reserve_lookup

Find Indian reserves in British Columbia by reserve name, by band name, by band number, or by the point (lat, lon) a reserve contains, from the BC Data Catalogue record Indian Reserves and Band Names - Administrative Boundaries (GeoBC; Open Government Licence - Canada), read live. Returns the reserve's CLAB id, English and French name, and the band number and band name the record lists. Federal government boundary data, not information from or about any Nation: no identity, governance, members or territory, and no geometry. Not a legal boundary. A band can have several reserves and a reserve's band name is the listing's administrative name.

Cost: 3 units of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• name (string, optional): min length 2, max length 60
• band_name (string, optional): min length 2, max length 60
• band_number (string, optional)
• lat (number, optional): min 47.5, max 61
• lon (number, optional): min -140, max -113
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 50

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/reserve_lookup \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool reserve_lookup with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"reserve_lookup","arguments":{}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.