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British Columbia. / 54°N 125°W / 54; -125. British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada. Situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains, the province has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts ...
BC United MLA Elenore Sturko crosses the floor to the BC Conservatives. May 31, 2024: BC United MLA and BC United caucus chair Lorne Doerkson crosses the floor to the BC Conservatives. Angus Reid — May 24–27, 2024 41%: 16% 11% 30% 1% ±3% 1,203 Online 11%: Research Co. — May 13–15, 2024 42%: 12% 12% 32% 2% ±3.5% 800 Online 10%: Pallas Data
Victoria is the southernmost major city in Western Canada and is about 100 km (62 mi) southwest from British Columbia's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about 100 km (62 mi) from Seattle by airplane, seaplane , ferry , or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry, and 40 km (25 mi) from Port Angeles , Washington , by ferry ...
The province was a British crown colony governed by the governors of British Columbia before joining Canadian Confederation in 1871. Since then, it has had a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the legislative assembly. The premier is British ...
The first regional district was established in 1965, and the then-final regional district was established in 1968. The following regional districts were dissolved in December 1995 and amalgamated largely into the newly formed Fraser Valley Regional District : Dewdney–Alouette Regional District: consisting of Mission, Pitt Meadows, and Maple ...
Colleges in British Columbia may refer to several types of educational institutions. College in Canada most commonly refers to a career-oriented post-secondary institutions that provides vocational training or education in applied arts, applied technology and applied science. There are 14 public funded colleges and institutes in British Columbia.
Brownsville was a former community in what is now the City of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.Also known as South Westminster, it was located where the city ran a small ferry across the Fraser River, today approximately where the east footing of the Skytrain bridge is, this was also the former site of qiqéyt (Qayqayt), one of the main summer villages of the Kwantlen people and later, also ...
The People's Front was the British Columbian section of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist).The leader of the People's Front was Charles Boylan. In the 2001 British Columbia election, it nominated 11 candidates, received a total of 720 votes (0.34% of the vote in the ridings in which they ran, and 0.05% of the province-wide vote).