The Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia named him to the Order of the Dogwood, the province's highest award.

In 2012 he was made a member of the Order of New Brunswick, the province's highest honour, for his contributions to literature and New Brunswick's cultural life.

Prescott and Russell United Counties has the highest proportion of Franco-Ontarians to the general population among the province's census divisions, with about two-thirds of the population being francophone.

Nonetheless, decisions made by a province's highest court ( provincial Courts of Appeal ) are often considered as " persuasive " even though they are not binding on other provinces.

Bernard also made an early opponent of James Otis, Jr. by appointing Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson to be chief justice of the province's highest court, a post that had been promised by several previous governors to Otis ' father.

In Ontario, for example, the highest annual expense budgets among members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario are consistently filed by the representatives for the province's two largest and northernmost electoral districts ; both must spend far more on travel to and from Toronto, travel within their own ridings and additional support staff in multiple communities within their ridings than any other legislator in the province.

It has the province's highest number of rivers and streams.

The Ntem Massif near Ebolowa is the province's highest point at 1400 metres.

The province's highest point is Mbam Minkom, northwest of Yaoundé, at 1, 295 metres.

In 2004, he was given the province's highest honour, the Order of Manitoba, for demonstrating an ability to improve the social, cultural and economic well being of Manitoba and its residents.

The Liberals won 32 of the province's 83 seats, the highest percentage they had won since leaving government in 1917 and the highest percentage won by any opposition party in the province's history.

Ironically this range is the higher one, including the province's highest peak, Seweweekspoortpiek ( Seven Weeks Gorge Peak ) at 2325 m. The famous Towerkop ( Bewitch Peak ) towers over the Klein Karoo town of Ladismith at a height of 2189 m. The peak is so named for its cleft peak, that, according to legend, was split by a spell and subsequent bolt of lightning.

The province's highest peak is at 1630m in the west of the province near the border to Quảng Nam.

Saint-Quentin is located in the Appalachian Mountains, 50 kilometres west of Mount Carleton, the province's highest elevation point.

The tallest point of the Province is Doi Mae Ya ( ยอดเขาแม ่ ยะ ) in the Pai District in the province's northeast, at 2005 metres above sea level.

BCIT would be the province's focal point for applied technology transfer.

Upon conviction, the motorist is generally fined a monetary amount and, for moving violations, is additionally given demerit points, under each province's point system.

No Spanish exploration parties in search of El Dorado, " the golden one " a reference to the legendary king of a lost golden city, are known to have ever reached British Columbia, although archaeological remains point to a brief Spanish presence in the Okanagan and Similkameen regions of the province's Southern Interior.

The 4. 4 km ( 2. 7 mi ) long highway is important from the province's point of view as a possible spot where the planned Mid-Peninsula Highway might cross the Welland Canal.

This court decision resulted from a complaint by the Government of Prince Edward Island after that province's number of MPs was proposed to change from 4 to 3, accounting for its declining proportion of the national population at that time.

The funds transferred were set at between C $ 100, 000 and $ 250, 000 depending on the province's population with an extra $ 100, 000 a year for ten years to British Columbia.

Great Britain integrated its portion of Cameroon with the neighbouring colony of Nigeria, setting the new province's capital at Buea.

Although Sheshatshiu and Natuashish are home to most of the province's Innu people, some also live at Labrador City, Wabush, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, St. John's, and elsewhere.

With Jinan serving as the province's economic and cultural centre, the province's economic prowess has led to the development of modern coastal cities located at Qingdao, Weihai, and Yantai.

It is located about 75 km northwest of the province's capital, Winnipeg, at.

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 ".

This was of cold comfort to Reid, whose defeat was total: at 408 days, his time as Premier was and remains the shortest in the province's history.

Greenfield became Premier at a time of agricultural depression, especially in the province's south.

Though it went somewhat less far than the UFA would have liked — for example, it made no provision for recall of elected officials — it did allow for Albertans to call a referendum directly by submitting a petition including the names of eligible voters totalling ten percent of the votes cast in the previous provincial election, including at least eight percent in each of eighty-five percent of the province's ridings.

At that time, the Premier agreed that most traditional objections to extension of the franchise were " played out ", but expressed concern at the increases that would result to the cost of elections and uncertainty at whether most of the province's women actually wanted suffrage.

During his first budget, he targeted spending at the province's struggling agricultural sector, including a $ 2 billion loan program meant to address high interest rates.

The province's agriculture ( about 10 % of output ) is concentrated in the fertile valleys of the Río Negro River, specially at the Alto Valle but also at the Valle Medio.

It represents shipbuilding, one of the province's main industries at the time the coat of arms was adopted and throughout much of the province's history.

The province's ancient capital was at Obama, which continued to be the main castle town through the Edo period.

When Quaker Pennsylvania balked at sending any men, Amherst convinced them to raise men by threatening to withdraw troops from forts in the Ohio River valley on the province's western frontier, which were regularly subjected to threats from Indians and the French.

The seat of the province's Landeshauptmann elected by the Landtag assembly remained at Meseritz.

The three towns of Zemmouri El Bahri ( Rusubbicari ), Djinet ( Cissi ), and Dellys ( Rusucurium ), all of Phoenician foundation, were the province's principal ancient sites, although smaller Roman towns existed inland, as at Taourga ; at none do any significant classical ruins remain.

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 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.