Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor.

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

Includes chapter " Astoria and the Columbia River.

Category: Populated places on the Columbia River

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.

The coldest temperature in British Columbia was recorded in Smith River, where it dropped to, one of the coldest readings recorded anywhere in North America.

* Iskut Canyon Cone, a cinder cone of the Iskut-Unuk River Cones group in northwestern British Columbia, Canada

* Machmel River Cone, a cinder cone in the Pacific Ranges section of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada

* Snippaker Creek Cone, a cinder cone of the Iskut-Unuk River Cones group in northwestern British Columbia, Canada

* King Creek Cone, a subglacial mound of the Iskut-Unuk River Cones group in northwestern British Columbia, Canada

Increasingly, hydro-power operations are required to meet standards under the U. S. Endangered Species Act and other agreements to manage operations to minimize impacts on salmon and other fish, and some conservation and fishing groups support removing four dams on the lower Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia.

seine fishing | Seining salmon on the Columbia River, 1914

Some of the Columbia and Snake River dams employ fish ladders, which are effective to varying degrees at allowing these fish to travel upstream.

Of the 227 major dams in the Columbia River drainage basin, the four Washington dams on the lower Snake River are often identified for removal, notably in an ongoing lawsuit concerning a Bush administration plan for salmon recovery.

, 1 million US gallons ( 3, 785 m < sup > 3 </ sup >) of highly radioactive waste is traveling through groundwater toward the Columbia River.

Water quality is also an important factor in the survival of other wildlife and plants that grow in the Columbia River drainage basin.

The states, Indian tribes, and federal government are all engaged in efforts to restore and improve the water, land, and air quality of the Columbia River drainage basin and have committed to work together to enhance and accomplish critical ecosystem restoration efforts.

The ecoregion includes the mainstem Columbia north of the Snake River and tributaries such as the Yakima, Okanagan, Pend Oreille, Clark Fork, and Kootenay Rivers.

It includes the mainstem Columbia below the Snake River and tributaries such as the Salmon, John Day, Deschutes, and lower Snake Rivers.

This divide meets the Continental Divide at Snow Dome ( also known as Dome ), near the northernmost bend of the Columbia River.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

" Roll On, Columbia, Roll On " was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration ( BPA ), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river's federal hydroelectric facilities ( primarily Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee Dam ).

The master of ceremonies for the Columbia Gorge event was the TV star, John Ratzenberger, from " Cheers ", and the headlining musician was the " Father of Rock and Roll ," Chuck Berry.

* Woody Guthrie writes and records " Roll on Columbia " in Portland, Oregon on a commission from the Bonneville Power Administration.

record The Clouds Will Soon Roll By for Columbia records.

By the mid to late 1920s, Victor had signed Jelly Roll Morton, Bennie Moten, Duke Ellington and other black bands and were becoming very competitive with Columbia and Brunswick, even starting their own V-38000 " Hot Dance " series that was marketed to all Victor dealers.

" Roll On, Columbia, Roll On " is an American folk song written in 1941 by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who popularized the song through his own recording of it.

The chorus of " Roll On, Columbia, Roll On " declares that the Columbia River is " turning the darkness to dawn ".

" Roll On, Columbia ( part 2 )" by Washington band June Madrona references Guthrie's song then runs down negative impacts of the dams, including deaths during their construction, the flooding of the native village at Celilo Falls, and disrupted salmon runs.

* Documentary Roll On Columbia: Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Power Administration-University of Oregon

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In late 1972 the group issued their second Columbia album Rock & Roll Music to the World and in 1973 the live double album Ten Years After Recorded Live.

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Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

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

* 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.

Located on the south shore of the Columbia, the city is served by the Port of Astoria with a deep-water port.

The Carnegie Collections of the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library consist of the archives of the following organizations founded by Carnegie: The Carnegie Corporation of New York ( CCNY ); The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ( CEIP ); the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ( CFAT ); The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs ( CCEIA ).

The concert was recorded by Columbia Records, preserving for the first time musical passages and numbers not included on the original Broadway cast recording.

1945 ), San Diego State College ( M. A., 1952 ) and Columbia University ( Ph. D., 1956 ), and did his doctoral thesis on the Thematic Apperception Test.

Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own version of the theme ( with Flatt singing ) for Columbia Records ; released as a single, it reached # 44 on Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart and # 1 on the Billboard Hot Country chart ( the lone country chart-topper for the duo ).

The six main cast members participated on a 1963 Columbia soundtrack album which featured original song numbers in character.

British Columbia is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by the U. S. state of Alaska on the northwest as well as parts of the west, on the north by the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, on the east by the province of Alberta, and on the south by the U. S. states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

The Okanagan area is one of several wine-growing regions in Canada and also produces ciders ; other wine regions in British Columbia include the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, and the Fraser Valley.

Citing research by John Green, who found that several contemporary British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as very dubious, Clark notes that the Mainland Guardian of New Westminster, British Columbia, wrote, " Absurdity is written on the face of it.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

Supported by a research fellowship from Columbia University, for several years, Bartók and Ditta worked on a large collection of Serbian and Croatian folk songs in Columbia's libraries.

Further north, Broadway follows the old Bloomingdale Road as the main spine of the Upper West Side, passing the campus of Columbia University at 116th Street in Morningside Heights, in part on the tract that housed the Bloomingdale ( Lunatic ) Asylum from 1808 until it moved to Westchester County in 1894.

* MacKenzie, David, The " Black hand " on Trial: Salonika, 1917 ( East East European Monographs, No. 423 ; Boulder, Colo .: East European Monographs ; New York: distributed by Columbia University Press, 1995 )

* Anchor Cone, a mountain in western British Columbia, Canada on the south side of Lowe Inlet, Grenville Channel

* Cinder Cone ( British Columbia ), a cinder cone with a small crater on the west side of the Helm Glacier in Garibaldi Provincial Park