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Hudson's Hope is a district municipality in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, in the Peace River Regional District.Having been first settled along the Peace River in 1805, it is the third-oldest European-Canadian community in the province, although it was not incorporated until 1965.
Its total land area is 119,200.1 km 2 (46,023.42 sq mi), the largest regional district in British Columbia in area. (The Stikine Region is larger, but is not a regional district.) The total population reported in the 2006 census was 58,264 with 24,019 private dwellings, up from 55,080 people in 2001.
The West Moberly First Nations used to be part of the Hudson Hope Band, but in 1977 the band split becoming the modern-day Halfway River First Nation and West Moberly First Nations. [ 7 ] The Nation is located on the West Moberly Lake 168A [ 1 ] reserve, at the west end of Moberly Lake , about 90 km (56 mi) southwest of Fort St. John , within ...
District municipalities in British Columbia Name Corporate name Regional district [6] Incorporation date [6] Council size [8] 2021 Census of Population [3] Population (2021) Population (2016) Change (%) Land area Population density 100 Mile House: 100 Mile House, District of: Cariboo: July 27, 1965: 5: 1,928 1,918 +0.52%: 53.01 km 2: 36.4 /km 2 ...
Hudson's Hope, a frontier town, was one of the communities in which many of the non-resident workers found a home; during the project, the population of Hudson's Hope rose from 800 to over 5,000 in 1968 and dropped to less than 1,500 by the early 1980s. [53] In addition, about 2,000 workers lived at a camp in close proximity to the dam. [53]
Hope became part of the new British colony of British Columbia when it was created on 2 August 1858. Along with the rest of British Columbia, Hope became part of Canada in 1871. Late in 1859, Reverend Alexander St. David Francis Pringle arrived in Hope, and on 1 December of that year, founded the first library on the British Columbia mainland.
A district municipality is a classification of municipalities used in British Columbia. British Columbia's lieutenant governor may incorporate a community as a district municipality by letters patent, under the recommendation of the Minister of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development, if the area is greater than 800 ha (2,000 acres) and has a population density of fewer than 5 people per ...
A locality in British Columbia is a "named place or area, with or without a scattered population". [5] British Columbia has 556 localities, not including those that have been abandoned or are classified as former localities. [1]