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Land-use framework regions are a scheme of organizing local governments adopted by the Canadian province of Alberta. Numbering seven in total, each land-use region is named for, and roughly follows the boundary of, a major watershed. Managed by Alberta Environment and Parks, the stated aims of the program are to create a venue for regionwide ...
Approximately 60% of land in Alberta is public land owned by the Alberta government. [7] For administrative purposes, the province is divided into two broad land use areas: the Green Area (forested land, almost entirely provincially owned) and the White Area (other). [7] The Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve was created by the Forest Reserves Act ...
Alberta is the fourth-most populous province in Canada with 4,262,635 residents as of 2021 Census of Population and is the fourth-largest in land area at 634,658 km 2 (245,043 sq mi). [1] Alberta's 344 municipalities cover 99.7% of the province's land mass and are home to 99% of its population.
Long before the Dominion Land Surveyor (DLS) first came into official existence in 1872, licensed surveyors known as provincial land surveyors had been functioning in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec (then called Canada West and Canada East) under an Act of 1849. Establishing a system of examination for new aspirants to the title of ...
The Red Deer Region is a land-use framework region in Alberta, Canada.One of seven in the province, each is intended to develop and implement a regional plan, complementing the planning efforts of member municipalities in order to coordinate future growth.
The town began as a makeshift harbour that was set up by Commodore of the Cape, Sir Markus Eugene Brown, during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. In 1902, Cathcart Methven, the harbour engineer for the Natal Government, in his Zululand Port Survey recognized the potential of Richards Bay as a new harbour for the eastern shore.
With a land area of 1,070.92 km 2 (413.48 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.5/km 2 (1.2/sq mi) in 2021. [ 2 ] In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the MD of Acadia No. 34 had a population of 493 living in 159 of its 184 total private dwellings, a -0.4% change from its 2011 population of 495.
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. [1] It stretches from the baseline out to 200 nautical miles (nmi) from its coast.