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 Encyclopedia: Canadian Pacific Railway
The railway was originally built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885, fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871.
British Columbia had insisted upon a national railway as a condition for joining the Confederation of Canada.
Roberts Bank, British Columbia is an area on the south side of the Estuary of the Fraser River approximately 35 kilometers south of Vancouver.
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 Yale, British Columbia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yale, British Columbia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
It was founded in 1848 by the (additional info and facts about Hudson's Bay Company) Hudson's Bay Company as Fort Yale.
During the construction of the (additional info and facts about Canadian Pacific Railway) Canadian Pacific Railway, which runs through the village, it became the headquarters and residence of (Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system) railway contractor (additional info and facts about Andrew Onderdonk) Andrew Onderdonk.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yale,_british_columbia.htm   (113 words)

  
 Articles - Yale University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Elihu Yale was away in India when the news of the school's name change reached his home in Wrexham, North Wales, a trip from which he never returned.
Although most of the Yale buildings have a Gothic architecture similar to that of Cambridge or Oxford universities, and appear to be hundreds of years old, in fact they were built during the period 1917-1931.
Yale is also known as the home of several senior societies and secret societies, including Scroll and Key and Skull and Bones.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tait Indians
From perhaps 3000 souls a century ago they have decreased, through smallpox, disease, and former dissipation, since the occupation of the country by the whites, to 932 in 1890 and 578 in 1910.
Of the whole number all but seventy-five are now Catholic, the others being Anglican or Methodist, and are officially reported as law-abiding, industrious, strictly moral, and generally temperate.
A brief sketch of the ethnology of the tribe group is given by Boas in "Reports to the British Association for the Advancement of Science".
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Tides of Men: The lives of gay men in British Columbia, 1936 to the present.
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