Comox-Strathcona Regional District
The Regional District of Comox-Strathcona was a
The district covered large portions of northern Vancouver Island and included part of the mainland north of the Sunshine Coast. As of the 2006 census, the Regional District had a population of 101,595. The district's administrative offices were located in Courtenay, although the most populous incorporated community was the District Municipality of Campbell River.
Geography
The Vancouver Island part of the Comox Strathcona Regional District stretches all the way across the island from east to west, and north to south between
Comox-Strathcona was bordered to the northwest by the
History
In 2007, Ida Chong, BC Minister of Community Services, announced that it was to be split into two districts, one covering the Comox Valley (electoral areas A, B, C and K), the other covering the rest of the existing district.[1] The announcement came as something of a surprise to the existing regional council, and was opposed by some, particularly those directors representing rural areas.
Communities
Incorporated communities
- Campbell River
- Comox
- Courtenay
- Cumberland
- Gold River
- Sayward
- Tahsis
- Zeballos
Electoral areas
A (Baynes Sound)
B (Comox North)
C (Puntledge/Black Creek)
D (Oyster Bay/Buttle Lake)
- Campbell River Area
G (Kyuquot/Nootka)
- Kyuquot and Fair Harbour
- Oclucje
- Ehatis
- Esperanza and CeePeeCee
- Queens Cove
- Nuchatlitz
- Port Eliza
- Yuquot (Friendly Cove)
- Nootka Village
- Kendrick Arm and Plumper Harbour
- Tsaxana
H (Sayward Valley)
I (Cortes Island)
J (Quadra Island and the Discovery Islands)
- Hardwick Island
- Port Neville
- Quadra Island
- Read Island
- Redonda Islands
- Refuge Cove
- Thurlow Islands
K (Denman/Hornby Islands)
See Islands Trust.
References
- Community Profile: Comox-Strathcona Regional District, British Columbia; Statistics Canada Archived 2016-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Chong, Ida (2007-12-17). "Notice of Regional District restructuring" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-01-03. [dead link]