Among the new province's most effective advocates during its early decades was Amancio Jacinto Alcorta, a young composer of sacral music who, representing his province from 1826 to 1862, helped modernize commerce and its taxation in the unstable young nation and promoted domestic banking and credit.

Since membership is based on a province's communion with Canterbury, expulsion would require the Archbishop of Canterbury's refusal to be in communion with the affected jurisdiction ( s ).

The province's most populous city is Vancouver, which is not on Vancouver Island but rather is located in the southwest corner of the mainland ( an area often called the Lower Mainland ).

The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.

Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy ; other major industries are transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism.

The province's mainland is the Nova Scotia peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries.

Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately from the province's southern coast.

As of 2011, the province's population is 514, 536.

Newfoundland and Labrador's capital and largest city, St. John's, is Canada's 20th-largest Census Metropolitan Area, and is home to nearly 40 percent of the province's population.

The name Newfoundland is derived from English as " New Found Land " ( a translation from the Portuguese Terra Nova, and still reflected in the province's French language name, " Terre Neuve ").

* Southern Ontario which is further sub-divided into four regions ; Central Ontario ( although not actually the province's geographic centre ), Eastern Ontario, Golden Horseshoe and Southwestern Ontario ( parts of which were formerly referred to as Western Ontario ).

Occitan's decline is somewhat less pronounced in Bearn because of the province's history ( a late addition to the Kingdom of France ), though even there the language is little spoken outside the homes of the rural elderly.

The province's name is derived from the Saskatchewan River.

The province's highest point, at, is located in the Cypress Hills and is the highest geographical point above sea-level between the Rocky Mountains and Quebec.

The Silesian voivodeship's government is headed by the province's voivode ( governor ) who is appointed by the Polish Prime Minister.

The University is also the province's second largest research institution and the nation's lead institution in the VENUS and NEPTUNE deep-water seafloor observatory projects.

Agriculturally fertile soils account for around 60 % of the province's area, while 20 %, the rest of the non-forested or urban areas, is mostly wetland soil ( muck-peat and alluvial soils ).

Wielkopolska Region lies within the basin of the Oder River, 88 % of the province's surface water drains into the Warta river basin, and the remaining 12 % is drained by a multitude of other river systems, including the Barycz, Ladislaus Trench and Obrzycy waterways.

The Greater Poland voivodeship's government is headed by the province's voivode ( governor ) who is appointed by the Polish Prime Minister.

The plague, probably brought by foreign troops during the Great Northern War, killed 250, 000 East Prussians, especially in the province's eastern regions.

Among the province's most distinguished cultural figures since the 19th century have been painters Felipe Taboada, Ramon Gómez Cornet, Carlos Sánchez Gramajo, Alfredo Gogna, and Ricardo and Rafael Touriño, as well as writers Jorge Washington Ábalos, Bernardo Canal Feijóo, Clementina Rosa Quenel and Julio Carreras ( h ).

Alberta's women, especially those of the UFA-affiliated United Farm Women of Alberta, were active in the province's moral reform movement.

Heeney was serving as the reeve of the Rural Municipality of Elton in 1983 when he became active in a provincial controversy over the entrenchment of francophone services .< Ref Name = " Hebert "> Hebert p205 </ ref > At the time, NDP Premier Howard Pawley was attempting to reintroduce French-language services into the province's parliament and legal system.

Parizeau's opponents in the CPQ have remained active Quebec, participating in the province's May Day parades and starting a new periodical, entitled Clarté.

Additionally, the Puntland region under the Farole administration has since sought to refine the province's existing oil deal with Range Resources.

Courts have since made many important decisions, including R. v. Morgentaler ( 1988 ), which struck down Canada's abortion law, and Vriend v. Alberta ( 1998 ), in which the Supreme Court found the province's exclusion of homosexuals from protection against discrimination violated section 15.

At the time, Sichuan was China's most populous province, but it had been economically devastated by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, whose collective policies had collapsed the province's agricultural production to levels not seen since the 1930s, despite a great increase in the province's population.

Previously affiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada, the British Columbia Liberal Party has been independent of its federal counterpart since the late 1980s and subsequently displaced the British Columbia Social Credit Party as the province's de facto liberal-conservative coalition opposed to the social democratic, pro-union British Columbia New Democratic Party.

This Hutchinson refused to do, since he saw these activities as harming the province's stability and taking place at " the caprice of the governor ".

It was also during this time in the lead-up to the millennium that Newfoundland undertook an aggressive tourism marketing campaign which focused on important anniversaries such as the 500th year since John Cabot's voyage of discovery ( 1997 ), as well as the 1000th year since Vikings, such as Leif Ericson, made landfall on the province's shores ( 2000 ).

NIR was formed in 1968 when it took over from the Ulster Transport Authority ( UTA ), which had operated the province's railways since 1948.

The province's transportation minister, William Goodfellow, wrote to Metro Council to state that since Metro had not voted to approve the whole project, that the province would not consider connecting Spadina with Highway 401.

The province's boundaries have remained the same since 1953.

The island of Batam, which lies within the central core group of islands ( the Riau Archipelago ), contains a majority of the province's population ; since becoming part of a Special Economic Zone with Singapore in 2006, it has experienced high population growth rates.

This move was closely related to the province's unique characteristics since the majority of people in this province are Ismaili.

Currently the party is the Official Opposition in the Alberta legislature, but the party has suffered through some difficult times in the eight decades since their defeat as the province's governing party.

The province's large number of resident Germans resulted from constant immigration of Germans since the Middle Ages, when the first settlers arrived in the course of the Ostsiedlung.

Fezzan's population has grown rapidly since the mid 20th century along with the overall growth in Libya's population, and the province's share of the national population has increased slightly.

He was the first francophone party leader in Manitoba since 1919, and the first ever in the province's Liberal Party.

The second most powerful position in the provincial cabinet is typically the health portfolio since it occupies in excess of 40 % of the province's annual budget.

The province's president, since 2007, is Attilio Schneck of the Liga Veneta party.

In 1968, René Lévesque's Mouvement souveraineté-association joined forces with the Rassemblement pour l ' indépendance nationale and the Ralliement national to create the Parti Québécois ; Quebec's provincial political party that has since espoused the province's sovereignty.

The riding has existed, in one form or another, since the province's creation.

The NDP had lost considerable support in the two years since their 1986 re-election, primarily as a result of the increased automobile insurance rates in the province and significant revenue shortfalls in the province's publicly owned telephone system.