Fraser Valley Regional District

Fraser Valley
Location of the region in British Columbia
Basic data
Country	Canada
province	British Columbia
Administrative headquarters	Chilliwack
Coordinates :	49 ° 43 ′  N , 121 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′  N , 121 ° 58 ′  W
Residents	295,934 (as of 2016)
surface	13,335.28 km²
Population density	22.2 inhabitants / km²
Time zone :	Pacific Standard Time ( UTC −8) Pacific Daylight Time ( UTC −7, daylight saving time)
Web presence	www.fvrd.bc.ca

The Fraser Valley Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia . It is 13,335.28 km² and has 295,934 inhabitants (2016). In the 2011 census, 277,593 inhabitants were determined. The main town is Chilliwack .

Geographical location

The Fraser Valley Regional District is located in the southwestern part of British Columbia and borders Whatcom County in the US state of Washington in the south, the regional districts of Metro Vancouver in the west, Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District in the east, and Thompson-Nicola Regional District and Squamish-Lillooet Regional District in the north. The cities of Whistler and Lytton are immediately north of its border.

Administrative structure

The district is divided into 6 parishes and 9 constituencies. The following table lists the municipalities and constituencies according to the population statistics from the 2011 census.

Surname	Administrative unit	Population (2016)
Abbotsford	city	141,397
Chilliwack	city	83,788
mission	District municipality	38,833
Hope	District municipality	6.181
Kent	District municipality	6,067
Harrison Hot Springs	Village	1,468

Political structure

The regional district is a federation of parishes and constituencies. Each municipality appoints MPs for the regional district in proportion to its population, and each constituency elects one MP.

economy

The evaluation of natural resources, especially agriculture, forestry and gravel mining, played an important role in economic growth. Although tourism and leisure services are becoming more and more important, trade and industry in the municipalities and agriculture in the constituencies play the main role.

Geography and climate

The community-free constituencies consist mainly of steep, uninhabitable slopes of snow-capped mountains. Most of the communities lie between these mountain slopes and the Fraser River . Highways and railways connect the communities with each other and with Vancouver . Tempered, but not directly influenced by the Pacific , the valley has the mildest climate in Canada. Moderate to high amounts of precipitation fall in winter, but it only snows a few days a year, some winters not at all. Summers are dry with pleasant temperatures and only occasionally hot days.

Web links

• official page
• Detailed map (PDF file)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Census Profile, 2016 Census. November 16, 2017, accessed March 12, 2018 . 
2. ^ Census Profile, 2016 Census - Provincial Data. July 21, 2017, accessed March 12, 2018 .