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Regional District Seats of British Columbia

There are 26 regional districts, one regional municipality, and one unincorporated region in British Columbia. Name the seats of the 26 regional districts and the closest thing to it in the two other regions.
*Not the largest community in the RD
**largest community in unincorporated region
***former separately incorporated town
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Regional District/Region
Seat/Largest Community
Hint
Mount Waddington*
Port McNeill
The main part of the name means "Son of Niall," and it's on the ocean.
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Nanaimo
Lends its name to a tasty chocolate-custard desert bar! Indigenous name is Snuneymuxw.
Stikine**
Atlin
Sounds a bit like "Atlas"
Central Coast
Bella Coola
Might make you think of chimes and refrigerators!
Kootenay Boundary
Trail
Another word for "path."
North Okanagan*
Coldstream
Think "low-temperature river." Named after a town in Scotland.
Fraser Valley*
Chilliwack
This "wacky" city lent its name to a Canadian arena rock band.
Bulkley-Nechako*
Burns Lake
Think Scottish poet or Simpsons billionaire.
North Coast
Prince Rupert
Named after a British-German general and noble who was also the first head of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Metro Vancouver*
Burnaby
If you're trying to incinerate wasps, be careful not to...
Cowichan Valley
Duncan
Famous people with this as their first name include Hines, MacLeod, Sheik, Keith, and Ferguson, plus also the ill-fated King of Scotland in Shakespeare's MacBeth.
Fraser-Fort George
Prince George
The eldest of Prince William's children also bears this name.
qathet
Powell River
Were it named more recently, it could have been named after George W. Bush's Secretary Of State!
Central Kootenay
Nelson
Think Admiral Horatio?
Okanagan-Similkameen
Penticton
Sounds English because it ends in -ton, but it is really of indigenous origin!
Regional District/Region
Seat/Largest Community
Hint
Cariboo
Williams Lake
Its nickname is "Bill's Pond."
Kitimat-Stikine
Terrace
Named for a flat piece of land with a sharp slope on its edge, often created artificially for agricultural purposes.
Strathcona
Campbell River
Think a stream of mm-mm-good soup!
Central Okanagan
Kelowna
Rhymes with "Iona;" from local indigenous word meaning "grizzly bear."
Comox Valley
Courtenay
Shares its name with a noble house that has existed since the 11th century and whose current head resides in Devon
________-Clayoquot
Port Alberni
This fjord-side mill town might as well have been named after politicians Gore and Sanders!
Columbia-Shuswap
Salmon Arm
Named after a part of Shuswap lake, not after the limb of a certain trout relative!
Sunshine Coast
Sechelt
Sounds a bit like "seashell"
Thompson-Nicola
Kamloops
Think "camera goes around in circles."
Northern Rockies***
Fort Nelson
Like Central Kootenay only with an extra word attached (means "encampment"
Squamish-Lillooet*
Pemberton
Named after a neighbourhood of Wigan.
Capital
Victoria
Named after 19th century British queen
East Kootenay
Cranbrook
Named after a village in Kent, UK; could be held to mean "crane river."
Peace River
Dawson Creek
NOT named after a teen drama with James van der Beek, Joshua Jackson, and Katie Holmes! Also lacking a possessive.
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