Fraser Valley Regional District

Fraser Valley
Regional district
Fraser Valley Regional District
View departing Abbotsford Airport
View departing Abbotsford Airport
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A map of British Columbia depicting its 29 regional districts and equivalent municipalities. One is highlighted in red.
Location in British Columbia
CountryCanada
ProvinceBritish Columbia
SeatChilliwack
Government
[1]
 • TypeRegional district
 • BodyBoard of directors
 • ChairJason Lum (Chilliwack)
 • Vice chairPatricia Ross (Abbotsford)
 • Electoral areas
  • A - Boston Bar–North Bend–Canyon Alpine
  • B - Yale/Choate/Dogwood Valley/Emory Creek/Laidlaw/Othello/Ruby Creek/Spuzzum/Sunshine Valley
  • C - Sasquatch Country
  • D - Popkum–Bridal Falls
  • E - Chilliwack River Valley
  • F - McConnell Creek-Hatzic Prairie
  • G - Nicomen Island–Deroche–Dewdney–Hatzic Island
  • H - Cultus Lake–Columbia Valley–Lindell Beach
Area
 • Land13,335.28 km2 (5,148.78 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total295,934
 • Density22.2/km2 (57/sq mi)
Websitewww.fvrd.ca Edit this at Wikidata

The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. Its headquarters are in the city of Chilliwack. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km2 (5,159 sq mi). It was created in 1995 [3] by an amalgamation of the Fraser-Cheam Regional District and Central Fraser Valley Regional District and the portion of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District from and including the District of Mission eastwards.

The FVRD is the third most populous Regional District in British Columbia,[3] incorporating roughly the eastern half of the Lower Mainland of southwestern BC, and is bordered by Whatcom County, Washington to the south, Metro Vancouver to the west, the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District to the east, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District to the northwest, and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District to the northeast.

It also includes unincorporated areas north of the City of Pitt Meadows, which were part of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District but which were not transferred to the Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD) when it expanded to include Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge.

  1. ^ "Board of Directors". Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census divisions, 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (British Columbia)". Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b "What is the FVRD?". www.fvrd.ca. Retrieved 11 January 2021.