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Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully ...
Sikhism is the second largest religion in the Vancouver metropolitan area where they form 8.5% of the total population, according to the 2021 census . In 2011 28,235 persons in the Abbotsford - Mission metropolitan area stated that they were of the Sikh religion, making up 16.9% of the population. [127]
The Chinatown in Victoria, British Columbia is the oldest Chinatown in Canada and the second oldest in North America after San Francisco. Victoria's Chinatown had its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century in the mass influx of miners from California to what is now British Columbia in 1858. It remains an actively inhabited place and continues ...
Mountainous glaciated areas in Canada are along the British Columbia Coast: from the Alaskan border along the Portland Canal [1] to Indian Arm. [2] Kingcome Inlet is a typical west coast fjord. [3] In Newfoundland and Labrador, Saglek Fiord, [4] Nachvak Fiord, [5] and Hebron Fiord, [6] are in Labrador. While Western Brook Pond, [7] Trout River ...
Ralph Barker Gustafson, CM (1909–1995) was a Canadian poet and professor at Bishop's University. John Calder (1927–2018) was a Scottish-Canadian writer who founded the company Calder Publishing in 1949. [1] Sharon Pollock (1928-2021) Canadian Playwright, an officer of the Order of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
BC Liquor Stores are a chain of government-owned and operated retail outlets operated by the British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch to distribute alcoholic beverages in the province of British Columbia, Canada. [2] They are accountable to the Attorney General of British Columbia. [4] BC Liquor Stores currently operate 198 locations across ...
A Province of Canada one-dollar note issued by the Colonial Bank of Canada, 1859. In 1841, the Province of Canada adopted a new system based on the Halifax rating. The new Canadian pound was equal to four US dollars (92.88 grains gold), making £1 sterling equal to £1.4 s .4 d. Canadian.
Anyox, British Columbia. Anyox was a small company-owned mining town in British Columbia, Canada. Today it is a ghost town, abandoned and largely destroyed.It is located on the shores of Granby Bay in coastal Observatory Inlet, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) southeast of (but without a land link to) Stewart, British Columbia, and about 20 kilometres (12 miles), across wilderness east of the ...