British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada. Situated in the Pacific Northwest 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 and grassy plains. British Columbia borders the province of Alberta to the east;the territories of Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north;the U.S. states of Washington,Idaho and Montana to the south,and Alaska to the northwest. With an estimated population of over 5.6 million as of 2024,it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria,while the province's largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver and its suburbs together make up the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada,with the 2021 census recording 2.6 million people in Metro Vancouver. British Columbia is Canada's third-largest province in terms of total area,after Quebec and Ontario.
Burnaby is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia,Canada. Located in the centre of the Burrard Peninsula,it neighbours the City of Vancouver to the west,the District of North Vancouver across the confluence of the Burrard Inlet with its Indian Arm to the north,Port Moody and Coquitlam to the east,New Westminster and Surrey across the Fraser River to the southeast,and Richmond on the Lulu Island to the southwest.
David Oppenheimer was a Canadian businessman,investor,philanthropist,politician,and writer. He was the second mayor of Vancouver,British Columbia,and a National Historic Person of Canada.
Penticton is a city in the Okanagan Valley of the Southern Interior of British Columbia,Canada,situated between Okanagan and Skaha lakes. In the 2016 Canadian Census,its population was 33,761,while its census agglomeration population was 43,432.
The history of British Columbia covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization,the lands encompassing present-day British Columbia were inhabited for millennia by a number of First Nations.
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Lytton is a village of about 250 residents in southern British Columbia,Canada,on the east side of the Fraser River and primarily the south side of the Thompson River,where it flows southwesterly into the Fraser. The community includes the Village of Lytton and the surrounding community of the Lytton First Nation,whose name for the place is Camchin,also spelled Kumsheen.
Yale is an unincorporated town in the Canadian province of British Columbia,which grew in importance during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.
Kaleden is an unincorporated community about midway along the western shore of Skaha Lake in the Okanagan region of south central British Columbia. Adjacent to BC Highway 97,the locality is by road about 13 kilometres (8 mi) south of Penticton.
Sir James Douglas,was a Canadian fur trader and politician who became the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia. He is often credited as "The Father of British Columbia". He was instrumental to the resettlement of 35 African Americans fleeing a life of racial persecution in San Francisco who arrived in the province aboard the steamship Commodore in what later became known as the Pioneer Committee. In 1863,Douglas was knighted by Queen Victoria for his services to the Crown.
Princeton is a town municipality in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia,Canada. The former mining and railway hub lies at the confluence of the Tulameen into the Similkameen River,just east of the Cascade Mountains. At the junction of BC Highway 3 and 5A,the locality is by road about 67 kilometres (42 mi) northwest of Keremeos,133 kilometres (83 mi) east of Hope,and 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of Merritt.
Hedley is an unincorporated community near the mouth of Hedley Creek in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia. The former mining town,on BC Highway 3,is by road about 74 kilometres (46 mi) southwest of Penticton and 38 kilometres (24 mi) southeast of Princeton.
The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866 that was founded by Richard Clement Moody,who was selected to 'found a second England on the shores of the Pacific',who was Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia and the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. Prior to the arrival of Moody's Royal Engineers,Columbia Detachment,the Colony's supreme authority was its Governor James Douglas,who was the Governor of the neighbouring colony of Vancouver Island.
Midway is in the West Kootenay region of south central British Columbia. The village lies 13 kilometres (8 mi) west of Greenwood and 51 kilometres (32 mi) east of Osoyoos along Highway 3.
Robert Burnaby was an English merchant,politician and civil servant in British Columbia,where he served as private secretary to Richard Clement Moody,the founder and first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. Moody named Burnaby Lake,in British Columbia,after Burnaby,and the city of Burnaby was subsequently named after Burnaby,as were at least ten other urban and geographical features,including a mountain,Robert Burnaby Park,a Haida Gwaii Island,and a street in Vancouver.
The Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers was a contingent of the Royal Engineers of the British Army that was responsible for the foundation of British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858–66). It was commanded by Colonel Richard Clement Moody,FICE FRGS RIBA,Kt. (France).
William Alexander McKenzie was a builder and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Similkameen in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1918 to 1933 as a Conservative.
Penticton Secondary School is a high school located in Penticton,British Columbia,Canada. PSS is operated by School District 67 Okanagan Skaha. It is one of two secondary schools in Penticton and one of three in the school district. It is located on the same campus as the Okanagan School of the Arts. The school district's French immersion classes for grades 8-12 are located at the school.
The history of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia began with the first recorded visit by Chinese people to North America in 1788. Some 30–40 men were employed as shipwrights at Nootka Sound in what is now British Columbia,to build the first European-type vessel in the Pacific Northwest,named the North West America. Large-scale immigration of Chinese began seventy years later with the advent of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858. During the gold rush,settlements of Chinese grew in Victoria and New Westminster and the "capital of the Cariboo" Barkerville and numerous other towns,as well as throughout the colony's interior,where many communities were dominantly Chinese. In the 1880s,Chinese labour was contracted to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Following this,many Chinese began to move eastward,establishing Chinatowns in several of the larger Canadian cities.
Joan Phillip is a Canadian politician who has served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 2023,as a member of the NDP.
