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The Cariboo Regional District (CRD) in the Central Interior of BC encompasses 80,252 square kilometers of land. [2] The Cariboo and Coastal mountain ranges hug the CRD on its west and east side boundaries.
Quesnel (/ k w ɪ ˈ n ɛ l /; Kee-nel in French) is a city located in the Cariboo Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. Located nearly evenly between the cities of Prince George and Williams Lake, it is on the main route to northern British Columbia and the Yukon. Quesnel is located at the confluence of the Fraser River and Quesnel River.
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.
Cariboo North is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was created by 1990 legislation dividing the previous two-member district of Cariboo , which came into effect for the 1991 BC election .
Note: This article is for features and facilities which are directly under the administration or jurisdiction of the government of the regional district. For geographic features, Indian Reserves and band governments, and provincial and federal parks in the area circumscribed by its boundary, see Category:Cariboo Country , and Category:Chilcotin ...
the Cariboo Regional District; the part of the Thompson–Nicola Regional District lying to the west of the east boundaries of Electoral Area E and I; Electoral Areas A and B of the Squamish–Lillooet Regional District; and; the Village of Lillooet. In 1996, it was redefined to consist of: Cariboo Regional District;
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The boundaries of the Cariboo proper in its historical sense are debatable, but its original meaning was the region north of the forks of the Quesnel River and the low mountainous basins between the mouth of that river on the Fraser at the city of Quesnel and the northward end of the Cariboo Mountains, an area that is mostly in the Quesnel ...