Regional Districts - Legally Defined Administrative Areas of BC

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Published by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing - Governance and Structure
Licensed under Open Government Licence - British Columbia

Legally defined Regional District polygons were drawn from metes and bounds descriptions as written in Letters Patent for Regional Districts in the province of British Columbia. In the event of a discrepancy in the data, the metes and bounds description will prevail.

Although the boundaries were drawn based on the legal metes and bounds descriptions, they may differ from how regional districts and their member municipalities and electoral areas currently view and/or manage their boundaries. Where discrepancies are noted, the Ministry of Community Sport and Cultural Development (the custodian) enters into discussion with the local governments whose boundaries are affected. In order to effect a change to the boundary, Cabinet approval is required. This is done through an Order in Council (OIC). While discrepancies to administrative boundaries are being resolved, boundaries may be adjusted on an ongoing basis until the requested changes are completed.

The OIC_YEAR and OIC_NUMBER fields indicate the year that the boundary was passed under OIC and its associated number. The AFFECTED_ADMIN_AREA_ABRVN identifies the administrative areas that are affected by the OIC.

A polygon dataset that includes all of the administrative areas currently in the Administrative Boundaries Management System (ABMS) is available here.

A complimentary point dataset that defines the administrative areas is also available available here.

Other individual datasets are available from the following records:

https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/municipalities-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/electoral-areas-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/province-of-british-columbia-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/islands-trust-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/local-trust-areas-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc

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Dataset Extent

Latitude:	48.0° to 60.0°
Longitude:	-139.5° to -113.5°

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Additional Information

Purpose	Administrative boundaries are used by agencies at all levels of government for land use planning, treaty negotiations, emergency management and planning, running elections, conducting demographic analysis and municipal planning.
Data Quality	Digital linework and points used to generate this dataset were reviewed by a professional surveyor.
Lineage Statement	Primary data sources for ABMS include Metes and Bounds legal descriptions from the Letters Patent, ICF (Integrated Cadastre Fabric), TRIM (Terrain Resource Information Mapping), and FWA (Freshwater Atlas). Other sources were used to clarify boundaries (e.g., Tantalis for crown land parcels, legal plans, etc.).

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http://geobc.gov.bc.ca

Contact Information

Name	Joy Sinnett (pointOfContact)
Email	Joy.Sinnett@gov.bc.ca
Organization	Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development
Sub-Organization	GeoBC

Name	Elizabeth Lane (custodian)
Email	Elizabeth.Lane@gov.bc.ca
Organization	Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Sub-Organization	Governance and Structure

Access & Security

Who can view this dataset?	Public
Who can download this dataset?	Public

Metadata Information

Record Published	2016-04-18
Record Last Modified	2020-10-14
Resource Status	completed

Object Description

Object Name: WHSE_LEGAL_ADMIN_BOUNDARIES.ABMS_REGIONAL_DISTRICTS_SP

Short Name: ABMS_RD
Comments: ABMS_REGIONAL_DISTRICTS_SP contains legally defined regional disctrict administrative boundary areas in the Province of British Columbia. This spatial layer contains multipart features.

Column Name	Short Name	Data Type	Data Precision	Comments
LGL_ADMIN_AREA_ID	AA_ID	NUMBER	10	An operationally-generated unique identification number, e.g., 1, 2,3.
ADMIN_AREA_NAME	AA_NAME	VARCHAR2	200	The authoritative, officially approved name given to the Administrative Area, e.g., Regional District of Alberni Clayquot.
ADMIN_AREA_ABBREVIATION	ABRVN	VARCHAR2	40	A short form or commonly-known acronym for the Administrative Area name, e.g., RDAC (Regional District of Alberni Clayquot).
ADMIN_AREA_BOUNDARY_TYPE	BDY_TYPE	VARCHAR2	20	BOUNDARY TYPE is a high-level grouping of Administrative Areas used to categorise features when reporting, e.g., Census, Legal, Administrative.
ADMIN_AREA_GROUP_NAME	AA_PARENT	VARCHAR2	200	The name given to the larger administrative area (if there is any) of which this feature is a member, e.g., Province of BC (This would be the ADMIN_AREA_GROUP_NAME of the feature called "Regional District of Alberni Clayquot").
CHANGE_REQUESTED_ORG	CHNG_ORG	VARCHAR2	30	The government acronym of the Ministry or sub-org that last requested the change that resulted in the modification of the record, e.g., GeoBC, MMAH.
UPDATE_TYPE	UPT_TYPE	VARCHAR2	50	A short description of the latest alteration of the feature's geographic or attribute content, e.g., Inserted (added new), Change in geometry.
WHEN_UPDATED	UPT_DATE	DATE	7	The date and time the record was last modified.
MAP_STATUS	MAP_STATUS	VARCHAR2	12	That the digital map has been appended to Letters Patent of the administrative area and has received cabinet or ministerial approval, i.e., "Appended": the digital map has been appended to Letters Patent of the municipality, electoral area, regional district or improvement district and has received cabinet or ministerial approval. The map is referred to as the legal map and forms Schedule 1 to Letters Patent. "Not Appended": the digital map exists but currently there is no legislative mechanism that enables the map to be appended to Letters Patent in the absence of a request for a boundary amendment. In other words, while the digital map is the exact representation of the administrative boundary, it is not considered legal until appended to Letters Patent. If there is a discrepancy in the boundary, the written metes and bounds prevail. Null values are permitted for Administrative Areas for which the map status does not apply.
OIC_MO_NUMBER	OC_M_NMBR	VARCHAR2	7	The most-recent Order-In-Council (OIC) or Ministerial Order (MO) identifier for a particular administrative area. This number is used in conjunction with the OIC_MO_YEAR and the OIC_MO_TYPE to determine the official OIC or MO Number, which is usually in the form ###/YY(YY), e.g., where OIC_MO_NUMBER is 245, the OIC_MO_YEAR is 2013 and the OIC_MO_TYPE is "OIC", the latest OIC for this administrative area is OIC 245/13 that was enacted into law in 2013. Similarily, where OIC_MO_NUMBER is 103 and the OIC_MO_YEAR is 2019 and the OIC_MO_TYPE is "MO", the latest Ministerial Order for this administrative area is MO 103/2019 enacted into law in 2019.
OIC_MO_YEAR	OC_M_YR	VARCHAR2	4	The four-digit year that the most recent Order-In-Council or Ministerial Order was approved, e.g., 2014.
OIC_MO_TYPE	OC_M_TYPE	VARCHAR2	20	The short acronym that determines the type of identifier used in the OIC_MO_NUMBER, e.g., OIC (Order-In-Council), MO (Ministerial Order), OTHER (The boundary was issued using a procedure outside of the traditional mechanisms).
WEBSITE_URL	WBST_RL	VARCHAR2	254	An Internet URL link to additional project information and/or files related to the OIC_MO_NUMBER.
IMAGE_URL	IMAGE_URL	VARCHAR2	254	An Internet URL link to additional image files related to the OIC_MO_NUMBER.
AFFECTED_ADMIN_AREA_ABRVN	AFCTD_AREA	VARCHAR2	120	A semicolon-delimited list of the abbreviations (ADMIN_AREA_ABBREVIATION) of Administrative Area boundaries that are affected by the OIC number in the OIC year, e.g., NCRD-EA E / NCRD-EA H. If a record has the value "NCRD-EA E / NCRD-EA H" for AFFECTED_ADMIN_AREA_ABRVN, an ADMIN_AREA_ABBREVIATION of Prince Rupert, an OIC/MO (OIC_MO_NUMBER) value of 501/14, an OIC/MO Year (OIC_MO_YEAR) value of 2014, and an Administrative Area Group Name (ADMIN_AREA_GROUP_NAME) of North Coast Regional District, then the interpretation is that OIC 501 in the year 2014 for Prince Rupert also affects the boundaries of Electoral Areas NCRD-EA E and NCRD-EA H in the North Coast Regional District.
FEATURE_AREA_SQM	AREA_SQM	NUMBER	19	The system calculated area of a two-dimensional polygon in square meters.
FEATURE_LENGTH_M	LENGTH_M	NUMBER	19	The system calculated length or perimeter of a geometry in meters.
SHAPE	SHAPE	SDO_GEOMETRY	1	The column used to reference the spatial coordinates defining the feature.
OBJECTID	OBEJCTID	NUMBER	38	A column required by spatial layers that interact with ESRI ArcSDE. It is populated with unique values automatically by SDE.
SE_ANNO_CAD_DATA		BLOB	4000	A binary column used by spatial tools to store annotation, curve features and CAD data when using the SDO_GEOMETRY storage data type.