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 province's name recalls the traditional name of a historic Polish region, Lesser Poland, or in Polish: Małopolska.

On December 6, 2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution of Canada to change the province's official name to Newfoundland and Labrador.

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 ").

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

The province's name recalls the traditional name of the region, Mazowsze ( sometimes rendered in English as " Masovia "), with which it is roughly coterminous.

The province's name recalls the historic Lubusz Land ( Lebus or Lubus ), although part of the voivodeship in fact belongs to the historic region of Silesia.

The name Shanxi literally means " mountain's west ", which refers to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains.

The party adopted the " Progressive Conservative " party name in 1942 when Manitoba Premier John Bracken, a long-time leader of that province's Progressive Party, agreed to become leader of the Conservatives on condition that the party add Progressive to its name.

The table below lists the three preceding kingdoms, each province's name in the Roman alphabet, hangul, and hanja, as well as the provincial capital, and the equivalent modern-day province.

The term has almost become a brand name, especially in California, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and Washington, to which most of the province's cannabis is exported.

The origin of the province's name is uncertain.

The name of the provincial capital, Kalan, was then officially changed to match with the province's name.

The " 400-series " numbers were first introduced in 1952 to designate the province's controlled-access highways, which were previously referred to by name.

Usually, the province's name is the same as that of its capital city.

The origin of each province's name is detailed in the table below.

The province draws its name from what were the largest cities in Hwanghae, Haeju and Hwangju ; the name, which literally means " Yellow Sea " in Korean, also references the Yellow Sea, which forms the province's eastern bound.

In practical terms, Dumont has supported the creation of a Quebec constitution, the change of the province's name to that of the " autonomous state of Québec ", and the collection of all taxes by the provincial government, with the funds necessary for the federal government to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities being transferred to it by the province.

The province's name derives from the Tehuelche word chupat, meaning " transparent ," their description of the Chubut River.

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese "", meaning " stable frontier ".

The name Savannakhet derives from Savanh Nakhone, which means " city of paradise ", the province's original name.

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 太平 ), meaning " great peace ".

Unlike Laoag City, the province's only autonomous city, Pagudpud derives its authority from the provincial government.

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 廣治 ).

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 寧平 ).

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 太原 ).

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 廣寧 ).

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán tự: 河靜 ), meaning " river stability ".

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 河南 ), meaning " South of the river ".

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 興安 ), meaning " prosperous and peace ".

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 山羅 ).

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 前江 ), which means " the Front River ".

The province's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese ( Hán Tự: 河江 ).

The province's name derives from the Chanchamayo River, whose source is in the Andean Sierra and flows northwards becoming the Perené River.

The granitic South Mountain rises to a somewhat higher elevation and shelters the valley from the climate of the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100 kilometres further south on the province's South Shore.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He claimed the ambiguous nature of the province's status, with its own parliament and prime minister, gave hope to the PIRA that it could be detached from the rest of the UK:

In March, 2000, the Alberta Legislature passed Bill 202, which amended the province's Marriage Act to include an opposite-sex-only definition of marriage as well as the notwithstanding clause in order to insulate the definition from Charter challenges.

There are several remains from the province's mining history, such as the Östra Silvberg's Mining Area with a silver mining history traced to the 1480s with an adjacent cemetery and chapel.

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.

After graduation from an accredited law school, each province's or territory's law society requires completion of a bar examination, and a period of supervised " articling " prior to independent practice.

Aside from some minor adjustments to suit the geography, the PRC maintained the province's territorial integrity.

This in itself is symbolized in the province's coat of arms where Jämtland, the silver moose, is threatened from the east and from the west.

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

The team crest is a circular logo bearing the team motto Sumatera Selatan Bersatu Teguh, which means that the team can be used as one means to realize the unity of the round from all communities in South Sumatra province, and is also the province's motto.

He served in the province's Executive Council as a minister without portfolio from 1858 to 1862 and as Receiver General from 1866 to 1867.

This resulted in an $ 830 million payment in 2005 from the federal government, which Hamm applied against the principal on the province's long term debt, thereby reducing debt servicing payments by over $ 50 million annually.