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  Wikinfo | British Columbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
As of 2001, the population was 4,095,934 (British Columbians).
The southern Border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty.
British Columbia is renowned for its spectacular scenery which forms the backdrop and context for a growing outdoor adventure and ecotourism industry.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=British_Columbia   (692 words)

  
 Prince George, British Columbia
Prince George is a town in British Columbia, Canada, located at the junction of the Fraser River and its tributary Nechako River[?].
Its 2001 population was 72,406, making it the principal city of northern British Columbia.
The University of Northern British Columbia is a recent addition.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Prince_George.html   (145 words)

  
 British Columbia - MSN Encarta
In broad terms, coastal British Columbia has a mild climate; winters are wet and cool, and summers are warm and somewhat drier, especially in the south.
Large mammals are abundant in British Columbia and include grizzly bear, fl bear, moose, caribou, elk, deer, bighorn sheep, and mountain goat.
With the arrival of European traders and settlers beginning in the late 18th century, the economy of British Columbia came to be dominated by the exploitation of natural resources, including furs, gold, fish, lumber, and metallic ores.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574576_2/British_Columbia.html   (902 words)

  
 Unasylva - No. 181 - Silviculture - Multiple-purpose silviculture in British Columbia
The forests of British Columbia constitute 7 percent of the world's softwood growing stock and so they are very significant in the matter of global health.
The proportion of area that is clear-cut in British Columbia has risen over the last decade from less than 85 percent to more than 90 percent of the total area harvested.
British Columbia is moving to meet the silvicultural challenges in many ways.
www.fao.org /docrep/v5200E/v5200e07.htm   (2777 words)

  
 British Columbia - MSN Encarta
Among British Columbia’s natural resources, forestry was the leading sector of the economy throughout the 20th century; the province has about one-fifth of the commercial forest land in Canada.
About 40 percent of the lumber cut in British Columbia comes from the coastal regions, which is where logging began in the province in the 1840s.
The principal metals produced by the British Columbia mining industry are gold, copper, zinc, and all of Canada’s molybdenum.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574576_3/British_Columbia.html   (1154 words)

  
 Ajax Community List Mailing
List of unincorporated communities in Nebraska - This is a list of unincorporated communities in Nebraska.
List of communities in British Columbia - This is a list of communities in British Columbia, a province in Canada.
For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality (including Indian reserves), or an unincorporated settlement outside of a municipality.
www.west-ad.com /ajaxcommunitylistmailing.html   (765 words)

  
 British Columbia, BC - Canada Real Estate Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
British Columbia is Canada's westernmost province and is one of North America's most mountainous regions.
British Columbia is Canada’s third largest province in area and population, behind Québec and Ontario.
British Columbia is Canada's gateway to the Asia-Pacific and is economically and geographically part of the northwest region of North America.
www.real-estate-2000.com /british_columbia.htm   (2180 words)

  
 Burnaby, British Columbia
Burnaby, British Columbia was incorporated in 1892 and achieved City status in 1992, one hundred years after incorporation.
In the first 30 to 40 years after its incorporation, the growth of Burnaby was influenced by its location between expanding urban centres of Vancouver and New Westminster[?].
It is the third most populated urban centre in British Columbia with an estimated population of 197,292.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bu/Burnaby.html   (299 words)

  
 British Columbia Genealogy Project, AHGP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
British Columbia, province, SW Canada, bounded on the North by Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, on the East by Alberta, on the South by the states of Montana, Idaho, and Washington, and on the West by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska.
British Columbia became part of the Confederation of Canada on July 20, 1871, as the sixth province.
British Columbia has many natural resources such as mineral reserves, forests, fisheries, which provide for a growing manufacturing economy.
www.geocities.com /disco773/britishcolumbia.html   (178 words)

  
 Cascadia Scorecard Weblog: British Columbia
British Columbia, on the other hand, has a substantial population of international in-migrants: 1 in 4 residents of the province were born in another country, mostly in Europe or Asia.
The world is celebrating an announcement in Vancouver on Tuesday that the government of British Columbia finally signed on to a new vision for a region of the province nicknamed the Great Bear Rainforest--a vast, nearly roadless forest of cedar and hemlock stretching along the coast from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to Alaska.
That's germane to the awful situation for forestry in British Columbia, where the mountain pine beetle is steadily wrecking havoc on the province's interior forests.
cascadiascorecard.typepad.com /blog/british_columbia/index.html   (11946 words)

  
 Canadian Genealogy and History Links - British Columbia
British Columbia Archival Union List A database of fonds and collection level descriptions of records held at 156 publicly-accessible archival repositories in the province.
Guide to Archival Repositories in British Columbia Entries for 173 archives in the province and includes the name and location of each repository, contact information, and a brief description of the extent, nature and scope of holdings at each institution.
Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 An historical overview of electoral activities in the Province of British Columbia during the 115 year period from 1871 to 1986.
www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/british-columbia.html   (3115 words)

  
 Curricular Resources in Canadian Studies:British Columbia
British Columbia Archives presents 11 curricular units (galleries) drawing heavily from archival information on BC History.
The Homeroom is a gateway to resources and information relating to the history of schools and the development of education systems in British Columbia.
It was launched in 1997 to mark the 125th anniversary of public education in the province of British Columbia.
www.cln.org /subjects/can-bc_cur.html   (801 words)

  
 Facts about vancouver british columbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Vancouver is a Canadian city, in the Province of British Columbia.
There are several striking modern buildings in the downtown area, including the Vancouver Law Courts and surrounding plaza known as Robson Square (Arthur Erickson, architect) and the Library Square (Moshe Safdie), with its arches remniscent of a Roman coliseum.
Vancouver and its adjacent communities are the home of two major universities, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU), as well as a number of community colleges.
www.supercrawler.com /Facts/vancouver__british_columbia.html   (1630 words)

  
 British Columbia Communities - Travel British Columbia
Kettle Valley Railway Circle Tour - starting and ending in the small community of Princeton, this tour is tailored for those who wish to explore the southern quarter of the Thompson Okanagan Region.
British Columbia is divided into six unique tourism regions each is further divided into sub regions to help people plan their visit.
This list of communities is organized alphabetically by tourism region then by sub region finally by community name.
www.travel-british-columbia.com /british_columbia_communities.aspx   (142 words)

  
 Crew safe, owners look to recover 4,800 cars from listing ship
Communications between the crew and coast guard became increasingly difficult when the batteries in the crew's hand-held radio dimmed, Coast Guard Lt. Mara Booth-Miller said.
British forces stormed a police station in Basra in southern Iraq on Monday, rescuing prisoners on death row and killing seven Iraqi gunmen during the pre-dawn raid.
British poet John Heath-Stubbs, who was also a translator of classic works such as The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, died Tuesday at a London nursing home at 88.
www.cbc.ca /canada/british-columbia/story/2006/07/25/listing-ship.html   (1341 words)

  
 The Sun Never Set on the British Empire
In 1909 the British Empire encompassed 20% of the land area of the Earth and 23% of its population.
The Union of South Africa was formed from the British colonies of the Natal and the Cape Colony, together with the subjugated Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
The flag of the Union was, significantly, an archaizing Dutch flag, with an orange instead of a red stripe, and the flag of Britain, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal on the middle stripe.
www.friesian.com /british.htm   (6479 words)

  
 British Columbia Cruise
Even into the 1930's, as some communities claimed to be ‘civilized,’ the islands had plenty of bootleggers who were utilizing the intricate waterways around the islands to trade their goods during Prohibition.
It is located on mainland British Columbia on a peninsula bordered by Burrard Inlet to the north, English Bay to the west, and False Creek to the south.
This island is separated from mainland British Columbia by Queen Charlotte Straits in the north and the Straits of Georgia in the center.
www.smallcruiseshipspecialist.com /British/BritishColumbia.htm   (5786 words)

  
 Canada names new Ramsar site in British Columbia
The largest wetland of its kind in British Columbia, it qualifies under all eight Criteria and comprises a regionally unparalleled diversity of 16 habitats and shelters around 216 species, of which the bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) and badger (Taxidea taxus) are endangered.
The Convention on Wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
The Convention on Wetlands has adopted the following vision for the List of Wetlands of International Importance: To develop and maintain an international network of wetlands which are important for the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the ecological and hydrological functions they perform.
www.ramsar.org /wn/w.n.canada_columbia.htm   (1045 words)

  
 Sea Kayaking in BC - Sea Kayaking the British Columbia West Coast
The Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland attract kayakers from all parts of British Columbia, Canada and the world.
British Columbia now has more than thirty marine parks, with more in the works.
Within British Columbia's pristine inside passage just south of Ketchikan, Alaska, you'll find trophy salmon up to 90lbs and colossal halibut, as well as some of the most beautiful and untouched scenery in the world.
www.bcadventure.com /adventure/kayaking/seakayak.htm   (6044 words)

  
 List of cities in Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This is a list of the cities of Canada in alphabetical order.
This listing includes the thirty most populous metropolitan areas in Canada (see [1] (http://www.canadainfolink.ca/cities.htm) for numbers) and all of the and territorial capitals.
See also list of the 100 largest cities in and List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas Canada
www.freeglossary.com /Canada/cities   (287 words)

  
 Open Directory - News: Newspapers: Regional: Canada: British Columbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
British Columbia and Yukon Newspaper Association - Trade association for community newspapers in British Columbia and the Yukon.
It is published in Vancouver, B.C. Revelstoke Times-Review - Community newspaper serves Revelstoke, known as British Columbia's gateway to the Rogers Pass, with news, sports and commentary.
Williams Lake Tribune - Twice-weekly community newspaper founded in 1930 is published in Williams Lake, British Columbia.
dmoz.org /News/Newspapers/Regional/Canada/British_Columbia   (1355 words)

  
 GIS,CAD,GPS email discussion lists and archives
The main objective of this list is to provide the GIS community with an open forum to share ideas and discuss metadata issues and strategies.
The objective of this list is to provide Geography educators in the K-12 and higher levels, State and local Government agencies, School Districts, teacher candidates, and other supporters of Geographic education a forum to discuss issues of interest specific to implementation and maintenance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in K-12 and higher Geographic education.
BCIT GIS Department List - The group is intended to be a forum for GIS discussions, technical questions and answers and any GIS related topics of relevance to GIS users in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
spatialnews.geocomm.com /community/lists   (1116 words)

  
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Listings of Hotels, Motels, Resorts, Spas, Inns, Lodges and Attractions in such locations as Vancouver, Whistler Blackcomb, Victoria, Salt Spring and the Gulf Islands, Tofino, Kelowna and the Okanagan, and the Rocky Mountains....
The Comox Valley on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, is one of the most diverse recreational and cultural destinations in the world....
Our Vancouver, British Columbia, bed and breakfast is a completely rest...
www.hikingcompanion.com /CanadaHiking   (2320 words)

  
 Chase British Columbia Information, Yellow Pages, and more
So come on in and visit with us, see what our great community has to offer and if you can't find what you are looking for, let us know by posting a question in our Community Forums so that a member of this community can reply to you or email you the answer.
For those that are looking to move to our fair community we have our Moving Guides that offer information on real estate listings offered by both real estate agents/realtors and for sale by owner.
Our Free Classifieds for the State of British Columbia offer items such as used horse trailers, cars, trucks, motorcycles, outboard motors, books, horses, dogs, real estate listings including homes, businesses, and land, apartments for rent, boats and many other items that are for sale by owner.
www.hometowncanada.com /bc/Chase.html   (581 words)

  
 Canada Women's Organisations - British Columbia
The intent of the Canadian Association is to act as a force for social change regarding violence against women at the individual, the institutional and the political level.
Promotion Plus is a non profit organization in British Columbia whose vision is to ensure that girls and women in BC have a wide range of choices and opportunities, have equity as participants, leaders, and competitors, and become fully participatory and actualize their potential.
Provides referrals to campus and community services, resource library, drop-in lounge areas, space and resources for organizing on issues of concern to women students and events organsing eg: Dec.14, memorial, etc., and protests when needed.
www.distel.ca /womlist/countries/canada/britishcolumbia.html   (598 words)

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