* Aberdeen, Kamloops, an area in the City of Kamloops, British Columbia

* Aberdeen, Abbotsford, a neighbourhood in the City of Abbotsford, British Columbia

* Aberdeen Station ( TransLink ), SkyTrain station on the Canada Line in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

* W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia

* 2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.

Demeritt ( 1995 ) argues that in British Columbia ( and Canada generally ), there were three overlapping agrarian viewpoints.

* 1991 – Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm ( who had resigned ) as Premier of British Columbia.

* Mount Alfred, British Columbia, Canada

British explorer David Thompson was the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River in 1811.

Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U. S. state of Alaska, which lies west of the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

The border between the Canadian province of British Columbia and Alaska is known as the Alaska boundary dispute, where the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and British Columbia claimed different borderlines at the Alaskan Panhandle.

British Columbia ( B. C.

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Canada's Queen at Confederation.

In 2009, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4, 419, 974 ( about two and a half million of whom were in Greater Vancouver ).

Among the provinces, British Columbia has been distinguished by its strong liberal views ( in stark contrast to the other provinces west of Ontario ).

The significant presence of visible minorities from British Columbia in both the provincial and federal spheres of government also reflects the high degree of multiculturalism that has come to be associated with Canada.

The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. " the Mainland ", became a British colony in 1858.

It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Crown corporations of British Columbia include BC Hydro, BC Ferries, and the British Columbia Lottery Corporation.

In addition to the benefits related to the energy generated, the construction of the dam and the reservoir also provided economic opportunities for the province of British Columbia, for the newly founded state owned electric utility BC Hydro, and for the large number of workers.

The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority Act, introduced by Premier W. A. C.

As recently as October 2008, the Kwadacha First Nation, another Aboriginal group residing in the Fort Ware area located at the north end of the Finlay Reach of Lake Williston, reached a settlement with the British Columbia government and BC Hydro over damages suffered during construction and operation of the dam and Williston Lake.

The BC Hydro and Power Authority is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia generally known simply as BC Hydro.

As a provincial Crown corporation, BC Hydro reports to the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, and is regulated by the British Columbia Utilities Commission ( BCUC ).

BC Hydro was created in 1961 when the government of British Columbia, under Premier WAC Bennett, passed the BC Hydro Act.

This act led to the amalgamation of BC Electric Company and the BC Power Commission, and the creation of the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority ( BCHPA ).

In 2012, having been over-billed for electricity usage in British Columbia, customers were told by representatives from BC Hydro that they had consumed excessive amounts of electricity during the previously mild winter, when in fact the newly installed smart meters had malfunctioned.

The Fraser Valley Line became the British Columbia Hydro Railway when BC Electric was nationalized in the 1960s ; it was later privatized and is now the Southern Railway of British Columbia, a local shortline freight railway.

In 1989, BC Hydro sold the railway to a new shortline operator and the railway is now known as the Southern Railway of British Columbia and is exclusively a freight railway.

Scottish Power was largely formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the South of Scotland Electricity Board, whilst the other, the North of Scotland Hydro Board, eventually became part of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group ( the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, Scottish Nuclear, which was not sold off with Scottish Power and Scottish Hydro Electric, but was sold later as part of British Energy ).

Hugh Keenleyside served as the chairman of the British Columbia Power Commission and co-chairman at the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority from 1962 to 1969.

* BC Hydro, British Columbia

Areas of British Columbia serviced by BC Hydro are allowed net metering for up to 50 kW.

It was the first British airborne operation conducted using gliders, and its target was the Vemork Norsk Hydro chemical plant in Telemark county, Norway which produced heavy water for Nazi Germany.

The source of the heavy water was the Norsk Hydro plant, which had been occupied in 1940 ; when the British government learned of the German nuclear developments, it was decided that a raid would be launched to destroy the plant and deny the Germans the heavy water required to develop a nuclear weapon.

From 1959 to 1962, he was the chairman of the British Columbia Power Commission and co-chairman at the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority from 1962 to 1969.

* 1948 – Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer ( Power Station, Silverhead, and Detective )

The British defence guarantee ended following Britain's decision in 1967 to withdraw its forces east of Suez, and was replaced in 1971 with the Five Power Defence Arrangements ( FPDA ) by which Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore agreed to co-operate in the area of defence, and to " consult " in the event of external aggression or the threat of attack on Malaysia or Singapore.

* British Energy — Understanding Nuclear Energy / Nuclear Power

Known for their distinctive jangle and chime, Rickenbacker guitars tended to be favoured by Jangle Pop, Power pop and British Invasion-style groups-bands such as The Who, The Byrds and The Beatles.

He specialized in reactor technology from United Kingdom when he was offered post-graduate research by the Manchester University, and did extensive research at British Nuclear Power Industry.

Following the incident and arrest of the ULA members and Miller ( whom Ryan nearly executes with his Browning Hi Power ), Ryan is re-assigned to London as a member of a liaison group to the British Secret Intelligence Service.

* US historian Arthur Marder publishes The Anatomy of British Sea Power: a history of British naval policy in the pre-Dreadnought era, 1880-1905.

While visiting the British Power Boat Company, they purchased a design ( PV70 ) ( later renamed PT-9 during the competition ), designed by Hubert Scott-Paine.

He is also chairman of various international advisory boards and councils for many international companies, including Power Corp. ( Montreal ), Bombardier ( Montreal ), the China International Trust and Investment Corp. ( Beijing ), J. P. Morgan Chase and Co. ( New York ), Violy, Byorum and Partners ( New York ), VS & A Communications Partners ( New York ), Independent Newspapers ( Dublin ) and General Enterprise Management Services Limited ( British Virgin Islands ).

Tate Modern, in Bankside Power Station on the south side of the Thames, opened in 2000 and now exhibits the national collection of modern art from 1900 to the present day, including some modern British art.

In his book The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power, the British politician David Owen argues that President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair developed a Hubristic Syndrome while in power.

General Murray appointed Sir Manley Power to oversee the evacuation of British troops from France.

In The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, author Daniel Yergin notes that the Carter Doctrine " bore striking similarities " to a 1903 British declaration, in which British Foreign Secretary Lord Landsdowne warned Russia and Germany that the British would " regard the establishment of a naval base or of a fortified port in the Persian Gulf by any other power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal.

The British Amiga games magazine Amiga Power ( AP ) had a long running gag about Hired Guns.

In British author Anthony Horowitz's fantasy-thriller book series The Power of Five, Manco Cápac is the son of Inti, and one of five children destined to keep the universe safe from the forces of evil.

" British rock group Pink Floyd featured an inflatable flying pig over the Battersea Power Station on the cover of their 1977 album Animals.

He was the exponent of British strength, yet was driven from office for truckling to a foreign despot ; he preached the Balance of Power, yet helped to inaugurate the policy of isolation and of British withdrawal from Europe.

In July 2011 the visitor centre and observatory hosted " Jodrell Bank Live "-a rock concert with bands including The Flaming Lips, British Sea Power, Wave Machines, OK GO and Alice Gold.

Hart's most significant projects were the construction of Highway 97 to northern British Columbia ( which is now named in his honour ) and the Bridge River Power Project, which was the first major hydroelectric development in British Columbia.