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Squamish (/ ˈ s k w ɔː m ɪ ʃ /; Squamish: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, [ˈsqʷχʷuː.ʔməʃ]; 2021 census population 23,819) [3] is a community and a district municipality in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located at the north end of Howe Sound on the Sea to Sky Highway.
The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District is a quasi-municipal administrative area in British Columbia, Canada. It stretches from Britannia Beach in the south to Pavilion in the north. Lillooet , Pemberton , Whistler and Squamish are the four municipalities in the regional district.
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.
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Sunshine Coast Regional District had a population of 32,170 living in 14,935 of its 17,982 total private dwellings, a change of 7.3% from its 2016 population of 29,970.
Whistler, Squamish, Pemberton, West Vancouver, Lions Bay, Sechelt, Bowen Island, Gibsons West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country (formerly West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast ) is a federal electoral district in British Columbia , Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.
Lillooet (English: / ˈ l ɪ l oʊ. ɛ t /) 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.
Into the 20th century Bowen Island was actively used by Squamish people for deer and duck hunting, fishing and, later, wage jobs. In conversations with Vancouver archivist Major Matthews in the 1950s, August Jack Khatsahlano recalled knowing several Squamish who worked for whalers on the island at the turn of the 20th century. In a conversation ...
The FVRD is the third most populous Regional District in British Columbia, [3] incorporating roughly the eastern half of the Lower Mainland of southwestern BC, and is bordered by Whatcom County, Washington to the south, Metro Vancouver to the west, the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District to the east, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District ...