, please use other categories.
Regulatory capture is the process through which a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry it is meant to regulate. [2]
The area around Dease Lake, formerly in the Stikine Region, is now within the boundaries of the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine following a boundary amendment in 2008. [ 4 ] The Stikine Region has a total population of 740 (2016) [ 5 ] including 355 First Nations persons, most from the Taku Tlingit of Atlin and Teslin, British Columbia ...
As of the 2020 provincial election, Skeena comprises the southern portion of the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, with the exception of the southern tip of the region which is part of the North Coast electoral district. It is located in western British Columbia, with the northwest bordering Alaska, United States.
Bulkley Valley-Stikine is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada. The riding was known as Bulkley Valley-Stikine from its first creation in 1991 until the 2009 election. Following the Electoral Districts Act, 2008 , which came into effect upon the dissolution of the BC Legislature in April 2009, the riding was renamed Stikine .