Preliminary Report
MARCH 26, 2015
March 26, 2015 Honourable Linda Reid Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Province of British Columbia Parliament Buildings Victoria, British Columbia V8V 1X4
Dear Madame Speaker: We have the pleasure to submit our Preliminary Report in accordance with section 10(1) of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act. Respectfully,
The Hon. Mr. Justice Thomas J. Melnick Commission Chair
Beverley Busson, O.B.C. Commissioner
Keith Archer, Ph.D. Chief Electoral Officer Commissioner
BRITISH COLUMBIA ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES COMMISSION - 1112 FORT STREET / SUITE 100 - VICTORIA, B.C. V8V 3K8
Table of contents Table of contents ............................................................................................i List of figures and tables ..............................................................................iii Executive summary .......................................................................................2 Mandate..........................................................................................................12
Proposals....................................................................................................... 24 North
Region...................................................................................................................... 25
Cariboo-Thompson
Region............................................................................................ 35
Columbia-Kootenay
Region........................................................................................... 43
Okanagan/Shuswap.......................................................................................................... 49 Lower
Mainland................................................................................................................. 59
Greater Vancouver...................................................................................................... 59 Fraser Valley.................................................................................................................. 64 Vancouver
Island and the Sunshine Coast.................................................................116
Next steps.................................................................................................... 136 Appendices................................................................................................. 138 Appendix
A: Population estimates, current 85 electoral districts (2008 Commission) .............................................................................................138
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B: Population estimates, proposed 87 electoral districts (2015 Commission)..............................................................................................141
Appendix
C: First round public hearings schedule – Fall 2014............................. 144
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Process.......................................................................................................... 20
List of figures and tables
List of figures and tables Figure 1: 2015 Electoral Boundaries Commission timeline...................................................................16 Figure 2: Map legend..................................................................................................................................... 24
Table 1: North Region......................................................................................................................................8 Table 2: Cariboo-Thompson Region............................................................................................................8
Table 4: Okanagan/Shuswap..........................................................................................................................8 Table 5: Lower Mainland – Greater Vancouver..........................................................................................8 Table 6: Lower Mainland – Fraser Valley......................................................................................................9 Table 7: Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast...................................................................................9 Table 8: Defined regions................................................................................................................................13 Table 9: Proposed electoral districts – North Region ...........................................................................25 Table 10: Proposed electoral districts – Cariboo-Thompson Region .............................................. 36 Table 11: Proposed electoral districts – Columbia-Kootenay Region ...............................................43 Table 12: Proposed electoral districts – Okanagan/Shuswap.............................................................. 50 Table 13: Proposed electoral districts – Lower Mainland – Greater Vancouver.............................. 63 Table 14: Proposed electoral districts – Lower Mainland – Fraser Valley......................................... 65 Table 15: Proposed electoral districts – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast ....................118
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Table 3: Columbia-Kootenay Region............................................................................................................8
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All British Columbians are represented in the Legislative Assembly by a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). There are currently 85 MLAs to represent the constituents of the 85 provincial electoral districts. In theory, in accordance with the principle of representation by population, each MLA should, to the degree possible, represent a similar number of constituents. Recognizing that population growth is not uniform throughout the province, periodic reviews of the boundaries ensure that the representation of constituents by MLAs remains equitable and effective in all areas of the province. As prescribed by the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, a new electoral boundaries commission must be established after every second general election to propose changes to the area, boundaries and names of the electoral districts of British Columbia. Our commission was appointed on May 9, 2014. We are: Mr. Justice Thomas Melnick, Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (Chair) Beverley Busson, O.B.C., former Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Keith Archer, Ph.D., Chief Electoral Officer for the province of British Columbia We began our duties by educating ourselves about the nature and process of assessing and setting electoral boundaries, and the history of electoral boundaries commissions in the province. It was important not to form early opinions about what any of the electoral district boundaries should be. We wanted to keep an open mind and first hear from British Columbians about their opinions of the current electoral districts, and what changes, if any, they would suggest.
Between September and November 2014 we travelled the province, visiting 29 communities and hearing from 128 presenters. We received an additional 295 written submissions, largely through our website, during this same period. All of this input has been very helpful in understanding how British Columbians interact with their elected representatives and how the electoral boundaries affect and enable these interactions and effective representation. In making our proposals we are guided first and foremost by the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We have considered all of the input received from British Columbians about the existing boundaries and where they feel change is warranted. Reflecting upon their input, we developed additional guidelines flowing from the legislation that would assist our decision-making within this framework. Amendments to the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act in May 2014 defined three regions of the province (the North Region, the CaribooThompson Region, and the Columbia-Kootenay Region) in which the number of electoral districts cannot be reduced from their current number. This has, of course, influenced in large measure our ability to propose electoral districts that are equal in population. It has also influenced our decision to propose 87 electoral districts, an increase of two from the current number, and the maximum allowable by the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act. Further to these two additional electoral districts, we propose changes to 49 of the current 85 districts. Most of the changes are relatively minor. Substantial changes are proposed in the Lower Mainland, particularly in Richmond and Surrey where we added a district to each community.
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City of Port Coquitlam
Coquitlam-Maillardville Electoral District
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An electoral district is added to this area and boundaries are substantially altered to rebalance the population The Cloverdale community is too large for a single district and parts of the community are included in two electoral districts. Efforts were made to maintain the entire downtown core in one district We strived to maintain communities of interest to the extent possible
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Surrey-Whalley Electoral District
100 Ave
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District 96 Ave
Surrey-Green Timbers Electoral Surrey-Fleetwood District Electoral District 80 Ave
Surrey-Newton Electoral District
152 St
Current districts are well over the provincial average (two of eight more than 25% over) and this is also an area of high growth
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Surrey-Cloverdale Electoral District 64 Ave
Surrey-Panorama Electoral District
City of Surrey
56 Ave
32 Ave
Township of Langley
Surrey South Electoral District 24 Ave
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Surrey-White Rock White Rock Electoral District
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Substantial changes
Township of Langley
With the release of this Preliminary Report, we look again to British Columbians to present your opinions of our proposals. We encourage you to submit your
input to us online, by email or mail by 11:59 p.m. on May 26, 2015. We also will conduct public hearings in communities across British Columbia in April and May. We then will analyze this input over the summer before producing our final proposals. According to the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, these final proposals must be submitted as recommendations to the Legislative Assembly by September 25, 2015 – six months after the submission of this report.
City of Langley
The substantial changes are summarized below. More detail about all the changes, along with maps of our proposed electoral districts are contained in the Proposals section of this report. An interactive map of current and proposed electoral districts will be available on the commission website.
Washington
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Richmond/New Westminster Current districts are well over the provincial average (three of four more than 25% over) and this is also an area of high growth
The Queensborough neighbourhood of New Westminster is combined with residents in Richmond to create a joint Richmond and Queensborough electoral district
An electoral district is added to this area and boundaries are substantially altered to rebalance the population
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Vancouver-Langara Electoral District City of Vancouver
Knight St
Vancouver-Fraserview Electoral District
Burnaby-Edmonds Electoral District
City of New Westminster
New Westminster Electoral District
City of Burnaby
City of Richmond
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91 À ¿
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Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District 91 À ¿
99 À ¿
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Richmond-Steveston Electoral District
No 4 Rd
No 3 Rd
No 2 Rd
Francis Rd
Richmond South Centre Electoral District
Canadian National RR
Granville Ave
No 1 Rd
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Richmond North Centre Electoral District
We strived to maintain communities of interest to the extent possible
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The Corporation of Delta
1:125,000
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Burns Bog Regional Park
Delta South Electoral District
Delta North Electoral District
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Fraser Valley Current districts around Langley are well over the provincial average necessitating substantial changes to most of the Fraser Valley
The Township of Langley is split by Highway 1 north/south rather than east/west The Abbotsford area electoral district boundaries follow Highway 1 and Highway 11 and strive to keep established neighbourhoods together
The proposed Langley area electoral districts are reduced in size (both geographically and in population), requiring the remaining district boundaries to shift east
Hope is moved into Fraser-Nicola and the Chilliwack area electoral boundaries are redrawn to incorporate some of Abbotsford
Major highways are used as natural boundaries to divide the electoral districts
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Maple Ridge-Mission Electoral District City of Maple Ridge
City of Surrey
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City of Abbotsford Abbotsford Centre Electoral District
Township of Langley
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Fort Langley-Abbotsford Electoral District
City of Langley
7 À ¿
Fraser Valley Regional District
City of Chilliwack
Aldergrove-Abbotsford Electoral District
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1:350,000
District of Mission
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Langley Electoral District
Abbotsford-Mission Electoral District
Chilliwack-Sumas Electoral District
Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District Cultus Lake Provincial Park
Fraser Valley Regional District
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There is one district centred around the City of Langley
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Hope and Princeton The Hope and Fraser Canyon communities are added to Fraser-Nicola to provide for more effective representation
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Princeton is added to Boundary-Similkameen to bring the population of the district within the acceptable deviation from the provincial average, and to reflect a more consistent community of interest
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
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Penticton Electoral District
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District of Hope
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Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
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Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District Chilliwack Lake 1:850,000
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Village of Keremeos
E.C. Manning Provincial Park
Skagit Valley Provincial Park
Cathedral Provincial Park
Washington
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Snowy Provincial Park
Penticton 1
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Comox Valley and mid-Vancouver Island The disparity between the neighbouring districts of Comox Valley (22% over the provincial average) and Alberni-Pacific Rim (18% under the provincial average) is too great Despite many submissions requesting no change to the Comox Valley we concluded that the relative disparity (both now and in the near future) is too great to ignore
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Buttle Lake Strathcona Regional District
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North Island Electoral District
Comox Valley Regional District
Strathcona Provincial Park
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Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District
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Other communities in which changes are proposed are: Burnaby Capital Region Cranbrook area Kamloops area Nanaimo area North Shore Prince George Tri-Cities Vancouver Vernon/Swan Lake Williams Lake
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1:400,000
With the proposed changes, Cumberland, Royston and the southern Comox Valley are now part of our proposed Mid Island-Pacific Rim electoral district, bringing both districts much closer to the provincial average while ensuring strong communities of interest in both
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The following tables show the population and deviation from the provincial average in each of our proposed electoral districts.
Table 1: North Region
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Electoral district
Population
Deviation (%)
Stikine
20,616
-61.2
Peace River North
43,263
-18.6
Peace River South
28,104
-47.1
Prince George-Valemount
48,267
-9.1
Prince George-Mackenzie
46,894
-11.7
Nechako Lakes
27,692
-47.9
Skeena
30,240
-43.1
North Coast
22,382
-57.9
Table 2: Cariboo-Thompson Region Electoral district
Population
Deviation (%)
Cariboo North
29,542
-44.4
Cariboo-Chilcotin
33,520
-36.9
Kamloops-North Thompson
54,014
1.7
Kamloops-South Thompson
56,410
6.2
Fraser-Nicola
33,980
-36.0
Table 3: Columbia-Kootenay Region Electoral district
Kootenay West
Population
41,302
Deviation (%)
Table 4: Okanagan/Shuswap Electoral district
Population
Deviation (%)
Shuswap
59,572
12.1
Vernon-Monashee
58,886
10.9
Kelowna-Lake Country
61,113
15.0
Kelowna West
59,750
12.5
Kelowna-Mission
60,403
13.7
Penticton
56,722
6.8
Boundary-Similkameen
42,340
-20.3
Table 5: Lower Mainland – Greater Vancouver Electoral district
Population
Deviation (%)
Vancouver-Point Grey
60,611
14.1
Vancouver-Quilchena
59,953
12.9
Vancouver-Fairview
59,701
12.4
Vancouver-Langara
60,041
13.0
Vancouver-Kensington
61,250
15.3
Vancouver-Fraserview
62,885
18.4
Vancouver-Kingsway
62,459
17.6
Vancouver-Hastings
59,491
12.0
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
58,041
9.3
Vancouver-False Creek
57,261
7.8
Vancouver-West End
57,287
7.8
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky
54,894
3.3
West Vancouver-Capilano
57,173
7.6
-22.2
North Vancouver-Lonsdale
57,431
8.1
58,120
9.4
Nelson-Creston
36,907
-30.5
North Vancouver-Seymour
Kootenay East
40,466
-23.8
Port Moody-Coquitlam
59,355
11.7
Columbia River-Revelstoke
31,907
-39.9
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
59,029
11.1
Port Coquitlam
60,813
14.5
Coquitlam-Maillardville
58,351
9.8
Burnaby-Lougheed
59,797
12.6
Burnaby North
58,159
9.5
Burnaby-Deer Lake
58,195
9.6
Burnaby-Edmonds
60,439
13.8
New Westminster
61,422
15.6
Richmond-Queensborough
55,627
4.7
1 All population figures in this report are as of May 10, 2014. All population deviations are based on a provincial population of 4,621,394, the proposed 87 electoral districts and an electoral quotient of 53,119.
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Table 7: Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Population
Deviation (%)
Richmond North Centre
49,157
-7.5
Powell River-Sunshine Coast
50,039
-5.8
Richmond South Centre
50,101
-5.7
North Island
55,633
4.7
Richmond-Steveston
55,539
4.6
Courtenay-Comox
54,816
3.2
Delta South
47,577
-10.4
Mid Island-Pacific Rim
52,833
-0.5
Delta North
55,011
3.6
Parksville-Qualicum
54,089
1.8
Surrey-Whalley
58,668
10.4
Nanaimo
55,998
5.4
Surrey-Guildford
58,037
9.3
Nanaimo-North Cowichan
53,424
0.6
Surrey-Cloverdale
61,060
14.9
Cowichan Valley
59,232
11.5
Surrey-Fleetwood
59,066
11.2
Saanich North and the Islands
56,492
6.3
Surrey-Green Timbers
58,816
10.7
Saanich South
51,661
-2.7
Surrey-Newton
58,340
9.8
Victoria-Swan Lake
51,569
-2.9
Electoral district
Electoral district
Population
Deviation (%)
Surrey-Panorama
60,128
13.2
Oak Bay-Gordon Head
55,689
4.8
Surrey South
57,807
8.8
Victoria-Beacon Hill
54,707
3.0
Surrey-White Rock
58,527
10.2
Esquimalt-Metchosin
51,450
-3.1
Langford-Juan de Fuca
51,782
-2.5
Table 6: Lower Mainland – Fraser Valley Electoral district
Langley
Population
Deviation (%)
60,535
14.0
Fort Langley-Abbotsford
61,113
15.0
Aldergrove-Abbotsford
59,203
11.5
Abbotsford Centre
59,330
11.7
Abbotsford-Mission
60,962
14.8
Chilliwack-Sumas
52,632
-0.9
Chilliwack-Kent
51,310
-3.4
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
58,287
9.7
Maple Ridge-Mission
58,697
10.5
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Mandate Commission After every second provincial general election, a new electoral boundaries commission is appointed to propose changes to the provincial electoral boundaries. Under the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, the British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission must consist of:
Mandate
A judge or retired judge of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal who is nominated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council; A person who is not a member of the Legislative Assembly or an employee of the government and who is nominated by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, after consultation with the Premier and the Leader of the Official Opposition; and The Chief Electoral Officer appointed under the Election Act. One of these individuals must be appointed as Chair. On May 9, 2014, our three-person, independent, non-partisan electoral boundaries commission was appointed. Our commissioners are: Mr. Justice Thomas Melnick, Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (Chair) Beverley Busson, O.B.C., former Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Keith Archer, Ph.D., Chief Electoral Officer for the province of British Columbia
Left to right: Keith Archer, Beverley Busson and Thomas Melnick (Chair).
Mandate Our function is to make proposals to the Legislative Assembly as to the area, boundaries, and names of provincial electoral districts. If our deliberations dictate that the number of electoral districts should be increased, the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act allows us to make proposals for up to two additional electoral districts, to a maximum of 87. We cannot recommend fewer than 85 electoral districts. The Legislative Assembly is responsible for approving or amending our proposals before they are passed into law.
Electoral Boundaries Commission Act In carrying out our mandate, we are guided by the requirements of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act which sets out the process for reviewing the area, boundaries and names of electoral districts in British Columbia.
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The principle of representation by population be achieved, recognizing the imperatives imposed by geographical and demographic realities, the legacy of our history and the need to balance the community interests of the people of British Columbia; To achieve that principle, the commission be permitted to deviate from the provincial electoral quotient by no more than plus or minus 25 percent; and, We may propose electoral districts with population deviations exceeding +/- 25% where we consider that very special circumstances exist. Representation by population Method of using population as the primary factor in determining electoral districts.
Electoral quotient (the provincial average) The provincial population divided by the number of current electoral districts.
Deviation Electoral district population above or below the electoral quotient.
As an exception to these principles, the Act defines three regions of the province in which, for the purpose of effective representation in the Legislative Assembly, the number of electoral districts may not be reduced from their current number. For this purpose we are permitted to exceed the +/- 25% population deviation rule.
Table 8: Defined regions Defined region
Electoral districts within region
Cariboo-Thompson Region
Cariboo North Cariboo-Chilcotin Fraser-Nicola Kamloops-North Thompson Kamloops-South Thompson
Columbia-Kootenay Region
Columbia River-Revelstoke Kootenay East Kootenay West Nelson-Creston
North Region
Nechako Lakes North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mackenzie Prince George-Valemount Skeena Stikine
Section 9(2) of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act requires us to take into account the following additional factors when making our proposals for all electoral districts: Geographic and demographic considerations, including the sparsity, density or rate of growth of the population of any part of British Columbia and the accessibility, size or physical configuration of any part of British Columbia; and, The availability of means of communication and transportation between various parts of British Columbia.
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When developing our proposals, section 9(1) of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act instructs us to be governed by the following:
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The right to vote and population equality
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The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in the Saskatchewan Reference2 in 1991 provides considerable guidance to electoral boundaries commissions as to the standard for relative equality of voting power among citizens. Section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides that all citizens have the right to vote in periodic elections, and the right to be a candidate for elective office. The question for the Court, in examining the implications of this right for electoral boundaries, was whether the right to vote meant that citizens had the right to vote in electoral districts that were comprised of populations equal in size or whether some variation from equality was permissible, and, if variation from equality was permissible, what was the limit of permissible variation. It is notable that Courts in the United States have interpreted voting rights as requiring almost no deviation from population equality among electoral districts. In the words of Professor John Courtney, “the Supreme Court of Canada’s sole decision on electoral boundary readjustments (i.e., the Saskatchewan Reference case) deliberately eschewed strict American notions of voter equality. In its place the court advanced the notions of ‘relative equality of voting power,’ ‘better government,’ and ‘effective representation’” as the core principles used in boundary readjustment in Canada. (Courtney, Commissioned Ridings, 2001, pp. 151-2). The meaning of the right to vote was discussed in considerable detail by the Supreme Court in the Saskatchewan Reference. Writing for the majority, Madam Justice McLachlin stated, the purpose of the right to vote enshrined in s. 3 of the Charter is not equality of voting power per se, but the right to “effective representation”. Ours is a representative democracy. Each citizen is entitled to be represented in government (p. 183).
The Court then went on to ask, What are the conditions of effective representation? The first is relative parity of voting power. A system which dilutes one citizen’s vote unduly as compared with another citizen’s vote runs the risk of providing inadequate representation to the citizen whose vote is diluted…. The result will be uneven and unfair representation (pp. 183-4). However, the Court continued, equality of voting power is not the only factor that affects effective representation. First, this is the case because strict equality of voting power is not achievable, since there is a continual change to the electorate. In addition, factors like geography, community history, community interests and minority representation may need to be taken into account to ensure that our legislative assemblies effectively represent the diversity of our social mosaic (p. 184). The Court did not directly take up the question in the Saskatchewan Reference of whether there are absolute limits on variations in electoral district populations when taking into account these other factors of representation, such as geography, community history and the like. However, the Court did review the limits as then outlined in the Saskatchewan Electoral Boundaries Commission Act. The Act provided for the creation of 66 electoral districts. Of these, 64 were urban and rural districts in the southern half of the province, and two were rural districts in the northern half of the province. The 64 southern districts were required to have a variation within +/- 25% of the provincial electoral quotient, and the two northern districts could be as much as 50% below the electoral quotient.
2 Ref. re Electoral Boundaries Commission Act (Sask.) (1991), 81 D.L.R. (4th) 16 (S.C.C.).
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Effective representation In May 2014, the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia passed the Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act, 2014. This revised Electoral Boundaries Commission Act defined three regions, including the North Region (with eight electoral districts), the Cariboo-Thompson Region (with five electoral districts), and the ColumbiaKootenay Region (with four electoral districts). These regions comprise much of the remote and rural areas of British Columbia, characterized by relatively large geographical areas and relatively small populations. In general, population growth has been lower in these regions than in the province as a whole.
estimates), is 267,458. The average electoral district in the North Region has a population of 33,432, which is 37.1% below the average electoral district population in British Columbia as a whole (53,119). In the Cariboo-Thompson Region (Table 2), total population is 207,466 and the average electoral district population is 41,493, which is 21.9% below the average electoral district in British Columbia. Table 3 shows that in the Columbia-Kootenay Region, the total population for the four electoral districts is 150,582, for an average of 37,646, which is 29.1% below the average electoral district in British Columbia. It is evident that the defined regions each will have a number of electoral districts more than 25% below the provincial electoral quotient. Tables 1 to 3 illustrate the extent of the variation in these regions. In the North Region, two of the electoral districts have populations more than 50% below the provincial average, three districts are between 25% and 50% below average, and three districts are between +/- 25% from the provincial average. In the Cariboo-Thompson Region, three of the electoral districts are between 25% and 50% below the provincial average, whereas the other two districts are within the +/- 25% variation (and in fact are both slightly over the provincial average population). In the Columbia-Kootenay Region, two districts are between 25% and 50% below average and two are within the +/- 25% range.
The Electoral Boundaries Commission Act provides in general that electoral districts should have a population within +/- 25% of the provincial electoral quotient, although it also provides that in very special circumstances, an electoral district can have a population outside this range. The Act further provides that in the three defined regions, variations can be outside the +/- 25% range. The populations in the three defined regions are presented in Tables 1-3 (pp. 7-8). As can be seen in Table 1, the population in the North Region (based on 87 electoral districts, and using 2014 population
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The Court found that the electoral maps, based on these legislative requirements, provided effective representation, and thus did not violate section 3 of the Charter. Thus, effective representation, which is the purpose of the right to vote, is provided when electoral districts contain relative equality of voting (that is, where variation generally is within +/- 25% deviation from average, and possibly greater where special or unusual circumstances require). Deviations from population equality provide a capacity to take into account other factors important in effective representation, such as geography, community history, community interests, minority representation, or other factors relevant to the locality.
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Timeline Figure 1: 2015 Electoral Boundaries Commission timeline Commission appointment May 9, 2014
End of first round of public input November 16, 2014
Preliminary Report submitted March 26, 2015
End of second round of public input May 26, 2015
Under the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, a new electoral boundaries commission must be appointed one year after every second provincial general election. Our commission was formed on May 9, 2014. We began our duties by developing work plans and educating ourselves over the summer about the nature and process of electoral boundary setting. We invited experts to brief us on subjects such as electoral boundaries legislation, the role of electoral districts in election administration, the evolution of electoral boundaries in British Columbia, and demographics and population statistics. At the beginning of September 2014, following our learning phase, we established our website and, on our website, began soliciting input from British Columbians regarding their opinions about the current electoral districts and if and where they thought changes were required. We also held a series of public hearings in 29 communities across the province between September 22 and November 7 to hear from British Columbians who were able to attend in-person. The public input period, during
Jul 1, 2015
Apr 1, 2015
Second round of public hearings April 14 – May 26, 2015
Jan 1, 2015
Oct 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014
First round of public hearings September 22 – November 7, 2014
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Final Report due by September 25, 2015
MLA hearing May 27, 2015
which submissions could also be made through the website and by mail, closed at midnight on November 16. We subsequently met to consider all of the public input and begin our deliberations. Our intent was to first hear from British Columbians about their opinions of the current electoral districts and their recommendations before we turned our attention to developing our proposals. After reviewing all public input we deliberated and finalized our proposals for the number of electoral districts and the area, boundaries and names for each district in this report which we have submitted to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on March 26, 2015. Following the submission of this Preliminary Report, we will hold a second series of public hearings to receive responses to our proposals. After having heard and examined the input of individuals, organizations and MLAs, we will make any appropriate amendments and table our final proposals in the Legislative Assembly by September 25, 2015.
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Mandate
Mandate
The final decision regarding the adoption of our proposals remains with the Legislative Assembly. The Legislative Assembly may approve our proposals as submitted or with alterations. If the Legislative Assembly does so, it must pass legislation to establish the electoral districts during the same legislative session. The electoral boundaries will come into force at the time of the next provincial general election and will apply to the anticipated 2017 and 2021 provincial general elections.
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Process
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Process Data
Deviation and “very special circumstances”
We are relying on population estimates and projections from BC Stats to draw our proposed electoral boundaries. These estimates are based on the 2011 Census Count, which is the most recent and reliable population data. The 2014 population estimates show that as of May 10, 20143, there are 4,621,394 people in British Columbia, an increase of nine percent since the current boundaries were established in 2008. This growth, however, has been uneven across the province.
Based on an electoral quotient of 53,119 we may make proposals for electoral districts with populations as high as 66,399 (25% above the electoral quotient) and as low as 39,839 (25% below the electoral quotient), while maintaining relative parity of voter power. As an exception to this requirement, the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act permits electoral districts within the three defined regions to be beyond +/- 25%.
Process
Electoral quotient The electoral quotient is the average population per electoral district and is calculated by dividing the provincial population by the number of electoral districts.
The Act also allows us to exceed the minimum and maximum population size where very special circumstances exist. All of our proposed electoral districts outside of the defined regions are within +/- 25%.
Absent a finding of very special circumstances, the population of each of our proposed electoral districts outside of the defined regions is permitted to deviate from the electoral quotient by no more than +/- 25%. That is, each electoral district’s population must be no more than 25% under the provincial average and no more than 25% above the provincial average. The greater the number of electoral districts, the smaller the electoral quotient (or average population per district) will be and the smaller the electoral quotient, the smaller the permissible range will be. We are permitted to propose between 85 and 87 electoral districts. We conclude that 87 electoral districts are necessary to ensure the effective representation of all British Columbians and recognize the growth in the more densely populated Lower Mainland. With 87 electoral districts, the electoral quotient is 53,119.
3 This date corresponds with the start of the commission’s work.
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Approach We developed the following guidelines based on the principles established by legislation to further assist our decision-making process.
reserves and when possible we endeavoured to propose boundaries that would not split bands or nations.
Because we wanted to consider the historic configuration of our province’s electoral districts, we took the existing boundaries into consideration. Based on what we heard from people across the province, we concluded that we should propose changes to these boundaries only where logical and necessary.
The consideration of these guidelines, together with the considered judgment of the commission, has produced the electoral boundaries recommended in this Preliminary Report.
Natural boundaries such as rivers, heights of land, rights of way, parks and major highways make good electoral district boundaries as well because they typically divide communities and provide clear demarcations between distinct areas. We looked to use such natural boundaries as electoral district boundaries where possible. We also tried to align electoral district boundaries with municipal boundaries and sought to avoid splitting local jurisdictions such as cities or towns across multiple electoral districts. In densely populated areas this was not possible. In those communities we tried to draw boundaries that followed neighbourhoods and attempted to keep like-communities together. In sparsely populated areas of the province we sought to use other existing jurisdictional boundaries. We were told during the public input period that using regional district, electoral area, and school district boundaries helps to eliminate voter confusion as these are boundaries with which many people are familiar. We also considered the impact of our decisions on First Nations communities. We tried to avoid splitting
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Process
We tried to balance the populations of electoral districts in the same area or municipality where possible, respecting trends for future growth while ensuring effective representation.
Proposals
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Proposals
Proposals
Proposals
A consistent message from the public was that change should be made only where necessary. When questioned, many of the presenters at our public hearings were content with their current electoral district boundaries and were satisfied with their level of representation, even if the population of their electoral district was well above or well below the provincial average. Relative parity of voting power was not as significant to most of these British Columbians as simply feeling well represented. We agree that changes to the existing boundaries should be made only where necessary and this principle is reflected in our proposals. More than 40% of the existing electoral districts are not changed under our proposal. Because the number of electoral districts in the three defined regions cannot be reduced, those regions saw very little change. More substantial changes are proposed in the Lower Mainland to address communities that have grown much faster than the rest of the province and where electoral districts are more than 25% over the provincial average. An additional district has been added in each of Richmond and
Surrey in response to exceptional growth in these two communities and also in the case of Richmond, to combine with the Queensborough residents of New Westminster. Outside of the Lower Mainland, our proposals contain more modest changes that are intended largely to rebalance populations within communities while also providing for the representation of communities of interest. Of the proposed 87 electoral districts, 18 vary from the provincial average by less than +/- 5%. Nearly half of all districts (39) are within +/- 10% of the provincial average, and almost 80% (69) are within +/- 15% of the average. Ten electoral districts, all located in one of the three defined regions, have populations more than 25% below the provincial average. None have populations more than 25% above the provincial average. Within the context of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act, these boundaries will provide British Columbians in all areas of the province with effective representation.
Figure 2: Map legend
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Proposals – North Region
North Region
Therefore, we propose no changes to the boundaries of most of the electoral districts in the North Region. We are proposing no changes to the boundaries of the electoral districts of Stikine, Peace River North, Peace River South, Nechako Lakes, Skeena and North Coast.
Prince George In contrast to the public input received about most of the North Region, the commission received a number of requests to adjust the boundaries of the two electoral districts around Prince George. Prince George is the North Region’s largest urban centre with a population of 74,133 people. It is made up of three communities: the Hart, the Bowl and College Heights. Those who spoke to us about these communities explained each is distinct and should not be split across multiple districts. We determined it is important to keep entire communities of interest
in the same electoral district where possible and have adjusted the boundaries of Prince GeorgeValemount and Prince George-Mackenzie where they divide the city of Prince George. Instead of following Highway 97 through the centre of Prince George, dividing the Hart neighbourhood, the new boundary follows the Fraser and Nechako rivers to the John Hart Bridge, thereby placing the entire Hart neighbourhood in Prince GeorgeMackenzie. We have also avoided splitting the College Heights neighbourhood by moving the boundary from Highway 16 and instead follow major roads west of Highway 16, and University Way and Tyner Boulevard. This change places the entire College Heights neighbourhood in Prince George-Valemount.
Table 9: Proposed electoral districts – North Region4 Electoral district
Population Deviation (%)
Area (sq km)
Stikine
20,616
-61.2
196,446
Peace River North
43,263
-18.6
175,813
Peace River South
28,104
-47.1
30,364
Prince George-Valemount
48,267
-9.1
31,467
Prince George-Mackenzie
46,894
-11.7
20,511
Nechako Lakes
27,692
-47.9
73,795
Skeena
30,240
-43.1
31,649
North Coast
22,382
-57.9
143,856
4 A ll population figures in this report are as of May 10, 2014. All population deviations are based on a provincial population of 4,621,394, in the proposed 87 electoral districts and an electoral quotient of 53,119.
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Proposals – North Region
The electoral districts within the area defined by the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act as the North Region are vast in size but are sparsely populated. For example, the Stikine electoral district is almost 200,000 square kilometres, but has a population of only 20,616 – more than 61% below the provincial average. Although the population of six of the eight North Region electoral districts are well below the -25% deviation, the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act exempts the districts in the three defined regions from this standard, and requires that the number of electoral districts in the North Region not be reduced. We were reminded regularly during the public input period by those living in the North Region of the accessibility challenges presented by the geography, transportation routes and weather, and of the impact these challenges have on MLAs and constituents travelling to meet with each other. These challenges were particularly significant outside of the larger population centres of the region. The vast majority of the input we received from the public about this region argued that there is no need for change.
Proposals – North Region
North Region
Yukon
¯
Northwest Territories
Northern Rockies Regional Municipality
Alaska
Proposals – North Region
1
2
Stewart Chetwynd
Fort St. John
Taylor
Alberta
Dawson Creek New Hazelton
3 Mackenzie
Smithers
6
Terrace Prince Rupert
Kitimat
Tumbler Ridge
5
Houston Vanderhoof Prince George
7
4
8
Valemount
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Electoral Districts
North Region
1:6,500,000 0
70
140
280 (km)
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1. Stikine 2. Peace River North 3. Peace River South 4. Prince George-Valemount 5. Prince George-Mackenzie 6. Nechako Lakes 7. Skeena 8. North Coast
0
25
1:3,650,000
50
(km)
100
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ver
16
Terrace
Al as ka Hw y
Peace River Regional District
Bulkley-Nechako A r e
Telkwa
Smithers
New Hazelton
Hazelton
Kispiox Valley
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
Granisle Chapman FSR
Houston
16
Omineca Provincial Park
Chase Provincial Park
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
Nilkitkwa FSR
Bear Lake
Sustut Provincial Park
Peace River North Electoral District
Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park
Northern Rockies Regional Municipality
Liard River Corridor Provincial Park 97
Finlay - Russell Provincial Park
Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park
Tatlatui Provincial Park
Stikine
-Stikine Area "B"
37
Swan Lake Kispiox River Provincial Park
Skeena Electoral District 37
Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Provincial Park
Nisga'a Lands
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
37A
Ri
Meziadin Junction Regional District
Stikine Electoral District
Sk ee na
Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
Stewart
Lower Post
Stikine River Provincial Park
Proposals – North Region
North Coast Electoral District
Stikine
Iskut
Dease Lake
Todagin South Slope Provincial Park
37
Tuya Mountains Provincial Park
Mount Edziza Provincial Park
a Hw 1 y
Stikine Regional District
Alaska Alaska
Atlin Atlin Provincial Park
Atlin Lake
Ri ve r Stik i ne
Bennett
A"
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a"
Yukon Yukon
Proposals – North Region
Stikine
97
P e ac
Riv
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37A
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80
wy rH a s C as
20
Swan Lake Kispiox River Provincial Park
(km)
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
37
Stikine Electoral District
Sk ee n
Ri
Ba
b in e Riv er
Bear Lake
Peace River Regional District
Tutizzi Lake
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
Nechako Lakes Electoral District Takla Lake
Sustut Provincial Park
Stikine Regional District
97
Finlay - Russel Provincial Park
Stikine Regional District
Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park
Thutade Lake
Tatlatui Provincial Park
r
Fireside
Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park
Summit Lake
Omineca Provincial Park
Chase Provincial Park
Muscovite Lakes Provincial Park
77
Al
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Graham Laurier Provincial Park
Klua Lakes Provincial Protected Area
Fort Nelson
liston Wil
Hudson's Hope
97
Peace River South Electoral District
Lake
Upper Halfway
Wonowon
SEE INSET A
er
29
29
Thinahtea South Provincial Protected Area
Peace River Regional District
52
Dawson Creek
97
2
P e ace Ri ve r
Two Rivers
Cecil Lake
Osborne
Etthithun Lake
Kahntah
Kotcho Lake
Chetwynd
Riv
97
Buick
ace Pe
Pink Mountain
Peace River Regional District
Peace River North Electoral District
Prophet River
Steamboat
y Hw
Prince GeorgeMackenzie Electoral District
Williston Lake
Maxhamish Lake Provincial Park
Northwest Northwest Territories Territories
Northern Rockies Regional Municipality
Redfern-Keily Provincial Park
Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park
Ed Bird Estella Lakes Provincial Park
Fort Ware
Muncho Lake Provincial Park
Muncho Lake
Liard River Corridor Provincial Park
Yukon Yukon
y a Hw
271 Rd
0
37
97
Peace Ri ver
Taylor
Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park
ian ad an
Baldonnel Rd
Hwy Alaska A l a sk
1:2,800,000
100 Ave
Airport Rd
Beatto n Rive
Peace River North Electoral District
Fort St. John
Cecil Lake Rd
Rd 259
Peace River South Electoral District
er
Rose Prairie Rd
Peace River Regional District
r
Rd 265
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116 St
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Beatton ProvincialPark
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Rd 255
N a tional RR
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Peace River South Ha lf Peace River Regional District
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Ri ver
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Peace River North Electoral District
Charlie Lake
29
Fort St. John Butler Ridge Provincial Park
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Williston Lake
Ca
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H John
29
C re ek
Pi n
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2
Chetwynd it
R iv e r
Her
ka
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52
Bearhole Lake Provincial Park
Tumbler Ridge
ge
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Weedon Carp 6
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Prince George-Mackenzie Electoral District
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Wapiti Lake e d D Provincial R Park
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Arctic Pacific Lakes Provincial Park
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Monkman Provincial Park
97
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Cr
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F ra ser
Prince George
Ri v er
Yellowhead
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Prince George-Valemount Electoral District
Hw
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Peace River Regional District
Riv
Kerry Lake East 9
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52
McLeod Lake
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
Alberta Alberta
Peace River South Electoral District
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Tupper
r ive
Jo
n
Gwillim Lake Provincial Park
29
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39
49
Pouce Coupe
97
Mackenzie
Dawson Creek
97
97
Pine Le Moray Provincial Park
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
r
Rolla
at i n a Kisk
Heather Dina Lakes Provincial Park
Carp Lake Provincial Park
sk
Chetwynd r ive eR
Ri v e
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West Moberly Lake 168A
Ki
Peace River Regional District
East Moberly Lake 169
Pine Valley
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
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Kakwa Provincial Park
y
16 16
1:1,310,000 0
15
30
Dome Creek
60 (km)
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Klin-Se-Za Provincial Park
Pe a ce River
8 St
C ar
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Taylor
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r
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Williston Lake
n C r e ek
Hudson's Hope Bocock Peak Provincial Park
97
ly Rive r ber Mo
ver Ri
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
DL 7748
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vd
Prince George
16
Ferry Ave
Dom
Ye ll 16
r
Prince George
16
Cariboo Regional District
PG Pulpmill Rd Nech ak o
97
se
al
R iver
Na tio n RR
Tor py Riv er
Dome Creek
Monkman Provincial Park
West Twin Provincial Park
Cariboo Regional District
Quesnel Lake
Cariboo North Electoral District
ser
Fr a
Kakwa Provincial Park
Ri ve r
Ma
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r
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16
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Bl
10
20
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
40 (km)
Kamloops-North Thompson Electoral District
Cedarside
Blue River
5
r
Na tio
Fr a s e
dia n
Fort George (Shelley) 2
16
Alberta Alberta
o Blvd an
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District 1:1,515,000 Columbia River-Revelstoke Electoral District
Kinbasket Lake
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Mount Robson Provincial Park
nal RR
16
INSET B
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Prince George-Valemount Electoral District
Valemount
Can a
PG P Nec h a ko R iv ulp mill Rd er
Hw y
97
m
se rR i v er
Prince George-Mackenzie Electoral District
Su
Prince George
Tete Jaune Cache
Wells Gray Provincial Park
Dunster
Ye llo
ssey
Alberta Alberta
McBride
Peace River Regional District
Peace River South Electoral District
Cariboo Mountains Provincial Park
Bowron Lake ProvincialPark
Prince George-Valemount Electoral District
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
ow head Hwy
ad i an
Prince George-Valemount Electoral District
er
Strathnaver
Hixon
Massey Dr
97
97
Stoner
Fraser
Willow River
Ca n
e Area "F"
Aleza Lake
-Fort Ge or g
ver Ri
16
sp
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DL 9265 DL 9264
O
Prince George
Prince George-Mackenzie Electoral District
INSET A
Upper Mud River Rd
16
SEE INSET A
SEE INSET B
Rive r
Summit Lake
Fraser
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Prince George-Mackenzie Electoral District
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
Fra
r s i t y Way
d
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Fr a
Un
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DL 1600
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N or thw o
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Rd
DL 2003
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m
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Frase rR iv
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Ri v er
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Prince George-Valemount
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Prince George-Mackenzie
r
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anadia y C onal RR Pine River Hw S Nati Breaks 97
97
Peace River North Electoral District
Prince George
ay rs i t y W Univ e
sp
DL 9265 DL 9264
Pine Le Moray Provincial Park
Massey Dr Gwillim Lake ProvincialPark
er Tyn
97
Gwillim Lake Prince George-Valemount Electoral District
Blvd
DL 1600
r
DL 2003
e Riv
16
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Mackenzie
ser Fra
B
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Burnt River
Williston Lake
Prince George
Ferry Ave
Burnt River
North Burnt River
16
Rd
S
Heather Dina Lakes Provincial Park
Lone Prairie
ika B lv d
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
ProvincialPark
dian Cana al RR on i t a N O
Peace River Regional District
INSET A
16
39
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District r Pa
ni p
s
97
Tumbler Ridge
ve
Ri
McLeod Lake
r
Mcleod Lake 1
Prince George-Mackenzie Electoral District
Carp Lake Provincial Park
lR
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Peace River South Electoral District
Weedon Carp 6
Kerry Lake East 9
Kerry Lake West 8
a Can
ation a nN dia
Monkman Provincial Park
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
Fraser-F ort G eor
R
Summit Lake
it L
Salmon Valley
DL 7753
20
40 (km)
Purden Lake
16
16
SEE INSET A
97
od Pul p R d
George-Valemount Electoral District Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
PG Pulpm Nechako River
Prince George-Valemount Electoral District
16 97
N
Sugarbowl Grizzly Den Prince ProvincialPark
Beaverley se Fra r R.
Upper Mud River Rd
1:1,150,000
Prince George
.
16
Nechak oR
Sh ell ey Rd
Purden Lake ProvincialPark
wo
. Ne chako R
10
ake Rd
SEE INSET B
Vanderhoof
0
Up Fra per S um se mr Rd F Upp ra er se rR d Uppe Prince Fras r ser R er R r George d i ve
Fr a
Stuart River Provincial Park
97
Old
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
R. on m
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Fort George (Shelley) 2
Prince George-Mackenzie Electoral District
r Rive
Frase r
Sa l
INSET B
Riv er
lR
ill Rd
16
as er
N ationa
r ea "G"
Her r Cree ick k
Canadian
ge A
Nort h
Great Beaver Lake
Fort St.James
Area "G"
Bear Lake
Fr
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Proposals – North Region
Peace River South Electoral District
PG Pulpmill Rd Necha ko R
ive
Moberly Lake ProvincialPark
Cana Natio dian nal RR
Prince George-Mackenzie Electoral District
Williston Lake
Proposals – North Region
Nechako Lakes
Stikine Electoral District
Peace River North Electoral District
Bear Lake Peace River Regional District
Stikine Regional District
a Ri v e r
Om in
Omineca Provincial Park
Ri v
en
Sk e
er
Kisgegas Ba bi ne R i ver
a een River Sk
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
37
Hazelton
Fort Babine
Mount Blanchet Provincial Park
Tsak 9
Ca na di a
Nilkitkwa FSR
Manson Creek
Babine Mountains Provincial Park
Granisle
Fulton Lake
Smithers
Babine Lake
Topley
Bulkley-Nechako Area "G" Tazdli Wyiez Bin/Burnie-Shea Provincial Park
Mudzenchoot Provincial Park
R
Prince George-Mackenzie Electoral District Tezzeron Lake
Rubyrock Lake Provincial Park
R FS
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
Chuchi Lake
Trembleur Lake
n
Telkwa
al R
Houston
Mackenzie
Nation River
nN
on
Heather - Dina Lakes Provincial Park
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
Tchentlo Lake
Babine Lake Rd
16
16
Nation Lakes Provincial Park
Takla Lake
i at
Seven Sisters Provincial Park
Williston Lake
Germansen Lake
Babine River Corridor Addition Provincial Park
New Hazelton
Stikine Electoral District
Old Hogem
Bulkley House
a pm Cha
Proposals – North Region
ec
a
Swan Lake Kispiox River Provincial Park
Pinchi 27 Lake Carrier Lake
Stuart Lake
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
Sutherland River Provincial Park
16
Carp Lake Provincial Park
Ca
na d ia
Fort St. James
n Natio n a l RR Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Burns Lake Francois Endako Lake Uncha Mountain Red Hills Provincial Park
Cheslatta 1
Nanika-Kidprice Provincial Park
Takysie Lake
Ootsa Lake
Tweedsmuir (North) Provincial Park
Kitlope Lake
Entiako Provincial Park
Central Coast Regional District
Cariboo Regional District
Cariboo North Electoral District
Tweedsmuir (South) Provincial Park
1:1,900,000 40
80 (km)
20
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Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
16
Prince GeorgeValemount Naltesby Electoral District Lake
Rive r
Kluskoil Lake Provincial Park
Moose Lake
Oppy Lake
North Coast Electoral District 20
Cluculz Lake
Chilak o
Finger-Tatuk Provincial Park
Natalkuz Lake
Eutsuk Lake
0
Stoney Creek 1
er R iv
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
Whitesail Lake
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
Fraser Lake
N
Tahtsa Lake
Skeena Electoral District
Vanderhoof
e c hako
Atna River Provincial Park
35
Nadina Mountain Provincial Park
Morice Lake Provincial Park
Nazko
Proposals – North Region
Skeena Stewart
Swan Lake Kispiox River Provincial Park
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
c sku Kin
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
i hR
Alaska Alaska
r ve
Stikine Electoral District
Aiyansh
Gitwinksihlkw
Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Provincial Park
Area " A"
Nisga'a Lands
Nas
r iv e sR
New Hazelton
Hazelton
Kitimat-Stikine Area "C" Seven Sisters
Provincial Park
Grand Trunk Rosswood
Smithers
37
16
Khutzeymateen Provincial Park
Telkwa
Terrace y Hw d e a h llow Ye Lakelse
Salvus
Prince Rupert
Rive r Gitnadoks River Provincial Park
North Coast Electoral District
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
Kitim at
Sk
Port Edward
Morice Lake Provincial Park
Kitimat Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District
Foch - Gilttoyees Provincial Park
Ri Dala
Jesse Lake
Atna River Provincial Park
ver
Morice Lake
Foch Lake
Hawkesbury Island
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
Kemano Beach Gribbell Island Huchsduwachsdu Nuyem Jees / Kitlope
Gil Island
60 (km)
Tweedsmuir Provincial Park
Whalen Lake
1:1,400,000 30
Nanika Lake
Hartley Bay
Pacific Ocean
15
Nanika-Kidprice Provincial Park
Crab Lake
Pitt Island
Roy Island
0
Skeena Electoral District
Weewanie
McCauley Island
Banks Island
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
37
r ive aR n e e
16
Tazdli Wyiez Bin/Burnie-Shea Provincial Park
Lake
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
Princess Royal Island
Kitlope Lake
Central Coast Regional District
Yule Lake North Coast Electoral District
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Alice Arm
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0
15
1:2,500,000
30
60
(km)
Moresby Island
Queen Charlotte
Haida Gwaii
Port Clements
16
Gwaii Haanas National Park
Skidegate Sandspit
Porcher Island
Banks Island
Pitt Island
hea d
Queen Charlotte Sound
Aristazabal Island
16
37
Terrace
Skeena Electoral District
Kitimat
Hw
Bella Bella
Klemtu
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
Princess Royal Island
Foch Gilttoyees Provincial Park
Gitnadoiks River Provincial Park
Hartley Bay
Port Edward
North Coast Electoral District
Hecate Strait
Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District
Naikoon Provincial Park
Masset
16
low Ye l
d
Graham Island
Old Masset
Prince Rupert
eR
Lax Kw'alaams 1
m Lak
Khutzeymateen Provincial Park
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District
Nisga'a Lands lu Kal
y
Alaska Alaska
Proposals – North Region
Telkwa
King Island
16
Bella Coola
Eutsuk Lake
ve Ri
r
Kingcome Inlet
Mount Waddington Regional District
e ll M a ch m
North Island Electoral District
Owikeno Lake
Hagensborg Stuie
20
Tweedsmuir (South) Provincial Park
Cariboo Regional District
Entiako Provincial Park
Burns Lake
Cariboo North Electoral District
Tweedsmuir (North) Provincial Park
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
Central Coast Regional District
Rivers Inlet
Morice Lake Provincial Park
Atna River Provincial Park
Houston
Stikine Electoral District
Smithers
Proposals – North Region
North Coast Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Cariboo-Thompson Region
The residents of this region who provided input to the commission were largely seeking little to no change. We heard that the current configuration of districts makes sense and respects the transportation and communication linkages that exist between like-minded communities in this region. The exception to this trend related to the request to change the boundaries of the defined region in the south west and include the District of Hope and the communities up the Fraser Canyon within a Cariboo-Thompson Region electoral district. Of the public input we received in this area, this issue was the most widely discussed. We propose no change to Kamloops-North Thompson, small changes to Cariboo North, Cariboo-Chilcotin and Kamloops-South Thompson, and substantive changes to Fraser-Nicola.
Williams Lake Williams Lake is one of the major urban centres of the Cariboo area (the other being Quesnel) and is located on the border between the Cariboo North and Cariboo-Chilcotin electoral districts. While Williams Lake is largely within the CaribooChilcotin electoral district, the existing boundary follows Highway 97 through the city resulting in a
small portion of the city on the north east side of the highway being in the Cariboo North electoral district. We heard from the public that it would be logical from a community of interest perspective to reunite Williams Lake in a single electoral district. We were therefore persuaded that this community of interest should exist in one electoral district. The community of 150 Mile House and the Sugar Cane Reserve belonging to the T’exelcemc (Williams Lake Band) are located just east of the City of Williams Lake, but are on the other side of the boundary between Cariboo-Chilcotin and Cariboo North. We decided that the Sugar Cane Reserve and 150 Mile House should be located within the same electoral district as the City of Williams Lake. By following the municipality boundary and part of the Cariboo Electoral Area D boundary we were able to unite the entire city of Williams Lake, the airport, and all of the reserves of the T’exelcemc in CaribooChilcotin with the exception of the Tillion Reserve west of Williams Lake. We deviated from the Cariboo Electoral Area D boundary in order to include the community of 150 Mile House.
Kamloops area We have made some alterations to the boundary between Kamloops-South Thompson and FraserNicola south of Knutsford to include more of the community around Knutsford in the KamloopsSouth Thompson electoral district. This change respects the stronger ties the residents in this community have to Kamloops than to Merritt which is much farther south. The change also provides more effective representation to the community between Campbell Creek and Thompson-Nicola Regional District Electoral Area J, approximately 5km south of the Kamloops municipal border.
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Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
The Cariboo-Thompson is the second of the three defined regions which cannot have the number of electoral districts reduced. It includes the districts of Cariboo North, Cariboo-Chilcotin, KamloopsNorth Thompson, Kamloops-South Thompson, and Fraser-Nicola. It shares many of the accessibility challenges seen in the North Region. While the Cariboo-Thompson Region contains the City of Kamloops, a dense urban centre with a high rate of growth, it also contains many smaller and slower growing towns and rural communities spread across a very large geographic area.
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Hope The placement of Hope and the Fraser Canyon communities was widely discussed in public input. Hope has historically been included in a CaribooThompson Region electoral district, but was moved into a Fraser Valley electoral district in 2008. Nine presentations in Kamloops and Abbotsford and 29 written submissions debated whether these communities had stronger ties to the Fraser Valley or the Cariboo-Thompson. Those in favour of Hope remaining in a Fraser Valley electoral district pointed to their inclusion in the Fraser Valley Regional District and Hope’s relationship with Chilliwack as the regional hub where citizens do their shopping and receive services. Those in favour of these communities returning to the Cariboo-Thompson highlighted the differences between the urbanizing, high growth, agricultural-based Fraser Valley and the more rural, resource and tourism-focused Cariboo-Thompson. They argued these communities were more closely matched to the character of Hope and the Fraser Canyon. A majority of the comments favoured Hope’s inclusion in a Cariboo-Thompson Region electoral district over the Fraser Valley. Prior to making our decision, we turned our attention to the impact our decision would make on the populations of Fraser-Nicola and the surrounding electoral districts. While the population of Fraser-Nicola is beyond the -25% deviation from the provincial average, the electoral district is in a defined region and thus it is not necessary to satisfy that requirement. Therefore, the addition of the populations of Hope and the Fraser Canyon communities to Fraser-Nicola would not be necessary as a means principally to increase population in Fraser-Nicola. However, population pressures further east in the Lower Mainland and west in the southern Okanagan could be lessened by this change. We chose to include Hope and the Fraser Canyon communities in Fraser-Nicola. We believe that this decision will provide more effective representation
for the residents of Hope and the Fraser Canyon and also will allow us to provide for more effective representation for residents of the neighbouring electoral districts. In the south-west, the boundary of Fraser-Nicola has been extended west largely to follow the Fraser Valley Electoral Area B boundary to include Hope and the Fraser Canyon communities. We varied from the electoral area boundary around the Lukseetsissum in order to keep all of the Yale First Nation reserves in Fraser-Nicola.
Princeton The addition of communities to south-west FraserNicola and the resulting population shift enables us to solve another issue to the south-east of Fraser-Nicola in Boundary-Similkameen. BoundarySimilkameen is also more than 25% below the provincial average and is not in a defined region. Therefore, we have moved the western border of Boundary-Similkameen farther west so that it now includes Princeton and the small communities around it. For more on this change, see page 49. To the south-west, the Fraser-Nicola boundary now largely follows the western boundary of the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District. It varies from this regional district boundary to follow the northern and eastern boundary of Manning Park.
Table 10: Proposed electoral districts – Cariboo-Thompson Region Electoral district
Area Population Deviation (%) (sq km)
Cariboo North
29,542
-44.4
38,579
Cariboo-Chilcotin
33,520
-36.9
44,512
Kamloops-North Thompson
54,014
1.7
21,641
Kamloops-South Thompson
56,410
6.2
2,437
Fraser-Nicola
33,980
-36.0
34,829
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Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Cariboo-Thompson Region
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Electoral Districts
1. Cariboo North 2. Cariboo-Chilcotin 3. Kamloops-North Thompson 4. Kamloops-South Thompson 5. Fraser-Nicola
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Wells Quesnel
1
2
Williams Lake
3 100 Mile House
Clearwater
Barriere Clinton
Sun Peaks
Cache Creek Lillooet
Chase
Ashcroft
5
Kamloops Logan Lake
4
Lytton Merritt
¯ Cariboo-Thompson Region
Hope
Washington 0
30
1:2,850,000 60
120 (km)
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ou
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nt a
Sh a
Tsacha Lake
DL 9044
Itcha Ilgachuz Provincial Park
1452 Likely Rd
Moose Lake
-L H orsefl y
ike
ly Rd
97
oti n
Ri ve r
Dewar Lake
Cariboo Regional District
P i geon Rd
Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
150 Mile House
Dugan Lake
Ho
Ch ilc
B
er
Kluskoil Lake Provincial Park
Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
Tatelkuz Lake
la
nd
Cr ee
Cariboo Regional District
Bo r
Cariboo Regional District
Alexis Creek
White Pelican Provincial Park
Sec 1 TP 40
Sec 13 TP 40
Sec 24 TP 40
Moffat
L a ke
26
97
FSR
McIntosh Lakes
Cariboo Area "F"
Miner Lake
INSET A
SEE INSET A
Deep Creek 2
Rd fly rs e o H
0
15
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
100 Mile House
30
60 (km)
1:1,900,000
KamloopsNorth Thompson Electoral District
Crooked Lake " Cariboo Area "F
s Ho r
Wells Gray Provincial Park
McBride
Cariboo Mountains Provincial Park
er Horsefly Lake fly R e
Quesnel Lake
Eagle rea "F" Lake "A
Horsefly
Likely
Isaac Lake
16
Dome Creek
Bowron Lake Provincial Park
Cariboo Lake
Wells
Cariboo North Electoral District
Quesnel
Ahbau Lake
Stony Lake
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Prince George-Valemount Electoral District
Williams Lake
Area "I"
Tzenzaicut Lake
Rd
97
Cariboo North Electoral District
Nazko Lake Provincial Park
Spokin Lake
Nazk o
Cariboo Regional District
Nazko
o o Area "I"
Clisba k o
E1/ 2 Sec 17 TP 40
ay W
Williams Lake 1
97
Carpenter Mountain 15
Williams Lake
DL 8885
a i l Cr
1513 Likely Rd
Beef Tr
Dea n
Entiako Provincial Park
Batnuni Lake
Finger-Tatuk Provincial Park
Ca ri b
Williams Lake
F ox
Ca ri
wy oH
97
Central Coast Regional District
North Coast Electoral District
Tweedsmuir (South) Provincial Park
Sigutlat Lake
Tweedsmuir (North) Provincial Park
y Rd
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
eko Riv
ae za
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
er
R iv
Prince George
ly R d
Takysie Lake
o dr Hy f to gh i R
M
Rd
Likely
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v er Ri
e fl
g Cree k
River
rs
F
er r as Area "F"
i v er
Lik e
rR F r a se
iv
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Cariboo North
k
(km)
60
30
0
15
1:1,750,000
Strathcona Regional District
Homathko River Tatlayoko Protected Area
Tatlayoko Lake
Ts'il?os Provincial Park
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ra
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Cache Creek
Barriere
Clearwater
Mahood Lake
Clearwater Lake
Wells Gray Provincial Park
Kamloops
Kamloops-North Thompson Electoral District
Bridge Lake
24
100 Mile House
Canim Lake 1
Canim Lake
Bosk Lake Area "H" Cariboo `
Forest Grove
Area "H"
70 Mile House
Clinton
97
Horsefly Lake
Cariboo Area "G"
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
FS R Cariboo Mountains ProvincialPark
La ke
Cariboo Regional District
Moffat
Cariboo North Electoral District
Area "G" Spout Lake
Moose Valley Provincial Park
97
Sec 1 TP 40
Sec 24 TP 40 Sec 13 TP 40
Quesnel Lake
Horsefly
Cariboo Regional District
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Dog Creek Churn Creek Provincial Protected Area
Canoe Creek 3
Junction Sheep Range Provincial Park
tin River
Toosey 1
20
Cariboo Lake
INSET A
SEE INSET A
Soda Creek
Marguerite
Williams Lake
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park
Big Creek Provincial Park
Stone 1
Anahims Flat 1
Alexis Creek
97
k Borla nd C ree
E1/2 Sec 17 TP 40
Spokin Lake
Cariboo North Electoral District
Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
ge 150 Mile Pi on d House
d
Dewar Lake
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Taseko Lakes
Cariboo Regional District
Nunsti Provincial Park
er Riv
Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
Chilcotin-B el l a Coola H w y
Bishop River Provincial Park
Chilko Lake
Eagle Lake
Powell River-Sunshine Coast Electoral District
Mount Waddington Regional District
North Island Electoral District
Kleena Kleene
Tatla Lake
Chilanko Forks
White Pelican Provincial Park
Nazko Cariboo Area "K" Lake Provincial Park
Lake
Cariboo RegionalTzenzaicut District
fl rs e Ho
Cariboo North Electoral Bea v Diamond District Cre Island Alexandria
Rive r
Williams Lake 1
97
Carpenter Mountain 15 DL DL 9037 9040
ser River
i lin ak
20
Puntzi Lake
" a "F Are
2507 Radio Range Rd
1427 Likely Rd
F
River
Charlotte Lake
Alexis Creek
C er
Nimpo Nimpo Lake Lake
Ri v
in cot
North Coast Electoral District
Rive r
Anahim Lake
hil
zko Na er Riv
Central Coast Regional District
an De
l Cr
Williams Lake
Rd ek
Tweedsmuir (South) Provincial Park
Itcha Ilgachuz Provincial Park
y Hw
Williams Lake
nt " ou F o x M ea "D Ar
g Do e Cr se n Jo
k ee
Cariboo Regional District
Cariboo North Electoral District
o Cari b o
97
Sa
Beef Tr ai
Tweedsmuir (North) Provincial Park
Entiako Provincial Park
Bulkley-Nechako Regional District
ly R d Like
in
d ly R
er k e
Kl
ik e
Area "J"
H or sefl y-L
R
o
ay fW
Ch i lk
n Rd
ai
o dr Hy to gh Ri
Narcosli Creek
yR
Nechako Lakes Electoral District
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Cariboo-Chilcotin
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Kamloops-North Thompson
Valemount
r
Clear water
Cariboo Regional District
Cariboo North Electoral District
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
Nor
Prince George-Valemount Electoral District
t
h
om
ps on
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
r
n Nat ional RR C an
a dia
Wells Gray Provincial Park
Clearwater Lake
Thompson-Nicola Area "J" Crooked McKinley Lake Deadman-Vidette Rd Lake
Cultus Lake
Rive
Azure Lake
Kamloops-North Bosk Lake Thompson Electoral District
Murtle Lake
Blue River
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
er
1
Canim Eagle Canoe Lake Island Island Round
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
23
r
Mahood Lake
Columbia RiverRevelstoke Electoral District
Ra
Ri v
Island Kamloops
Avola H
w
y
Lake Bowers Lake
100 Mile House
Yello wh e a d
Clearwater
Taweel Provincial Park
Upper Seymour River Provincial Park
Bridge Lake
ver
Vavenby
m Ada
24
s
R
Cariboo Regional District
Hw y
Kamloops-South Thompson Drewry INSET A Electoral District Lake
d Big Ben
97
Jim Creek
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Mica Creek
5
Kamloops-North Thompson Electoral District
Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
ft R ive
Skeetchestn
ma n D ead
i
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Momich Lakes Provincial Park
Darfield
0
10
20
DL 6440
Sun Peaks
Ka m
SEE INSET A 40 (km)
loop s
McGillivray Lake FSR
Kamloops
Lak e
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
1
Kamloops 1 South Th om pson
River
Chase
SEE INSET B
Kamloops-South Thompson Electoral District
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Electoral District Regional le District Eag Rd Kam y looBpa s1 Paul Lake Copper Hyas Lake Rd Provincial Park Pi n Island antan-P ritc har d Rd n Rd Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Pinantan Lake
ch P i North Ran Okanagan Har p Regional er-
on
District
Kamloops-South Thompson Electoral District
Harper Ranch Rd
Kamloops
Sec 34 TP20 R15
n ta
Vinsulla
Columbia-shuswap INSET B Kamloops-North Thompson
Painted Bluffs Provincial Park
Cache Creek
1:1,110,000
McLure
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
na
Porcupine Meadows Provincial Park
Nort h Thompson Ri
on ps
Arrowstone Provincial Park
Ashcroft
Barriere r ve
N
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Pukeashun Provincial Park
Shuswap St NE
i co la Area
"J" Bonaparte Provincial Park
Shuswap Electoral District
Adams Lake
Bonaparte Lake
Salm Rive r
Area "O"
Little Fort
Th o m
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Horsefly Lake
Kinbasket Lake
Clemina East
hT
Hobson Lake
Quesnel Lake
DeadmanCache Creek Rd
Mount Robson Provincial Park
Riv
e
Cariboo Mountains Provincial Park
South Th 1
97
om
ps on R iver
5
10
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
97D
97
Can ad
5
20
(km)
Greenstone Rd
d
h
cific
C oq ui
ia n Pa
RR
Jacko Lake
5
Riv er
Kamloops
SEE INSET A
5A
South Thom
Kamloops 1
5A
Camp
o C
3660 Hef Campbell Creek Cre fley-Lo Rd ek RS uis d
1
Roche Lake Provincial Park
Scuitto Lake
97
Bar n
Can a d
art
i an N
Pinantan Lake
Rd
Disdero Lake
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
va le
n
RR
97
Pritchard
1
Neskonlith 1 Neskonlith 2
Chase
Thompson -Nicola Area "L"
Area "L"
ve
Falkland
North Okanagan Regional District
Pinaus Lake
97
Shuswap Electoral District
k Cree
Meadow Creek 3
1
Shuswap Lake
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
Pillar Lake
o arc Ch
al
Quaaout 1
Little Shuswap Lake
Sahhaltkum 4 Niskonlith Lake Provincial Park
Westwold
Monte Lake
Monte Lake
Rd
DL 6440
Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park
Hustalen 1 Ad am
Kamloops-South Thompson Electoral District
Monte Creek t io
Adams Lake cola Area "P"
Thomp son-N i
McGillivray Lake
SR
Sec36 Tp20 Rge15
Sun Peaks
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Harper Ranch Rd
p er R
Roche Lake
p son River
n h-Pin a a nc
Paul Lake
Pinantan-Pritchard Rd
Hyas Lake Rd
INSET A
R ds ice
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Lac Le Jeune Provincial Park
5
Thom pso n
5
bell
st rea
1:430,000
97C
ill R
oops Lak e
e mp b Ca
Thompson Electoral District Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Lac Ku Bois Grasslands Provincial Park
McLeod Lake
Beresford Lakes
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Fo rv Se
0
ake Rd
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
ile H
Six M
Kam l
e nd
Separation Lake
Kamloops-South Thompson Electoral District
Mitchell Lake
DL 585 Kamloops-North
3860 Long Lake Rd
5A
Hill R d
Gilead Island
h
97D
Mount Savona Provincial Park
1
Painted Bluffs Provincial Park
Edith Lake
Area "L"
L
Ros e
Kamloops
al
Logan Lake
Tunkwa Provincial Park
Sec32 Tp20 Rge21
Savona
Thompson River
Skeetchestn 0
Kamloops-North Thompson Electoral District
A
.
Ck
rson
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
L wa nk Tu
wy
Jamieson Creek
Yello w h ead H w y a
al l aH
Canadian National R R
ll C
r
Rd g Lake on Har
re e k Rd
g in rn tu ne la
Rd
Me rr i tt
k ree
Falkla n d C hase -
H wy
C re e k
tt cui
tan
F v ray La ke
Thompson-Nicola Area"L" McGi lli
r
ase Creek
i sR
Ch
A b erde en D
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Kamloops-South Thompson
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Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Ho we Rd
Fraser-Nicola 5
Kamloops
ia
io at nN
ke R d
ell C
INSET A
n
E"
Barriere
pso
ola Area "
Thom
na
Clinton
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Kamloops-North Thompson Electoral District
99
Skeetchestn 0
1
Ar
Lillooet
s Rd
1
8
5
97C
Kelowna West Electoral District
Whistler
Thompson-Nicola Area "M"
5A
Lytton Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Douglas Lake 3
Merritt
Fr a
er
s
Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District
Valle y Ar ea "A"
Boston Bar
INSET B
Ar
ea
"B"
7
Sasquatch Provincial Park
Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District
1
Ohamil 1
Kent
er
Harrison Lake
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Kent
Fraser Valley Ar
Boundary-Similkameen Electoral District
Ar
Princeton
Hope 3
SEE INSET B
Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District
Penticton Electoral District
Tulameen
Yale
Sunshine Valley Ar e
" "B
Peters 1A
Fraser Valley Regional District
Cascade Provincial Recreation Area
Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District
3
a
Riv
Canada H wy
ea "B"
Fra ser
ans Tr
Hope
Fraser Valley Regional District
Peters 1 Seabird Island
Chawathil 4
Central Okanagan Regional District 5
1
ea "B"
Ruby Creek 2 Lukseetsissum 9
Shuswap Electoral District
ic e erv
Logan Lake
Pemberton Lillooet Lake
SEE INSET A
97C
12
Stein Valley Nlaka'pamux Heritage Provincial Park
Kamloops-South Thompson Electoral District
Fo
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
"B "
Kamloops
1
tS
Pemberton Meadows
Ashcroft
res
Ar ea
99
ic -N
Area "I"
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
Canad
lR R
97
t oe
Proposals – Cariboo-Thompson Region
Marble Range Provincial Park
"A "
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District
Ca m
Cr eek
INSET A
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park
Gold Bridge
Rd
Sec31 TP18 R16
Canoe Creek 2
Big Bar Creek
penter Car La
n Separ a tio
Creek
Sc
ase r River Fr
Taseko Lakes
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
Sec33, TP18, R17 Sec32 TP18 R17
ui tto
reek Rd
DL 585
Area "J"
l Campbel
3660 Campbell Creek Rd
Beresford Lake
3860 Long Lake Rd
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Big Creek Provincial Park
ea
5A
Edith Lake
Dog Creek
Kamloops-South Thompson Electoral District
pb
d L e Jeune R 5
Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
Downton mish -Li llo Lake
Thompson-Nicola Area "J"
Lac
Cariboo Regional District
S q ua
terson Cre e k
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
20
Ts'il?os Provincial Park
Pe
Ros e i l l R d H
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E.C. Manning Provincial Park
Washington Washington
1:1,600,000 0
12.5
25
50 (km)
Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
Columbia-Kootenay Region
We propose no changes to the Kootenay West or Nelson-Creston electoral districts and a small change to the boundary between Kootenay East and Columbia River-Revelstoke.
the airport west of Cranbrook into Kootenay East from Columbia River-Revelstoke. While these changes affect only a small number of people, it will provide more effective representation for these communities.
Table 11: Proposed electoral districts – Columbia-Kootenay Region Electoral district
Area Population Deviation (%) (sq km)
Kootenay West
41,302
-22.2
12,009
Nelson-Creston
36,907
-30.5
13,212
Kootenay East
40,466
-23.8
13,210
Columbia River-Revelstoke
31,907
-39.9
37,704
Cranbrook area At our public hearing in Cranbrook we were advised of an issue south-east of Cranbrook where the use of the Kootenay River as an electoral district boundary has the consequence of placing communities on either side of the river, that have close ties to one another and to Cranbrook, in different electoral districts. Students from Wardner on the west bank and Bull River and Fort Steele on the east bank attend the same secondary school in Cranbrook. However, as Wardner is in Kootenay East and Bull River and Fort Steele are in Columbia RiverRevelstoke, young people in this area don’t have a shared political experience and some believed this led them to be less likely to participate in the electoral process. By using the East Kootenay Regional District Electoral Area C and the Southeast Kootenay School District boundary in this area, these towns east of Cranbrook will be included in the same electoral district (Kootenay East). Following this boundary also has the effect of moving a small area around
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Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
The third defined region, Columbia-Kootenay, is a geographically large but sparsely populated area made up of four electoral districts: Columbia RiverRevelstoke, Kootenay East, Nelson-Creston and Kootenay West. We were told that the electoral districts in this region are difficult to represent due to the physical geography and challenging transportation routes. Despite these challenges, submissions and presentations from residents of the Columbia-Kootenay Region indicated satisfaction with their electoral boundaries and the majority indicated there are no significant changes that could provide more effective representation.
Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
Columbia-Kootenay Region
¯
Electoral Districts
1. Kootenay West 2. Nelson-Creston 3. Kootenay East 4. Columbia River-Revelstoke
¯
Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
Columbia-Kootenay Region
Golden
4 Revelstoke
Alberta Radium Hot Springs
Invermere
Nakusp Canal Flats
Elkford
New Denver
1
Kaslo Sparwood Slocan Kimberley
2
3
Castlegar
Rossland
Fernie
Cranbrook
Nelson
Salmo Fruitvale
Creston
Trail
Washington
Idaho
Montana 1:2,000,000 0
20
40
80 (km)
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Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
Kootenay West Columbia River-Revelstoke Electoral District Upper Arrow Lake
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
Camborne
23
Arrowhead
Shuswap Electoral District
31
Trout Lake
Galena
Trout Lake
Monashee Provincial Park
DL 8147
23
Goat Range Provincial Park
Nakusp
"H
Cherryville
Arrow Park 6
6
Kootenay West Electoral District
Fauquier
t Ce n Central Kootenay Regional District
sn
C ro
t en Koo
3
t es
3 3B
22
Champion Lakes Provincial Park
Fruitvale
Trail
3B
6
ea
of W ay
Crescent Valley
Salmo
Central Kootenay Regional District
3A
Nelson Nelson-Creston Electoral District
Slo ca
.
3A
KootenayCrWest est o ws n Electoral District Central Kootenay Regional District
40 (km)
INSET A
y Hw
Area "E" Area "I"
Rossland
6
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undary Are a"B "
20
3A
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Bo
1:950,000
SEE INSET A
Area "I"
Kootenay Lake
West Arm Provincial Park
6
Nelson
Castlegar Hwy
ay
Christina Lake
3A
ht Rig dro Hy
Farron
y
" "H
Ar
K ral
Passmore Slocan Park
Syringa Provincial Park
Gladstone Provincial Park
na te
Central Kootenay Area "J"
Boundary-Similkameen Electoral District
oo
Winlaw
31
Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park
Slocan
Lower Arrow Lake
10
Kaslo
Provincial Park
6
0
Silverton
Slocan Valhalla Lake
Granby Provincial Park
Kootenay Boundary Regional District
31A
New Denver
Burton
Nelson-Creston Electoral District
Rosebery
Carrolls Landing
Whatshan Lake
Graystokes Provincial Park
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Provincial Park
Wils on
Vernon-Monashee Electoral District
"
Summit Lake
y Riv er
Upper Arrow Lake
Duncan Lake
Ko otena
Fosthall
Poplar Creek
Cree k
h Fosthall C r S ou t
nt r al K
ay Ar ea ooten
Sugar Lake
Ce
Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
Gerrard
Central Kootenay Regional District
North Okanagan Regional District
Central Kootenay Regional District
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Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
Nelson-Creston Columbia River-Revelstoke Electoral District
A Allb beer rttaa
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
Dun cn River
e W
s tf
a ll
Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park
East Kootenay Regional District
Bugaboo Provincial Park
R ive r
Kootenay National Park
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
Trout Lake
Central Kootenay Regional District
Radium Hot Springs Cr ee k er
Ho w
s
Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
Trout Lake Central Kootenay Regional District
Ce
Poplar Creek Duncan Lake
nt
Kootenay West Electoral District
Invermere
31
ral K o o t e
nay Ar
ea"D "
Nakusp
INSET A
ht Rig dro Hy
6
of W ay
31A
nR
Slocan Lake
Area "E" Area "I"
"F" A r ea
Ainsworth Hot Springs
oo lK
ay te n
St. Mary's Provincial Park
Crawford Bay
Cranbrook 3A
Nelson
East Kootenay Regional District
Boswell
Kianuko Provincial Park
Kootenay East Electoral District
A
rea
" E"
West Arm Provincial Park
SEE INSET A
Kimberley
3A
tra Cen Willow Point
Passmore
Kootenay West Electoral District
Kootenay Lake
Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park 6
Central Kootenay Regional District
Columbia River-Revelstoke Electoral District
Kaslo
Ko otena
y Riv er
Kootenay West Electoral District Kootenay West Electoral District Central Kootenay Regional District
Nelson-Creston Electoral District
New Denver
Nelson-Creston Electoral District 3A
.
Canal Flats
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Provincial Park
Nelson Central Kootenay Regional District
a
Columbia Lake
Cooper Creek
3A
6
Crescent Valley Slo c
Goat Range Provincial Park
Kootenay Boundary Regional District
95
6
Area "G"
3A
Castlegar Kinnaird
Fruitvale
Trail
w Cro
1:1,000,000 0
10
Moyie Sirdar
Central Kootenay Regional District
3
Rossland
Kootenay Lake
Salmo
e sn
wy st H
Wynndel
3
Yahk
Creston
Lister 21
20
40 (km)
3
Washington Washington
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Idaho Idaho
95
Montana Montana
M ary
0
10
20
i iss
li
e
Rd
95A
Kootenay Lake
ff
40
(km)
M St
a
Kianuko Provincial Park
g Creek F SR
es t
St M a r ys
Crowsn
Idaho Idaho
Creston
3
3
R Ri ver F S
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en
Tochty
iver ie R Moy
Gilnockie Provincial Park
Moyie
95
3
Wardner
East Kootenay Regional District
Cranbrook
na
3
93
Montana Montana
Tobacco Plains 2
Koocanusa, Lake
Elko
3
Fernie
43
Montana Montana
3
Sparwood
Elkford
Height of the Rockies Provincial Park
Elk Lakes Provincial Park
Kootenay East Electoral District
Top Of The World Provincial Park
te
Columbia River-Revelstoke Electoral District
East Kootenay Regional District
"C"
Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
95
o
SEE INSET A
Isidore's Ranch 4
Columbia River-Revelstoke Electoral District
93
la Find k Cree
y
i fc R R
Columbia Lake ProvincialPark
Wills Rd
ProvincialPark
Kimberley
East Kootenay Regional District
St. Mary's Alpine Provincial Park
95
East Kootenay Regional District
Central Kootenay Regional District
Re
Du
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Rive r ProvincialPark rys
St Mary's 1
Gray Creek FSR
Cranbrook
3A
Tob y
Kootenay East Electoral Districttch Creek
y Hw
1:975,000
M
Cr eek
Bummers Flat 6
River ay
Nelson-Creston Electoral District
DL 15892
St Ma rys Ri v er
ycl iffe R on-W
y A rea "C"
East Koo te na
W
yc
INSET A
St
Kimberley
SR
Canad i an Pacific RR
sRF
Ko o
Columbia River-Revelstoke James Chabot Electoral District by Rd ProvincialPark To eek Windermere Lake Cr East Kootenay Area "E" Windemere Lake Area "C" East Kootenay
d East
Pa c an ad i
y Ar ea
Can
n t ia ad R R o ian Can ific K Canad c ic RR Pa Pacif
dd in
ooten ay Ar ea "A" st K Ea
Kootenay NationalPark
Akamina-Kishinena Provincial Park
Alberta
Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
Kootenay East
Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
Columbia River-Revelstoke Mount Robson Provincial Park
ot
Alberta Alberta
95A
ay
Fortress Lake
Bummers Flat 6
Area "E"
Kimberley St
ry s
yc n-W liff ssio i M
St Marys 1
R iver
d
R ys
ar
Kootenay East Electoral District
eR
St M
a
Cummins Lakes Provincial Park
M
Kinbasket Lake
95
93
95A
.FSR
Mica Creek
95
Rive r
Hamber Provincial Park
KamloopsNorth Thompson Electoral District
DL 15892
23
Cranbrook
INSET A
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
r ve ia R i Col um b
Proposals – Columbia-Kootenay Region
en
East Kootenay Area "E"
Fraser-Fort George Regional District
ThompsonNicola Regional District
93
Ko
Columbia River-Revelstoke Electoral District
Prince George-Valemount Electoral District
Columbia River-Revelstoke Electoral District
Golden 1
Mount Revelstoke National Park
Glacier National Park
Yoho National Park
1
Nicholson
Alberta Alberta
95
Spillimacheen
Upper Arrow Lake
Monashee Provincial Park
93
Edgewater
Radium Hot Invermere Springs
Trout Lake
H or sethief Cre e k
Duncan Lake
Upper Arrow Lake
Bx d R
Lumby
Columbia Lake 3
hal
23
East Kootenay Regional District
Nakusp Kootenay West Electoral District
Vernon-Monashee Electoral District
Nelson-Creston Electoral District
Columbia Lake
Canal Flats
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Provincial Park
93 95
Slocan Lake
30
Re
West Arm Provincial Nelson Park
60
Kootenay Lake d
g d in Ck
F SR
(km)
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St M a
"E " ea
Ar
Wasa
Kimberley
Gray Ck FSR
Elkford
en
Sparwood
St. Mary's Alpine Provincial r Park
Ck
15
Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park
Central Kootenay Regional District
1:1,600,100 0
Kaslo
Dew a
Valhalla Provincial Park
Kootenay Boundary Regional District
Elk Lakes Provincial Park
Fairmont Hot Springs
k
S Fost
Height Of The Rockies Provincial Pal liser R Park
Windermere
lC
Sugar Lake
Brisco
Bugaboo Provincial Park 31
North Okanagan Regional District
Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park
Kootenay National Park
Revelstoke
1
a y Area "F"
"B" ea
Hunakwa Lake Shuswap Electoral District
Field
Ko ot
ap A r Shu sw
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
Blaeberry
Revelstoke Lake
East
bia um
Co l
ry s R
FSR
Cranbrook
East Kootenay
Regional District SEE INSET A
Fernie
Kootenay East Electoral District
Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Okanagan/Shuswap
In contrast to the defined regions, the public input we received for this area was more specific to individual communities and electoral districts and varied as to the level of satisfaction with the existing boundaries. To the north around Salmon Arm and Vernon, input we received indicated satisfaction with existing boundaries and proposed only small changes to rebalance the population to reflect the high rate of growth. We received more varied input for the Kelowna area. Some wanted to see substantial changes to the boundaries of these districts, including the addition of a fourth electoral district or the creation of districts that did not cross Okanagan Lake, while others suggested that the current Westside-Kelowna district should include more of the downtown Kelowna area. We propose to change the name of Westside-Kelowna to Kelowna West. However, we chose not to make any changes to the boundaries of the three Kelowna area electoral districts since their populations are similar, and we were not convinced changes would achieve more effective representation.
Vernon/Swan Lake Vernon-Monashee currently is the most populated electoral district in the Okanagan/Shuswap. Like most of the electoral districts in the area, it is expected to continue to grow steadily. Shuswap’s population is the second smallest of the electoral districts in the area. Public input recommended that if changes were needed to balance the population in this area, we could consider moving the community of Swan Lake from Vernon-Monashee to Shuswap without reducing the effectiveness of representation.
To better balance the population in this area we propose to move the boundary between VernonMonashee and Shuswap south to include Swan Lake in the Shuswap electoral district. The electoral district boundary will follow the Vernon municipal boundary around Swan Lake and Silver Star Foothills to the Spallumcheen municipal boundary.
Boundary-Similkameen Boundary-Similkameen is rural in nature and, unlike the rest of the Okanagan/Shuswap, it does not have a major urban centre and instead is made up of many dispersed smaller communities. It is also not expected to see the same levels of growth as the rest of the Okanagan/Shuswap. At -28.8%, Boundary-Similkameen is more than 25% under the provincial average. To bring the population of Boundary-Similkameen within +/25%, we chose to expand the electoral district boundaries west to include the town of Princeton and its surrounding communities. While some of the public input we received requested that Princeton stay within the Fraser-Nicola electoral district, we conclude that our proposals provide for the most effective representation for residents of both FraserNicola and Boundary-Similkameen. The boundary between Fraser-Nicola and Boundary-Similkameen now largely follows the western and north-western boundary of the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District, but varies from this boundary to place Manning Park entirely within Fraser-Nicola.
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Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
The Okanagan/Shuswap area consists of both rural communities and urban, fast growing centres such as Vernon, Kelowna and Penticton. Unlike the faster growing electoral districts in the rest of the Okanagan/Shuswap, Boundary-Similkameen is expected to grow at a slower rate.
Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Table 12: Proposed electoral districts – Okanagan/Shuswap Population
Deviation (%)
Area (sq km)
Shuswap
59,572
12.1
8,637
Vernon-Monashee
58,886
10.9
5,009
Kelowna-Lake Country
61,113
15.0
1,165
Kelowna West
59,750
12.5
1,140
Kelowna-Mission
60,403
13.7
528
Penticton
56,722
6.8
1,910
Boundary-Similkameen
42,340
-20.3
15,614
Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Electoral district
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Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Okanagan/Shuswap
Electoral Districts
1. Shuswap 2. Vernon-Monashee 3. Kelowna-Lake Country 4. Kelowna West 5. Kelowna-Mission 6. Penticton 7. Boundary-Similkameen
Cache Creek Okanagan/Shuswap Ashcroft
Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Sicamous
1 Salmon Arm Enderby Spallumcheen Armstrong
Coldstream Lumby Vernon
4
Lake Country
2
3
West Kelowna Kelowna
5
Peachland
Summerland
6
Penticton
Princeton
Keremeos
7 Oliver
Greenwood
Osoyoos 1:1,350,000 0
15
30
Grand Forks
Midway
Washington
60 (km)
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Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Shuswap Spallumcheen
amlo op s Rd
97
Swan Lake
Co lum b
t Va l le y
L & A Rd rS ta r Rd
Plea
PR
e Sil v
Vernon-Monashee Adams Electoral District Lake Hunakwa Lake
INSET A
Pukeashun Provincial Park
Anstery Hunakwas Provincial Park
-S
swa hu
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Columbia River-Revelstoke Electoral District
ia
Kamloops-North Thompson Electoral District
Revelstoke Lake
b Col u m rea
ve r
Salmon Arm
O kan
ag an
Are
a
F"
North
1
Mara Lake Ri
23
Mount Griffin Provincial Park
Sicamous
Chum Creek 2
Pritchard
1
Balmoral
1
so n mp South T h o
a nada H
P
"
Sorrento
Chase
ia n ad
.
Quaaout 1
Revelstoke sC
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Ca n
u
Sq
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Tra
if
Anglemont
d nt R mo -Angl e Scotch Creek ilax 4
RR
y
Sun Peaks
ic
w
Ad a
Shuswap Lake
Shuswap Electoral District
"E"
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
Hustalen 1
Mount Revelstoke National Park
pA
Adanms Lake
n
North Okanagan Regional District
97A
Sal m o
nR
Kamloops-South Thompson Electoral District
iver R d
Falkland
Enderby Cliffs Provincial Park
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
SEE INSET A
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Kelowna West Electoral District 10
Kingfisher Monashee Provincial Park
Mabel Lake
North Okanagan Area "F"
Sugar Lake
Silver Star Provincial Park North Okanagan Regional District
5
Rd
Armstrong Spallumcheen
97
0
ake
Ende r by M
Enderby 97A
1:740,000
lL
97B
ab e
Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Vernon
North Okanagan Regional District
Area "F"
C
p wa
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
ia-
us
san
Vernon
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
Sh
Old K
Goose Lake
Rd
Okanagan 1
Upper Seymour River Provincial Park
DL 339
Shuswap Electoral District
20
Central Okanagan Regional District
Vernon
Vernon-Monashee Electoral District
Lumby
Cherryville
Coldstream
Kalamalka Lake
(km)
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North Okanagan Regional District
Upper Arrow Lake
Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Vernon-Monashee Spallumcheen
20 St SE L & A Rd rS ta r Rd to Au
Ple a s an
Shuswap Electoral District North Okanagan
7A
Hw y9
PR
North Okanagan Regional District
Mabel Lake
de rb
INSET A
City of Enderby
Kingfisher
l Lake Rd be
yM
a
y Enderb Rd d Grindro
on Salm r Rd Rive
80 St SW
Rd
City Blac k Rd Regional District C of Salmon p Arm d Deee k RVernon-Monashee Sil vCree Electoral District Main Turtle Vernon Island Island
Monashee Provincial Park
En
Peters Lake
Spallumcheen
North Okanagan Area "D" Mabel Lake Provincial Park
Silver Star Provincial Park
S il Okanagan 1
Mabel Lake Shuswap Falls
15 St
SEE INSET A
Coldstream
Creighton Valley
Ha rr
Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park
Central Okanagan Regional District
Kelowna
reek nC
Cr
R
Graystokes Provincial Protected Area
er
Kootenay West Electoral District
0
5
10
20 (km)
Central Kootenay Regional District
e st
Ke ttle
Ri
Granby Provincial Park
W
Kelowna-Mission Electoral District
6
k ee
r ve
1:520,000
iv
tt Ke
le
Kelowna-Lake Country Electoral District
Specs Lakes
io
rn Ve
North Okanagan Regional District
Pe ar son
e
6
Denison-Bonneau Provincial Park
Aberdeen Lake
M i ss
ek
on Cr
Wood Lake
Crei ght on Valley Rd Echo Lake Provincial Park
ek
Kalamalka 97 Lake
Lake Country
Cherryville
Blue Springs
Vernon
k re e
C h er
Lumby
e Cr
Kelowna West Electoral District
S
Vernon-Monashee Electoral District
Silver Star
is
Okanag an Lake
r ve
Rd tar
Sugar Lake
C
97A
Trinity Valley
ry
Armstrong 97
Boundary-Similkameen Electoral District
Kootenay Boundary Regional District
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Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
20 AveVernon NE 10 Ave SW
a p Ri v er
Provincial Protected Area
n a gan Are a "E"
Upper Violet Creek Provincial Park
Mara Lake
ka
t Va l le y R d
an di R na fic R a C ci Pa
Columbia RiverRevelstoke Electoral Greenbush District Lake
Sicamous
No rth O
amlo op s Rd
Swan Lake
tu la rni ne n g
Old K
an adi Can i c RR f Paci 97
Cana Pacif dian ic R R
Canadi an Pacific C a na RR dia n Paci fic RR
Shuswap Electoral District
Okanagan 1
Goose Lake
i an f i Pac
DL 339Canadic RR
Sh usw
Can Pac adia Columbia-shuswap ific n Regional RR District
0
2
1:255,000
West Kelowna
97
Bear Creek Provincial Park
4
Kelowna
Ca
8
Duck Lake
Duck Lake 7
Wood Lake
33
E
Medicine Creek 12
Hwy 33
Ellison
Central Okanagan Regional District
D
Postill Lake
Hydraulic Lake
Missi on Cre ek
33
Central Okanagan Regional District
is
Grizzly Lake
33
M
Kootenay Boundary Electoral District
Boundary-Similkameen Electoral District
lg Be
Ideal Lake
ek re oC
Kelowna-Lake Country Electoral District
Swalwell Lake
Medicine Creek 11
Mil l Cree k
Wrinkly Face Provincial Park
Kelowna-Mission Electoral District
Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
(km)
97
a
97
Kelowna
SEE INSET A
Traders Cove
Kelowna West Electoral District
Okanagan Lake
Glen more Rd
N
na
RR
tio nal
N
d i an
Central Okanagan Regional District
Rutland Rd N
Crooked Lake
Cr e ek s io n
Lake Country
reek
sC
a ve
Aberdeen Lake
on ars
ek
Okanagan Lake
INSET A
Cr e
CNR
re
We dd ell P
l Clement Ave
Cadder Ave
Kelowna
Kelowna West Electoral District Harvey Ave
Kootenay Boundary Regional District
en tA ve
Rd
Harvey Ave
ll Va
Spring field Rd
Kelowna-Mission Electoral District
Bernard Ave
Clem
h Rd ig
Kelowna
Kelowna-Lake Country T Electoral District
Broadway Ave
Vernon-Monashee Electoral District
Graystokes Provincial Protected Area
North Okanagan Regional District
Vernon-Monashee Electoral District
Water St
Oyama Lake
Ethel St
North Okanagan Regional District
Gordon Dr
Pl
Richter St
H
Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park
Clifton Rd
Pe
Kalamalka Lake
Glenmore Dr
Vernon
h nc
Spall Rd
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Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Kelowna-Lake Country
Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Kelowna West
¯
Shuswap Electoral District North Okanagan Regional District
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Seaton Lake Morrison Lake
Broadway Ave
Tr en c
h
Kelowna-Lake Country Electoral District d High R
Sh o rts
Cree k
Clifton Rd
Glenmore Dr
Central Okanagan Regional District
Spall Rd
Fraser-Nicola Bernard Ave Electoral Harve y Ave District
Kelowna-Mission Electoral District
Caesars
!
KelownaLake Country Electoral District
Kelowna West Electoral District
Burtch Rd
Pandosy St
Nahun!
Rd
Gordon Dr
Gordon Dr
Ethel St
Clem Fraser-Nicola en tA Electoral v Kelowna Districte
in g a nd Okanagan Lake
INSET A Lamble Islaht Lake
Wilson Landing
!
d
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
y Creek
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
m ore R
Richter St
Ellis St
Lake Country rr s L Ca
Abbo tt St
VernonMonashee Electoral District
ace Cree k
Cadder Ave
Ewing!
r Ter
Kelowna West Electoral District
Vernon
Fintry Provincial Park
Pl Clement Ave
Thompson-nicola Regional District
Killiney Beach!
Lambly Lake Bear Creek Provincial Park
aC ree
k
Jackpine Lake
om
nier Cree k
k Cr e e
Tre pa
ers Pow
Trepanier Provincial Park
La
c
Glen
Traders Cove !
SEE INSET A
Rose Valley Regional Park
Tsinstikeptum 10 97C À ¿
West Kelowna
Tr ep an
97 À ¿
ier
Central Okanagan Regional District
C
r
ee
k
DL 4073 dro Hy
OkanaganSimilkameen Regional District
W R/
Co qu DL 3711 ih alla Hig hw ay
Penticton Electoral District
1:226,000 0
2.5
5
Tsinstikeptum 9
Kelowna-Mission Electoral District Okanagan
10 (km)
Peachland
Kelowna
Lake
Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
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Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
V a lley Rd
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Okanagan 1
Whitema n Cr eek
Cameron Park
Cadder Ave
re
Rd
Kelowna-Mission Electoral District Guisach
ek
ve
Rd
Okanagan Lake
Tsinstikeptum 10
Harv ey A
Lake s h o
ie ld Rd Sp ringf
Kelowna
Harvey Ave
Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District
Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park
Kelowna West Electoral District
INSET A
Bernard Ave
Peachland
97
Tsinstikeptum 9
Rose Valley Lake
Burtch Rd
is
Penticton Electoral District
Greyback Lake
Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
Kelowna
M
r
d Springfield R
n tio Na
al RR
Kelowna
di a n Cana Harvey Ave 97
KLO Rd
SEE INSET A
on Dr
Go rd
Kelowna West Electoral District
West Kelowna
Richter St
Gordon Dr
Rutland Rd N Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
Central Okanagan Regional District
Hy dr
auli
cC
Medicine Hill 12
Hwy 33 E
Kelowna-Mission Electoral District
33
97
re e
k
0
2
Idabel Lake
Hydraulic Lake
Browne Lake Provincial Park
Boundary-Similkameen Electoral District
Kootenay Boundary Regional District
Medicine Hill 11
ion Cr eek Miss
33
Kelowna-Lake Country Electoral District
Central Okanagan Regional District
D
Central Okanagan Regional District
Ethel St
re il l C
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s io nC
r eek
a ve sC
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Haynes Lake
B elgo C re
Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
8 (km)
1:190,000
33
Proposals – Okanagan/Shuswap
Kelowna-Mission
an
on Gord
Dr
0
3
1:340,000
6
Pr inc eto nSu
(km)
Isintok Lake Simil ka ganO k a na
12
Tre pa nie r
Cr ee k
mm
Nickel Plate Provincial Park
Brent Mountain Provincial Protected Area
i hal
nc
Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park
Penticton 1
Penticton
Skaha Lake
97
Okanagan Lake
Naramata
e Rd tsid Ea s
ek
Beaverdell Rd
Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District
Elli s Cr eek
Okanagon Falls FSR
Greyback Lake
Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Lower Mainland The majority of British Columbians live in the Lower Mainland in either the Greater Vancouver or the Fraser Valley Regional Districts. These areas largely are made up of electoral districts with populations well above the provincial average and with high rates of growth.
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, West Vancouver-Sea to Sky, West Vancouver-Capilano, Coquitlam-Burke Mountain, Port Coquitlam, Burnaby-Deer Lake, Burnaby-Edmonds, Delta South, and Delta North.
Greater Vancouver
Vancouver is a growing area of Greater Vancouver and every electoral district is over the provincial average. However, we heard from a number of presenters in Vancouver that the need to add an electoral district was greater in Surrey and Richmond than in Vancouver. Submissions requested that we maintain the existing number of districts in Vancouver and we rebalance the populations among the districts.
Changes to electoral district boundaries across Greater Vancouver are a result of the locations of these new electoral districts. Aside from Richmond and Surrey, much of the input we received from people in Greater Vancouver indicated a preference for limited changes to electoral boundaries there. Further, there was a desire that proposed electoral districts not cross municipal boundaries. We have been able to achieve this result in most of the Greater Vancouver area. We also received input on the importance of keeping neighbourhoods within municipalities intact. This has been more challenging to adopt as the boundaries of neighbourhoods in some areas are not always well defined and in areas of high growth, can be quite fluid. Therefore, our proposals try to respect the spirit of this input where possible. No changes are proposed for the districts of: Vancouver-Point Grey, Vancouver-Quilchena, Vancouver-Fairview, Vancouver-Langara, Vancouver-Kensington, Vancouver-Fraserview, Vancouver-Kingsway, Vancouver-Hastings,
Coal Harbour is currently divided between Vancouver-West End and Vancouver-False Creek. We have reunited the entire Coal Harbour neighbourhood in Vancouver-West End by continuing the existing boundary between Vancouver-West End and Vancouver-False Creek up Burrard Street to the Burrard Inlet. This change has the additional benefits of better balancing the populations between the two districts and providing more room for growth in Vancouver-False Creek. No further changes to Vancouver electoral districts are proposed.
North Shore The North Shore is a diverse community containing urban and suburban cities along the Burrard Inlet and more rural and remote communities in the mountains and up the Sea to Sky Highway to Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton and beyond. Both of the West Vancouver-Sea to Sky and West Vancouver-Capilano electoral districts have populations very close to the provincial average and have logical boundaries. Therefore, the changes we
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The highest growth areas in the Lower Mainland are in Greater Vancouver, resulting in most of its electoral districts exceeding the provincial average and some even exceeding the permissible +/- 25% range. Surrey and Richmond are two cities with especially high growth. These cities currently do not have adequate seats to ensure effective representation for their populations and thus we have proposed to add an electoral district in each of Richmond and Surrey.
Vancouver
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
have proposed to the North Shore are exclusively within North Vancouver. The two North Vancouver electoral districts are currently aligned to include the entire City of North Vancouver in North Vancouver-Lonsdale and most of the District Municipality of North Vancouver in North Vancouver-Seymour. We view this divide as logical, but following suggestions from the public we have made small changes to the boundary between these two districts around Lynn Valley to follow Highway 1 to better reflect communities of interest and to balance the population between the two electoral districts while taking into account future growth areas.
Tri-Cities Unlike other areas of the Lower Mainland that either correspond to municipal boundaries or have a number of electoral districts contained exclusively within a municipality, the Tri-Cities is an area where this is not possible. The Tri-Cities is made up of the cities of Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, and Coquitlam. Although they are three distinct municipalities, these cities work closely together and many residents view this area as a community in itself. We heard from the public that it is important to keep the four Tri-Cities electoral districts within the boundaries of the Tri-Cities area, as we have done with single municipalities. The changes we propose in the Tri-Cities take into account the public input we received and rebalance population between Port Moody-Coquitlam and Coquitlam-Maillardville. We propose shifting the south-west boundary of Port Moody-Coquitlam north to Foster Road and moving the south-east boundary south to Como Lake Road and the right of way east of Pinnacle Creek Ravine Municipal Park.
Burnaby The City of Burnaby has four electoral districts contained entirely within its municipal boundaries. They each currently revolve around a town centre: Brentwood, Lougheed, Metrotown, and Royal Oak/ Edmonds. We believe this is a logical way to divide these communities into electoral districts. However, the Brentwood area is growing significantly more than Lougheed and the other neighbourhoods. We have, therefore, acknowledged this growth by rebalancing the population between these highest and lowest growth areas. Consistent with a recommendation made by the public, we shifted the boundary between BurnabyLougheed and Burnaby North from Sperling Avenue to Kensington Avenue. This relatively small adjustment enables us to rebalance the populations of the two districts and to account for the higher rate of growth in the Brentwood area.
Richmond/New Westminster/Delta Richmond, New Westminster, and Delta are populous areas with electoral districts entirely within each municipality’s borders. Unlike Richmond and New Westminster, both Delta electoral districts have populations much closer to the provincial average and relatively low rates of growth. We concluded that the current boundaries are effective in dividing the population between the two major communities of interest within Delta. Therefore, no changes are proposed to Delta North or Delta South. In contrast to Delta, two of Richmond’s current three electoral districts already have exceeded the allowable population deviation and are projected to see significantly more growth. However, the population of Richmond does not warrant four electoral districts contained within Richmond’s municipal boundaries. At 29.65%, the current electoral district of New Westminster also exceeds the +/- 25% deviation. Although the city of New Westminster historically has had an electoral district that matches its municipal boundaries, its
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With the addition of Queensborough, the population of the entire Lulu Island now warrants a fourth electoral district. Our proposals combine Queensborough with the Hamilton neighbourhood of Richmond, most of East Richmond and a small part of the South Arm community. We call this electoral district Richmond-Queensborough. The community known as Richmond City Centre is the most populous part of the city and is also the fastest growing. Our proposals proportion this very dense community between two electoral districts. Richmond North Centre includes the area northwest of Richmond City Hall, including Sea Island. Richmond South Centre is oriented south-east of Richmond City Hall. Our proposals largely retain the existing RichmondSteveston electoral district as it is. However, to allow for future growth we have removed three blocks in the north-east of the district north of Francis Road and east of No. 2 Road from the current RichmondSteveston and placed this area in Richmond South Centre.
Surrey The City of Surrey continues to be a high growth area of the province. Seven of the eight electoral districts in Surrey are well over the provincial average and this rate of growth is projected to continue. Two districts already exceed the maximum allowable population range and two more are very close. The significantly higher than average population of the Surrey electoral districts leads to concerns about effective representation. In our view Surrey’s existing population and continued high growth warrants an additional electoral district in the area. Therefore, we are proposing that the number of electoral districts in the area be increased from eight to nine. We found it challenging to follow community boundaries as closely in Surrey as we have in other areas of the Lower Mainland due to the large populations in some of these communities. Many, such as Fleetwood and Newton, are too large for a single electoral district but not large enough for two. This has required us to propose electoral districts in Surrey that divide some communities between multiple electoral districts. We have divided these communities along natural boundaries such as rights of way, parks and major roads. Adding a new electoral district within the Surrey municipal boundaries that appropriately balances the population between the districts requires a substantial reconfiguration of the electoral districts. While a few districts in the north-west of the city and the district around White Rock are similar to the existing electoral districts in those areas, the remainder of the electoral districts in Surrey are substantially different from the current districts. Our proposed Surrey-Whalley electoral district has boundaries relatively similar to the current SurreyWhalley, with the exception of four square blocks north of 100 Avenue between 140 Street and 148 Street that have been removed from the current Surrey-Whalley and placed in Surrey-Guildford.
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population has now grown too large to maintain this. We heard from numerous members of the public that the Queensborough neighbourhood of New Westminster on Lulu Island has ties to Richmond in addition to its ties to the rest of New Westminster and that if changes to New Westminster are required, Queensborough residents could be effectively represented in a RichmondQueensborough electoral district. Therefore we propose combining the Queensborough neighbourhood with the East Richmond neighbourhood on Lulu Island. This shift brings New Westminster within the +/- 25% deviation range without requiring any further changes.
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Proposals – Lower Mainland
In contrast to the current Surrey-Tynehead electoral district, our proposed Surrey-Guildford electoral district includes four additional blocks in the Guildford area and will use Tynehead Park and Golden Ears Way as its southern boundary.
Our proposed Surrey-White Rock electoral district boundaries largely are consistent with the existing Surrey-White Rock; however we propose the district also include the community west of 128 Street, including the Crescent Beach neighbourhood.
Since 2008 the population of the current SurreyCloverdale district has grown by more than 55%, with almost all of this growth occurring in the dense Cloverdale and Clayton areas. These communities are now too large for a single electoral district and their population must assigned to two districts. Our proposed Surrey-Cloverdale electoral district includes the Cloverdale community north of Highway 10 and west of 188 Street. This district also includes parts of the current Surrey-Fleetwood and Surrey-Tynehead districts north of Cloverdale.
Since 2008 the population of the current SurreyCloverdale district has grown by more than 55%, with almost all of this growth occurring in the dense Cloverdale and Clayton areas. These communities now are too large for a single electoral district and their population must be assigned to two districts. Our proposed Surrey-Cloverdale electoral district includes the Cloverdale community north of Highway 10 and west of 188 Street. This district also includes parts of the current Surrey-Fleetwood and Surrey-Tynehead districts north of Cloverdale.
Our proposed Surrey-Fleetwood electoral district is more compact than the current Surrey-Fleetwood district, losing the neighbourhoods south of 80 Avenue and east of 160 Street to Surrey-Cloverdale, but adding blocks in the south and west.
Our proposed Surrey-Fleetwood electoral district is more compact than the current Surrey-Fleetwood district, losing the neighbourhoods south of 80 Avenue and east of 160 Street to Surrey-Cloverdale, but adding blocks in the south and west.
Our proposed Surrey-Green Timbers electoral district is also similar to the current Surrey-Green Timbers with the exception of two blocks that have been removed east of Bear Creek Park.
In contrast to the current Surrey-Tynehead electoral district, our proposed Surrey-Guildford electoral district includes four additional blocks in the Guildford area and will use Tynehead Park and Golden Ears Way as its southern boundary.
The eastern boundary of our proposed SurreyNewton electoral district ends at 144 Street, but now includes an additional block east of King George Boulevard north of 68 Avenue. Otherwise it largely is consistent with the current Surrey-Newton district. Our proposed district south of Surrey-Newton largely consists of the area that was in the SurreyPanorama district north of the BC Rail line. We propose this district be named Surrey-Panorama. South of Surrey-Panorama is our proposed Surrey South electoral district. Surrey South is the largest of our proposed Surrey electoral districts geographically. It stretches from Mud Bay east to the Langley border and from the Peace Arch border crossing north to East Cloverdale and Clayton.
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Electoral district
Area Population Deviation (%) (sq km)
Table 13: Proposed electoral districts – Lower Mainland – Greater Vancouver continued Electoral district
Area Population Deviation (%) (sq km)
Vancouver-Point Grey
60,611
14.1
42
Surrey-Newton
58,340
9.8
12
Vancouver-Quilchena
59,953
12.9
23
Surrey-Panorama
60,128
13.2
24
Vancouver-Fairview
59,701
12.4
9
Surrey South
57,807
8.8
125
Vancouver-Langara
60,041
13.0
15
Surrey-White Rock
58,527
10.2
68
Vancouver-Kensington
61,250
15.3
9
Vancouver-Fraserview
62,885
18.4
13
Vancouver-Kingsway
62,459
17.6
9
Vancouver-Hastings
59,491
12.0
14
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
58,041
9.3
13
Vancouver-False Creek
57,261
7.8
6
Vancouver-West End
57,287
7.8
14
54,894
3.3
9,598
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky West Vancouver-Capilano
57,173
7.6
80
North Vancouver-Lonsdale
57,431
8.1
25
North Vancouver-Seymour
58,120
9.4
388
Port Moody-Coquitlam
59,355
11.7
85
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
59,029
11.1
620
Port Coquitlam
60,813
14.5
35
Coquitlam-Maillardville
58,351
9.8
30
Burnaby-Lougheed
59,797
12.6
37
Burnaby North
58,159
9.5
23
Burnaby-Deer Lake
58,195
9.6
14
Burnaby-Edmonds
60,439
13.8
22
New Westminster
61,422
15.6
14
Richmond-Queensborough
55,627
4.7
92
Richmond North Centre
49,157
-7.5
440
Richmond South Centre
50,101
-5.7
7
Richmond-Steveston
55,539
4.6
30
Delta South
47,577
-10.4
464
Delta North
55,011
3.6
32
Surrey-Whalley
58,668
10.4
27
Surrey-Guildford
58,037
9.3
42
Surrey-Cloverdale
61,060
14.9
57
Surrey-Fleetwood
59,066
11.2
14
Surrey-Green Timbers
58,816
10.7
18
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Table 13: Proposed electoral districts – Lower Mainland – Greater Vancouver
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Fraser Valley
Proposals – Lower Mainland
As in the Greater Vancouver area, the Fraser Valley has seen significant growth. Fewer of the Fraser Valley electoral districts however are significantly over the provincial average. Because the permitted two additional electoral districts have been added in Richmond and Surrey, the electoral districts that exceed the +/-25% range in the Langley area need to be adjusted by pushing the boundaries of the Fraser Valley electoral districts farther east. Many of the communities in the Fraser Valley have populations either too large (e.g. Maple Ridge 80,434) or too small (e.g. Mission - 37,539) to have electoral districts aligned with municipal boundaries. Therefore, to balance the populations and continue to respect inter-governmental and community ties our proposed electoral districts in this area continue to cross municipal boundaries.
Langley The Langley area electoral districts typically have been self-contained electoral districts that have not crossed into other municipalities. However, this area has seen significant growth since 2008 and now its population is too high for two self-contained districts but does not yet warrant a third. Therefore we propose one electoral district centred around the City of Langley and two districts that combine the Township of Langley with the more rural areas of Abbotsford. One of our Langley area electoral districts consists of the City of Langley, and the Township of Langley neighbourhoods of Willowbrook and Willoughby south of Highway 1, and Brookswood. Throughout the province we received many suggestions to use natural boundaries such as rivers, mountains, highways and major arterial routes as electoral district boundaries. Our proposals for Langley and much of the Fraser Valley follow this guideline to create electoral districts that rely on these natural boundaries.
We propose using Highway 1 to create two electoral districts that will combine parts of the Township of Langley with parts of Abbotsford. The first of these districts is north of Highway 1 and includes Fort Langley, the remainder of the Township of Langley north of Highway 1 (including McMillan Island), and the Bradner-Mount Lehman, West Townline and East Townline neighbourhoods of Abbotsford. Its eastern boundary is the Fishtrap Creek Trail south of Maclure Road and Maclure, Clearbrook and Glenmore roads. We propose this district be named Fort Langley-Abbotsford. The second proposed district contains the remainder of the Township of Langley south of Highway 1 including Aldergrove, and the Aberdeen and South Poplar neighbourhoods of Abbotsford south of Highway 1 and west of the Sumas Way border crossing. We propose this district be named Aldergrove-Abbotsford.
Abbotsford Abbotsford is another rapidly growing area of the Fraser Valley. Unlike Langley, the Abbotsford area electoral districts often have crossed municipal boundaries into Mission and Chilliwack. Input to the commission suggested that many people in this area, especially in Mission, view dual-municipality districts in this area as an effective way to provide a high quality of representation. We have, thus, continued this tradition. Along with AldergroveAbbotsford and Fort Langley-Abbotsford, we propose two other Abbotsford electoral districts: Abbotsford Centre and Abbotsford-Mission. Abbotsford Centre is an exclusively Abbotsford electoral district which combines parts of the current Abbotsford South and Abbotsford West electoral districts. It encompasses the Abbotsford neighbourhoods north of Highway 1 and west of Highway 11 and east of Clearbrook and Glenmore roads. It is bounded by the Fraser River to the north.
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Chilliwack Our proposed Fraser-Nicola electoral district includes the District of Hope and the communities in Fraser Valley Regional District Electoral Area B (for more on this change, see page 36). Therefore, the remaining population in Chilliwack and the eastern end of the Fraser Valley must be rebalanced. We propose two electoral districts for this area centred around Chilliwack: Chilliwack-Sumas and Chilliwack-Kent.
Table 14: Proposed electoral districts – Lower Mainland – Fraser Valley Electoral district
Langley
Population Deviation (%)
Area (sq km)
60,535
14.0
38
Fort Langley-Abbotsford
61,113
15.0
182
Aldergrove-Abbotsford
59,203
11.5
272
Abbotsford Centre
59,330
11.7
40
Abbotsford-Mission
60,962
14.8
660
Chilliwack-Sumas
52,632
-0.9
224
Chilliwack-Kent
51,310
-3.4
5,279
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
58,287
9.7
1,980
Maple Ridge-Mission
58,697
10.5
392
Our proposed Chilliwack-Sumas electoral district includes the Sumas Prairie community of Abbotsford south of Highway 1 and the Greendale and Downtown Chilliwack neighbourhoods of Chilliwack. The electoral district boundary follows Vedder, Prest, Reeves and Jesperson roads to the east. Our proposed Chilliwack-Kent electoral district includes the neighbourhoods of Vedder Crossing, Rosedale, East Chilliwack and Camp River, as well as Cultus Lake, Kent, Agassiz and Harrison Hot Springs.
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The proposed Abbotsford-Mission electoral district contains the remainder of the city of Abbotsford north of Highway 1, the Fraser Valley Regional District Electoral Area H, the eastern part of Mission and the communities east of Mission to Harrison River. South of the Fraser River, this dualmunicipality district will be bounded by Highway 11 to the west and Highway 1 to the south and east to the Abbotsford-Chilliwack municipality borders at the Vedder River. North of the Fraser River we propose only one very small change to the current Abbotsford-Mission electoral district boundaries at Stave Lake.
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Nat Bailey Staduim Park
Hillcrest Park
E 2nd Ave
1A ¿ À
E 16th Ave
E King Edward Ave
W 2nd Ave
lo id M
i an th
0
1:19,600
Arbutus St
Arbutus St
Granville St
Granville St Granville St
Hemlock St
W
Oak St
Oak St
W 4th Ave
Cam bie
False Creek
Main St
Cambie St Cambie St
Main St Main St
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Electoral District
¯
Vancouver-Kensington Electoral District
Vancouver-False Creek Electoral District
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-Fairview
e Av
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0.25
0.5
1
(km)
Richmond Island
Vandusen Gardens Park
Dr
W 70th Ave
Park
W 49th Ave
Montgomery Park
W 41st Ave
Grant McConachie Way
W 64th Ave
Granville St Granville St
t
Arbutu sS
W 33rd Ave
Canad ian P
Oak Park
SW
Frase r R i ver
99
M
St Cambie
r
Tisdall Park
Vancouver
D ine ar
Eric Hamber Park
RR ific ac
0
1:30,000
M
Dr
Richmond North Centre Electoral District
SW
ine ar
Richmond
W 57th Ave
lvd
Angus Dr
Vancouver-Quilchena Electoral District
st B We
Angus D r
Oak St Oak St
E33rdAve
E 41st Ave
Canadian
Winona Park
RR Pacific
Vancouver-Langara Electoral District
Queen Elizabeth Park
W 29th Ave
Main St
Vancouver-Fairview Electoral District
Cambie St
W 33rd Ave
e Av Fraser St
SE Marine Dr
E 57th Ave
Vancouver-Kensington Electoral District
Knight S t
Vancouver-Fraserview Electoral District
Mitchell Island
Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District
E 49th Ave
Main St
n Fraser St
l id M a hi ot
Richmond
Knight St
Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-Langara
k Oa St
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-Kensington
¯
E 12th Ave
Clarke Dr
E 12th Ave
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Electoral District Trout Lake
Fraser St
Main St
E 16th Ave 1A ¿ À
John Hendry Park
Vancouver
Victoria Dr
Kingcrest Park
1A ¿ À
Vancouver-Kensington Electoral District E 33rd Ave
E 33rd Ave
Kensington Park
Vancouver
E 41st Ave
E 41st Ave
Vancouver-Langara Electoral District
E 49th Ave
Nanaimo St
Victoria Dr
E 49th Ave
Knight St
Fraser St
Main St
Memorial South Park
Vancouver-Fraserview Electoral District
1:19,000 0
0.25
0.5
1 (km)
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
E King Edward Ave
Kin gs wa y
Nanaimo S t
Knight St
Vancouver-Fairview Electoral District
Vancouver-Kingsway Electoral District
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Fraser St
Vancouver-Langara Electoral District
0
1:23,000
Fraser St
0.25
0.5
Canadian
SE Marine Dr
E 57th Ave
E 54th Ave
E 49th Ave
R
Mitchell Island
Pacific R
1
(km)
Knight St
Vancouver-Kensington Electoral District
Gordon Park
Victoria Dr
E 54th Ave
Canadian National RR
Victoria Dr
Knight St
Earles St
Fraser River
Vancouver
Richmond
Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District
Bobolink Park
Vancouver-Fraserview Electoral District
E 49 th Ave
Nanaimo Park
E 41st Ave
E 45th Ave
E 41st Ave
Kerr St
Rupert St
Lulu Island
Kerr St
Everett Crowley Park
Vancouver-Kingsway Electoral District
Kin gs wa y
¯
Burnaby
th A ve Imperial St
Boundary Rd
r Marine D
49
E 45th Ave
1A ¿ À
Marine Way
Champlain Park
Captain Cook Park
Tyne St
Vancouver
E
Boundary Rd
Nanaimo St Nanaimo St
Burnaby-Deer Lake Electoral District Burnaby-Edmonds Electoral District
Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-Fraserview
Clarke Dr
0
1:20,000
Knight St
Commercial Dr
0.25
0.5
Vancouver
Vancouver-Kensington Electoral District
1 (km)
E 33rd Ave
1A ¿ À
John Hendry Park
E 41st Ave
Renfrew St
R onal R n Nati
Kin gs wa y
Earles Park
Vancouver
Slocan Park
Vancouver-Kingsway Electoral District
E 45th Ave
E 41st Ave
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-Fraserview Electoral District
E 22nd Ave
Beaconsfield Park
Earles St
Victoria Diversion
Victoria Dr
Victoria Dr
Gra ndvie w Hwy S
Rupert St
Trout Lake
Nanaimo St
ia Canad
Ru pe rt St
Falaise Park
Grandview Hwy
E 45th Ave
1A ¿ À
E 29th Ave
E 22nd Ave
Boundary Rd
n a da
Way
1 ¿ À
Burke St
Burnaby
Burnaby North Electoral District
¯
Central Park
Burnaby-Deer Lake Electoral District
Moscrop St
Kincaid St
Boundary Rd
Vancouver-Hastings Electoral District
Rupert St
St Joy ce
Ca Smithe Ave
E 12th Ave
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-Kingsway
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Nanaimo St
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-Hastings City of North Vancouver
¯
North Vancouver-Lonsdale Electoral District
District Municipality of North Vancouver 1 ¿ À
Burrard Inlet RR
Com mi ss i one r
St
Boundary Rd
ic Pacif dian Cana
N Renfrew St
N Nanaimo St
Dundas St
Victoria Dr
Exhibition Park
Powell St
Burnaby E Hastings St
E Hastings St
Commercial Diversion
Adanac Park
Boundary Rd
Commercial Dr
Vancouver Rupert Park
E 1st Ave
E 1st Ave
Sa nta
Fe
E 12th Ave
RR
Gr a nd
1:21,000 0
0.25
0.5
1
ton ling Bur
rth No
7 ¿ À
y Hw 1 ¿ À
RR t a Fe San
Boundary Rd
rth
Rupert St
No
Renfrew St
E Broadway gto n
Kaslo St
Bu rlin
Nanaimo St
Commercial Dr
Lo
ug he
ed
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Electoral District
Adanac St
Vancouver-Hastings Electoral District
Venables St
Grandview Hwy
v ie w Hwy S
Vancouver-Kingsway Electoral District
(km)
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Burnaby North Electoral District
Commercial Dr
ll St Powe
Trans Canada Hwy
Proposals – Lower Mainland
McGill St
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant City of North Vancouver
EW at e rfro nt R Co d rd ov aS t
N Victoria Dr al ation dian N Cana t S ll
RR
e Pow
St
Taylor St
Kee fer St
Quebec St
Vancouver-False Creek Electoral District
Clark Dr
P
d er
Keefer Pl
Main St
Ho m er
W
en
Commercial Diversion
2n d
Av e
Vancouver-Hastings Electoral District
tional RR
g to nN orth
E
n Na a dia Can
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Electoral District
Bur lin
W 2nd Ave
E Hastings St
Venables St Strathcona Park
Term inal A ve
E 1st Ave
S an
ta F e
RR
Great Northern Way China Creek Park
Gra ndv iew H
wy N Ca n
E Broadway
ad i an
Knight St Vancouver-Kensington Electoral District
0.25
0.5
RR
E 12th Ave
Trout Lake John Hendry Park
E King Edward Ave
0
Commercial Dr
Fraser St Fraser St
Main St
Cambie St
Vancouver-Fairview Electoral District
1:26,000
Clark Park
Kin gs wa y
E 16th Ave
E Broadway Na tio n
al
Vancouver
E 12th Ave
W 16th Ave
Dundas St
St ell Pow
Prior St
Union St
False Creek
RR
Victoria Diversion
1A ¿ À
Vancouver-Kingsway Electoral District
1 (km)
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Pacific
Victoria Dr
ian nad Ca
Commercial Dr
W
¯
Burrard Inlet
St
Ho we
St
Vancouver-West End Electoral District
North Vancouver-Lonsdale Electoral District
sS t
Vancouver-Point Grey Electoral District
1:17,000
0.25
W 4th Ave
0.5
Kitsilano 6
Vanier Park
1 (km)
W 4A ve
St rd rra Bu
Pa cif ic S t
Da v ie St
Vancouver-West End Electoral District
n St
Vancouver-Fairview Electoral District
W 6th Ave
False Creek
Vancouver-False Creek Electoral District
Vancouver
Ne lso
Sm ith e St
Ro bs on St
W
Bu rra rd
St Can a
Ho w e
m Ca
e
Ge or gi a
bi
da Pl
St
Burrard Inlet
St
St
W
po
d Blv
Co rd ov a St Ha st in gs St
W
W
d 2n
ic cif Pa
n der S t
e Av
vd Bl
Pe
Wate rS t
Cana dian Pa
cific R R
Keefer Pl
Keefer St
Union St
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Electoral District
E 2nd Ave
¯
Main St
0
McNicoll Ave
Vancouver
Taylor St
English Bay
Maple St
Cornwall Ave
Arb utu
Arbutus St
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St
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om
t rS Ex
Ho m er St
W
Gr an vi ll
Quebec St
n Du ui sm
Queb ec S t
Burrard St
Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-False Creek
Main St
Proposals – Lower Mainland
1A ¿ À 99 ¿ À
Pipeline Rd
Vancouver-West End
y le an St
Stanley Park
au s
ew ay
St
Pa rk C
Sta n
ley an
ley
¯ Par k
Dr
Dr Park
Burrard Inlet Lost Lagoon Coal Harbour
St
WC ord ov
M
el v
ille
aS
t
St
St
Can a
da Pl
ad i an
t
Ha ro
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n
St
aS
t
sm ui
nt R
d
RR
Cana d Pacif ian ic RR
rS t
Wate r
St
W Co
St
St Vancouver-False Creek Electoral District
St
t
St
St e
nl an d
rd S
Georgia
M ai
ra Bur
Vanier Park
t
Gr an vi ll
Pa ci fic S
Be at ty
St
ie
Vancouver-False Creek Electoral District
Kitsilano 6 1:15,000 0
125
250
Electoral District Extents
500 (m)
St
rdov a St WH astin gs St
Ca m
St
Da v
Bu te
English Bay
Ne lso
Th ur lo w
Je rv is St
Av e
Nelson Park
or gi
ific
bi e
de ro Ca r
Be ac h
St
Ro bs on
Ge
Pa c
St
St
Vancouver
Wa ter fro
Ho m er
Pe nd re ll S
St
Bu rn ab y
Du n
Ho w e
Alexandra Park
W
W
Ca n
St
Bi dw el l
St
De nm an
Morton Park
Vancouver-West End Electoral District
WP end er
Proposals – Lower Mainland
St
St
n
St
Co m ox
St
St
Bu rra rd
La ne Pa rk
St
y
St
Ch
o ilc
Ha ro
St
Ne lso
Ba rc la
St
a gi or Ge
on bs Ro
Lagoon Dr
W
Al be rn i
False Creek
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Gold Bridge
Strathcona Regional District
Downton Lake
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
Squamish - Lill o
t oe
na Ca
"C
Upper Lillooet Provincial Park
is
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park
D'Arcy
Pemberton
Mount Currie 6
Sq u
99
am
ish
r o et A
Stein Valley Nlaka'pamux Heritage Provincial Park
e a "C"
R ho Ela
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
r ive
Whistler
Hwy
t Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District
Seato-S ky eR ive r
Tantalus Provincial Park
Garibaldi Provincial Park
99
Fraser Valley Regional District
Tzoon i
Cheakamus 11
Squamish
Sunshine Coast Regional District
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District
INSET A
Furry Creek
Ca
Gibsons Strait of Georgia
Lions Bay
Bowen Island
Greater Vancouver Regional District
North VancouverSeymour Electoral District
SEE INSET A
20 (km)
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Golden
PittBenbow Ears Park Lake ProvincialPark
WestLittle Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District Goose Goose Island IslandWest
Siwash Island City
of Maple Ridge
Strait of Georgia
Vancouver
Alouette M arin Lake e Stave Lake
Dr
28th St
1:800,000
l Rd
1
West Vancouver-Capilano Electoral District
Gambier Island
p ilan o R.
Sechelt
ada Hwy Trans Can
Creek
CoquitlamBurke Mountain Electoral District
Port Mellon
Cypress B ow
Rodgers
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Tetrahedron Provincial Park
10
Duffey Lake Provincial Park
Green River
Callaghan Lake Provincial Park
Powell River-Sunshine Coast Electoral District
5
Birken
Lillooet Lake
Sunshine Coast Regional District
0
e
-Lillo
Proposals – Lower Mainland
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District
ag ort nP o t
Pemb e
Pemberton Meadows
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
Clendinning Provincial Park
r
Rd
Sq ua
Powell River Regional District
m
Anderson Lake
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C"
Lil looe t R iver
e Inl vis r e J
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Powell River-Sunshine Coast Electoral District
A r ea
Proposals – Lower Mainland
West Vancouver-Capilano
Sis
C
ek re
Ri
v
te
rs
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District
o an pil Ca
North Vancouver-Seymour Electoral District
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Lynn Headwaters Regional Park
ow es C
ree k
Cypress Provincial Park
er
reek
Fel l
yC c ke Ni
Kennedy Lake
wn Cro
ek Cre
District Municipality of North Vancouver
West Vancouver
ay
sq
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d
gh D r Sout hbor ou
W Queens Rd 1A
Li o ns Br i G at dg e e
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District
ad i
an
Na
t io
nal
RR
Ke ith
2 (km)
Stanley Park
1A 99
Vancouver
1
W 23rd St
Rd
Marine Dr
MacKay Rd
Ma ri
City of North Vancouver
ne D
r W Keith Rd North Vancouver-Lonsdale Electoral District W Mission 1
Vancouver-West End Electoral District
1:52,000
E 29th St
Lonsdale Ave
C an
W
Westview Dr
d
oR
Capilano 5
Strait of Georgia
1
il a n
99
Greater Vancouver Regional District
0.5
no Ri ver Capila
Ca p
Marine Dr
W 29th St
William Griffin Park
1
Taylor Way
11th St
21st St
28th St
0
Lonsdale Ave
ada Hwy
r
15th St
Ma rine D
Ave
Hig hla nd Blv d
St ev en sD
a Tr
ns Can
Mathers Ave
W Rockland Rd
r
Dr
Highla Rd
Cross C re ek
Bl
vd
nt
oy al
tr
99
1
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o
k
to ui
M
on
nd
Queens Ave
M
Capilano River Montroyal Blvd Regional Park
Dr
Cyp ress Bow lR
Cr ee
ack M
an
Ballantree Park
Cre ek
c y Gre ene
Wa y
e rs C r e e k B r oth
k ree son C
r Creek Mar
k C ree D Mc on ald
La w
West Vancouver-Capilano Electoral District
Del bro ok
l Rd w
Cypress
Bo
Capilano Lake
Cypress Provincial Park
3rd St E3
rd S
t
Burrard Inlet
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Capilano Watershed Regional Park
11th St
99
0
1A
Can a
dia n
0.25
99
al R R
Na tio n
Marine Dr
Stanley Park
1
Lost Lagoon W
0.5
99
Capilano 5
1A
Ma rine D
iver ilano R Cap
(km)
Ge or gi a
St
Vancouver-West End us ew ay Electoral District
a kC
1:40,000
Am b Parleside k
1A
Taylor Way
e
Bri dg
Lio ns Ga te
Rd
no
r
W
Co
rd
ov
aS
t
W 16th St Ma rin eD
Heywood Park
W 23rd St
Mission 1
W
Can a
Pac if
ic R R
t
al
Burrard Inlet
t ell S Pow
RR
E 13th St
Na tio n
rd S
ad i an
Ca n
E3
W 13th St
Vancouver dia n
E 29th St
City of North Vancouver
1
W 29th St
Lonsdale Ave
Greenwood Park
Boulevard Park
H
Duchess Ave
ns-C ana da
1
Mountain Hwy
McGill St
Mai n St
Exhibition Park
Vancouver-Hastings Electoral District
E 3rd St Cott on R d
E Keith Rd
District Municipality of North Vancouver
Tr a
nn Ly
d yR lle a V
North Vancouver-Seymour Electoral District
North Vancouver-Lonsdale Electoral District
3rd St
W Keith Rd
Mahon Park
W 23rd St
W 29th St
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Electoral District
r
William Griffin Park
West Vancouver-Capilano Electoral District
Marine Dr
MacKay Rd
Trans-Canada Hwy
District Municipality of North Vancouver
Cap ila
Delbrook A ve Westview Dr
West Vancouver
St
1
Sta nl
ar ey P Bu rra rd
Lo nsd al
eA ve
Capilano River Regional Park
Grand Blvd E
ree k Lyn nC
Mounta in Hwy
Lynn Canyon Regional Park
1
ol la
r ton Hw y
Seymour Creek D 2
Mt Seymour Pky
Lillooet Rd
District Municipality of North Vancouver
Boundary Rd
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wy
Burnaby
Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
North Vancouver-Lonsdale
Proposals – Lower Mainland
North Vancouver-Seymour
ia n Ind
R iv e r
r iv e rR Sey m o u
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Electoral District on Hi x
d In
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
ek C re
Greater Vancouver Regional District
ian
Rive r Inlailawatash 4A
Seymour Lake
ee k
Cr e
Wigwam Inn Gr
Palisade Lake
d an
Burwell Lake
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Croker Island
North Vancouver-Seymour Electoral District
Bergs
ek Cr e Sisters
lan oR
iv er
Indian Arm Provincial Park
pi
Indian Arm
Ca
Lynn Headwaters Regional Park
Indian Arm Provincial Park
Capilano Watershed Regional Park
Capilano Lake
District Municipality of North Vancouver
District Municipality of North Vancouver
Mount Seymour Provincial Park
Se ym
o
R ur
C re e
k
West Vancouver
i v er
Lynn Creek
West Vancouver-Capilano Electoral District
o
t ui
North Vancouver-Lonsdale Electoral District
City of North Vancouver
Vancouver
Rd ey
a
Hw
y
Mt Seymour Pky
D
Mt Seymour Pky
Deep Cove Rd
l RR
d
on a
Tran
Duchess Ave
Belcarra
Park
na
ati
nnLynn Canyon Ly Regional
Berkley Rd
Marine Dr
E 29th St
Port Moody-Coquitlam Electoral District
ll Va
a s-C
na dia nN
Buntzen Lake
Mountain Hwy
W 29th St
1
Lonsdale Ave
Montroyal Blvd 99
Ca
W Rockland Rd
Mo
sq
Capilano River Regional Park
Burrard Inlet rton Hwy 3 olla
Burrard Inlet
Indian Arm Sasamat Lake
Belcarra Regional Park
Anmore
Port Moody
Seymour Creek 2
1:125,000 0
1
2
4 (km)
VancouverHastings Electoral District
1 Burnaby North Electoral District
Burnaby Burnaby-Lougheed Electoral District
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
River
p Cr stca Ea
ek
o ilan Cap
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Port Moody-Coquitlam
Murray St
f ld
o
Balmoral Dr
i Gu
rd
Port Moody
CoquitlamBurke Mountain Electoral District
St Johns St
7A
Mundy Park
Hydro R/W
Hawser Ave
Indian Arm Provincial Park
Coquitlam-Maillardville Electoral District
Como Lake Ave
M a
Ther m
CoquitlamBurke Mountain Electoral District
Lake Buntzen
Wa y
Dr al
Hydro R/W
Pinnacle Creek Ravine Park
Greater Vancouver Regional District
North VancouverSeymour Electoral District
Pier Dr
Trunk Rd
Port Moody-Coquitlam Electoral District
Coquitlam
Indian Arm
Anmore
Canadian Pacific RR
Dewdney
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Thwaytes Landing Regional Park Reserve
Guildford Dr
Barnet Hw y
Indian Arm Provincial Park
Mount Seymour Provincial Park
INSET A
ay W
er rin
Indian Arm Provincial Park
Buntzen Lake
Mount Seymour Provincial Park
Belcarra
District Municipality of North Vancouver
Belcarra Regional Park Sasamat Lake
Coquitlam
Port Moody-Coquitlam Electoral District
Anmore
el
lB
ay
Rd
w
East Rd
st Ea
Be d
Rd
d e Rd
i
Su n nys
Indian Arm
First Ave
Belcarra Regional Park
Ioco
r no Pa
Rd
Port Moody
am a Dr Dav id A ve
Burrard Inlet c RR n Pacifi Canadia
Barnet H wy 7A
o un
t ain
Burnaby-Lougheed Electoral District
P ky
Burnaby
Ga gla rd iW ay
Cecile Dr
M
Glenayre Dr
by
St Johns St
7A
Port Moody
Asila Ave
Coquitlam Como Lake Ave
1
2 (km)
Foster Ave
Robinson St
0.5
Broadway
7
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Como Lake
nsbury St
0
Eastlake Dr
Gate
Broadway
North Rd
Como Lake Ave 1:62,000
SEE INSET A
Murray St
7A
ke Rd
rn a
Cla r
Bu
North Rd
Burnaby Mountain Park
Mundy Park
Foster Ave
Coquitlam-Maillardville Electoral District
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
Canadian Pacific Ra
Port MoodyCoquitlam Electoral District
Fraser Valley Regional District
ay
Barnet Hwy
7A
ne Mari
y
7
r Way
Coquitlam
Pinnacle Creek Ravine Park
INSET A
ilwa
Lin co
Westwood St
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
Guildford Dr
eW
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District
tre
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District
Port Moody
Johnson St
Rive r
Lafarge Lake
Guildford Way
Balmoral Dr
qu a m
Pin e
Pinecone Burke Provincial Park
M
am
Town Centre Park
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Electoral District
7
ln Ave
Port Coquitlam Electoral District Lo ug he ed Hw y
Port Coquitlam
Coquitlam-Maillardville Electoral District Pi tt
ve Ri
t ui
De
ck Be
Coq
C
n dia In
r ee
ek
k
Riv er
Fraser Valley Regional District
a nd Cree k
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Gr
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Electoral District
Cre ek Osprey
Pinecone Burke Provincial Park
Granite Falls
Indian Arm Provincial Park
Indian Arm Provincial Park
Widgeon Lake
Williams Landing
Greater Vancouver Regional District
North Vancouver-Seymour Electoral District
Golden Ears Provincial Park
yC
Mount Seymour Provincial Park
Buntzen Bay
n ke
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District
W
District Municipality of North Vancouver
Bl a
Pitt Lake
id geon Cr ee k
re e k
Coquitlam Lake
Port MoodyCoquitlam Electoral District
re Or C
ek
Maple Ridge
Pinecone Burke Provincial Park
In di
an
Ar m
Buntzen Lake
Pitt
Widgeon Marsh Lake Regional Park 4
Coquitlam Quar ry R
Anmore
Port Moody
Pitt-Addington Marsh Wildlife Management Area
d
1
2
Coquitlam 4 (km)
Coquitlam
CoquitlamMaillardville Electoral District
SEE INSET B
P
itt
er Riv
Pitt Meadows
Coquitlam River Park
Lincoln Ave
Port Coquitlam Port Coquitlam Electoral District
INSET B
Victoria Dr D
eB
o
le vi l
let In
SEE INSET A
1:195,000 0
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Electoral District
Wellington St
7A
BurnabyLougheed Electoral District
Ave
Mason Ave
Burrard
Burnaby
David
Oxford St
Belcarra Regional Park
Belcarra
S l oug
h
Freemont St
Port Coquitlam
Lincoln Ave
Port Coquitlam Electoral District
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
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Cr
e ers ck Vi
l am
Ri v
r
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
R iv er
Port Coquitlam
Coq
uitla m
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Electoral District
ria cto Vi
Minnekhada Regional Park
Dr
David Ave
Coast Meridian Rd Ap el Dr
rD
r De B o
Fremont St Lincoln Park
vi l l
eS lou
Lincoln Ave
Coast Meridian Rd
er Riv
M
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Pa cif Kin ic gs RR wa yA ve ss ypa ll B i yH
ive r
wy
Old Dewdney Trunk Rd
7
Dr
Shaug h
nessy St
Woolridge Rd
Cit a
de l
Colony Farm Regional Park
gh ee dH
Ca n
Ke nn ed y
We st e r
n Dr
Pitt Ri
Coquitlam 2
v er
7
Lo u ad i an
Rd
ive r tR
Port Coquitlam Electoral District
Pi tt R
McLean Ave
R Alouette iver
Rd
Port Coquitlam
Rd
t Pi
Coquitlam 1
Ma ry H ill B y
ss pa
Tree Island
South Fr
Pitt River Regional Greenway
Douglas Island
Frase rR
aser P erim
ad i an
Pitt Meadows Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District
Ford Rd
Ford Rd
eter Rd Ca n
ad ia
Surrey
1:45,000 0.5
Ca n
iver
1
0
gh
Cedar Dr
St
Reeve St Park
Loug heed Hwy
7
rn Dr
r Ch il
ay Ave
Co ast Ov Mer erp idi ass an
Rd
sw King
Rd
nk
Westwood St
ru yT
ko D
da Ce
Prairie Ave
Broadway St
ne
S ha ughnessy
wd
tw es W
d oo
St
Hw y
Mary Hill
De
gh ee d
Coquitlam
Co q uitlam
Victoria Dr
Lo u
Ea ste
7A
Linc oln Ave
Coquitlam
Oxford St
Pipe line
Pin e
Barnet Hwy
Coquitlam River Park
Rd
t re e Way
Lafarge Lake
Glen Dr
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Mason Ave
Wellington St
Johnson St
Town Centre Park
1
2 (km)
n
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District
Na tio n
al
RR
Surrey Bend Regional Park
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Barnston Island Greater Vancouver Regional District
Pa ci
fic
RR
0
0.25
1:35,000
0.5
1
(km)
Foster Ave
Como Lake
Surrey-Whalley Electoral District
Canadian National RR
United Blvd
nada H wy
Ave ette Brun
Blue Mountain St
Trans-C a
Alderson Ave
Coquitlam
Robinson St
New Westminster Electoral District
Hume Park
Rochester Ave
Coquitlam
7A
Port Moody-Coquitlam Electoral District
Thermal Dr Booth Creek Park
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ia ad
cR
R
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ay ne r W
1
Ma
Pa cif ic R R
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Coquitlam 2
Rive
Port Coquitlam tt Pi
v ay A
lam u it Coq
sw King
Reeve St Park
7B
e
Douglas Island
Port Coquitlam Electoral District
Colony Farm Regional Park
ry Hill Bypass
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District
Tree Island
Coquitlam 1
Colony Farm Regional Park
ver
7
Ca na dia n
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Electoral District
Coquitlam
Hawser Ave
ari
Pier Dr
Canadian Pacific RR
Austin Ave
ifi ac nP
Mundy Park
Como Lake Ave
Pinnacle Creek Ravine Park
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey
Fraser River
Loug heed Hwy Hwy 7
Coquitlam-Maillardville Electoral District
Como Lake Ave Schoolhouse St
Port Moody
St Johns St
Linton St
ke Rd
Cla r
Austin Ave
New Westminster
1
7
Burnaby
Gatensbury St
Gatensbury St
Westwood St
Hydro R/W M
Hydro R/W in Mar er W ay
R
Burnaby-Lougheed Electoral District
North Rd
North Rd
E Columbia St
Cr es i v e rv ie w
Foster Ave
Braid St
Coqu itla m Ri
er
w De d kR un r T ey dn Ri v
7A
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Coquitlam-Maillardville
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Burnaby-Lougheed North Vancouver-Seymour Electoral District
¯
Port Moody-Coquitlam Electoral District
Belcarra Regional Park
District Municipality of North Vancouver
Port Moody Burrard Inlet Can a
Barnet Beach Park
dia n
ic R
7A ¿ À
R
Barn ett H wy
7A ¿ À
M ou
Curtis St
Un
nt a in
ty rsi ive
Dr W
Port Moody P ky
Univ
North Rd
Sperling Ave
E er s ity Dr
Ga gla rd iW Burnaby-Lougheed ay
Squint Lake Park
ke Rd
Burnaby
Burnaby North Electoral District Halifax St
Electoral District
Cla r
Kensington Ave
Bu rn ab y
Duthie Ave
Hastings St
7A ¿ À
Bro ad w ay
7 ¿ À
Br o a dw ay Como Lake Ave
Underhill Ave
Broadway
Lou ghe ed Hw y
St
1 ¿ À
on Ave
o
ke
o
Rd
da H
wy
Craig St
fi Lak e
th 16
e Av
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Fr a
se r
vd Bl
St 1A ¿ À
e Av th 0 1 ve hA t gh Ei
e
h 4t
(km)
New Westminster McB rid
1:40,000 2
e Av
St
ay W
Burnaby-Edmonds Electoral District
th 10
h 4t
a ad
Burnaby
t lS
Robert Burnaby Park
E Columbia St
D
n Ca ria pe Im
n e tte R i ve
Holmes St
r
1 ¿ À
r
e ld
Deer Lake Park
Burnaby-Deer Lake Electoral District
Colby St
1 ¿ À
u Br
Burnaby Lake Regional Park
Nursery St Lake field Dr
7 ¿ À
b
Tra nsCan a
North Rd
Kensingt
Austin Rd
ri Ca
Bur nab
CoquitlamMaillardville Electoral District
Cameron St
y La
1
Foster Ave
RR nal RR atio N n a Fe ant adia hS Can t r No ton ling Bur
Deer Lake
0.5
Stoney Creek Park
7 ¿ À
Charles Rummel Park
Deer Lake Ave
0
Coquitlam
Eastlake Dr
Ri ve r
n sto in W
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Inle
tD
r
Burnaby Mountain Park
Pac if
1A ¿ À
Proposals – Lower Mainland
North VancouverLonsdale Electoral District
Burnaby North District Municipality of North Vancouver
North Vancouver-Seymour Electoral District
Burrard Inlet
i Pac i an ad
N Boundary Rd
Montrose Park
R
n Ca
Scenic Park
N Willingd on Ave
N Gilmore Ave
Stratford Park
Confederation Park
Eton St
Hastings St
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Burnaby Heights Park
Oxford St
Delta Ave
Holdom Ave
Sperling Ave
Hastings St
Parker St
Curtis St
Burnaby Burnaby North Electoral District
Burnaby-Lougheed Electoral District
Vancouver-Hastings Electoral District
R fic
Broad wa
Lougheed Hw y 7
Kensington Ave
Burnaby y
7
Burlington North Santa Fe RR Canadian National RR
Br
o ad
ve nA K e singto n
1
Trans-Canada Hwy
Boundary Rd
Sprott St
K ensingto n A ve
Schou St
Willingdon Ave
Canada Way
Gilmore Way
Vancouver-Kingsway Electoral District
Grandview Hwy
1
Vancouver
0.25
0.5
Burnaby-Deer Lake Electoral District
1 (km)
Forest Glen Park
Ca na da
Century Park Way
Gilpin St
Burnaby Lake Regional Park
ky
Deer Lake Ave
W ay
Bur n Lak aby e
P
1:30,000
P ky
Royal Oak Ave
Burnaby Moscrop St Dee rL a ke
0
way
De er L a k e Deer Lake Park
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Vancouver
Boundary Rd
Vancouver-Kingsway Electoral District
0
0.25
0.5
Imperial St
Central Park
1
1A
Gilmore Way
(km)
Wilingdon Ave
Lak e
P ky
Deer Lake Park
Dee r L ak
Burnaby-Edmonds Electoral District
e
Ca n ad a W ay
Oakland St
Deer Lake
Century Park
Deer Lake Ave
Century Park Way
Burnaby-Deer Lake Electoral District Dover St
Burnaby
Forest Glen Park
Rumble St
Kin gsw ay
Gra nge St
Bond St
De er
Sprott St
1
Burnaby
s rri Bu
Burnaby-Lougheed Electoral District
wy
St
St
ria pe Im
ry se
t lS
Burnaby Lake Tra nsCan Regional Park ada Hw y
r Nu
7
Bur nab y La ke
Lou ghe ed H
St
ld fie ay M
ds on m Ed
ay W
1:28,000
Burke St
Moscrop St
Kincaid St
Smith Ave
Smith Ave
Burnaby
er a lk W
Vancouver-Fraserview Electoral District Boundary Rd
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Patterson Ave
Ca
W illi ng d on Av e
Royal Oak Ave
Burnaby North Electoral District
Pk y
A ve
Kensington
Canada Way
Nelson Ave
rth No on e RR t ng F rli ta an Bu San di RR na al Ca tion Na
Royal Oak Ave
La St
Robert Burnaby Park
dD i el ke f
Gilley Ave
Trans-Canada Hwy
Sperling Ave
Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
Burnaby-Deer Lake r
e Av
Vancouver
0.5
1
(km)
or ect Con n
e Av
91A
Fraser River
Poplar Island
Delta
Annacis Island
New Westminster Electoral District
New Westminster
th 10
e Av
Burnaby-Lougheed Electoral District
RR
Gilley Ave
Proposals – Lower Mainland
or sb
gh ou
St
n he r
0.25
North East Bog Forest Park
Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park
th gh Ei
1A
St
S out
1:34,000
Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District
RR
Way
ick nw Fe
nal
Marin e
e Av
St
Nat io
Burnaby-Edmonds Electoral District
th 10
th tie en w T
dia n
Fra ser Riv er
n Pacif ic RR
Nelson Ave Canad ia
r
Ki ng sw ay
ds on m d E
t
Ma rin eD
t lS
hS
Can a
Way
Sussex Ave
Fraser River Park
Sperling Ave
Southridge Dr
1A
ria pe Im
St
t elf Tw
Nort h Fr aser
Burnaby
Kin gsw ay
Burnaby-Deer Lake Electoral District
rri Bu
ld fie ay M
St
0
Boundary Rd
Oakland St
t sS
Griffiths Dr
Royal Oak Ave
Robert Burnaby Park
St
Marine Way
Marine Dr
Rumble St
Imperial St
Central Park
1A
Deer Lake
th gh Ei
Richmond
Vancouver-Fraserview Electoral District
da na h 6t
Boundary Rd
Ca
Patterson Ave
St
St
en
h 4t
h 4t
Que
Deer Lake Park
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Burnaby-Edmonds
ay W
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
New Westminster 7
Coquitlam-Maillardville Electoral District o rth Santa Fe R R
Craig St
Holmes St
h 4t St EE
iver
t
te R
Br u n et
t
h
ay W
St
th gh Ei
e Dr
Stewardso
n Wa
y
l ya Ro
e Av Co
a bi lum
St
Fr
t ia S er as
r ve Ri
Ol d
Ya le
Rd
r Ta n
bo ns
New Westminster
er RR Pe rim et er Rd
So ut he rn
ry R
d
10
Surrey 4
A ve
Annacis Island
Surrey-Whalley Electoral District
Scott Rd
ad i an
RichmondQueensborough Electoral District
Ca n
ctor ne
e Av
y Wa nt we Der
e Qu e
en Ew
er uth So
ne
Na tio na l
yd Bo Lulu Island
hF ras
St
R nR
So ut
RR
RR
91A
ro ug hC on
e rn uth So
Richmond
e Av
Poplar Island
Mari ne W ay
Boundary Rd
St
t gh Ei
ve hA
th Six
l RR ona ati
King George Blvd
1A
th tie en Tw
dg
Ca
nN dia na
Rd
t
New Westminster Electoral District
EC
hS
Moody Park
olu mb
St
Queens Park
e Av th 10
M ar in eD
91A
New Westminster
xt Si
a ad
t elf Tw
r sD i th i ff Gr Sou thri
e
vd Bl
S nd co Se
n Ca 1A
Burnaby-Edmonds Electoral District
adian Can al RR ion Nat
S nd rla be
McB rid
Burnaby King swa y
Braid St
e Av
m Cu
e Av th 6 1
t lS
h ht ig
Hume Park
Av e
t 10
ve hA
7
et te River
Br un et te
d
Dr eld
Robert Burnaby Park
Burnaby-Deer Lake Electoral District
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Colby St
R oo
ef i Lak
Burnaby-Lougheed Electoral District
Coquitlam
Hw y
un Br
a Tr
C a rib
Burnaby Lake Regional Park
da na Ca ns
Burnaby
y Hw
North Rd
ke
1
1A
gh ee d
E Columbia St
y La
ria pe Im
Lo u
1
Bur nab
Ind ust ria l
Bu rl i n gto n N
Delta 1:35,000
Delta North Electoral District
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0
0.25
0.5
1 (km)
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Richmond-Queensborough Burnaby Lake Regional Park
1A ¿ À
Vancouver-Fraserview Electoral District
1A ¿ À
Vancouver
k Oa
Shell Rd
Mitchell I.
St
Poplar I.
¿ À
Na tio
Burnaby
91A ¿ À
Rive r Rd
91 ¿ À
Richmond
Westminster Hwy
New Westminster
RR
Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District
Cambie Rd
New Westminster Electoral District
n Pacif ic RR
Cana dian
Alderbridge Way 99
No 4 Rd
Canad ia
l na
Richmond North Centre Electoral District
Burnaby-Edmonds Electoral District
Knight St
99 ¿ À
Westminster Hwy
Annacis Island
Granville Ave
No 4 Rd
Richmond South Centre Electoral District
¯
Lulu Island
Blundell Rd
Delta North Electoral District Tilbury Island
Williams Rd
se
a Fr
¿ À 99
Deas Island Park
Finn Rd
Kirkland I.
Gunn I.
Duck I.
ive rR
River Rd
Richmond-Steveston Electoral District
Steveston Hwy
r
a ser P
No 3 Rd
Francis Rd
i er
rR te me
r S. F
oad
Burns Bog Regional Park
17 ¿ À
Delta South Electoral District 17A ¿ À
Delta
Barber I.
e Ladn
Ladner Trunk Rd
Musqueam 4
nk Rd
r Tru
Boundary Bay 1:90,000 0
Tsawwassen Lands
1
2
4 (km)
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Vancouver-Langara Electoral District
1 ¿ À
Deer Lake
Electoral District Extents
Strait of Georgia
Iona Beach Regional Park
Sea Island 3
Swishwash Island
Deering I.
McDonald Beach Park
Richmond-Steveston Electoral District
Blundell Rd
Lulu Island
Sea Island
Vancouver 99 ¿ À
na Ca
Richmond I.
Way Grant McCo na chie
Richmond North Centre Electoral District
Iona Beach Regional Park
Richmond
Musqueam 2
Vancouver-Quilchena Electoral District
No 1 Rd
Vancouver-Point Grey Electoral District
Ru s
0
0.5
1
99
Richmond Nature Park
91 ¿ À
Hw y
Richmond
Alderbridge Way
¿ À 99
Bridgeport Rd
Cambie Rd
Westminster Hwy
¯
Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District
Vancouver-Langara Electoral District
Richmond South Centre Electoral District
Granville Ave
Minoru Park
sB a k er W ay Gilb ert Rd
Granville St
Rive r Fras er Pa ci fic RR
di an
Rd No 3
Arbutus St
No 2 Rd No 2 Rd
Garden City Rd
SW Mari ne D r
Railway Ave
No 4 Rd
No 4 Rd
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St
Shell Rd
k Oa
2 (km)
1:52,500
Canadian National RR
Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
Richmond North Centre
No 2 Rd
0
125
1:15,000
250
Francis Rd
Blundell Rd
Granville Ave
(m)
500
Blundell Park
eR ur z A
Richmond-Steveston Electoral District
Lulu Island
Minoru Park
Richmond North Centre Electoral District Minoru B lvd
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District
Palmer Park
Richmond
Richmond South Centre Electoral District
Westminster Hwy Garden City Rd
Garden City Rd
Richmond
Gilbert Rd Gilbert Rd
No 2 Rd
No 2 Rd
No 3 Rd No 3 Rd
Westminster Hwy
Francis Rd
Blundell Rd
Granville Ave
No 4 Rd No 4 Rd
Westminster Hwy
¯
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Richmond South Centre
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d
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Richmond-Steveston
¯
Richmond Granville Ave
Richmond North Centre Electoral District Richmond South Centre Electoral District Blundell Rd
No 2 Rd
Railway Ave
No 1 Rd
Blundell Rd
Blundell Park
Francis Rd
Williams Rd
Williams Rd Steveston Park
Steves Park
Richmond-Steveston Electoral District
Lulu Island Moncton St
Ste ves ton
Isla nd
Richmond Finn Rd
Fraser River
Delta South Electoral District
Delta
1:41,000 0
0.5
1
Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District
Steveston Hwy
No 2 Rd
Railway Ave
Garry Point Park
No 1 Rd
Steveston Hwy
2 (km)
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Westham Island
No 3 Rd
Strait of Georgia
Gilbert Rd
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Hugh Boyd Park
No 3 Rd
Francis Rd
Gilbert Rd
Francis Rd
1
2
No 3 Rd
4
Gunn I.
17 ¿ À
1 Ave
Tsawwassen Lands
Deltaport Way
Barber I.
Musqueam 4
(km)
Canadian National RR
Kirkland I.
99 ¿ À
17A ¿ À
Deas Island Regional Park
Rd
99 ¿ À
er Riv
Tilbury I.
d ay R
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Rd
Boundary Bay
Delta
Rive r R d
Burns Bog Regional Park
Canadian National RR
Delta South Electoral District
17 ¿ À
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Washington Washington
B
¿ À 17
ter
10 ¿ À
South Fraser Per i me
Ladner Trunk Rd
62B St
a ry
Bo u n d
0
1:100,000
Strait of Georgia
Westham Island
Steveston I.
Richmond
Steveston Hwy
Arthur Dr
Richmond-Steveston Electoral District
Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District
Rd Riv er
56 St
iver er R Fras
Delta
ton No rth
91 ¿ À
Electoral District Extents
99 ¿ À
Bu rl in g
64 Ave S
Delta North Electoral District
72 Ave
No r d el W ay
unk R d er Tr Ladn
91 ¿ À
120 St
Lulu Island
10 ¿ À
64 Ave
Surrey
¯
Surrey-Panorama Electoral District
17 ¿ À
RR
Surrey South Electoral District
e ta F an
Surrey-White Rock Electoral District
Annacis I.
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Delta South
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Delta North
¯
New Westminster Electoral District
Burnaby-Edmonds Electoral District
C Na ana tio dia na n lR R
New Westminster 91A À ¿
Burnaby
17 ¿ À
Richmond-Queensborough Electoral District
120 St
116 St
er R im et
Pe r se
r
92 Ave
Fr a
De rw en t
r
h
ut So
Ri ve
Annacis Island
96 Ave
d
e Av en d ive
W ay
Cl
Westminster Hwy
River Rd
Fr a
ser
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Whalley Electoral District
96 Ave
91 ¿ À
Richmond
Surrey
Don Island
No rd el W ay
North Delta Park
RR
Rd Rive r
rn he ut So
Lion Island
84 Ave
91 ¿ À
¿ À
SurreyGreen Timbers Electoral District
80 Ave
17
Delta North Electoral District
gt in
Bu rl
on
r th No
112 St
e RR
Burns Bog Regional Park
Delta South Electoral District
116 St
ta F Sa n
75A Ave
72 Ave
Cougar Canyon Park
91 ¿ À
Surrey-Newton Electoral District
Delta Burns Bog Regional Park
64 Ave
64 Ave
Kittson Pky
Surrey
91 ¿ À
Surrey-Panorama Electoral District
Delta 1:50,000 0
0.5
1
10 ¿ À
120 St
10 ¿ À
e Ladn
2
nk Rd
r Tru
(km)
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¿ À 99
ne Hwy Vancouver-Blai
91 ¿ À
Rive r
0
0.25
1:34,800
0.5
Ave
1
(km)
92 Ave
Delta North Electoral District
96
17 ¿ À
na
Ca
RR Pe rim e te rR d
Delta
Surrey
Ol d Ya le
Robson Ravine Park Robson Park
Surrey-Green Timbers Electoral District
Royal Kwantlen Park
108 Ave
Surrey-Whalley Electoral District
Whalley Ball Park
112 Ave
17 ¿ À
Bolivar Park
Proposals – Lower Mainland
100 Ave
Rd
King George Blvd
Bridgeview Park
128 St
1A ¿ À
100 Ave
92 Ave
96 Ave
Rd
104 Ave
106 Ave
or en sv o Gr
102 Ave
Fraser River
Coquitlam
108 Ave
Invergarry Park
Victoria Park
S. Fraser Perimeter Rd
1 ¿ À
Surrey
Fra ser Hw y 1A ¿ À
96 Ave
Green Timbers Urban Forest Park
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District
Hawthorne Park
Bo
re
¯
d
Fras er
Annacis Island
New Westminster Electoral District
di a n S. Na Fra tio se na r l
116 St
Sc ot tR d
o na l R R Canad ian Nati
132 St
Queens Park
134 St
1A ¿ À
City Pky
New Westminster
Whalley Blvd
Coquitlam-Maillardville Electoral District
King George Blvd
¿ À
124 St
140 St
C r eek
1A
120 St
RR
140 St
rn he ut So
142A St
yR
ccord
r Su
nA
Burnaby
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Whalley
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17
¿ À
Coquitlam
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0.5
88 Ave
1:53,000
0
B
142A St
108 Ave
1
Fra ser Hw y
1 ¿ À
2
(km)
Surrey-Fleetwood Electoral District
Surrey-Green Timbers Electoral District
100 Ave
104 Ave
106 Ave
C r e ek
on Ac cor d
Frase rR
iver
152 St
1A ¿ À
96 Ave
100 Ave
104 Ave
108 Ave
112 Ave
Port Coquitlam
Port Coquitlam Electoral District
156 St
Coquitlam-Maillardville Electoral District
148 St
Surrey-Whalley Electoral District
140 St
y Rd
ive r Pi tt R
¿ À 17
S.
Fr as i
n
Tra nsCan a
96 Ave
wy
RR
da H
al
Na tio n
Surrey Bend Regional Park ad ia
Ca n
er Pe r
Tynehead Regional Park
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District
Surrey
Douglas Island
168 St
Rd
¿ À 15
176 St
r re Su
er et m
Surrey
Surrey-Cloverdale Electoral District
Golden Ears Way 1 ¿ À
88 Ave
92 Ave
96 Ave
Katzie 1
Hw y
¯
Langley Electoral District
Township of Langley
Fort LangleyAbbotsford Electoral District
Lo ug he ed
Golden Ears Way
Barnston Island 3
Barnston Island
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Pitt Meadows
7 ¿ À
192 St
Maple Ridge
160 St
Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Guildford
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey Bend Regional Park
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District
17 ¿ À
Tran s 100 Ave
Can a
¯
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Barnston Island
da H wy
Fra ser R
Barnston Island 3
ive r
176 St
1 ¿ À
92 Ave
92 Ave
162 St
Surrey-Fleetwood Electoral District
88 Ave
Rd
Fra ser Hw y 15 ¿ À
152 St
156 St
80 Ave
80 Ave
Surrey-Cloverdale Electoral District
Fleetwood Park
76 Ave
Surrey
72 Ave
r
District Municipality of Langley
188 St
e tin e R i v
1A ¿ À
Fra se rH wy 64 Ave
64 Ave
So ut he rn
RR
60 Ave
192 St
56 Ave
188 St
184 St
180 St
10 ¿ À
175 St
168 St
cL el la M Hwy 10
ley ng a L
By
ss pa
RR
Mound Farm Park
City of Langley
Canadian Pacific
56 Ave
O ld
156 St
n
Rd
Surrey-Panorama Electoral District
CLoverdale Athletic Park
176 St
152 St
Serpe n
192 St
76 Ave
Langley Electoral District
Ha rv ie
160 St
88 Ave
196 St
1A ¿ À
1 92 St
Golden Ears Way
168 St
164 St
160 St
96 Ave
Fort Langley-Abbotsford Electoral District
Tynehead Regional Park
Surrey South Electoral District 15 ¿ À
1:55,000 0
0.5
1
2 (km)
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
1 ¿ À
0
Surrey
140 St
140 St
0.5
Surrey-Newton Electoral District
Bear Creek Park
1
(km)
80 Ave
84 Ave
88 Ave
Mah C re ek
144 St
144 St
76 Ave
British Manor Park
92 Ave
148 St
148 St
96 Ave
Enver Creek Park
Price Creek Park
Fra ser Hw y
Green Timbers Urban Forest Park
Surrey
Maple Park
Maple Green Park
Barry Mather Park
¿ À 1A
Meagan Anne MacDougall Park
Lionel Courchene Park
Surrey-Fleetwood Electoral District
80 Ave
152 St
152 St
Surrey-Green Timbers Electoral District
0.25
1:27,000
King George Blvd
1A ¿ À
146 St
Fra ser Hw y
96 Ave
Hemlock Park
North Surrey Community Park
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District
160 St
Fleetwood Park
82 Ave
84 Ave
160 St
100 Ave 156 St 156 St
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Serpentine Heights 92 Ave Park
1A ¿ À
Tynehead Regional Park
Surrey-Cloverdale Electoral District
88 Ave
162 St
Proposals – Lower Mainland
¯
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Fleetwood
ood
Delta
0
0.25
1:29,000
Delta North Electoral District
120 St
0.5
120 St
122 St
75A A ve
80 Ave
82 Ave
84 Ave
1
88 Ave y No rde l Wa
Kennedy Park
92 Ave
124 St
(km)
75 Ave
Strawberry Hill Park
So ut he rn
126 St RR
Newton Athletic Park
76 Ave
128 St
134 St
Surrey-Green Timbers Electoral District
William Beagle Park
128 St
96 Ave
Surrey-Whalley Electoral District
132 St
1A
Surrey
Bear Creek Park
138 St
96 Ave
80 Ave
84 Ave
88 Ave
100 Ave
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Newton Electoral District
132 St
Surrey
King George Blvd King George Blvd
140 St 140 St
vd
124 St
1A
76 Ave
100 Ave
96 Ave
Surrey-Panorama Electoral District
Enver Creek Park
Surrey-Fleetwood Electoral District
Price Creek Park
British Manor Park
92 Ave
Fra ser Hw y
Green Timbers Urban Forest Park
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District
144 St
Bl les har Pri n c e C 144 St
148 St 148 St
100 Ave
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Green Timbers
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0.25
0.5
1
(km)
Surrey-Panorama Electoral District
Tamanawis Park
Unwin Park
64 Ave
68 Ave
74 Ave
68 Ave
70 Ave
dC
64 Ave
66 Ave
68 Ave
Surrey
Newton Athletic Park
Surrey-Newton Electoral District
138 St H n yla
0
121A St
Cougar Creek Park
75 Ave
132 St
132 St
C
Hyland Rd
ek
Surrey
Surrey-Panorama Electoral District
John Tompson Park
Mahood
Surrey-Fleetwood Electoral District
68 Ave
72 Ave
80 Ave
St
1:22,000
e
122 St
Kabaddi Park
72 Ave
75A Av
76 Ave
80 Ave
Surrey-Green Timbers Electoral District
134 St
Strawberry Hill Park
128 St 128 St
King George Blvd King George Blvd
Delta
124 St
124 St
120 St
Delta North Electoral District
rn he ut So
14 0
120 St
re
St
13 8
76 Ave
¯ 144 St 144 St
130 St
Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Newton
k ree
RR
140 St
120 St
Delta North Electoral District
0
0.25
d ellan R
Joe Brown Park
0.5
1
(km)
Mud Bay
56 Ave
10 ¿ À
Tamanawis Park
60 Ave
ic RR Canadian Pacif
cL New M
o u nda ry D r S
64 Ave
68 Ave
Unwin Park
Surrey-Newton Electoral District
King George Blvd
RR
144 St
Ki n gG
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey South Electoral District
Surrey-Panorama Electoral District
Surrey
68 Ave Hylan d Rd
e
Colebrook Park
64 Ave
68 Av
140 St
70 Ave
72 Ave
76 Ave
rge eo
1:34,200
120 St
124 St
u nd ary Dr E
Surrey
125A St
72 Ave
B
Station Rd
Bo
Newton Athletic Park
130 St
128 St
Delta
132 St
Surrey-Green Timbers Electoral District
134 St
8 St
13
68 Ave
72 Ave
ic RR Canadian Pacif
10 ¿ À
Electoral District
152 St
152 St 152 St
rn he ut o S
¯
56 Ave
nti n i v er eR
RR
64 Ave
Surrey
Se rpe
So ut he rn
Surrey-Cloverdale Electoral District
156 St
British Manor Park Surrey-Fleetwood
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Panorama
Blvd
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148 St
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey South
¿ À
¿ À
1A
Surrey-Cloverdale Electoral District
76 Ave
192 St
Surrey
Fra ser Hw y
72 Ave
188 St
Surrey-Newton Electoral District
Surrey-Panorama Electoral District
64 Ave
99 ¿ À Serpentine Wildlife Management Area
kl R Nico m e
Boundary Bay
184 St
175 St
32 Ave
20 Ave
16 Ave
16 Ave
168 St
99 ¿ À
White Rock
Aldergrove-Abbotsford Electoral District
24 Ave
28 Ave
Township of Langley
Surrey-White Rock Electoral District
15 ¿ À
160 St
152 St
148 St
140 St
132 St
Cr
36 Ave
vd Bl
128 St
r ive
ge or Ge
d nt R sce
24 Ave
Surrey
48 Ave
Surrey South Electoral District
ng Ki
Beckett Rd
e
Ri
City of Langley
in e ent rp e S
56 Ave
ley ng La
Surrey 8 Ave
Washington Washington 1:88,000 0
1
2
4 (km)
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196 St
192 St
184 St
0 Ave
176 St
Semiahmoo
Strait of Georgia
ss pa By
Langley Electoral District
ic RR Canadian Pacif
v er
152 St
10 ¿ À
ic RR Canadian Pacif
Delta South Electoral District
60 Ave
RR
176 St
56 Ave
vd Bl
125A St
So ut he rn
168 St
156 St
ge or Ge
Proposals – Lower Mainland
ng Ki
10 ¿ À
196 St
Delta
15
Township of Langley
¯
Surrey-Fleetwood Electoral District
0.5
1
2
(km)
Kwomalis Point Park
Rd
r
Marine Dr
Strait of Georgia
24 Ave
Crescent Park
e Rd sc kett Bec Cr e
nt
Ri ve ekl com Ni
136 St Dogwood Park
Surrey South Electoral District
Surrey-White Rock Electoral District
Surrey
152 St 152 St
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Centennial Park
Sunnyside Acres Park
Marine Dr
White Rock
24 Ave
Sunnyside MunicipalPark
16 Ave
99
99
Washington Washington
Peace Arch Provincial Park
Semiahmoo
Campbell Rive r
Fergus Watershed Park
Surrey South Electoral District
Electoral District Extents
vd Bl
0
nN
a n ta F e RR or th S
99
148 St
Delta South Electoral District
1:44,000
St her Beec ew
St
Bu
128 St
Blackie Spit Regional Trail
Ba y vi
o gt
132 St
K Bl ing vd 144 St
n r li
Surrey
140 St
Nichol Rd
vd Bl Johnston Rd
Boundary Bay
Stayte Rd
ng Ki ge or Ge
ng Ki ge or Ge
168 St
Delta North Electoral District
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-White Rock
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Fraser Valley
¯
Logan Lake
Electoral Districts
1. Langley 2. Fort Langley-Abbotsford 3. Aldergrove-Abbotsford 4. Abbotsford Centre 5. Abbotsford-Mission Lytton 6. Chilliwack-Sumas 7. Chilliwack-Kent 8. Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows 9. Maple Ridge-Mission
Proposals – Lower Mainland
¯
Fraser Valley
8
Harrison Hot Springs
Pitt Meadows
1
Maple Ridge
Kent
9
Mission
2
7
5 Chilliwack
Langley
3
Abbotsford
4
6
Washington
1:750,000 0
5
10
20 (km)
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Langley
196 St
Tran s-C ana
da H
Fort Langley-Abbotsford Electoral District
wy
208 St
200 St
Surrey
88 Ave
1
Gl ov er
Rd
80 Ave
Township of Langley
76 Ave
an Canadi
l RR
2
16
Nationa
72 Ave
St
10
Springbrook Rd
La
Rd
Aldergrove-Abbotsford Electoral District
d
s as yp yB
er R
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Cr es
56 Ave
56 Ave
10
City of Langley
Fra ser Hw
Southern RR
Ol d
Nicomekl River Park High Knoll Park
Ya le
48 Ave
y
Rd
48 Ave
a Mu rr k ree yC
Surrey South Electoral District
40 Ave
Surrey
208 St
36 Ave Noel Booth Park
205 St
200 St
196 St
1:53,500 0
Av e
Gl ov
ng
d
64
Gl ov er
Langley M u Electoral District ffor
64 Ave
216 St
10 1A
Township of Langley
32 Ave 0.5
1
2 (km)
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Surrey-Cloverdale Electoral District
1
Langley Electoral District
Pitt Meadows
ad a
Hw
y
1
T ree k pC a tr Fishtrap sh Creek Fi Park
Townline Rd
Aldergrove-Abbotsford Electoral District
sC an
Ol
M
Elwood Park
INSET A
Abbotsford Centre Electoral District
Mitchell St Dehavilland Dr
d Yale Rd
Abbotsford
City of Langley
10
Township of Langley
72 Ave
Fraser River
Aldergrove-Abbotsford Electoral District
64 Ave Tra ns Ca na da Hw y 56 Ave
88 Ave
Canadian Pacific RR
Fort Langley-Abbotsford Electoral District
McMillan Island 6
Langley 5
1A
1
Crescent I.
Lougheed Hwy
Na tio n
al
Fraser Hwy
Downes Rd
ad i an
Ca n
Maple Ridge-Mission Electoral District
RR
0
1
Cl
RR
MacLure Rd
Sou the rn
Harris Rd
4 (km)
1:115,000
Abbotsford Centre Electoral District
SEE INSET A 2
AbbotsfordMission Electoral District Three Islands 3 Matsqui Main 2
Matsqui Island
Abbotsford
7
Mission
rbrook Rd
Tra n
Gardner Park
Surrey
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District
Fort Langley-Abbotsford Electoral District
City of Langley
200 St
96 Ave
208 St
Cana dian Natio nal R R
Township of Langley
Rd Gl ov er
Katzie 2
248 St
Derby Reach Regional Park
ea
il
Glenmore Rd
ra
264 St
Maple Ridge
Bradner Rd
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District
Rd
Gl ov er
ac
216 St
Rd
Lu re
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Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
Fort Langley-Abbotsford
Mt Lehman Rd
272 St
232 St
32 Ave
Surrey
Surrey South Electoral District
0 Ave
Fras e
Campbell Valley Regional Park
40 Ave
rin
r Hw
y
56 Ave
64 Ave
¿ À
10
o k Rd
232 St
48 Ave
gb r o 1 ¿ À
72 Ave
Township of Langley
Fraser River
13 ¿ À
Abbotsford
Aldergrove Lake Regional Park
Downes Rd
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Mt Lehman Rd
0 Ave
MacLure Rd
Matsqui Main 2
0
Harris Rd
1.5
1 ¿ À
Abbotsford Centre Electoral District
Three Islands 3
3
Vye Rd
11 ¿ À
Abbotsford
Abbotsford-Mission Electoral District
6 (km)
1:140,250
Chilliwack-Sumas Electoral District
Washington Washington
Matsqui First Nation
1A ¿ À
Bradner Rd
Huntingdon Rd
Tra ns Ca na da Hw y
56 Ave
Aldergrove-Abbotsford Electoral District
64 Ave
Mission
Pacific RR
8 Ave
16 Ave
28 Ave
36 Ave
City of Langley
200 St
Rd
Gl ov er
Fort Langley-Abbotsford Electoral District
248 St
248 St
Langley Electoral District
208 St
264 St 264 St
216 St
Ck.
216 St
Langley 5
272 St
McMillan Island 6
Townline Rd
Township of Langley
Clearbrook Rd
y rra Mu
Sumas Way
Sp
Canadian
McCallum Rd
¯
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Aldergrove-Abbotsford
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Abbotsford Centre Mission Page Rd
Fraser River
Fort Langley-Abbotsford Electoral District
Canadian National RR
Matsqui Island
Three Islands 3
Matsqui Regional Trail
Mac Lu
n Ca
Glenmore Rd
Matsqui Main 2
ek Cre ap r t h Fis
Harris Rd
Abbotsford Centre Electoral District
sfor Abbot
Abbotsford
y ion Hw d Miss
Townshipline
il
INSET A
Sou the rn R R
Fort Langley-Abbotsford Electoral District
Tr a
Fishtrap Creek Park
Gladwin Rd
Proposals – Lower Mainland
on ati nN
Mi tchell St
R al R
ia ad
Abbotsford
De Old ha vil Yale lan Rd d Dr
11
Matsqui Prairie Park
d re R
Rd
Abbotsford-Mission Electoral District
Clayburn Rd
Glenmore Rd
Gl en
Sahhacum 1
Abbotsford Centre Electoral District
m
o re
Downes Rd
Rd
Downes Rd
Fra th
Rd
11
2
Abbotsford
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Hoon Park
Rd Marshall
Sum
Trans Canada Hwy
McCallum Rd
Grant Park
(km)
le Ya
O
Miller Lake
1
1
Rd
Ravine Park
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Townline Rd 0.5
Way South Fraser Way
ay rW se
Aldergrove-Abbotsford Electoral District
1:44,000
Geo rge Ferg uson
rn
ld
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Elwood Park
Old Yale Rd
Fishtrap Ck. Trail
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Sumas Way So uthern RR
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Clearbrook Rd
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MacLure Rd
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ro ok
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rb
1
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Abbotsford-Mission
ve Sta
Fraser Valley Regional District
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Chehalis Lake
Fra ser Va lle
yA
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Golden Ears Provincial Park
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District
Stave Lake
Maple Ridge-Mission Electoral District
Cedar St
Dewd n e
Davis Lake Provincial Park
7
Durieu v e Lake Rd
11
Maple Ridge-Mission Electoral District SEE INSET A
a d ia Can
Dewdney
ug
h
7
Yaalstrick 1
Vedd an N
Abbotsford
Fraser Valley Regional District
Chilliwack
Sumas Mountaim Regional Park
Hw y
at
RR
Ca na
da
Matsqui Main 2
Ca n ad i
al ion
er R.
Page Rd
Matsqui Island
Clayburn Rd Sahhacum 1
1
11
Su
1:215,000
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Abbotsford Centre Electoral District 5
Ri
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Three Islands 3
2.5
Kent n
ser River F ra
Hwy 11
Township of Langley
Dale Rd
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Lo
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Fraser Valley Regional District
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Abbotsford
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Abbotsford-Mission Electoral District
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Mission Mission
7th Ave
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Abbotsford-Mission 14th Ave Electoral District
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0
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y Trunk Rd
Cherry Ave
Cedar Valley Connector
Wren St
Ferndale Ave
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Maple Ridge-Mission Electoral District
ne
Tr u nk R d
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Dickson Lake
Stave Lake St
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y
ss Lo
Mission
Sylvester Rd
Dew
Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District
Salsbury Lake
s an Tr
Chilliwack-Sumas Electoral District
Upper Sumas 6
Fraser Valley Regional District
10 (km)
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Fraser Valley Regional District
11
1.5
3
Sumas Way
0
1:140,000
Vye Rd
Boundary Rd
6
(km)
as R . um
1
Abbotsford-Mission Electoral District
Abbotsford
Aldergrove-Abbotsford Electoral District
1
Abbotsford Centre Electoral District
11
a ad an C s an Tr
Campbell Rd
Rd
Wells Line Rd
Upper Sumas 6
Sumas Mountain
dian Cana
ic RR Pacif
Sumas
Abbotsford
Washington Washington
Vedder Mountain Rd
Keith Wilson Rd
Chilliwack
Yaalstrick I.
Fraser River
Chilliwack-Sumas Electoral District
Vye Rd
Hw
y
Sumas Mountain Regional Park
7
Skumalasph 16
Skway 5
Skwah 4
South Sumas Rd
Squiaala 8
Lickman Rd
Cultus Lake
Giesbrecht Rd
Vedder River
Rd
First Ave
e Yal
Cultus Lake Provincial Park
Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District
Kent
Ca
R m
p
Canadian National RR
Yale Rd
R
d
Chilliwack
Grass 15
Trans Canada Hwy
Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District
r ive
Carey Rd
Fraser Valley Regional District
Ch illi wa ck Ri ver Soowahlie 14
Tzeachten 13
Skowkale 10
1
Chilliwack Central Rd
Young Rd
Fraser River
Skwali 3
Rd Yale
Mission
Hatzic Island
S
Fraser Valley Regional District
RR So ut he rn
Vedder Rd
Abbotsford-Mission Electoral District
Boundary Rd
Evans Rd
Tyson Rd
Co lu
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mb ia
River l na Ca er
lle yR d
Prest Rd
Prest Rd
Jesperson Rd
Reeves Rd
Proposals – Lower Mainland Proposals – Lower Mainland
Chilliwack-Sumas
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Chilliwack-Kent West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District
Stein Valley Nlaka'pamux Heritage Provincial Park
Lillooet Lake
Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Skookumchuck 4
Nahatlatch Provincial Park
a"
Garibaldi Provincial Park
Mehatl Creek Provincial Park
r Ar e Frase Va l ley
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
1
C"
Lillo
Fraser Valley Regional District
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Fraser V
ey all A r e
Boston Bar
Proposals – Lower Mainland
a "
Fraser Valley Regional District
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Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District Harrison Lake
Greater Vancouver Regional District
" C"
Fraser Valley Regional District
7
Williams 2
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Prest Rd
Yale Rd
Bridal Falls
ChilliwackSumas Electoral District
Chilliwack
r a se V r a
Chilliw ack
Chi l l i w a
SEE INSET A Lindell
R iv
e
Lickman Rd
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Cultus Lake Provincial Park
ck
a re lle y A
Cultus Lake
1
F
Vedder Rd
Soowahlie 14
er iv
Trans Canada Hwy
Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District
Giesbrecht Rd
Fraser Valley 7
Kent
Chilliwack
Tzeachten 13
Hope
Chehalis 5
r Rd Camp R ive
1
S. Sumas Rd
Sasquatch Provincial Park
Area "D"
Reeves Rd
yA re a
C"
Frase rR
Carey Rd
Abbotsford-Mission Electoral District Jesperson Rd Chilliwack-Sumas Electoral District
1
e all rV
Scowlitz 1
Squawkum Creek 3
Hemlock Valley
Fr a s e
Kent
Harrison Mills
Fra se
Chehalis Lake
Harrison River
Fraser Valley Regional District
rV alle yA rea
Golden Ears Provincial Park
Pinecone Burke Provincial Park
er Riv
" E"
Fraser Valley Regional District
Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park
1:625,000
Washington Washington
r
INSET A
0
5
10
20 (km)
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Proposals – Lower Mainland
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
Pinecone Burke ProvincialPark
Fraser Valley Regional District
y A re a
Port Coquitlam Electoral District
"F "
Port Coquitlam
7
Lo u
Ri
d il R Mc N e
Harris Rd
le
tt Pi
Neaves Rd
Garibaldi Provincial Park
r Va l ase Fr
Garibaldi Lake
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District
Coquitlam Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Electoral District ver
124 Ave
Abernethy Way
Garibaldi Provincial Park
Katzie 1
Barnston Island 3
Surrey
224 St
gh Ca ee Pa nad dH cif ian wy ic RR Fraser River
Langley
Surrey-Guildford Electoral District
Chilliwack-Kent Electoral District
Fraser Valley Regional District
Alvin
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Electoral District
ns
Williams Landing
Stave Lake
Cr
ee k
Pitt Lake
Go ld
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Coquitlam Lake
i W
er Riv Fraser Valley Regional District
Golden Ears Provincial Park
r
Ear
SEE INSET A
Port Moody 7A
Port Coquitlam
1
Pitt Meadows
Rd
Alouette Lake
Stave Lake
Maple Ridge-Mission Electoral District
Abbotsford-Mission Electoral District
Mission
r
lo
7
Maple Ridge
sP ar k
ive
Fe
Coquitlam
uett n Cr es eR iv er Gol de n
Belcarra
R
Pitt Lake 4
Anmore
Pit t
North Vancouver
Pinecone Burke Provincial Park
Indian Arm Provincial Park
Mount Seymour Provincial Park Lower Seymour Regional Conservancy Area
eek
e Stav
North Vancouver-Seymour Electoral District
Cr
k
low
Cree
"F" ea
Fraser V alle yA r
Corbol dC
k ree
le ng Ti
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Harrison Lake
Golden Ears Provincial Park Pinecone Burke Provincial Park
7
INSET A
Sta ve Ri ve r
er Riv
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Maple RidgeMission Electoral District
Katzie 2 Fort Langley-Abbotsford Electoral District
P it t
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District
Maple Ridge
Pitt Meadows
232 St
Squamish-Lillooet Regional District
A
Fraser River 1
Maple Ridge Fraser River
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Hayward Lake
1:375,000 0
2.5
5
10 (km)
Proposals – Lower Mainland
Maple Ridge-Mission Pitt Lake
Florence Lake
Fraser Valley Regional District
Pine Lake
Morgan Lake
Cr
e ek
Katherine Lake
Stave Lake
Pitt Meadows
Gold
Fraser Valley Regional District
Golden Ears Provincial Park
Maple Ridge
Alouette Lake
Sayres Lake
Mission
Loon Lake
Cr
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124 Ave
224 St
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Crescent Island
Ferndale Ave Tr un k Rd
Cedar St
Township of Langley
Maple Ridge-Mission Electoral District
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Canadian Na
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Glenmore Rd
McMillan Island 6
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Maple Ridge
Bradner Rd
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Derby Reach Regional Park
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Whonnock Lake
Kanaka Creek Regional Park
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W il son St
240 St
Dewdney Trunk Rd 7
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Cannell Lake
Rolley Lake Provincial Park
ver
232 St
Abernethy Way
Stave Lake
Abbotsford-Mission Electoral District
132 Ave
Maple Ridge-Mission Electoral District
es
Nor Blaney Bog Regional Park Reserve
Devils Lake
1:140,000
1
0
1
2
4 (km)
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Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Electoral District
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast are a mix of urban, suburban and rural and remote communities. With a few notable exceptions they are not densely populated and share many of the accessibility challenges of other remote parts of British Columbia. Consistent with the message received elsewhere in the province, much of the input from residents of this area recommended little to no change. We were reminded of the transportation challenges faced by residents on the Sunshine Coast, the islands east and north of Vancouver Island, and the remote communities on the north and western coasts of Vancouver Island. They also emphasized the Malahat as a natural divide between districts in the south and the rest of Vancouver Island. Most of the current electoral districts in this area are at or near the provincial average. The exceptions are the rapidly growing Comox Valley, which is currently more than 22% above the provincial average, and neighbouring Alberni-Pacific Rim at 18% below the provincial average. This created the necessity to rebalance the population in this area in order to provide more effective representation for both of these communities. We also propose changes in the Nanaimo and Greater Victoria areas to respond to public input, rebalance populations and provide more effective representation. We propose no changes to the electoral districts of Powell River-Sunshine Coast, North Island, Cowichan Valley, Saanich North and the Islands, Saanich South, and Victoria-Swan Lake.
Comox Valley and mid-Vancouver Island In recent years, the Comox Valley electoral district has shared the same boundaries as the Comox Valley Regional District in a manner similar to how the New Westminster electoral district boundaries perfectly aligned with the City of New Westminster municipal boundaries. However, like New Westminster, the population of Comox Valley has now outgrown a single electoral district. At 22% over the provincial average Comox Valley is just within the +/- 25% population range but is projected to exceed it by 2017. Therefore, we determined that we must address this issue now and propose boundaries that provide more effective representation by reducing the population within this district. The current Alberni-Pacific Rim electoral district is by far the smallest electoral district on Vancouver Island by population. It is 18% under the provincial average and is projected to grow more slowly than the provincial average in the near future. We conclude that to provide more effective representation for both communities the boundaries between the two districts should be altered to assign some of the population of Comox Valley to the other mid-island electoral district. While some of the public input from the Comox Valley requested we not make any changes to the current electoral district, it also emphasised that if we were to make changes, the communities of Courtenay and Comox would be best served in the same electoral district. We propose an electoral district that includes the communities of Courtenay and Comox, as well as the rest of the Comox Valley Regional District northwest of the Comox Valley Regional District Electoral Area A and Area C boundary. We propose this electoral district be named Courtenay-Comox.
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Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Nanaimo area Nanaimo and the surrounding areas are experiencing moderate growth. The area includes Parksville, Qualicum, Nanaimo, and the Cowichan Valley. These areas share ties and, with the exception of the Nanaimo electoral district, combine various communities in one electoral district. The changes we propose address the growing population in this area and respond to requests to unite affiliated communities. We propose a small change to the ParksvilleQualicum electoral district boundaries. We propose extending the northern boundary north-west to the Nanaimo Regional District Electoral Area G boundary north of Highway 19 in order to include the area of Dashwood on the north-west side of the Little Qualicum River in the Parksville-Qualicum electoral district. We propose to include Vancouver Island University and the College Heights neighbourhood within the City of Nanaimo south of Jingle Pot Road and west of Highway 19 in the Nanaimo electoral district. This change will place Vancouver Island University in the same electoral district as the majority of its staff and students. To balance the increase in population to the Nanaimo electoral district, we propose moving the southern boundary between Nanaimo and Nanaimo-North Cowichan north from Fifth Street to Fourth Street.
Capital Region Vancouver Island south of the Malahat is made up of 13 municipalities and four unincorporated areas. The highest rates of growth in the Capital Region are in Langford and the West Shore in the suburbs of Greater Victoria. The populations of the existing electoral districts are relatively well balanced and we were not convinced of a need to propose more considerable changes to this area. We propose changes to the boundaries of the existing VictoriaBeacon Hill and Oak Bay-Gordon Head electoral districts to return the neighbourhood of Vic West to a Victoria electoral district and rebalance the population between these two districts. The western boundary of Victoria-Beacon Hill becomes the Victoria/Esquimalt border and the eastern boundary follows Richmond Avenue to Fairfield Road and along the east side of Ross Bay Cemetery to the ocean. We also propose moving the District of Metchosin to an electoral district that includes Colwood, View Royal and Esquimalt and that this district be named Esquimalt-Metchosin. This change will balance the population across the area while providing room for continued growth in Langford. We propose the current Juan de Fuca electoral district be renamed Langford-Juan de Fuca.
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Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
The remainder of the Comox Valley Regional District, from Royston and Cumberland south, and including Hornby and Denman Islands, will be included in a new mid-Island electoral district that we propose be named Mid Island-Pacific Rim.
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Table 15: Proposed electoral districts – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Electoral district
Population Deviation (%)
Area(sq km)
Powell River-Sunshine Coast
50,039
-5.8
21,007
North Island
55,633
4.7
45,034
Courtenay-Comox
54,816
3.2
1,584
Mid Island-Pacific Rim
52,833
-0.5
14,098
Parksville-Qualicum
54,089
1.8
978
Nanaimo
55,998
5.4
455
Nanaimo-North Cowichan
53,424
0.6
2,703
Cowichan Valley
59,232
11.5
1,685
Saanich North and the Islands
56,492
6.3
1,519
Saanich South
51,661
-2.7
91
Victoria-Swan Lake
51,569
-2.9
18
Oak Bay-Gordon Head
55,689
4.8
330
Victoria-Beacon Hill
54,707
3.0
90
Esquimalt-Metchosin
51,450
-3.1
378
Langford-Juan de Fuca
51,782
-2.5
2,447
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Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
8
Saanich
Highlands
Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
¯
9
Central Saanich
10
15 Langford
View Royal Colwood Esquimalt
14
Metchosin
11
12
Victoria
13
Oak Bay
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
¯
¯
Port Hardy
Port Alice
Port McNeill Alert Bay
1 Sayward
2 Zeballos Tahsis
Campbell River
Gold River
Powell River
3
Comox Courtenay Cumberland
Electoral Districts 1. Powell River-Sunshine Coast 2. North Island 3. Courtenay-Comox 4. Mid Island-Pacific Rim 5. Parksville-Qualicum 6. Nanaimo 7. Nanaimo-North Cowichan 8. Cowichan Valley 9. Saanich North and the Islands 10. Saanich South 11. Victoria-Swan Lake 12. Oak Bay-Gordon Head 13. Victoria-Beacon Hill 14. Esquimalt-Metchosin 15. Langford-Juan de Fuca
Sechelt Qualicum Beach Parksville
Port Alberni
5
4
Tofino
Gibsons
6
Nanaimo
7
Ucluelet
Ladysmith
North Lake Cowichan Cowichan Duncan
8
Sidney
15 SEE INSET
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25
50
100 (km)
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Powell River-Sunshine Coast
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Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
Cariboo Regional District
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Jervis Inlet
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Madeira Park
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20
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Gibsons Nanaimo Electoral District
Nanaimo Regional District
Port Mellon
Sechelt
Parksville
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Halfmoon Bay
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Parksville-Qualicum Electoral District
4 ¿ À
Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District
Tantalus Provincial Park
Sunshine Coast Regional District
Lang Bay
Gilles Bay
of
Courtenay
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101 ¿ À
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Courtenay-Comox Electoral District
Powell River
Harwood Island 2
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Sechelt Lands 15
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Campbell River
Powell Lake
Desolation Sound Provincial Park
Callaghan Lake Provincial Park
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North Island Electoral District
Powell River Regional District
East West Redonda Redonda Island Island
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West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Electoral District ho Ela
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Toba Inlet
East Thurlow I. Stuart Island Sonora I. !
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Gold River
Fraser-Nicola Electoral District
Powell River-Sunshine Coast Electoral District
Inlet Knight
Johns ton e S
S ou h t
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Strathcona Regional District
Staff
Gilford Island
Bishop River Provincial Park
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co m
North Island Electoral District
Ts'il?os Provincial Park
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Mount Waddington Regional District
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Big Creek Provincial Park
Taseko Lakes
Chilko Lake
Nanaimo 1 ¿ À
Nanaimo-North Cowichan Electoral District
Gambier Island 1 ¿ À
Bowen Island
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Triangle Island
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(km)
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Winter Harbour
Holberg
Cape Scott Provincial Park
Saratoga Beach
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Mount Waddington Regional District
Mahatta River
Port Hardy
Port McNeill
Kyuquot
Nootka Island
Minstrel Island
Yuquot
Tahsis
Tweedsmuir (South) Provincial Park
Mount Waddington Regional District
B u r ma n R.
Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
Gold River
Buttle Lake
Cariboo Regional District
Cariboo-Chilcotin Electoral District
20
Strathcona Regional District
Read Island
Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District
Comox Lake
Comox Valley Regional District
Cumberland
SEE INSET A
Powell River
Powell River Regional District
Courtenay-Comox Electoral District Courtenay Comox
Cortes Bay
Island
Heriot Bay Cortes
Quadra Island
Sonora Island
Bute Inlet
Powell River-Sunshine Coast Electoral District
Campbell River
19
Strathcona Provincial Park
Strathcona Regional District 28
Schoen Lake Provincial Park
West Thurlow Island
Sayward
Hardwicke Island
Knight Inlet
Thompson Sound
Kingcome Inlet
River
West Cracroft Island
Woss Lake Provincial Park
Nuchatlitz
Zeballos
Strathcona Regional District
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Woss
Island Hw
Nimpkish Atluck
19
Kokish
Sointula Alert Bay
Tahsish-Kwois Provincial Park
Port Alice
30
19
M a c h m ell
North Island Electoral District
Hopetown
Central Coast Regional District
our Inl et Seym
Queen Charlotte Strait
Quatsino
Coal Harbour
Ho l berg Rd
Hope Island 1
Rivers Inlet
North Coast Electoral District
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Pacific Ocean
District
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North Island
6
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(km)
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Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
19
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Co
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Cumberland
Courtenay
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Royston
Hornby ProvincialPark ggi Island ng Rd Mount Geoffery Escarpment ProvincialPark 19A Helliwell ProvincialPark
Denman Island Fillongley
INSET A
Powell River-Sunshine Coast Electoral District
Powell River Regional District
Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
Comox Valley Region District
B Lockwell Rd Ba uckl y R ey d
Com
Courtenay-Comox Electoral District
d Leo Mc Rd
19A
Comox
Strait of Georgia
Royston
Courtenay
SEE INSET A
Cumberland
Tso l
Black Creek
Saratoga Beach
Oyster River
North Island Electoral District
Rd
3
19
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Str ath con aP
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19A
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0
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Strathcona Provincial Park
Mt Washington
Strathcona Provincial Park
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Comox Valley Regional District
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19
d Ar
1:275,000
Buttle Lake
North Island Electoral District
Upper Quinsam Lake
Campbell River
Campbell River
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r m ber and R d l
Hw
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Cu
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d an y Hw
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Fraser Rd
Oy st
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Courtenay-Comox
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19
Baylis Rd
b erlan d Rd
Hesquiat Peninsula Provincial Park
e
Lockwell Rd
iH Albern wy
Isla n
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Log ging
19
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Hw y
Nanaimo Regional District
Alber ni Hwy
ng
S
Paci Rim
Kennedy Lake
Ucluelet
r ve
19A
wy
INSET A
fic
NW Bay Logging Rd
lishma n
Parksville
Strait of Georgia
19A
Tofino
Meares Island
H nd Isla
Pacific Rim Hw y Sproat Lake
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Rim National Park
Bamfield
Henderson Lake
Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
4
Great Central Lake
ve
r
n nk li Fr a
er Riv
0
10
Parksville-Qualicum Electoral District
Lasqueti Island
Powell River Regional District
imo Area "F"
NW Bay Logging Rd
19
Washington Washington 20
Port Renfrew
Capital Regional District
Cowichan Youbou Lake
Caycuse
40 (km)
1:875,000
Langford-Juan de Fuca Electoral District
Cowichan Valley Regional District
Renfrew Hookup FSR
South Shore Rd
Forest Service Rd.
Nanaimo Regional District
Nanaimo-North Cowichan Electoral District
Na na
SEE INSET A Qualicum Beach Parksville
Youbou Rd
Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park
Nitinat Lake
Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District
Port Alberni
Nanaimo Regional District Horne Lake
19
19A
Texada Island
Powell River-Sunshine Coast Electoral District
Bowser
Hornby Island
Fanny Bay
Comox Valley Regiona District
Comox Valley Area "A"
Denman Island
Union Bay
Royston
Courtenay SEE INSET B Comox
Cumberland
Elsie Lake
Comox Valley Comox Regional District Lake
Courtenay-Comox Electoral District
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
Grafton Ave
4A
Fr e
n
Rd
Qualicum Beach
Hwy
hern Va nco er Island R uv R 4
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Nanaimo Regional District Little Qualicum Falls Sout
Inla n d Island H
m River licu ua
19A
Parksville-Qualicum Electoral District
Minto Rd
d
Provincial Park
Com ox
Courtenay
Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
Comox Valley Regional District
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INSET B
Flores Island
Buttle Lake
Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District
Strathcona Provincial Park
Strathcona Regional District
Strathcona Provincial Park
ive r ell R Bed w
Gold River
la n aw aR i
North Island Electoral District
Courtenay-Comox Electoral District
ky
Cumberland
Cum
nai mo Area "H"
Na
an Rd
Corc
Va ll
Comox
Lit t le Q
Rd
Fraser Rd
n ch C r
d nR de Ar
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w E
a M y Hw
Ri
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Creek
K
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Cowichan Valley Electoral District
Nootka Island
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Mid Island-Pacific Rim
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4
8
(km)
Nanaimo-North Cowichan Electoral District
Nanaimo Area "F"
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2
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19A
Strait of Georgia
Isla
Hw
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Dolphin
Part of Biggs Rd
Nanaimo
Nanaimo Regional District
Lantzville
Nanoose IR
Dr
Nanaimo Regional District
19
Nanaoose Bay
a re
0
19
Parksville
French Creek
Parksville-Qualicum Electoral District
Powell River Regional District
Lasqueti Island
Lewis Rd 19A
Rd
Isla nd Hw Na n y ai m oP
SEE INSET A
s Bigg
Brannen Lake
Rd
Parksville-Qualicum Electoral District
t D o umo n
19
Aulds Rd
Nanaimo
n Va rn Pky e naimo h u t Na o S
1:235,000
4A
Albe rn i Hwy Grafton Ave
H wy
Qualicum Beach
False Bay
Jedediah Island
Powell River-Sunshine Coast Electoral District
rus Dr
ky
Nanaimo
an d
RR
Brickyard Rd
Nanaimo Electoral District
19
Ru t
he
Sunshine Coast Regional District
INSET A
Long Lake
Nanaimo
Nanaimo Electoral District
Rutherford Rd
Hammond Bay Rd
u nset Rd
r d Rd
Texada Island
Ica
Isl
Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
Inland Isla nd
alicum R. Qu
Isl n d Hwy a
Dashwood
Nanaimo Regional District
Cor ca n R d
19A
n ea "G" Little a i m o Ar
Comox Valley Regional District
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er
NW
uv co
i
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Hw
Ba y
nd
Do u mo nt Rd
McGirr Rd
Isla Mostar Rd
S r fo
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Parksville-Qualicum
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Nanaimo Electoral District Extents
Su n se t Rd
son Rd
Hammond Bay Rd
Rutherford Rd e Rd L o s t La k
Isl a nd
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Rosstown Rd aim oP ark wa y
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M
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Departure Bay
Beban Park
Newcastle Island
fiel d Rd
Newcastle Island Marine Provincial Park
Meredith Rd
ax
ey
Rd
1:57,500 0
0.5
1
2 (km)
Wakesiah Ave
6th St
19
Nan ai
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Mil
to n St
1 19A
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Nanaimo-North Cowichan Electoral District
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4th St A l
So
W est w
Morrell Nature Sactuary
r Ha
Rd
Nicol St
5th St
ve
A
Westwoood Lake
3rd St
n al
2nd St
R
le P ot Rd
Rd
Ter mi
Calder Rd
we n
IR SV
Jing
r
Pine St
Arbot Rd
l ston e Rive
Protection Island
Ave
Ashlee Rd
Mil
sit e Rd
Bo
Jingle Pot Rd
To w n
art Stew
Nanaimo Regional District
o od Rd
lington R d
Holland Rd
East W el
1
19A
St
i e ux Rd
Hi
be rt
L N an
Jesse Island
Bay St
19
ab
m
Park Ave
Jing le P ot R d
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Bruce Ave
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City of Nanaimo
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Long Lake
De
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Rd
City Rd
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nta Rd Pla
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Glen
Nanaimo Electoral District
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19A
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Parksville-Qualicum Electoral District
City of Nanaimo
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
iam W il l
Brickyard Rd
Strait of Georgia
19
Nanaimo Town 1
Petroglyph Provincial Park
Rd
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Cowichan Valley Electoral District
Her d R d
Maple Bay
Youbou
Honeymoon Bay
Cowichan Lake
er vi c
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18
Lake Cowichan
Cowichan Valley Electoral District
F or es tS
Rd
W
s C hem a i n u
T n ad
nd Hw y
18 1
1
Kuper Island 7
Reid Island
Valdes Island
Duncan
Milt o n St
u
Ganges
Montague Harbour
0
3
Mount Maxwell Provincial Park 6
12 (km)
1:435,000
Saanich North and the Islands Electoral District
Saltspring Island
City vof Richmond
Capital Regional District
Galiano Island
Nanaimo Lakes Rd Mt Benson Rd
SEE INSET B
d Herd R
4th St
Protection Island
Newcastle Island Marine Provincial Park
Rd Nanaimo 5th St d 1 Town oo w 19A 1 re 6th St Vancouver-Point Grey Ha City of an co Electoral District Nanaimo
19
Strait of Georgia
Morrell Nature Sanctuary
North Cowichan Area "E"
19A
Nanaimo Electoral District Jing l e Pot Rd
City of Nanaimo
Isla
Chemainus
Thetis Island
Lyackson 3
Saltair
Chemainus 13
Po in t
Ladysmith
Cassidy
Yel l ow
Cowi ch an Va lle y Hwy
Cowichan Valley Regional District
19
1
Cedar
Gabriola Island
a
1049 Herd Rd.
r e a "G "
Nanaimo Regional District
d
Nanaimo Ri ver
SEE INSET A
Nanaimo
INSET A Nanaimo Electoral District
wy
North Cowichan
Sec 11, Rge5 Sec 10, Rge5
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Nanaimo Lakes
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Lantzville
Nanaimo-North Cowichan Electoral District
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Nanoose Bay
Jump Lake
Cowichan Valley Regional District
Co w i chan V a lle
Haley Lake Provincial Ecological Reserve
Nan
19
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Arbot Rd
gto n Rd
Nanaimo-North Cowichan Electoral District
Mount Benson Regional Park
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Southview Terrace
INSET B
Fourth Lake
Errington
Parksville
Parksville-Qualicum Electoral District
Nanaimo Regional District
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Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
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Qualicum Beach
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Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
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Nanaimo-North Cowichan
3
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Lake Cowichan
Cowichan Valley Regional District
Langford-Juan de Fuca Electoral District
Capital Regional District
Cowichan Valley Electoral District
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Cowichan Valley Electoral District
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Sec 10 Rge 5
Malahat 11
Mill Bay
Highlands
Gowlland Tod Provincial Park
Saanich
Saanich South Electoral District
Central Saanich
Saanich Inlet
North Saanich
Capital Regional District
Saltspring Island
Saanich North and the Islands Electoral District
Bamberton
Cherry Point
1
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Tzouha l
Quamichan M Lake
Rd
Duncan
Cobble Hill
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Cowichan Lake Rd
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Herd Rd
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(km)
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14
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Hw l ey in Mounta
Port Renfrew
Cowichan Valley Regional District
Renfrew Hookup FSR
12
Caycuse
Forest Service Rd
Cowich ea Ar y e l al
Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
South Shore Rd
Youbo u Rd
C re e k
Rd
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INSET A
Lake s
Sh
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ksil Ko ah Rd
Nanaimo Regional District
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Cowichan Valley
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Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Saanich North and the Islands Valdes Island
17
Cowichan Valley Regional District
Nanaimo-North Cowichan Electoral District
Delta South Electoral District
Delta
Galiano Island 9
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M
Ganges
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Montague Harbour an s
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an g es Rd
Mount Maxwell Provincial Park
Sturdies Bay
Mayne Island 6
Mayne Island
Otter Bay Be a
Saltspring Island
ve
r Poin t Rd
Eas t North Pender Island
Ruckle Provincial Park
Fulford Harbour 5
Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
Portland Island
1
Rd
Saturna Island
South Pender Island
Boundary Pass
Bedwell Harbour
Moresby Island
INSET A
SEE INSET A
Cobble Hill
Poi nt
Saturna Island 7
Fulford Harbour
Cowichan Bay
Strait of Georgia
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Long Harbour
Ful
Rd Lands End
Piers Island
Capital Regional District
Washington Washington Wain Rd
Coal Island
17
Mill Bay Saanich Inlet
Cowichan Valley Electoral District
Union Bay 4
Saanich Inlet
Cowichan Valley Regional District
Sidney Island
Highlands
2.5
Langford-Juan de Fuca Electoral District 5
10
Saanich
ss
Central Saanich
Haro Strait
East Saanich 2 17
Ke a ting Cross Rd
Oak Bay-Gordon Head Electoral District
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Saanich South Electoral District
James Island
Rd
South Saanich 1 Stellys Cross Rd
17
Saanich South Electoral District
M t N e wton Cro
Hwy ay
Capital Regional District
Mount Work Regional Park
0
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McTavish Rd
John Dean Provincial Park
Gowlland Tod Provincial Park
1:265,000
Haro Strait
North Saanich
Cole Bay 3
1
Capital Regional District
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Mills Rd
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Rd
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Kuper Island 7
Saanich
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Saanich South
¯
James Island
Cowichan Valley Regional District
East Saanich 2
South Saanich 1
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D
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Wi l l i s Point Rd
Bear Hill Regional Park
Bay Hwy
Ross-Du rran ce Rd
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Patr ic ia
Durrance Lake
West S a a
Gowlland Tod Provincial Park
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Rd
Saanich South Electoral District
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Highlands
Cla rem o
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ic
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Beaver Lake
Bl enkinsop Rd
k
Carey Rd
Til lic
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Saanich
Swan Lake
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B ur nsi
C ed a r Hill Rd
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Esquimalt-Metchosin Electoral District
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Thetis Lake Regional Park
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Mount Douglas Park
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S helbou r
Rd
Man n
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Ro ya l
riv e
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Cord
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Maltby Lake
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Interurban Rd
Langford-Juan de Fuca Electoral District
Victoria-Swan Lake Electoral District 17 ¿ À
Esquimalt Harbour
2 (km)
Colwood
Esquimalt
Victoria
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Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Cowichan Valley Electoral District
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(km)
Victoria Harbour
Rd E
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Topaz Park
Victoria
Cedar Hill Park
Victoria-Beacon Hill Electoral District
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Summit Park
Victoria
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0.5
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Go rge
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Rd W
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Hampton Park
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New Songhees 1A
Tillicum Park
Trans Cana da H w
Ca Blan sh ard
Rd W
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urban Rd ter In
Go rge
Inlet
17
Swan Lake Park
Ave enzie McK
Ce da
Cook St
1:33,500
View Royal
Portage
Tra ns Ca na da Hw y
Saanich
Av e M cK en zie
Saanich South Electoral District
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Rd
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Rd
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Blenkinsop Rd
H a rrie tR d
a Qu Cedar Hill Rd
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North Dairy Rd
Hill C ro
Saanich
Mount Tolmie Park
Bay St
Newton St
Lansdowne Rd
ss R d
Oak Bay-Gordon Head Electoral District Ce da r
Cedar Hill Rd
l Hi
Saanich
McKenzie Ave
Shelbourne St
Richmond Rd
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Victoria-Swan Lake
Shelbourne St
Quadra St
rd St
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Oak Bay-Gordon Head Haro Strait
Electoral District Extents
Saanich North and the Islands Electoral District
Co rd
a ov
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Rd
Ash Rd
l Av e
Dr
San J
Rd
uan
Ave
t Ar bu
Saanich
Go rd on He ad
A
McK enzie Av e
Cedar Hil l
Rd
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Saanich
C ed ar H
Si nc la
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Shelbourne St
Ar bu t Ba
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Rd
Tu do r
Av e
Cadboro Bay
ders
Be a
ch
H
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Victoria-Swan Lake Electoral District
Rd
Rd
us
Feltham Rd
McKenzie
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
or e
nd
Tyn d al
Tor qua y
Dr
Ma jest ic D
Ced a
Ken m
Gr a
w vie
Saanich South Electoral District
r
rH i ll R d
Mount Douglas Park
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Dr
North Dairy Rd Lansdowne Rd
Foul Bay Rd
Dr
Chatham Islands 4
Griffin Island
Oak Bay
Discovery Island 3
Discovery Island Marine Provincial Park
McNeill Ave
Dr
r
Be ac h
Great Chain Island
Be ac hD
mond Ave Ric h d Fa ir f
Rd
Oak Bay-Gordon Head Electoral District
Oak Bay Ave
St
ie l
Moss St
Richa rds o n
D
Cook S t
Victoria-Beacon Hill Electoral District
C
oro a db
Transit Rd
Richmon d
Victoria Pandora Ave
t St For
Bea ch
Rd
Newton St
Bay St
Oak Bay Uplands Park
B ay R d
Hil
ve eA lsid
Ross Bay Cemetery
Rd las al Ross Bay
Trial Islands
1:53,000 0
0.5
1
2 (km)
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Es q
Rd
Arm St
Dominio n Rd
Barnard Park
Skinner St
alt Rd
Su pe rio r
s Dalla
Dominion Rd
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St
Victoria Harbour
Es qu im
St Bay
Fort St
Yates St
Pandora A v e Johnson St
1
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e
Dallas Rd
Beacon Hill Park
Fai rf
ield
Rd
Victoria
Victoria-Beacon Hill Electoral District
17
Bay St
Royal Athletic Park
Victoria
Victoria-Swan Lake Electoral District
Clover Point
Fernwood Rd
Electoral District Extents
Esquimalt
Esquimalt-Metchosin Electoral District
m ui
alt
Colville Rd
Gorge Waterway
St Ba y
Cra igfl ow er R d
Rd E
er n m en tS t
Go rge
Quadra St
Saanich
t
St
O s we go S
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0.25
Ross Bay
0.5
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Ross Bay Cemetery
Richardson St
St rt Fo
Bay St
Saanich
Oak Bay Ave
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Go v
Douglas St
St
St shard Blan
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1 (km)
1:25,000
d
Ave ond m h Ric
Dougla s
Shelbourne St
Ave
Cook St
Richmond Rd
as ugl Do ra St Quad
Richmond
Fai rfi el
Cook St
Oak Bay-Gordon Head Electoral District Moss St
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Victoria-Beacon Hill
St Charles St
Rd
Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Esquimalt-Metchosin
Highlands
Beaver Lake
Prospect Lake
Finlayson Arm
Saanich
Munn Rd
Sooke Hills Wilderness Regional Park Reserve
in s
View Royal
Cr
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14
Hw y Fort Rodd Hill
Esquimalt Harbour
Dominion Rd
Esquimalt
Islan d
t e r a n s M em
Colwood
Esquimalt
Rd
Victoria Harbour
Victoria
Metchosin
14
Rd
Va lle
Capital Regional District
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He ad Rd nt
Po i
Matheson Lake
W ill
ia m
Matheson Lake Regional Park
s pie R
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Roche Cove Provincial Park
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d sin R cho et
Rd
Sooke Sooke Basin
M
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p
a ro o
py
ng
Ha
Rd
Ka
oke
Ve
So ok e
r ea m
Victoria-Beacon Hill Electoral District
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Hum
k ee
14
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d ke R Soo
o ri a l P k y
Cr
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Rd
tch Vei
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tr e am
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Sooke Hills Wilderness Regional Park Reserve
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17
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1
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Rd
Ri
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re a m
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Goldstream Provincial Park
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M
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Thetis Lake ai Regional Park
gfl
Langford-Juan de Fuca Electoral District
Esquimalt-Metchosin Electoral District
Gi l
Roc ky
le
Electoral District Extents
E a st So o
ke
Capital Regional District
Rd
Becher Bay 1
Pedder Bay
Fraser Island 6
East Sooke Regional Park
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Becher Bay 2
Becher Bay
Bentinck Island Long Neck Island 9 1:110,000 0
1
2
4 (km)
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Proposals – Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast
Wi lk
Capital Regional District
Thetis Lake Regional Park
Saanich South Electoral District
d
Goldstream Lake
on R
Lubbe Lake
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0
1:370,000
4
8
Washington
Juan De Fuca ProvincialPark
Port Renfrew
Pacific Rim National Park
Cowichan Valley Regional District
Mid Island-Pacific Rim Electoral District
16
(km)
Capital Regional District
14
Loss
Wes tC
Creek
oast Rd
San Juan River
Kok sil ah R
d nt R oi
Duncan
as t R t Co Wes
te Ot
Capital Regional District
Shirley
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Jordan River
J
an ord
Langford-Juan de Fuca Electoral District
Cowichan Valley Regional District
Cowichan Valley Electoral District
18
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So
East Sooke Park
East Sooke
e Rd Sook
Sooke
Sooke Lake
ial P ky
Fairway Ave
Becher Bay 1
Matherson Lake Regional Park
Esquimalt-Metchosin Electoral District
Metchosin
SEE INSET A
Colwood
Langford
Saanich South Electoral District
View Royal
Highlands
Saanich
INSET A
Esquimalt-Metchosin Electoral District
Tatlow Rd
Esquimalt Lagoon
Colwood
d eR ok o S
Goldstream ProvincialPark
1
View Royal
Goldstre am Ave
Gowlland Tod Provincial Park
1
FrayneMil B Rd ay l Rd
Sooke Hills Wilderness Regional Park
West Shawnigan Lake Metchosin ProvincialPark
y ppGr Rd ego ry
1
Fisher Rd s turning Lvaer Lo nt eorlane ia Rd La
Langford
d eR ok
Langford-Juan de Fuca Electoral District
Langford Lake Va nco uv er Island RR
H Ki n a D r gbu rn Rd Valley e
Lake Cowichan
So ut h ern
Jack li n R d
Sylvester Rd
Ri ver
r i ve rP
Rd
Met chos in
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Ratcliffe le Rd bb Co ll Rd Hi
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Langford-Juan de Fuca
Next steps
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Next steps
Next steps
Next steps
We submit this report containing our preliminary proposals to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on March 26, 2015. We encourage British Columbians to review these proposals and to advise the commission about how these proposed electoral districts enable, or do not enable, effective representation within the province. There are four ways for you to provide this feedback. Beginning in April we will hold public hearings to facilitate presentations by any person respecting our proposals. If you or your organization would like to make a presentation, you can register on a first-come, first-served basis at the hearings. Check our website (www.bc-ebc.ca) for the latest public hearings schedule and location details.
We will then consider all of the input received and produce a report of our final proposals. Our final report must be submitted to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly within six months of the release of this report – by September 25, 2015. The proposals contained in our final report are only recommendations. The final decision regarding adoption of our proposals lies with the Members of the Legislative Assembly. Once electoral boundaries are officially adopted by the Legislative Assembly they will come into force at the time of the next general election and will apply to the anticipated 2017 and 2021 provincial general elections.
You may also express your views on our preliminary proposals in writing: through our website: www.bc-ebc.ca by email:
[email protected] by mail PO Box 9275 Stn Prov Govt Victoria, BC V8W 9J6 Your input must be received by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, May 26, 2015 to be considered. Following the public hearings and the close of the public input period, the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act requires us to give MLAs an opportunity to make submissions to us. This will take place on May 27 immediately after the close of the public input period. The public is welcome to attend to observe this hearing.
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Appendices
2015 British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission – Preliminary Report
Appendices
Appendices Appendix A: Population estimates, current 85 electoral districts (2008 Commission)
Appendices
Electoral district
2014 Population
Deviation (%)
Area (sq km)
Abbotsford-Mission
55,003
1.2
666
Abbotsford South
55,730
2.5
211
Abbotsford West
52,940
-2.6
105
Alberni-Pacific Rim
43,560
-19.9
13,172
Boundary-Similkameen
37,840
-30.4
11,174
Burnaby-Deer Lake
58,193
7.0
14
Burnaby-Edmonds
60,439
11.2
22
Burnaby-Lougheed
56,599
4.1
36
Burnaby North
61,272
12.7
24
Cariboo-Chilcotin
29,767
-45.3
43,321
Cariboo North
33,295
-38.8
39,770
Chilliwack
55,002
1.2
146
Chilliwack-Hope
53,122
-2.3
10,813
Columbia River-Revelstoke
32,521
-40.2
39,732
Comox Valley
64,900
19.4
2,526
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
59,029
8.6
620
Coquitlam-Maillardville
60,393
11.1
32
Cowichan Valley
59,232
8.9
1,685
Delta North
55,011
1.2
32
Delta South
47,577
-12.5
464
Esquimalt-Royal Roads
52,815
-2.9
69
Fort Langley-Aldergrove
71,470
31.5
233
Fraser-Nicola
31,182
-42.6
33,784
Juan de Fuca
57,426
5.6
2,759
Kamloops-North Thompson
54,014
-0.7
21,641
Kamloops-South Thompson
55,983
3.0
2,377
Kelowna-Lake Country
61,113
12.4
1,165
Kelowna-Mission
60,403
11.1
528
Kootenay East
39,852
-26.7
11,182
Kootenay West
41,302
-24.0
12,009
Langley
69,543
27.9
95
Maple Ridge-Mission
58,697
8.0
392
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Appendices
Appendix A: Population estimates, current 85 electoral districts (2008 Commission) continued 2014 Population
Deviation (%)
Area (sq km)
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
58,287
7.2
1,980
Nanaimo
54,852
0.9
449
Nanaimo-North Cowichan
54,560
0.4
2,709
Nechako Lakes
27,692
-49.1
73,795
Nelson-Creston
36,907
-32.1
13,212
New Westminster
68,956
26.8
18
North Coast
22,382
-58.8
143,856
North Island
55,633
2.3
45,034
North Vancouver-Lonsdale
59,657
9.7
26
North Vancouver-Seymour
55,894
2.8
387
Oak Bay-Gordon Head
50,310
-7.5
315
Parksville-Qualicum
53,288
-2.0
962
Peace River North
43,263
-20.4
175,813
Peace River South
28,104
-48.3
30,364
Penticton
56,722
4.3
1,910
Port Coquitlam
60,813
11.9
35
Port Moody-Coquitlam
57,313
5.4
83
Powell River-Sunshine Coast
50,039
-8.0
21,007
Prince George-Mackenzie
46,562
-14.4
20,440
Prince George-Valemount
48,599
-10.6
31,538
Richmond Centre
70,374
29.4
440
Richmond East
69,599
28.0
92
Richmond-Steveston
63,004
15.9
32
Saanich North and the Islands
56,492
3.9
1,519
Saanich South
51,661
-5.0
91
Shuswap
56,356
3.7
8,637
Skeena
30,240
-44.4
31,649
Stikine
20,616
-62.1
196,446
Surrey-Cloverdale
79,362
46.0
121
Surrey-Fleetwood
61,775
13.6
21
Surrey-Green Timbers
62,973
15.8
19
Surrey-Newton
65,511
20.5
14
Surrey-Panorama
75,462
38.8
62
Surrey-Tynehead
63,969
17.7
60
Surrey-Whalley
65,812
21.0
30
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Electoral district
Appendices
Appendix A: Population estimates, current 85 electoral districts (2008 Commission) continued
Appendices
Electoral district
2014 Population
Deviation (%)
Area (sq km)
Surrey-White Rock
55,585
2.2
61
Vancouver-Fairview
59,701
9.8
9
Vancouver-False Creek
61,251
12.7
7
Vancouver-Fraserview
62,885
15.7
13
Vancouver-Hastings
59,491
9.4
14
Vancouver-Kensington
61,250
12.7
9
Vancouver-Kingsway
62,459
14.9
9
Vancouver-Langara
60,041
10.4
15
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
58,041
6.8
13
Vancouver-Point Grey
60,611
11.5
42
Vancouver-Quilchena
59,953
10.3
23
Vancouver-West End
53,297
-2.0
13
Vernon-Monashee
62,102
14.2
5,034
Victoria-Beacon Hill
53,077
-2.4
102
Victoria-Swan Lake
51,569
-5.2
18
West Vancouver-Capilano
57,173
5.2
80
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky
54,894
1.0
9,598
Westside-Kelowna
59,750
9.9
1,140
TOTAL
4,621,394
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Appendix B: Population estimates, proposed 87 electoral districts (2015 Commission) 2014 Population
Deviation (%)
Area (sq km)
Abbotsford Centre
59,330
11.7
40
Abbotsford-Mission
60,962
14.8
660
Aldergrove-Abbotsford
59,203
11.5
272
Boundary-Similkameen
42,340
-20.3
15,614
Burnaby-Deer Lake
58,195
9.6
14
Burnaby-Edmonds
60,439
13.8
22
Burnaby-Lougheed
59,797
12.6
37
Burnaby North
58,159
9.5
23
Cariboo-Chilcotin
33,520
-36.9
44,512
Cariboo North
29,542
-44.4
38,579
Chilliwack-Kent
51,310
-3.4
5,279
Chilliwack-Sumas
52,632
-0.9
224
Columbia River-Revelstoke
31,907
-39.9
37,704
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain
59,029
11.1
620
Coquitlam-Maillardville
58,351
9.8
30
Courtenay-Comox
54,816
3.2
1,584
Cowichan Valley
59,232
11.5
1,685
Delta North
55,011
3.6
32
Delta South
47,577
-10.4
464
Esquimalt-Metchosin
51,450
-3.1
378
Fort Langley-Abbotsford
61,113
15.0
182
Fraser-Nicola
33,980
-36.0
34,829
Kamloops-North Thompson
54,014
1.7
21,641
Kamloops-South Thompson
56,410
6.2
2,437
Kelowna-Lake Country
61,113
15.0
1,165
Kelowna-Mission
60,403
13.7
528
Kelowna West
59,750
12.5
1,140
Kootenay East
40,466
-23.8
13,210
Kootenay West
41,302
-22.2
12,009
Langford-Juan de Fuca
51,782
-2.5
2,447
Langley
60,535
14.0
38
Maple Ridge-Mission
58,697
10.5
392
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
58,287
9.7
1,980
Mid Island-Pacific Rim
52,833
-0.5
14,098
Nanaimo
55,998
5.4
455
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Appendix B: Population estimates, proposed 87 electoral districts (2015 Commission) continued
Appendices
Electoral district
2014 Population
Deviation (%)
Area (sq km)
Nanaimo-North Cowichan
53,424
0.6
2,703
Nechako Lakes
27,692
-47.9
73,795
Nelson-Creston
36,907
-30.5
13,212
New Westminster
61,422
15.6
14
North Coast
22,382
-57.9
143,856
North Island
55,633
4.7
45,034
North Vancouver-Lonsdale
57,431
8.1
25
North Vancouver-Seymour
58,120
9.4
388
Oak Bay-Gordon Head
55,689
4.8
330
Parksville-Qualicum
54,089
1.8
978
Peace River North
43,263
-18.6
175,813
Peace River South
28,104
-47.1
30,364
Penticton
56,722
6.8
1,910
Port Coquitlam
60,813
14.5
35
Port Moody-Coquitlam
59,355
11.7
85
Powell River-Sunshine Coast
50,039
-5.8
21,007
Prince George-Mackenzie
46,894
-11.7
20,511
Prince George-Valemount
48,267
-9.1
31,467
Richmond North Centre
49,157
-7.5
440
Richmond-Queensborough
55,627
4.7
92
Richmond South Centre
50,101
-5.7
7
Richmond-Steveston
55,539
4.6
30
Saanich North and the Islands
56,492
6.3
1,519
Saanich South
51,661
-2.7
91
Shuswap
59,572
12.1
8,637
Skeena
30,240
-43.1
31,649
Stikine
20,616
-61.2
196,446
Surrey-Cloverdale
61,060
14.9
57
Surrey-Fleetwood
59,066
11.2
14
Surrey-Green Timbers
58,816
10.7
18
Surrey-Guildford
58,037
9.3
42
Surrey-Newton
58,340
9.8
12
Surrey-Panorama
60,128
13.2
24
Surrey South
57,807
8.8
125
Surrey-Whalley
58,668
10.4
27
Surrey-White Rock
58,527
10.2
68
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Appendix B: Population estimates, proposed 87 electoral districts (2015 Commission) continued 2014 Population
Deviation (%)
Area (sq km)
Vancouver-Fairview
59,701
12.4
9
Vancouver-False Creek
57,261
7.8
6
Vancouver-Fraserview
62,885
18.4
13
Vancouver-Hastings
59,491
12.0
14
Vancouver-Kensington
61,250
15.3
9
Vancouver-Kingsway
62,459
17.6
9
Vancouver-Langara
60,041
13.0
15
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
58,041
9.3
13
Vancouver-Point Grey
60,611
14.1
42
Vancouver-Quilchena
59,953
12.9
23
Vancouver-West End
57,287
7.8
14
Vernon-Monashee
58,886
10.9
5,009
Victoria-Beacon Hill
54,707
3.0
90
Victoria-Swan Lake
51,569
-2.9
18
West Vancouver-Capilano
57,173
7.6
80
West Vancouver-Sea to Sky
54,894
3.3
9,598
TOTAL
4,621,394
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Appendix C: First round public hearings schedule – Fall 2014 Date
City/Town
North Monday, Sept. 22
Prince Rupert
Tuesday, Sept. 23
Terrace
Tuesday, Sept. 23
Smithers
Wednesday, Sept. 24
Fort Nelson
Wednesday, Sept. 24
Dawson Creek
Thursday, Sept. 25
Prince George
Friday, Sept. 26
Quesnel
Friday, Sept. 26
Williams Lake
Appendices
Central and Interior Monday, Oct. 6
Kamloops
Monday, Oct. 6
Salmon Arm
Tuesday, Oct. 7
Revelstoke
Tuesday, Oct. 7
Cranbrook
Wednesday, Oct. 8
Trail
Wednesday, Oct. 8
Penticton
Thursday, Oct. 9
Kelowna
Lower Mainland Monday, Oct. 20
Squamish
Tuesday, Oct. 21
Vancouver
Wednesday, Oct. 22
Burnaby
Wednesday, Oct. 22
Port Coquitlam
Thursday, Oct. 23
Surrey
Friday, Oct. 24
Langley
Friday, Oct. 24
Abbotsford
Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast Monday, Nov. 3
Sechelt
Tuesday, Nov. 4
Powell River
Tuesday, Nov. 4
Courtenay
Wednesday, Nov. 5
Campbell River
Wednesday, Nov. 5
Port Alberni
Thursday, Nov. 6
Nanaimo
Thursday, Nov. 6
Victoria
Friday, Nov. 7
Victoria
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