The description of the boundary between Electoral Areas C and D given in BC Orders-in-Council 3211/1973 and 2772/1975 is legally vague. The problematic text, as given in BC OIC 2772/1975, is shown in bold in the following excerpt, with context given for clarification. “Township 2” is found in Range 3, Coast District:

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“thence northerly along the easterly boundaries of Sections 1 and 12, Township 2, to the point of intersection with the middle line of Bella Coola River;

“thence northwesterly along said middle line to the point of intersection with the northerly boundary of the South Half of Section 12;

“thence westerly along the northerly boundaries of the South Half of Section 12 and the Southeast Quarter of Section 11 to the northwest corner of said Southeast Quarter of Section 11;

“thence west to the point of intersection with the westerly boundary of the watershed of Salloomt River”

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The problem is that the actual westerly boundary of the Salloomt River drainage basin lies to the east of Township 2, and therefore the intersection described in the problematic text does not exist.

A data source that differs from the Order-in-Council text has therefore had to be used to draw the boundary between Electoral Areas C and D, and this data source, which interprets the boundary in the area to which the above problematic text pertains, has been properly attributed.