* 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.

Besides helping to prevent the movement of the British to the west, Valley Forge also obstructed the trade between Howe's forces and the farmers, thus threatening the vital subsistence of the redcoats and rendering their foraging to obtain necessary supplies extremely hazardous.

He smiled also at a British bloke seated next to me, who asked the most asinine questions.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

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.

Persons who from having been born within British territory are British subjects, but who at birth became under the law of any foreign state subjects of such state, and also persons who though born abroad are British subjects by reason of parentage, may by declarations of alienage get rid of British nationality.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

The British also negotiated the safe return of Hasan Ali Shah to Persia, which was in accordance with his own wish.

Africa was also set on its course to decolonization, swept by what Harold Macmillan, the then British Prime Minister, aptly termed the " wind of change ".

He also wrote controversial criticisms of the British class structure which seemed to conflict with his promotion of Anglo-American friendship.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

While the earlier settlers were primarily of British ancestry, the newer settlers also consisted of Germans, Irish, and African-Americans.

Along with the Bill of Rights 1689, it remains today one of the main constitutional laws governing the succession to not only the throne of the United Kingdom, but, following British colonialism, the resultant doctrine of reception, and independence, also to those of the other Commonwealth realms, whether by willing deference to the act as a British statute or as a patriated part of the particular realm's constitution.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

British, German, Jewish, and other immigrants also settled in Argentina, all bringing their styles of cooking and favorite foods with them.

English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

British and American forces also deployed vehicles designed for a close support role, but these were conventional tanks whose only significant modification was the replacement of the main gun with a howitzer.

British Columbia contains seven of Canada's national parks:

Canadian English contains elements of British English and American English in its vocabulary, as well as many distinctive Canadianisms.

A collection at the British Museum in London contains seventy-four drawings of Indian portraits dating from the time of Jahangir, including a portrait of the emperor himself.

The family Tettigoniidae, known in American English as katydids and in British English as bush-crickets, contains more than 6, 400 species.

This section also contains rare objects from Persepolis which were also lent to British Museum for its Ancient Persia exihibition in 2005.

Olea europaea contains a seed commonly referred to in American English as a pit or a rock, and in British English as a stone.

Wire's debut album, Pink Flag ( 1977 ) – " perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk ", according to Allmusic – contains songs which are diverse in mood and style, but most use a minimalist punk approach, unorthodox structures, " Field Day For The Sundays ", for example, is only 28 seconds long.

The book also contains a secondhand description of the killing of German prisoners of war by British troops ; although Graves had not witnessed any incidents himself and knew of no large-scale massacres, he had been told about a number of incidents in which prisoners had been killed individually or in small groups ; consequently he was prepared to believe that a proportion of Germans who surrendered never made it to prisoner-of-war camps.

Some noted rock formations involve giant boulders exposed by erosion, such as the Devil's Marbles in Australia's Northern Territory, the Horeke basalts in New Zealand, where an entire valley contains only boulders, and The Baths on the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands.

* The British Library Sound Archive — contains many wildlife and atmospheric recordings made using hydrophones.

Each carpet page contains a different image of a cross ( called a cross-carpet page ), emphasizing the importance the Christian religion and ecumenical relationship between churches ( The British Library Board ).

Gamow published another paper in the British journal Nature in 1948, in which he developed equations for the mass and radius of a primordial galaxy ( which typically contains about one hundred billion stars, each with a mass comparable with that of the sun ).

Produced by George Martin for EMI's Parlophone Records, it contains fourteen songs in its original British form, of which seven appeared in the film.

The novel contains an interesting discussion of racism in the American Army: British townsfolk prefer the company of black soldiers.

The main differences between the two editions ( for either version of the book ) are those of American English vs. British English spellings, though The Deeper Meaning of Liff contains different definitions for both the word " Glossop " and the titular word " Liff ".

William Shakespeare's 1600 play Much Ado About Nothing contains an early modern reference to the legendary king, and Alfred Noyes ' poem Forty Singing Seamen is based on the Prester John legend ; and in 1910 British novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book, Prester John, to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa.

* Napoleon's British visitors contains accounts of British visits to France during the interlude

It is this side that contains the British Museum and the central departments and colleges of the University of London, including Birkbeck College, University College London, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and the University of London's School of Advanced Study.

The British National Formulary ( BNF ) is a medical and pharmaceutical reference book that contains a wide spectrum of information and advice on prescribing and pharmacology, along with specific facts and details about all medicines available on the National Health Service ( NHS ), including indication ( s ), contraindications, side effects, doses, legal classification, names and prices of available proprietary and generic formulations, and any other notable points.

The land contains parts of early land patents, including Skene's Little Patent and those issued to groups of British officers.

The song " La Fee Verte " by British rock band Kasabian contains the lyric " I see Lucy in the sky, Telling me I'm high.

It now contains the British headquarters of two substantial international companies.

* Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, a Major Research Project of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35, 000 published Greek names.