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British Columbia's economy is largely resource-based.
British Columbia's geography is epitomized by the variety and intensity of its physical relief, which has defined patterns of Human settlement | settlement and industry since colonization.
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.
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.

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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.
British Columbia also contains a large network of provincial parks, run by BC Parks of the Ministry of Environment.
Previously, the Canadian federal constitution could be amended by solitary act of the Canadian or British parliaments, by formal or informal agreement between the federal and provincial governments, or even simply by adoption as ordinary custom of an oral convention or unwritten tradition that was perceived to be the best way to do something.
Part V of this act established an amending formula for the Canadian constitution, the lack of which ( due to more than 50 years of disagreement between the federal and provincial governments ) was the only reason Canada's constitutional amendments still required approval by the British parliament after ratification of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
Despite the Kuwaiti government's desire to either be independent or under British rule, in the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, the British concurred with the Ottoman Empire in defining Kuwait as an autonomous caza of the Ottoman Empire and that the Shaikhs of Kuwait were not independent leaders, but rather qaimmaqams ( provincial sub-governors ) of the Ottoman government.
The British did not recognize that and more negotiations ensued, with Congress taking a role in provincial government in the late 1930s.
* 1821 – Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor ( d. 1899 )
Some of the measures were alleged to have encroached on provincial jurisdictions laid out in Section 92 of the British North America Act.
It was established in 2002 to absorb the students and programs of the former Technical University of British Columbia which was closed by the provincial government.
The provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Prince Edward Island also have a provincial sales tax.
During this period, the College was governed by the Victoria College Council, representative of the parent University of British Columbia, the Greater Victoria School Board, and the provincial Department of Education.
* May 3 – Samuel Ogle, British provincial Governor of Maryland ( b. 1694 )
* Columbia ( electoral district ), a provincial electoral district in British Columbia
However, the approval of the British Parliament was still needed for wider constitutional changes, such as those involving areas of provincial and Federal responsibilities.
In Canada, the strongest provincial Green Parties are the Green Party of British Columbia and the Green Party of Ontario though they are yet to win any seats in a provincial legislature.
** Richmond ( British Columbia provincial electoral district )
In conjunction with the provincial election in 2007, the province of Ontario voted on a mixed-member proportional representation electoral system and British Columbia held two consecutive referendums on BC-STV in 2005 and 2009.
The results ended up making British Columbia the first province to overturn the harmonization of provincial and federal taxes.
Much of the northern half of the Cascades, from Rainier north, have been preserved by US national or British Columbia provincial parks ( such as E. C.
Although unprotected by national parks and only a handful of provincial parks, the south-central Coast Mountains in British Columbia contain the five largest mid-latitude icefields in the world.
In the spring of 1776, 10, 000 British and German troops arrived in Quebec, and General Guy Carleton, the provincial governor, drove the Continental Army out of Quebec and back to Fort Ticonderoga.
In British Columbia the practice continues ; Queen's Counsel recipients are appointed by the provincial Attorney General.

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