Qathet Regional District
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The district is bounded by the mainland portion of the Strathcona Regional District to the north, and to the east by the Squamish-Lillooet and Sunshine Coast Regional Districts. On the mainland, this includes the area southeast of Powell River to the ferry terminal at Saltery Bay and from Wildwood, northwest of Powell River to Desolation Sound and the terminus of Highway 101 in Lund. Lasqueti Island and Texada Island, along with the southernmost Discovery Islands (including Hernando and Savary), are included, as are the largely uninhabited lands to the north and west of this area.
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Government
Its head offices are located in Powell River. The district is governed by a board of seven directors: five electoral area directors who are elected for a four-year term by voters in the electoral areas, and two municipal directors who are first elected to the City of Powell River’s council and then appointed by council to the regional board. The board chair is elected annually by all directors.
Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the qathet Regional District had a population of 21,496 living in 10,057 of its 11,921 total private dwellings, a change of 7.1% from its 2016 population of 20,070. With a land area of 5,067.89 km2 (1,956.72 sq mi), it had a population density of 4.2/km2 (11.0/sq mi) in 2021. As of the 2006 census, 19,599 people lived in the district.