Highlands, British Columbia

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**Highlands, British Columbia, Canada**
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Census Division
Regional District	Capital Regional District
Area:	37.87 km²
Founded
Incorporated	1993
Population: Municipal District Population	1,674 (2001)
Population density:	44.2/km²
Time zone:	Pacific: UTC -8
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Latitude: Longitude:	48°30′39″N, 123°30′00″W {{Canadian_City/Map_source_is:{{{CCMapSource}}}\|d1\|m1\|N\|d2\|m2\|W\|region:CA_type:city(100,000)_}}
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Highways	Highway 1
Waterways	Strait of Juan de Fuca
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The District of Highlands (locally known as "The Highlands") is a municipal district on the Saanich Peninsula, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. As one of the Western Communities or West Shore municipalities outside Victoria, Highlands has a population of 1,674. The region stretches along the Strait of Juan de Fuca shoreline from Esquimalt Harbour to Rocky Point. One of the more remote and undeveloped areas of the Capital Regional District, it is one of its newest municipalities, having for many years been an unorganized area under provincial jurisdiction.

Although the area is seen as a target for residential expansion of the Greater Victoria region, it remains best known for lakes, hills, and wilderness. It is home to many parks, notably large portions of Gowlland Tod Provincial Park and Mount Work Regional Park. These parks protect Douglas fir habitat, old-growth forest, wildflowers, arbutus and manzanita.

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Members of the Capital Regional District

Electoral areas: B & D (Juan de Fuca) | F (Salt Spring Island) | G (Southern Gulf Islands)

Image:Flag of British Columbia.svg	Communities on Vancouver Island Edit this list	Image:Flag of Vancouver Island.svg
Ahousat \| Bamberton \| Bamfield \| Black Creek \| Bowser \| Brentwood Bay \| Buckley Bay \| Campbell River \| Cassidy \| Cedar \| Central Saanich \| Chemainus \| Clo-oose \| Coal Harbour \| Cobble Hill \| Colwood \| Comox \| Coombs \| Courtenay \| Cowichan Bay \| Cowichan Station \| Crofton \| Cumberland \| Duncan \| Errington \| Esquimalt \| Fanny Bay \| French Creek \| Genoa Bay \| Gold River \| Harewood \| Highlands \| Holberg \| Honeymoon Bay \| Kildonan \| Koksilah \| Ladysmith \| Lake Cowichan \| Langford \| Lantzville \| Malahat \| Merville \| Mesachie Lake \| Metchosin \| Maple Bay \| Mill Bay \| Nanaimo \| Nanoose Bay \| Nitinat \| North Cowichan \| North Saanich \| Oak Bay \| Oceanside \| Oyster River \| Parksville \| Port Alberni \| Port Alice \| Port Hardy \| Port McNeill \| Port Renfrew \| River Jordan \| Qualicum Beach \| Quatsino \| Royston \| Saanich \| Saanichton \| Saltair \| Sayward \| Shawnigan Lake \| Sidney \| Sooke \| Tahsis \| Telegraph Cove \| Tofino \| Ucluelet \| Union Bay \| Greater Victoria \| Victoria \| View Royal \| Westholme \| Winter Harbour \| Woss \| Youbou \| Yuquot (Friendly Cove) \| Zeballos

Neighbourhoods in Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria:	Chinatown \| Cook Street Village \| East Burnside-Gorge \| Fairfield \| Fernwood \| Harris Green \| Hillside \| Humboldt Valley \| James Bay \| Jubilee \| North Park \| Rockland \| Victoria West
Saanich:	Beaver Lake-Elk Lake \| Broadmead-Sunnymead \| Cadboro Bay \| Cedar Hill \| Cloverdale \| Cordova Bay \| Glanford \| Gordon Head \| Gorge-Tillicum \| Interurban \| Lake Hill \| Maplewood \| Marigold \| Mount Douglas \| Mount Tolmie-Lansdowne \| Prospect Lake \| Royal Oak \| Strawberry Vale \| Swan Lake \| Ten Mile Point \| Town and Country-Burnside \| West Saanich
Other areas:	Belmont Park \| Brentwood Bay \| Broom Hill \| Cloak Hill \| Colwood Corners \| Craigflower \| Dean Park \| Deep Cove \| Durrance Lake \| East Sooke \| Florence Lake \| Glen Lake \| Goldstream \| Gonzales \| Gorge Vale \| Happy Valley \| Hatley Park \| Island View \| Kemp Lake \| Lands End \| Luxton \| Matheson Lake \| Mill Hill \| Millstream \| Otter Point \| Pat Bay \| Ravenwood \| Rockheights \| Rocky Point \| Saanichton \| Saseenos \| Songhees \| Swartz Bay \| Thetis Lake \| Uplands \| Whiffen Spit \| William Head \| Willis Point \| Willows Beach \| Windsor Park \| Work Point

Image:Flag of British Columbia.svg	British Columbia
Regional Districts	Alberni-Clayoquot - Bulkley-Nechako - Capital - Cariboo - Central Coast - Central Kootenay - Central Okanagan - Columbia-Shuswap - Comox-Strathcona - Cowichan Valley - East Kootenay - Fraser Valley - Fraser-Fort George - Greater Vancouver - Kitimat-Stikine - Kootenay Boundary - Mount Waddington - Nanaimo - North Okanagan - Northern Rockies - Okanagan-Similkameen - Peace River - Powell River - Skeena-Queen Charlotte - Squamish-Lillooet - Stikine - Sunshine Coast - Thompson-Nicola
Communities over 100,000	Abbotsford - Burnaby - Coquitlam - Delta - Kelowna - Richmond - Saanich - Surrey - Vancouver
70,000-100,000	Chilliwack - Kamloops - Langley Township - Maple Ridge - Nanaimo - District of North Vancouver - Prince George - Victoria
Other major communities	Campbell River - Castlegar - Comox - Cranbrook - Dawson Creek - Dease Lake - Fort St. John - Mission - New Westminster - City of North Vancouver - Penticton - Port Coquitlam - Port Moody - Quesnel - Revelstoke - Tsawwassen - Vernon