British Columbia's economy is largely resource-based.

British Columbia's land area is.

British Columbia's rugged coastline stretches for more than, and includes deep, mountainous fjords and about six thousand islands, most of which are uninhabited.

British Columbia's capital is Victoria, located at the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island.

The Coast Mountains and the Inside Passage's many inlets provide some of British Columbia's renowned and spectacular scenery, which forms the backdrop and context for a growing outdoor adventure and ecotourism industry.

British Columbia's provincial parks system is the second largest parks system in Canada ( the largest is Canada's National Parks system ).

System and its Creator Melville Dewey by University of British Columbia's mission, the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies

As of 2011, 2, 590, 921 people ( 59 % of British Columbia's total population ), lived in the region ; sixteen of the province's thirty most populous municipalities are located there.

As part of British Columbia's 1871 agreement to join Canadian Confederation, the government had agreed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, a transcontinental railway linking the Pacific Province to the eastern provinces.

UVic is British Columbia's second largest research university, after UBC, and is one of Canada's top 20 research institutions.

* Andrew Weaver, one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former U. S. vice president Al Gore, and member of the British Columbia's Climate Action Team

* Ric Careless, one of British Columbia's leaders in wilderness preservation, named Environmentalist of the Year ( 1991 ) by Equinox Magazine and River Conservationist of the Year ( 1993 ) by American Rivers

British Columbia's position is based on the principle of natural prolongation which developed in international law.

In March 2008, the Chemainus First Nation proposed renaming the strait the " Salish Sea ", an idea that reportedly met with approval by British Columbia's Aboriginal Relations Minister Mike de Jong, who pledged to put it before the B. C.

* Southern Medical Program, a distributed site of the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine

* the southeastern Alaska Panhandle was leased from the Russian Empire, from 1839 to 1867, until the lease was ignored by both the Russians and Americans and, subsequently, by the Canadian and the British imperial governments, despite British Columbia's protests.

The cancellation was confirmed in 1995 by the federal government's " war on the deficit " and British Columbia's subsequent highway capital spending freeze.

Unlike the Expo Line, the Millennium Line's stations were designed by British Columbia's top architects, resulting in dramatically different stations from those on the Expo Line.

Each province has its own act, such as Ontario and British Columbia's respective good Samaritan acts ; Alberta's Emergency Medical Aid Act ; and Nova Scotia's Volunteer Services Act Only in Quebec, a civil law jurisdiction, does a person have a general duty to respond, as written in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.

* VSS, a simulator developed at the University of British Columbia's Computing Centre that makes it possible to run OS / MFT, OS / MVT, VS1, and MVS application programs under MTS.

Under British Columbia's Body Armour Control Act, it is illegal to possess body armour without a licence ( unless exempted ) issued by the provincial government.

It contains some of British Columbia's highest mountains.

Because the Coast Mountains are just east of the Pacific Ocean, they have a profound effect on British Columbia's climate by forcing moisture-laden air off the Pacific Ocean to rise, dropping heavy rainfalls on the western slopes where lush forests exist.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

For the British, their dilemma was a matter of geography and financial resources.

The geography of the region ; the South African Republic / Transvaal ( green ), with the Orange Free State ( orange ), the British Cape Colony ( blue ), and the Natalia Republic | Natal ( red )

During the British colonial period in the beginning of the 20th century, Lilongwe was chosen as British colonial administrative centre, due to its desirable geography.

Although it was presented to the world in 1965 with an accompanying scholarly book written by British Museum and Yale University librarians, historians of geography and medieval document specialists began to suspect that it might be a fake as soon as photographs of it became available, and chemical analyses have identified one of the major ink ingredients as a 20th-century artificial pigment.

The culture of Australia is essentially a Western culture influenced by the unique geography of the Australian continent, the diverse input of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the British colonisation of Australia which began in 1788, and the various waves of multi-ethnic migration which followed.

The basic notions of Mackinder's doctrine involve considering the geography of the Earth as being divided into two sections, the World Island or Core, comprising Eurasia and Africa ; the Peripheral " islands ", including the Americas, Australia, Japan, the British Isles, and Oceania.

Until the late 1940s, in more than 10 universities in systematically teach geography, in which economic geography British staples, as a representative of the statistical records school effect is extensive.

York was surveyed by the British Army with roads in a box grid format, while others conform to the geography of the town.

War Plan Red first set out a description of Canada's geography, military resources, and transportation, and went on to evaluate a series of possible pre-emptive American campaigns to invade Canada in several areas and occupy key ports and railways before British troops could provide reinforcement to the Canadians-the assumption being that Britain would use Canada as a staging point.

Transferred to Kutch in 1826 as assistant to the political agent, he took an interest in the history and geography of north-western India and the adjacent countries, which had not yet been thoroughly explored by the British.

Two different categorization schemes complicate the terms Jingpo and Kachin, which also operate as political geography terms of British origin.

With the advent of a more systematic study of geography, the Institute of British Geographers ( IBG ) was formed in 1933, by some academic Society fellows, as a sister body to the Society.

Following his service in the Waterford Militia and hunting excursions to the North American prairies, he led the British North American Exploring Expedition which investigated the geography, climate and ecology of western Canada.

In 1978 British amateur historian Bob Ward, after making an exhaustive study of the geography of the Pacific coast of the U. S. and Canada, and a single visit to the site, suggested that Drake actually landed much farther north, in Whale Cove in present-day Oregon.

The band's styles parody popular genres, while their lyrics allude to UK popular culture and geography ( Blackwell often refers to North Wales, often in the context of hillwalking in Snowdonia ; he also appears fond of Shropshire, East Anglia, The West Country, and Oxfordshire ) and British or international football.

The realities of colonial-era life for French and British settlers was heavily influenced by local considerations, such as climate, geography and established Aboriginal societies.

CUP is divided into six regions: WRCUP ( Western, including British Columbia and Yukon ), PNCUP ( Prairies and Northern, including Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Saskatchewan ), ORCUP ( Ontario ), CUPbeq ( Quebec ), ARCUP ( Atlantic, including New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island ), and PUC ( Presse Universitaire Canadienne, including all French language members regardless of geography ).

Petermann's firm published, among other things, the Atlas of physical geography with descriptive letter press ( 1850, with Thomas Milner ), and the Physical statistical maps of the British Isles, showing the geographical distribution of the population and inland hydrography.

His long stay in Britain made him familiar with the best in British and German geography, and he was fluent in both languages ( he had also learned French, which was a prerequisite to attend Berghaus ’ school ), which helped him to read as widely as necessary for his further career.

However, under British and subsequent New Zealand law, typically an iwi forms itself into a legally recognised entity, and under the Treaty of Waitangi these entities are accorded special rights and obligations under New Zealand law ... when they are recognised as tangata whenua They must have a provable relationship with a specific area of geography, and if this is acknowledged by the national or local authority, they become the legal tangata whenua.

British interests had to overcome not only the formidable obstacles posed by geography and climate, but also interfering ambitions by other powers, the Fashoda incident, and the Portuguese ambition to link Angola and Mozambique-known as the Pink Map.