To Whitehorse Carcross ! Deh Cho First Nations Carcross Liard First Nations ! Tagish First Nation Teslin Fort Liard Teslin Tlingit Council Y Tutshi U K O N Lake N Gladys Watson Lake N W T Lake Tagish Lower Post I$! Lake 5 Teslin (Daylu Dena Council) Lake Atlin Maxhamish Lake ! ÂA! '" Skagway (Ttha k'e) I$! Five Mile Point Haines Atlin Taku River Tlingit Lake [£77 ! Good Hope Lake Liard River ! (Dease River First Nation) Liard River Health Facilities Hot - Springs A I$! v® Hospitals and Hospitals with Health Centres L A Health Centres (Diagnostic or Treatment) [£97 81 μ Snake River S 87 ! [£37 '" Nursing Stations (Northern Health) K ! Muncho Fort Nelson A Lake '" Nursing Stations (Other Providers) ! ! ! ! ® Tulsequah / A v I$! Fort Nelson Dease Toad First Nation I$ Health and Wellness Centres Lake Cry River Lake /! Aboriginal Friendship Centres ! Summit Juneau Lake Dease ÂA Ambulance Stations (BC Ambulance Service) ! ÂA CHICHAGOF NORTHWEST μ Lake Kahntah ISLAND ! ! eJ Air Ambulance (BC Ambulance Service) Boulder City K Fontas e ! c h Other Features i k « a 87 R i v e r Health Authority Prophet River First Nation 025507512.5 ! Tahltan Nation I$ (Dene Tsaa Tse K'Nai) 31 Kilometers ! Local Health Area S t Guhthe ! i k ! ! in Tah '"! Telegraph e R iver Highway/Road Scale 1 : 1,200,000 ADMIRALTY Creek ISLAND Kluachon ! Lake Gravel Road ! '" Iskut ! Trutch NORTHEAST 5 Former Indian Residential Schools Iskut First Nation Kinaskan Lake [£97 94 Fast Facts about Northern BC Kwadacha Nation (Fort Ware) '" The area served by Northern Health lies roughly between 53 and 60 degrees north ! latitude and covers 617, 271 square kilometers. This region accounts for nearly two- thirds of the land area of British Columbia: an area the size of France. Kemess Local Health Areas (LHAs) are administrative units used by the province of British BARANOF Mine Columbia to facilitate the planning and delivery of health and other services. ISLAND 57 Local Health Areas Sq. Km. Population 2010 Pink Mountain 60 ! 28 Quesnel 23,434.07 23,784 Canada ! Thutade 50 Haida Gwaii 4,593 KUIU Bob Quinn Lake Tatlatui 9,632.89 ISLAND Lake Lake 51 Snow Country 28,045.08 541 52 Prince Rupert 5,963.95 14,372 ! [£37 Tsay Keh Dene 53 Upper Skeena 4,473.47 5,407 N '" as 54 Smithers 9,881.97 16,214 Bronson s Buick ! Blueberry River 55 Burns Lake 25,527.60 7,960 Bell II Creek R Wonowon ! i ! ! v First Nations 56 Nechako 41,340.90 15,009 KUPREANOF e I$ ISLAND r 57 Prince George 80,583.70 97,036 ! Doig River First Nation 59 Peace River South 28,343.70 27,501 Ingenika ! (Taahche Wadane) Rose I$ 60 Peace River North 69,813.60 35,407 Northern Wrangell Mine Prairie 80 Kitimat 9,484.90 10,237 Health Upper ! Halfway 81 Fort Nelson 86,652.70 6,319 ! Halfway River I$! 87 Stikine 141,679.00 986 Bowser First Nation Charlie (Choonachee) Lake Goodlow 88 Terrace 13,382.30 20,536 Lake ! Pineview 92 Nisga'a 5,005.74 1,958 51 ! 94 Telegraph Creek 24,025.00 709 87 Fort Grand Haven - Clairmont ! v®! St. John Clayhurst Total Sq. Km. and population 617,270.97 288,569 ! ÂA Taylor /! ! Source: Square Kilometers summary provided to Northern Health by BC Stats, May 2010. r Source: Populations by LHA from BC Stats, PEOPLE 35 for year 2010. ce Rive Pea Hudson's Doe River Hope ! ! ! Aboriginal People and Communities in Northern BC Meziadin Bear μÂA PRINCE Lake Lake Rolla OF ! Approximately 17.5 % of northerners (or about 52,000 persons) identified themselves Â! WALES Hyder ! A μ Moberly as Aboriginal (First Nations, Metis or Inuit) during the last Canadian Census in 2006. ISLAND Stewart [£37 Williston Lake Saulteau ! Dawson ! Driftwood River Lake ! I$ First Nation O Creek ! There are 54 First Nations Bands located in northern BC. Many of these bands have m West Moberly ! ® ! v in I$ ! more than one community under their governance. The last census (2006) indicated that e REVILLAGIGEDO c First Nation Arras Pouce a  R ! A ISLAND i Coupe there were more than 80 inhabited First Nations communities in northern BC. ver ! ! ! Squaam v®! East / Takla Lake Germansen Landing Chetwynd ! Pine B Dokie-Wildmare The table below lists the numerous First Nations Bands in the North. We have included a First Nation ÂA bi ! ! the INAC identification numbers for clarification purposes as there is often confusion. ne ! ! Ri Pine / Tomslake ver ! Lone Manson Creek Valley Prairie ! Northwest - 25 First Nations Gitzault 56 ! Takla Landing [£52 501 Taku River Tlingit 682 Tahltan Alice Arm ! Cranberry 59 92 Junction ! 504 Dease River Band (Good Hope Lake) 683 Iskut Ketchikan 53 '" Nisga'a 671 Gingolx 678 Lax Galt'sap NORTHERN ! Indigenous Languages in British Columbia 677 Gitlaxt'aamiks / New Aiyansh 679 Gitwinsihlkw ! 531 Gitanmaax Nass Camp I$Anspayaxw / Kispiox Takla ! 535 Gitsegukla Wit'at v®ÂA Tumbler Kelly ! ! ! 537 Gitanyow 536 Gitwangak British Columbia is home to an amazing diversity of Aboriginal languages and cultures. In fact Old Aiyansh I$ Sik E Dakh / Glen Vowell I$ (Fort Babine) Lake INTERIOR Mackenzie Lake ! ! ! Ridge 533 Sik E Dakh / Glen Vowell Gitanyow ! ! 532 Anspayaxw / Kispiox Metlakatla I$  I$Tse-Kya / Hagwilget over sixty percent of the First Nations Languages in Canada are spoken in British Columbia. A v® ! Gitlaxt'aamiks ! ! 534 Tse-kya / Hagwilget 530 Moricetown / Key' ah' wiget (Alaska) ! I$ Hazeltons ÂA Source: First Peoples Language Map of British Columbia Gitwinksihlkw I$ μ 669 Old Massett Village Council 670 Skidegate Gitanmaax Gitwangak Tchentlo ! 675 Gitga'at / Hartley Bay 672 Gitxaala / Kitkatla Gingolx ! Chuchi Parsnip I$ÂA! I$ Gitsegukla Nedoats Lakes 673 Metlakatla / Maxtakxaata 674 Lax Kw'alaams ! Lake I$ I$ Lax galts' ap ! (Old Fort) 676 Kitimaat Village Council / Haisla 681 Kitsumkalum First Nations of British Columbia ! Babine 17 ! !! McLeod Lake ! ! 680 Kitselas / Gitselasu The intent of this map is to provide a more accurate Moricetown I$! Bulkley Smithers I$ First Nation representation of First Nations peoples in British 16 (Key' ah' wiget) River Landing Columbia. Boundaries shown are language areas [£ Northern Interior - 21 First Nations ! Dzitl'ainli and not an authoritative depiction of tribal territories. μ (Middle River) The names listed are the ones First peoples prefer to Granisle  619 Ts'il Kaz Koh / Burns Lake Band 620 Cheslatta Carrier Glentanna A Trembleur ! call themselves. Terms and spellings do not reflect Rosswood ! 729 Skin Tyee 726 Nee Tahi Buhn all the dialects or names used by First Nations living ! Lake ! Kuz Che within the illustrated regions. I$! 607 Lake Babine Nation 725 Wet'suwet'en Tachet ! Smithers  ! ! Topley (Grand Rapids) A v®/ Landing Carp 613 Stellat'en 612 Nadleh Whut'en 88 ! Jean This map has been reproduced courtesy of the Museum Lake 614 Nak'azdli 617 Tl'azt'en of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. © 1994, Baptiste Babine UBC Museum of Anthropology. Used with permission. ! Tachie (Tl'azt'en) [£97 728 Yekooche 615 Saik'uz Telkwa Lake I$! 608 Takla Lake 609 Tsay Keh Dene D i I$! Gitaus (Kitselas) ! x Lax kw' alaams Terrace Quick [£16 ! Binche 610 Kwadacha 611 Lheidli Tenneh ! Yekooche I$ o 5 ! ! n '" (Port Simpson) ! Endudoon (Kitselas) Stuart Fort 618 McLeod Lake 715 Lhtako Dene / Red Bluff ÂAv!®! / First Nation E Donald St. James 709 Esdilagh / Alexandria 721 Lhoosk'uz Dene / Kluskus n t Kitsumkalum I$ ! Lake r a n c Kulspai (Kitselas) ! Landing e ! ! ! 720 Nazko 54 Duncan ÂA v® ! ! Topley ! I$ / Lake ! Bear Maxtakxaata / Metlakatla 52 ! I$ Nak'azdli First Nation  Northeast - 8 First Nations ! A Lakelse Lake ! Sowchea Lake 57 ! [£16 Houston μ Prince Rupert ÂAv®eJ/!  Wet'suwet'en (Broman Lake) 1059 Daylu Dena / Lower Post 543 Fort Nelson A Maxan ! Port Edward ! Decker Lake ! Lake ! ! 544 Prophet River / Dene Tsaa Tse K'nai 547 Blueberry River ! Summit I$ Lake Babine Nation (Woyenne) Dog Lake 548 Doig River / Taahche Wadane 546 Halfway River / Choonachee !! Creek ! Ts'il Kaz Koh (Burns Lake Band) ! [£37 I$ 56 542 Saulteau 545 West Moberly Lake ! Burns v® Old Massett ! Port Fraser I$ Lake ÂA Nadleh (Haida) v® Essington Lake Willow Source: Regional Profiles of First Nations: First Nations Health Council. September 2010. http://www.fnhc.ca/ Masset Whuten Fort ! ÂA Endako River Source: Indian and Northern Affairs. First Nations in British Columbia. January 2011. http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca 52 ! Francois ! Fraser  ! PORCHER A ! Morice Lake ! ! 5! I$  ! Lheidli T'enneh Northern Health Reorder # 10-300-6052 ISLAND A Reid Prince ! Skin Tyee I$ Lejac ! 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