North Coast-Haida Gwaii.
3 candidates, one seat.

The Council of the Haida Nation says the Haida have been on Haida Gwaii for thousands of years, that the Council was formed in 1974, and that the Constitution of the Haida Nation was formally adopted in 2003. Coastal First Nations, an alliance of eight Nations that includes the Haida Nation, says Haida territory takes in parts of southern Alaska, Haida Gwaii and the waters around it. The Haida Nation has three representatives in that alliance: the Council of the Haida Nation, the Old Massett Village Council and the Skidegate Band Council.

The Province of British Columbia lists the agreements that led to 2024. They are the Changing Tide Framework for Reconciliation Agreement of 2021 and the Nang K̲’uula • Nang K̲'úulaas Recognition Agreement of 2023. The Council's release says the 2023 agreement recognizes the Haida Nation as the holder of Haida Nation title and rights, and the Council as its governing body. On April 6, 2024, Haida citizens voted 95% in favour of the Gaayhllxid • Gíihlagalgang "Rising Tide" Haida Title Lands Agreement at a special assembly. The Province and the Council signed it on April 14, 2024, in HlGaagilda. Bill 25 was introduced on April 22, 2024, and the Province says it became law on May 16, 2024.

The release sets out what the agreement keeps in place. Private property interests are confirmed. Local governments, public infrastructure, programs and services continue under current B.C. laws, and residents keep receiving municipal services and paying property taxes as they do now. Provincially issued leases, permits and other approvals to use Crown land stay in effect over a transition period of several years. The title is put into effect in stages. The Province calls the agreement and its law the first of their kind in Canadian history.

Parks Canada dates the dispute over southern Moresby Island to 1974, when logging plans led to a public proposal to protect the South Moresby Wilderness Area. In 1985 the Haida Nation designated the area a Haida Heritage Site, and a blockade was held on Lyell Island. Logging went on until July 1987, when Canada and British Columbia signed the South Moresby Memorandum of Understanding. The South Moresby Agreement followed in 1988.

In 1993 the Government of Canada and the Council of the Haida Nation signed the Gwaii Haanas Agreement. Under it, the Archipelago Management Board, made up of an equal number of representatives from the Council and from the Government of Canada, plans and runs Gwaii Haanas. On January 16, 2010, the Gwaii Haanas Marine Agreement added Fisheries and Oceans Canada to that partnership. The Gwaii Haanas National Marine Conservation Area Reserve was established in June 2010. The commission's map for the district labels Moresby Island and Gwaii Haanas National Park among the features of Haida Gwaii.

The City of Prince Rupert says Prince Rupert lies in the traditional territory of the Ts’msyen, that archaeological evidence matches the First Nations' adaawx, their recorded history, and that people have lived on the North Coast for over 10,000 years. Coastal First Nations says the Metlakatla First Nation has existed for thousands of years around present-day Prince Rupert, and that Metlakatla means "saltwater pass" in Sm’algyax, the language of the Coast Ts’msyen (Tsimshian) people. The Lax Kw'alaams Band says its name comes from Laxłgu'alaams, "Place of the Wild Roses", and that it has over 4,100 members.

Coastal First Nations says the Gitxaała Nation, also called Git Lax M’oon, people of the saltwater, has territory that stretches from the Nass River to Aristazabel Island. It says the village of Lach Klan (Kitkatla) has been lived in continuously for thousands of years, and that hereditary leaders of four clans, Gisputwada, Ganhada, Lax’sgiik and Laxgibuu, manage the territory under their ayaawx, their traditional laws.

The Gitga'at First Nation says it is based in Txalgiuw (Hartley Bay), that Gitk’a’ata Territory is its ceremonial and political foundation, and that its customary structure rests on three clans: Gispudwada, Laxsgiik and Ganhada. The Nation lists among the hardships it has lived through a ban on feasting and potlatching from 1885 to 1951, residential schools, and the removal of children from their families.

The Heiltsuk Tribal Council writes the Nation's name as Haíɫzaqv and says its oral histories, supported by archaeological evidence, trace its presence back over 14,000 years. It gives the traditional territory as 16,658 square kilometres and says Bella Bella is on Campbell Island. In a notice dated June 3, 2026, the Council says the tug Nathan E. Stewart ran aground near Bella Bella in October 2016 and spilled diesel and other pollutants into Heiltsuk waters, and that a first settlement with Kirby Corporation includes a payment of $12.2 million after the court issues its order.

The Nuxalk Nation names Q'umk'uts' (Bella Coola) as unceded Nuxalk territory. Coastal First Nations says Nuxalk territory surrounds Bella Coola and takes in King Island, Fisher, Burke and Dean Channels, and North and South Bentinck Arms. The Nation says the Squmalh (Thorsen Creek) petroglyphs are estimated to be over 5000 years old, and that on June 28, 2019, its elected Chief and Council signed a Declaration of Understanding with Nuxalk Stataltmc, the ancestral leadership. The Wuikinuxv Nation says it has lived on the lands and waters of Rivers Inlet since time immemorial, and its village is K̓itit.

Coastal First Nations says a coast-wide alliance of Nations was formed in 2003 and now includes the Gitga’at, Gitxaała, Haida, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Metlakatla, Nuxalk and Wuikinuxv. It says the Great Bear Rainforest agreements were announced in 2006 and formalized in 2016 as a land use order and the Great Bear Rainforest (Forest Management) Act, which put 3.1 million hectares of coastal temperate rainforest off limits to industrial logging. The Central Coast Regional District lists the Kitasoo/Xai’Xais Nation among the Nations whose territories it overlaps.

The City of Prince Rupert says Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, toured Canada and the Pacific coast with officials in 1903, and that in March 1905 the railway received a Crown grant of 10,000 acres. BC Geographical Names records that the railway's officers named the city in 1906 for Prince Rupert, the first governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, after an open competition with a $250 prize. The post office opened on 1 December 1906.

Both the City and BC Geographical Names place the incorporation in March 1910. The City gives March 10th and BC Geographical Names gives 3 March, so this page gives the month only. The City adds that the first municipal election was held on May 19, 1910, and that Alfred Stork was elected the first mayor. Hays died in the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912. The first through train from Winnipeg arrived on April 9, 1914. The City also says the Canadian Fish & Cold Storage plant opened in 1912 and made Prince Rupert known as the Halibut Capital of the World.

The North Pacific Cannery at Port Edward was first established in 1889 by John Carthew, according to Parks Canada's statement for the Canadian Register of Historic Places. Henry Bell-Irving bought it in 1891, and it operated until 1980. Its main building from 1889 is the oldest surviving cannery building in British Columbia, and the site was designated a national historic site in 1985. BC Geographical Names records Port Edward as a village municipality from 29 June 1966 and a district municipality from 17 April 1991.

At Ocean Falls, The Canadian Encyclopedia says the sawmill was producing export lumber by 1909, that the mill under Crown Zellerbach supported a town of 3000 by 1966, and that the mill had closed by 1980, when most residents left. The City of Prince Rupert says the pulp mill on nearby Watson Island opened in 1951 and closed in 2004.

The City says that in the Second World War thousands of American and Canadian troops were stationed at Prince Rupert and the population rose to over 21,000. It dates Fairview Terminal, its first deep-sea facility, to 1977, the coal and grain terminals on Ridley Island to the early 1980s, a new container port at Fairview in 2007, and a significant expansion in 2018.

BC Geographical Names quotes a Parks Canada monument at Bella Coola: "Alexander Mackenzie of the North West Company, with nine companions, reached this place on July 21, 1793." The Bella Coola post office opened on 1 March 1895, and the office became Hagensborg Post Office on 1 June 1900. Hagensborg is named for Hagen B. Christensen, the first storekeeper in the district, who was postmaster from 1896 to 1910.

On Haida Gwaii, BC Geographical Names says Eli Tingley arrived at what is now Port Clements in 1907, that the place was first called Queenstown, and that it was renamed in 1914 for Herbert Sylvester Clements, the member of Parliament for Comox-Atlin. Port Clements became a village municipality on 31 December 1975. Masset's post office opened on 1 August 1909, and Masset became a village municipality on 11 May 1961.

BC Geographical Names says the community once recorded as Skidegate Mission became Skidegate on 31 March 1992, after the United Church of Canada asked for the word Mission to be removed and the Skidegate Band Council confirmed the request by letter on 30 March 1992. The federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs approved the change on 18 November 1998. The Village of Queen Charlotte became the Village of Daajing Giids on 13 July 2022, by Order in Council 422.