North Coast Regional District
Feature Type:Regional District - A division of the province incorporated as a regional district.
Status: Official
Name Authority: BC Geographical Names Office
Relative Location: Surrounding Prince Rupert, S to Hartley Bay and islands west
Latitude-Longitude: 53°44'58"N, 132°00'06"W at the approximate centre of this feature.
Datum: WGS84
NTS Map: 103F/16
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Origin Notes and History:

Incorporated as Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District 17 August 1967; name confirmed 4 April 1974 on MCR-5, sheet 3. Portion of Kitimat-Stikine Regional District transferred to Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District effective 19 August 1993 per Letters Patent. Name changed to the North Coast Regional District per OIC 653, 19 September 2016.

Source: BC place name cards & correspondence, and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff.

Link to the regional district's own internet site through http://www.civicinfo.bc.ca/

Source: included with note