qathet Regional District

Template:Template other The qathet Regional DistrictTemplate:Efn (Template:IPAc-en, qRD) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its only incorporated municipality is the City of Powell River, although it includes a number of unincorporated areas. The district encompasses a land area of . The district was formerly known as the Powell River Regional District. Because of frequent confusion between the identical names of Powell River district and city, the district's name was changed in 2018 to qathet, from , meaning "working together, bringing together" in the ʔayʔaǰuθəm language of the ɬəʔamɩn, k̓ómoks, χʷɛmaɬkʷu, and ƛohos Nations.

Geography

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.

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 living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2021. As of the 2006 census, 19,599 people lived in the district.

Panethnic groups in the qathet Regional District (1996−2021)

Panethnic group	2021		2016		2011		2006		2001		1996
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
EuropeanTemplate:Efn	18,200		17,440		17,580		17,700		18,085		18,480
Indigenous	1,805		1,575		1,565		1,105		1,160		845
East AsianTemplate:Efn	425		210		125		250		85		215
Southeast AsianTemplate:Efn	205		150		80		125		75		30
South Asian	155		60		85		60		95		80
Latin American	105		30		0		15		35		10
African	80		85		60		65		25		40
Middle EasternTemplate:Efn	25		0		0		0		10		0
OtherTemplate:Efn	45		60		40		20		0		60
Total responses	21,060		19,615		19,545		19,330		19,570		19,755
Total population	21,496		20,070		19,906		19,599		19,765		19,936
Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses

References

• Community Profile: Powell River Regional District, British Columbia; Statistics Canada Template:Webarchive