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.
________	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.