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.

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.

It is the province's largest island, and third largest in mainland China ( after Hainan and Chongming Islands ).

The Davie government also approved the construction of the province's parliament buildings in Victoria despite pressure to move the capital to the mainland.

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 ).

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.

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 Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

The proposal is meant to reduce the province's reliance upon the Marine Atlantic ferry service to Nova Scotia, but the project's high costs and lack of suitable road network between Labrador and Quebec have been cited as major obstacles.

In Cape Breton and other parts of Nova Scotia, a number of secondary schools now offer the option of taking introductory courses in Scottish Gaelic, as reflecting upon the province's both intimate and dark history with the Gaelic language and Highland Scottish diaspora.

Pictou Island, in Nova Scotia receives no electricity from that province's utility, Nova Scotia Power.

Harold Joseph Connolly ( September 8, 1901 – May 17, 1980 ) was a Nova Scotia journalist, newspaper editor, and politician who served as the province's 15th Premier in 1954.

It also pledged to establish a formal inquiry into Nova Scotia's economic prospects and the province's place within Confederation.

Gordon Sidney Harrington ( August 7, 1883 – July 4, 1943 ) was a Nova Scotia politician and the province's 11th Premier from 1930 to 1933.

George Henry Murray ( June 7, 1861 – January 6, 1929 ) was a Nova Scotia politician who served as the province's eighth Premier for twenty-seven years, the longest unbroken tenure for a head of government in Canadian history.

The community is situated on a large deep natural harbour of the same name and is located along the province's Eastern Shore close to Canso, Nova Scotia.

Versions of the song were collected by folklorist Helen Creighton, first in 1933 from Ann Greenough in Petpeswick, Nova Scotia, and then from other singers in surrounding communities along the province's Eastern Shore.

Within Nova Scotia, the lieutenant governor also follows only the sovereign in the province's order of precedence, preceding even other members of the Canadian Royal Family and the Queen's federal representative.

The Cape Breton accent describes variants of Canadian English spoken on Cape Breton Island, a large island on the north-eastern coast of the province of Nova Scotia in Canada, comprising about one-fifth of the province's area as well as population.

The Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations ( ANSSA ) is the largest post-secondary student advocacy group in Nova Scotia, Canada, representing approximately 35, 000 ( 85 %) of the province's university students.

The Trudeau government sought to use its ownership of DEVCO to reverse Nova Scotia's reliance on the importation of foreign oil for generating electricity ; approximately 70 % of the province's electricity was generated by foreign oil by the late 1970s.

The Trudeau government sought to use its ownership of DEVCO to reverse Nova Scotia's reliance on the importation of foreign oil for generating electricity ; approximately 70 % of the province's electricity was generated by foreign oil by the late 1970s.

The Ontario Parks system covers over 78, 000 square kilometres ( 30, 460 sq mi ), about 10 percent of the province's surface area or the equivalent of an area approximately equal to Nova Scotia.

In 1983, Governor General Edward Schreyer, on the advice of Prime Minister Trudeau, appointed Abraham Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, the youngest in the province's history.

As the centre of the province's Franco-Newfoundlander community, the peninsula has been designated the only bilingual district on the island of Newfoundland since 1971.

Although the city is surrounded by the province's Chuy District ( whose administrative center is the village of Chuy, adjacent to Tokmok ), it is not a part of it.

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.

The bill changing the province's moving day from May 1 to July 1 was introduced by a federalist member of the Quebec National Assembly, Jérôme Choquette in 1973, in order not to affect children still in school in the month of May.

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.

This led to the creation of what would become the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, one of the province's major political parties and currently in power, led by premier Greg Selinger.

The province's Armenian population was devastated during World War I by Ottoman troops in the opening phases of the Armenian Genocide.

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

Soon after the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, in 1920, Chen accepted an invitation by a rebel governor in Guangzhou to serve as the head of the province's education board, but this position dissolved when the government returned to Nationalist control.

On November 30, 1675, the settlement Bergen and surrounding plantations and settlements were called Bergen County in an act passed by the province's General Assembly.

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.

In order to make sure that all component city or municipal governments act within the scope of their prescribed powers and functions, the Local Government Code mandates the provincial governor to review executive orders issued by mayors, and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to review legislation by the Sangguniang Panlungsod ( City Council ) or Sangguniang Bayan ( Municipal Council ), of all component cities and municipalities under the province's jurisdiction.

The area inhabited by the Li ethnic group totals, about 55 percent of the province's total.

While unpopular with the province's anti-poverty movement and the then-marginal BC Green Party, Harcourt's reforms were well received by the vast majority of British Columbians.

Three months before BC Benefits was introduced by the Harcourt government, a protracted conflict began with the elements of the province's environmental movement.

In addition, the majority of the province's thirty-one " Technology Transfer Centres " have been established by CEGEPs.

Prior to the Quiet Revolution, the province's natural resources were mainly developed by foreign investors.

The supporters and compartment were added by Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II on 24 September 1984, and presented to the province in a public ceremony in Fredericton the following day to mark the province's bicentennial.