Al2 - Wednesday, January 26, 1983 - North Shore News

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

TUESDAY, May 10, 1983, 10.00 a.m.
Suite 1040, 650 West Georgia Street,
Vancouver, B.C.

On May 28, 1982, an Electoral Boundaries
Commission was established for the Province of British
Columbia. The task of the commission is to propose
readjustment, based on the 1981 decennial census, of
the boundaries of federal electoral! districts in British
Columbia. The commission’s detailed proposal for the
thirty-three (33) federal electoral districts assigned to
British Columbia under the provisions of the relevant
legislation was published in The Canada Gazette on
January 22,1983.

In this area the changes involve:

1. Based on the 1981 census, the commission proposes
to create three of the five new electoral districts
assigned to this province in areas to the south and east
of the City of Vancouver.

2. Since all five of the present electoral districts in the
City of Vancouver are within 5° of the population quota
for this province (83,165) no Changes to them are
proposed.

3. The new and revised electoral districts in the lower
mainland area will be:

RICHMOND (95,199)

With the excepuion of a small easterly triangle,
this municipality forms its own electoral district. While
its population ts substantially above quota, the Commis.
sion feels that Community of interest factors balance
the added population.

DELTA (83,852

With the addition of a small portion of western
Surrey, Delta will form a separate electoral district

NORTH SURREY (85,836) and
SURREY—WHITE ROCK (82 309)

Surrey is divided into two electoral distncts, the
southern one including White Hock and a southwest
portion of Langley District Municipality
BURNABY (89,210) and
NEW WESTMINSTER—BURNABY (86,791)

Two electoral districts are proposed, the northern
one including that portion of Burnaby formerly included
with North Vancouver and the southern one comprised
of New Westminster, the southwest part of Burnaby
Annacis Island and o small eastern tnanygzle of
Richmond

PORT MOODY—COQUITLAM (83,959) and
MISSION—COQUITLAM (82,708)

The north shore of the Fraser River east of ~
Burnaby to the east boundary of the Dewdney-Alouette
Regional District is divided into two electoral districts
by a line which bisects both the Municipality of
Coquitlam and the City of Port Coquitlam along the
Coquitlam River and the Canadian Pacific Railway
main line.

NORTH VANCOUVER (88,273)

The City of North Vancouver, together with all of
the District of North Vancouver east of Capilano Lake
and MacKay Creek, form an electoral district.

WEST VANCOUVER—HOWE SOUND
(80,758)
West Vancouver is joined with Sechelt, HHowe

Sound, Squamish and the Pemberton Valley to form an
electoral district.

Public hearings will be held for the purpose of
receiving representations by interested persons. These
hearings will be conducted in accordance with the rules
adopted by the commission.

Persons wishing to make representations al a
public hearing of the commission must, as stipulated in
the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act, give notice
in writing to the secretary to the COmmission within
twenty-three (23) days from fhe date of publication of
this advertisement. The notice must state the name and
address of the person who will make the representation
and indicate concisely the nature of the representation
and the interest of such person. Notices should be
mailed or delivered to the secretary to the commission.

Copies of the commission's proposal for the whole
of British Columbia and of the rules may be obtained
from the secretary to the comunussion.

The Secretary,

federal Electoral Boundaries Clomimission for the
Province of British Columbia,

Suite 1040, PO. Box 11544,

650 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC) V6B 4N7
Telephone: 666-6518

Hl) MACDONALD. ]
Chairman