As was the case with non-Chinese workers, some of them fell ill during construction or died while planting explosives or in other construction accidents, but many deserted the rail workings for the province's various goldfields.

The Liberals under Smallwood promoted the diversification of the province's economy through various megaprojects.

Kribi is also the base for various commercial fishing interests that operate along the province's coast.

However, the province's majority, the various Beti peoples, has no strong traditions in this sector.

GDI offers a variety of accredited educational, vocational, and skills training opportunities for the province's Métis in partnership with the University of Regina, the University of Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology, the province's various regional colleges, and Service Canada.

The Institute offers accredited educational, vocational, and skills training opportunities for the province's Métis in partnership with the University of Regina, the University of Saskatchewan, SIAST, and the province's various regional colleges.

Frank Griffiths established Western Broadcasting Company Ltd. in the late 1950s to hold his various broadcasting assets in British Columbia, including radio station CKNW and a majority interest in BCTV, at the time the province's CTV affiliate.

In contrast to the province's various settled peoples, the Mbororo Fulbe are nomadic and live in portable, tent-like huts ( again, Mbororo is a derogatory word ).

At the province's borders live various Chadic-language-speaking peoples.

It is a convergence of various ethnic and cultural dances featuring Tupi as the province's flower, fruit and vegetable basket and a town where various cultures abode.

Padaca reactivated the anti-illegal task force amid incessant complaints and reports from the province's concerned citizens, the Catholic Church ( whose 7 priests staged hunger strikes ) and various organizations against the resumption of illegal logging in government protected Sierra Madre biodiversity corridor-" Sierra Madre National Park.

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.

Since no real census has been taken for decades, the election results are the only indicator of the province's ethnic distribution, although it should be noted that many Assyrians and Yazidis claim that ballot papers were denied them, and in addition, many members of ethnic groups voted for mainstream parties, or ethnic parties that were attached to mainstream Arab or Kurdish led parties.

In the face of public demand and support by legislators of all parties for as rapid as possible an expansion of the province's lines, the government offered loan guarantees to several companies in exchange for commitments to build lines.

Each province's Senate seats were allocated in proportion to the parties ' representation in the provincial legislature.

A successor to the province's Grain Grower's Association, the UFM represented the interests of farmers frustrated with traditional political parties.

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 radicalized labour politics in Manitoba, and the DLP soon emerged as a much stronger force than the province's earlier labour parties had been.

The party occasionally outperformed the province's larger two parties in opinion polls and finished second in 2007, but lost most of its seats and fell back to third place in 2008.

Despite being the smallest of the three parties in the legislature, the Liberals made major gains by criticizing the Conservatives ' fiscal responsibility, the province's rapidly rising debt, and the government's involvement in the private sector which resulted in some companies defaulting on government loans.

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.

He was again returned with comfortable margins in the elections of 1932 and 1936, now identifying himself as a Liberal-Progressive after an alliance between the province's Liberal and Progressive parties.

The wave of political radicalisation that followed World War I along with his trade union sympathies had an impact on Uphill and when he ran for the legislature in 1920, he did so as a member of the Federated Labour Party which had been created by the province's federation of labour absorbing previous socialist parties.

In the 1941 election, the province's four legal political parties were united in a coalition government -- and while coalition partners ran against one another in some constituencies, the final outcome was never in doubt.

Following talks between the parties, the level of the province's autonomy was increased by the omnibus law in 2002.

In the party's first election in 1935, it ran candidates only in Western Canada and won 17 seats, all but two of them in Alberta, where it won over 46 % of that province's popular vote.

In the New Brunswick general election, 2003 the party nominated 10 candidates in the province's 55 ridings, including 23-year-old Mark LeBlanc who ran in the former provincial riding of Saint John Kings.

Once the colony joined confederation in 1871, however, he ran and was elected to the new province's first legislative assembly as a representative for Nanaimo.

In 1961, he ran for the leadership of the province's newly created New Democratic Party.

Fries also ran for the provincial CCF in Brandon in the province's 1958 and 1959 elections.

Sterling Lyon's Progressive Conservative government ran on a promise to continue investing in the province's " mega-projects " ( including as a $ 500 million Alcan aluminum smelter, a $ 600 million potash mine and a " Western power grid "), and suggested that an NDP government would jeopardize these plans.

He served as president of the province's Manitoba Social Credit Party for at least some of the period between 1947 to 1959, and ran several times at the provincial and federal levels as a Social Credit candidate.

Although the British Columbia Liberal Party is usually regarded as significantly more right-wing than the Manitoba party, Cheema nevertheless ran as a BC Liberal in that province's 1996 provincial election.

Girard first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1966 election, in the rural constituency of Emerson in the province's southeast corner.

Sutherland, a Liberal, ran as a supporter of the province's Liberal-Progressive government.

Although the campaign only submitted enough signatures in four of the province's 79 ridings, Free Your Vote was successful in mobilizing new support for reform.

On August 11, 2010, Elections BC verified the official anti-HST petition submitted by the province's Fight HST campaign.

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 ).

The Conservatives questioned Peters's methodology, and suggested that the McGuinty government was overstating the province's financial difficulties to break or delay some of its campaign spending promises.

On August 11, 2010, Elections BC informed him that the campaign had succeeded in collecting the signatures of more than 10 % of registered voters in each of the province's 85 ridings by 5 July 2010.

Despite having a limited campaign budget and no leader, and only running candidates in two-thirds of the province's ridings, they won the election.

His campaign focused on eliminating the province's 2 % wage tax.

Ua Ruairc went on a brutal campaign slaughtering the livestock of Leinster and thereby trying to starve the province's residents.

The Manitoba Party advocated fundamental changes to the province's political system in the 1999 campaign, referring to the existing government structure as an " elected dictatorship ".

Come the autumn of 1999 he acted as backs coach in Leinster Rugby's European Cup campaign, prelude to becoming the province's head coach in 2000.

The BCMP made provincial history during the 2001 provincial election that came six months later, by being the only party to ever field candidates in all of the province's ridings during their first election campaign.

Juba called for reform of the province's liquor laws during this campaign.

With Frank de Jong, Lea organized a successful viral campaign against McDonald ’ s use of disposable styrofoam clamshell packing containers and as well a series of protests which stalled the expansion of nuclear power in Ontario in the early 1990s by bringing light on the massive debt that the province's nuclear programme had created.

Called the Free Your Vote campaign, it brought together a broad coalition of British Columbians and even included the official support of trade unions such as the BC Nurses ' in a petition drive under the province's citizen initiative legislation.

The Social Credit campaign was organized by Orvis A. Kennedy and Peer Paynter, who had been responsible for the British Columbia Social Credit Party's upset victory in that province's 1952 election.