Cassiar Land District
Description
The Cassiar Land District is one of the two northernmost of the province's Land Districts, the other being the Peace River Land District to its east, which covers the northeastern portion of the province adjacent to the Northwest Territories and Alberta.
Its western boundary is the BC-Alaska Boundary, its northern the boundary with Yukon at the 60th parallel north. The southern boundary is the 55th parallel north, south of which is Range 5 Coast Land District.
The eastern boundary with the Peace River Land District is the 126th meridian west, south from the Yukon boundary to 57 degrees 57 minutes latitude north, thence via the summit-line of the Northern Rockies to where that line reaches the 124th meridian west and generally south along that line of longitude, east of which is the northern portion of the Cariboo Land District, to the 55th Parallel North.
See also
- Cassiar (disambiguation)
- List of Land Districts of British Columbia
References
- ^ BC Names/Geo BC entry "Cassiar Land District"
- ^ British Columbia Online Cadastre Archived 2009-12-08 at the Wayback Machine To use this system to view Land District boundaries, pan or zoom to the approximate location, or use [Find Location tab] to pick a Land District by name. Open [Layers] tab along dark blue navigation bar, then open the Administrative Boundaries folder and select "Land Districts (outlined)", also click "pointer" (will highlight turquoise). To substantially speed up refresh time, deselect Survey Parcels, cadastral fabric, etc. that might be part of the default suite; to remove the distracting map grid, open the Base Map folder and deselect "Grids". Whenever you make a change to the base, scroll to bottom of folders list and [Refresh Map] or select [Automatically Refresh Map]