Comox Valley Regional District

Comox Valley
Regional district
Comox Valley Regional District
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Location in British Columbia
CountryCanada
ProvinceBritish Columbia
Administrative office locationCourtenay
Government
[1]
 • TypeRegional district
 • BodyBoard of directors
 • ChairWill Cole-Hamilton
 • Vice chairJonathan Kerr
 • Electoral areas
  • A – Baynes Sound–Denman/Hornby Islands
  • B – Lazo North
  • C – Puntledge–Black Creek
Area
 • Land1,699.90 km2 (656.34 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[2]
 • Total
72,445
 • Density39.1/km2 (101/sq mi)
Websitewww.comoxvalleyrd.ca Edit this at Wikidata

The Comox Valley Regional District is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada.[3] It was created on February 15, 2008, encompassing the southeastern portions of the former Regional District of Comox-Strathcona, and centred about the Comox Valley. The partition left the new Comox Valley Regional District with only 8.4 percent of the former Comox-Strathcona's land area, but 57.9 percent of its population. The CVRD covers an area of 2,425 square kilometres, of which 1,725 square kilometres is land (the remainder is water), and serves a population of 72,445 according to the 2023 Census.[4] The district borders the Strathcona Regional District to the northwest, the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District to the southwest, and the Regional District of Nanaimo to the southeast, as well as the qathet Regional District along the Strait of Georgia to the east.

Two Indian reserves, K'omoks Indian Reserve No. 1 and Puntledge Indian Reserve No. 2 lie within its territory but are outside its jurisdiction. The census divisions comprising the new Regional District are the city of Courtenay, the town of Comox, the village of Cumberland, the district of Black Creek, Electoral Areas A, B, and C, and the two stated Indian reserves.

The administrative offices are in Courtenay, British Columbia.

  1. ^ "Board Members & Structure". October 26, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 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. February 8, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2019.
  3. ^ BC Names/GeoBC entry "Comox Valley Regional District
  4. ^ "Census 2016: Census Divisions - BC Stats". Archived from the original on July 24, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2019.