British Columbia Eocene Fossils. Some 50 to 55 million years ago, during the early Eocene Epoch, British Columbia had a subtropical climate. In the interior from near Princeton north to Smithers, however, at an elevation of about 0.5-1.2 km, there was a cooler upland region called the Okanagan Highlands, where volcanic activity had …
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British Columbia. British Columbia is Canada's most westerly province, and is a mountainous area whose population is mainly clustered in its southwestern corner. BC is …
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British Columbia's Dinosaur Excavations . Skeletal remains of dinosaurs are an exceedingly rare resource in British Columbia, so much so that prior to 2002 there were only two reports of single dinosaurian skeletal elements from this province. This changed in 2002 when the first reported concentration of dinosaur bones was …
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Surrey is a city in British Columbia, Canada.It is a part of Metro Vancouver, which is next to the cities of; Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam to the north, Pitt Meadows to the north east, Langley to the east, New Westminster to the north west, White Rock to the south, and Delta to the west. Surrey is also next to Blaine, Washington, USA to the south.. Surrey has six …
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British Columbia (BC) is a province in Canada. It was originally two separate colonies of Great Britain, the colony of Vancouver Island, and the colony of British Columbia. British Columbia joined the Canadian Confederation In 1871.
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The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated. The year 1858 is the single most important year in British Columbia's history. It was on 2 August of that year that an imperial actestablished the mainland colony of BC under the authority of Governor James Douglas.Beginning …
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British Columbia - Exploration, Fur Trade, Gold Rush: At the time of their initial contact with white European explorers, the Indian peoples in present-day British …
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British Columbia has the most balanced export market of all of Canada's provinces, with the United States, Japan, the European Union, and the Pacific Rim countries as its customers. In 2002, the value of manufactured shipments was over C $34.2 billion.
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The Encyclopedia of British Columbia is the definitive reference work on British Columbia. With more than 4,000 entries and 1,500 accompanying photographs, maps, charts and tables, as well as sound and video clips, …
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The Fifth Edition continues this tradition of excellence, bringing up-to-date coverage of the whole world in all its physical, historical, geographical, political, scientific, religious, and cultural dimensions between two covers. The Fifth Edition offers more information in one volume than most multivolume encyclopedias: 50,000 articles, 65,000 cross-references, …
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British Columbia - Indigenous, Multicultural, Pacific: British Columbian society is one of the more British of Canada's 10 provinces, but it is also one of its most ethnically diverse. The English, Scottish, and …
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British Columbia is a mountainous province in western Canada, with diverse cultures, landscapes and wildlife. Learn more about its history, geography and people at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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British Columbia - Climate, Mountains, Pacific: Because of the Kuroshio, or Japan Current, which warms the coast, and the adjoining mountain ranges, British Columbia experiences a variety of climates. Some climatologists have claimed that, in its temperature, humidity, and variability, the southwestern corner of the province, …
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Previous editions published under title: The Columbia encyclopedia More than 50,000 alphabetically arranged articles on the humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, and geography …
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British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province. It is bounded to the north by Yukon and the Northwest Territories, to the east by the province of Alberta, to the …
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There are 203 First Nations in British Columbia. First Nation is one of three groupings of Indigenous people in Canada, the other two being Métis and Inuit. ...
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Victoria, BC, incorporated as a city in 1862, population 91,867 (2021 census), 85,792 (2016 census). The capital of British Columbia, the City of Victoria is s...
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History of BC. Human beings have inhabited the place we call British Columbia for about 10,000 years. Unfortunately, far less information survives about the early centuries than about the last two. Men and …
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The Columbia encyclopedia. Publication date 1963 Topics Encyclopedias and dictionaries Publisher New York, Columbia University Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Volume 12 Item Size 1367774997. 2388 p. 31 cm
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The Highway of Tears refers to a 724 km length of Yellowhead Highway 16 in British Columbia where many women (mostly Indigenous) have disappeared or been found ...
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British Columbia - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing: Agriculture plays an important part in the province's economy. However, it is not homogeneous and varies widely, from the highly capitalized dairy industry of the lower Fraser valley to the fruit orchards and vineyards of the Okanagan, the mixed farms of the Bulkley valley, and the …
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An interactive timeline that complements the series British Columbia: An Untold History through diverse, racialized and marginalized histories from across the geographical regions of B.C.
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Phyto'pedia is an online encyclopaedia of common phytoplankton from the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Inside, the reader will find an extensive database of high-resolution images indicating the characteristic features of a variety of genera and species paired with carefully written descriptions.
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The Order led to the expulsion of some 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes. Around 77 per cent were British subjects, and 60 per cent were Canadian-born. A new government agency, the British Columbia Security Commission, was created to run the removal operation.
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THE CAMPBELL ADMINISTRATIONL'ADMINISTRATION CAMPBELL As of September 2004 / En vigueur en septembre 2004 HON. GORDON CAMPBELL Premier of British Columbia Premier ministre de la Colombie-BritanniqueHON. STAN HAGEN Deputy Premier and Minister of Children and Family Development Vice-première ministre et …
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Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from experts.
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For the first time, everything you always wanted to know about BC is gathered together in one place The Encyclopedia of British Columbia is the definitive reference work on BC. With more than 4,000 entries and hundreds of photos, maps, tables and charts, the EBC is the source of readable and authoritative information on all the significant BC people, …
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CD-ROM "Encyclopedia of British Columbia" in pocket System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Windows & Macintosh Includes bibliographical references (p. 790-791) and index
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LIST OF MEMBERSLISTE DES DÉPUTÉS Speaker/Président: Hon. Claude Richmond Deputy Speaker/Vice-président: John Weisbeck Source for information on List of Members - British Columbia: Canadian Parliamentary Guide 2005 dictionary.
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The Encyclopedia of British Columbia is the definitive reference work on BC. With more than 4,000 entries and hundreds of photos, maps, tables and charts, the EBC is the source of readable and authoritativ Description For the first time, everything you always wanted to know about BC is gathered together in one place! The Encyclopedia of British ...
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University of British Columbia, at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered 1908, opened 1915. Source for information on ...
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Geography of British Columbia. British Columbia is divided by two of Canada's seven physiographic regions. These regions are the Cordillera and the Interior Plains. The vast majority of the province is in …
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British Columbia is divided by two of Canada's seven physiographic regions. These regions are the Cordillera and the Interior Plains. The vast majority of t...
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Canada is a resource rich country and different natural resources are found across the provinces and territories. British Columbia's natural resources inclu...
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Victoria,_British_Columbia history; The history of this article since it was imported to New World Encyclopedia: History of "Victoria, British Columbia" Note: Some restrictions may apply to use of individual …
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