Bear Lake is an unincorporated settlement in northern British Columbia

British Columbia

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, approximately 70 km north of Prince George

Prince George, British Columbia

Prince George, with a population of 71,030 , is the largest city in northern British Columbia, Canada, and is known as "BC's Northern Capital"...

 along Highway 97.

Bear Lake Elementary School, administered by School District 57 Prince George

School District 57 Prince George

School District 57 Prince George is a school district in central British Columbia. It covers a large area of the province around the city of Prince George. This includes communities of McBride, Valemount, and Mackenzie.-Schools:...

, was closed in approximately 2005. Students, both elementary and secondary, are bused to schools in Salmon Valley and Prince George, approximately 45 km and 60 km away respectively.

The community is the Provincial electoral district of Prince George-Mackenzie

Prince George-Mackenzie

Prince George-Mackenzie is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada established by the Electoral Districts Act, 2008. It came into effect upon the dissolution of the BC Legislature in April 2009, and was first contested in the 2009 provincial election...

, and the MLA

Member of the Legislative Assembly

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 is Pat Bell. Federally, it falls in the Prince George-Peace River electoral district, the seat was filled by Bob Zimmer in the 2011 Federal Election.

Bear Lake is a census-designated place

Census-designated place

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 (by Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada

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 and BC Stats), located in the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George

Fraser-Fort George Regional District, British Columbia

The Regional District of Fraser-Fort George is a regional district located in the Central Interior of British Columbia. It is bounded by the Alberta border to the east, the Columbia-Shuswap and Thompson-Nicola Regional Districts to the south/southeast, Cariboo Regional District to the southwest,...

.

Latitude Longitude	54°29′41"N 122°41′2"W
Postal Code Canadian postal code A Canadian postal code is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. Like British and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A0A 0A0, where A is a letter and 0 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters...	V0J 3G0
Population	170
Dwellings	91
Area	1.68 km2.
Census Year	2006 Canada 2006 Census The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 16, 2006. The next census following will be the 2011 Census. Canada's total population enumerated by the 2006 census was 31,612,897...

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