| Mount Robson Talk:Mount_Robson
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| Crown land Crown land is a designated area belonging to the Crown, the equivalent of an entailed estate that passed with the monarchy and could not be alienated from it. In the United Kingdom and during the British Empire, the hereditary revenues of Crown lands were a feature until the start of the reign of George III when the Crown Estate was surrendered to the Parliament of Great Britain in return for a fixed civil list payment - the monarch retains the income from the Duchy of Lancaster. Crown_land
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| Payday loan A payday loan (also called a paycheck advance or payday advance) is a small, short-term loan that is intended to cover a borrower's expenses until his or her next payday. The loans are also sometimes referred to as cash advances, though that term can also refer to cash provided against a prearranged line of credit such as a credit card (see cash advance). Legislation regarding payday loans varies widely between different countries and, within the USA, between different states. Payday_loan
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| Capital Regional District Capital Regional District (CRD) is a local government administrative district encompassing the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada and the southern Gulf Islands:Saltspring, Galiano, Pender, Saturna, Mayne), and many smaller islands. On Vancouver Island, the CRD encompasses the thirteen municipalities of Greater Victoria and the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area (including the unorganized districts of East Sooke, Port Renfrew, Jordan River, and the southern Malahat). Capital_Regional_District
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| British Columbia Highway 17 Highway 17 is two separate highways, one on Vancouver Island, the other on the Lower Mainland. The two highways are joined together by a ferry link. British_Columbia_Highway_17
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| Cable ferry A cable ferry is guided and in many cases propelled across a river or other larger body of water by cables connected to both shores. They are also called chain ferries, floating bridges, or punts.Early cable ferries often used either rope or steel chains, with the latter resulting in the alternate name of chain ferry. Both of these were largely replaced by stronger and more durable wire cable by the late 19th century. Cable_ferry
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| WikiProject Mountains Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mountains
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| Saint Elias Mountains The Saint Elias Mountains are a subgroup of the Pacific Coast Ranges located in southeastern Alaska (United States), southwestern Yukon and the very far northwestern part of British Columbia (Canada). The range spans Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in the USA and Kluane National Park and Reserve in Canada and includes all of Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. In Alaska, the range includes parts of the city/borough of Yakutat and the Hoonah-Angoon and Valdez-Cordova census areas. Saint_Elias_Mountains
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| Mount Fairweather Mount Fairweather (officially gazetted as Fairweather Mountain in Canada but referred to as Mount Fairweather) is a mountain located 20Pacific Ocean in Glacier Bay National Park of the United States. While most of the mountain lies within the City and Borough of Yakutat, Alaska, the summit is in Tatshenshini-Alsek Park in British Columbia, making it the highest point in that province. The mountain was named on May 3, 1778 by Captain James Cook, apparently for the good weather encountered at the time. Mount_Fairweather
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| Mount Fairweather Talk:Mount_Fairweather
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| Bamfield, British Columbia Bamfield is a community that is surrounded by Crown land, Indian reserves, and portions of the Pacific Rim National Park, located on Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The community, with a population of 251 as of 2006, is divided by Bamfield Inlet. Bamfield,_British_Columbia
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| Mount Hungabee Mount_Hungabee
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| Mount Clemenceau Mount Clemenceau is the fourth highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies. The peak was originally named "Pyramid" in 1892 by Arthur Coleman. The mountain was renamed by the Interprovincial Boundary Survey in 1919 to its present name, which is for Georges Clemenceau, premier of France during World War I.Mt. Clemenceau was first climbed in 1923 by D.B. Durand, H.S. Hall, W.D. Harris and H.B. De V. Schwab. Mount_Clemenceau
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| Mount Bryce Mount_Bryce
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| Deltaform Mountain Deltaform_Mountain
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| Okanagan Talk:Okanagan
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| Mount Garibaldi Mount Garibaldi is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Sea to Sky Country of British Columbia, north of Vancouver, Canada. Located in the southernmost Coast Mountains, it is one of the most recognized peaks in the South Coast region, as well as British Columbia's best known volcano. Mount_Garibaldi
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| Karl Nesselrode Baltic-German Count Karl Robert Nesselrode. also known as Charles de Nesselrode, (Lisbon, Portugal, December 14, 1780 - March 23, 1862) was a Russian diplomat and a leading European conservative statesman of the Holy Alliance. His autobiography was published posthumously in 1866. Karl_Nesselrode
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| St'at'imc The St'át'imc (also Lillooet, Stl'atl'imx, Stl'atl'imc, Sƛ’aƛ’imxǝc, St'át'imc, Stlatliumh and Slatlemuk) are an Interior Salish people located in the southern Coast Mountains and Fraser Canyon region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. They total about 6000. St'at'imc
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| Port McNeill, British Columbia Port McNeill is a town on the north-eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada with a population of 2,623 (2006). Originally a base camp for loggers, Port McNeill became a settlement in 1936. The town was named after Captain William Henry McNeill of the Hudson's Bay Company. Port_McNeill,_British_Columbia
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| British Columbia Highway 91A Highway 91A, or the Annacis Highway, is a 3Highway 91. Highway 91A crosses the Queensborough Bridge, and terminates at Marine Drive, allowing traffic into New Westminster. Residents of New Westminster can use Highway 91A as a convenient route towards the Canada/U.S. British_Columbia_Highway_91A
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| British Columbia Highway 7B Highway 7B, known as the Mary Hill Bypass, is a 9Coquitlam to the west and Port Coquitlam to the east. The Mary Hill Bypass gained its '7B' designation in 1996, when it was widened from two to four lanes. Highway 7B meets Highway 7 at both of its ends, and also links to Highway 1 within Coquitlam at the Cape Horn Interchange. British_Columbia_Highway_7B
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| British Columbia Highway 5 Highway 5 is a north-south route in southern British Columbia, Canada. It connects the southern Trans-Canada route (Highway 1) with the northern Yellowhead route (Highway 16), providing the shortest land connection between Vancouver and Edmonton. It is 524Coquihalla Highway, while its northern portion is known as the Southern Yellowhead Highway.The current Highway 5 is not the first highway in B.C. British_Columbia_Highway_5
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| British Columbia Highway 97C Highway 97C, the Okanagan Connector or Coquihalla Connector, forms part of an important link between the Lower Mainland and the Okanagan valley around Kelowna. It bisects the Coquihalla Highway at Merritt. Highway 97C is a relatively new route, commissioned in 1991. British_Columbia_Highway_97C
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| Liard Highway Liard Highway, numbered Highway 77 in British Columbia and Highway 7 in the Northwest Territories, is a highway in Canada, which forms the sole paved road connection between B.C. and the Northwest Territories. The highway officially opened to traffic in 1984, and was assigned the number 77 two years later. Highway 77 begins at a point on the Alaska Highway 28 km (17Fort Nelson, and it travels 138 km (86Highway 1 south of Fort Simpson. Liard_Highway
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| Dawson Creek The City of Dawson Creek is a small city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The municipality of had a population of 11,811 in 2007. Dawson Creek derives its name from the creek of the same name that runs through the community. The creek was named after George Mercer Dawson by a member of his land survey team when they passed through the area in August 1879. Dawson_Creek
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| Pouce Coupe, British Columbia Pouce_Coupe,_British_Columbia
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| Elk River (British Columbia) Elk_River_(British_Columbia)
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| Pend Oreille River The Pend Oreille River is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately long, in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington in the United States, as well as southeastern British Columbia in Canada. In its passage through British Columbia its name is spelled Pend d'Oreille River. Pend_Oreille_River
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| Kootenay River Kootenay_River
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| Okanogan River The Okanogan River (called the Okanagan River in Canada) is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately 115 mi (185 km) long, in southern British Columbia in Canada and north central Washington in the United States. It drains a scenic plateau region called the Okanagan Country east of the Cascade Range and north and west of the Columbia, and also the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia - which is also known as the Okanagan Country, but more usually as "the Okanagan". Okanogan_River
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| Mount King Edward Mount_King_Edward
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| Mount Garibaldi Talk:Mount_Garibaldi
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| Stikine River The Stikine River () is a river, historically also the Stickeen River, approximately 379 mi (610 km) long, in northwestern British Columbia in Canada and southeastern Alaska in the United States. Considered one of the last truly wild rivers in British Columbia, it drains a rugged pristine area east of the Coast Mountains, cutting a fast-flowing course through the mountains in deep glacier-lined gorges to empty into Eastern Passage, just north of the city of Wrangel, which is situated at the north end of Wrangell Island in the Alexander Archipelago. Stikine_River
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| Clayton Keith Yeutter Clayton Keith Yeutter (born December 10, 1930) in Eustis, Nebraska. He was Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Consumer Services, 1973 to 1974; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs 1974 to 1975; and Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, from 1975 to 1977He served as U.S. Clayton_Keith_Yeutter
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| White Rock, British Columbia The City of White Rock borders Semiahmoo Bay and is surrounded on four sides by the City of Surrey, British Columbia. The dividing lines between the two municipalities are Bergstrom Street (136th Street) to the west, North Bluff Road (16th Avenue) to the north, Stayte Road (160th Street) to the east and Marine Drive (8th Avenue) to the south. White_Rock,_British_Columbia
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| Ball Range The Ball Range is a mountain range on the Continental Divide between Vermilion Pass and Red Earth Pass in Kootenay National Park, Canada. The range is named after John Ball, a politician who helped secure funding for the Palliser Expedition.It extends over 465 km² (179 mi²), and measures 35 km (22 mi) from North to South and 26 km (16 mi) from East to West Ball_Range
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| Settling basin settling basin, settling pond or decant pond is a place where very fine particles from water are removed by means of gravity. The turbid (dirty) water enters the basin at one end and the cleaner water is taken out at the other end by decanting. The water must be in the basin long enough for the desired particle size to be removed. Settling_basin
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| Skagit River Skagit River ( ) is a river in southwestern British Columbia in Canada and northwestern Washington in the United States, approximately 150 mi (240Cascade Range along the northern end of Puget Sound, making the Skagit's watershed the third largest in the contiguous United States' West Coast after those of the Columbia and the Sacramento.The Skagit Watershed is characterized by a temperate, mid-latitude, maritime climate. Skagit_River
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| Sidney, British Columbia Sidney is a town located at the northern end of the Saanich Peninsula, on Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is one of the 13 Greater Victoria municipalities. It has a population of approximately 11,300. Sidney is located just east of Victoria International Airport, and a few kilometers south of BC Ferries' Swartz Bay terminal. Sidney,_British_Columbia
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| Merritt, British Columbia Merritt is a city in the Nicola Valley of the south-central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Situated at the confluence of the Nicola and Coldwater rivers, it is the first major community encountered after travelling along Phase One of the Coquihalla Highway and acts as the gateway to all other major highways to the B.C. Interior. The city developed in 1893 when part of the ranches owned by William Voght, Jesus Garcia, and John Charters was surveyed for a town site. Merritt,_British_Columbia
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| North Vancouver, British Columbia (city) The City of North Vancouver is a waterfront municipality on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, directly across from Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the smallest of the three North Shore municipalities, and the most urbanized as well. Although it has significant industry of its own, including shipping, chemical production, and film production, the City is usually considered to be a suburb of Vancouver. North_Vancouver,_British_Columbia_(city)
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| Coalbed methane Coalbed methane (CBM) or coalbed gas is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds. In recent decades it has become an important source of energy in United States, Canada, and other countries. Australia has rich deposits where it is known as coal seam gas.The term refers to methane adsorbed into the solid matrix of the coal. Coalbed_methane
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| Murder of Reena Virk Reena Virk (March 10, 1983 – November 14, 1997) was a resident of Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Her status as a bullying and murder victim attracted substantial media attention in Canada. Virk was first swarmed by eight teenagers (seven girls and one boy). Murder_of_Reena_Virk
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| Mount Collie Mount Collie is a mountain in Yoho National Park, located on the western boundary of the Wapta Icefield in Canada. The mountain was named in 1897 by Charles S. Thompson after J. Norman Collie, an accomplished mountaineer and early explorer of the Canadian Rockies. Mount_Collie
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| Capacity (law) Capacity_(law)
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| Archibald Menzies Archibald Menzies ( , see Yogh), 15 March 1754 – 15 February 1842) was a Scottish surgeon and naturalist. Archibald_Menzies
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| James Crippen User_talk:James_Crippen
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| Ignition interlock device An ignition interlock device or breath alcohol ignition interlock device (IID and BIID) is a mechanism, like a breathalyzer, installed to a motor vehicle's dashboard. Before the vehicle's motor can be started, the driver first must exhale into the device, if the resultant breath-alcohol concentration analyzed result is greater than the programed blood alcohol concentration — usually 0.02 or 0.04 per cent, the motor will not turn over. Ignition_interlock_device
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