| Ucluelet Ucluelet () is a district municipality (population about 2,000) on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Ucluelet means "the people with a good landing place for canoes" in the indigenous Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) language. Ucluelet
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| British Columbia general election, 2005 Talk:British_Columbia_general_election,_2005
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| CJCurrie/Archive 1 User_talk:CJCurrie/Archive_1
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| Fintry, British Columbia Fintry Delta is a small community in British Columbia, Canada. It lies on the west side of the Okanagan Lake, 34 km north of the city of Kelowna, and 50 km south of Vernon. It has about 50 homes and is at the bottom of a 3 km, steep windy road off West Side road. There are a few public beaches as well as and a provincial campground. A 300 step stairway leads hikers along Shorts Creek to a view of a waterfall. Fintry,_British_Columbia
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| List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin This list of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin contains Canadian places whose names originate from the words of the First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, collectively referred to as Aboriginal peoples in Canada. When possible the original word or phrase used by Aboriginals is included, along with its generally believed meaning. List_of_place_names_in_Canada_of_Aboriginal_origin
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| Elayne Brenzinger Elayne Brenzinger (born 1951, in Scotland) was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, Canada representing Democratic Reform British Columbia, a progressive/centrist political party formed in January 2005.She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly as a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party in the 2001 provincial election for the riding of Surrey-Whalley, defeating cabinet minister and long time NDP MLA Joan Smallwood. Elayne_Brenzinger
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| Canadian Firearms Program Canadian Firearms Program, formerly Canada Firearms Centre (CFC) is a Canadian government program within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Policing Support Services, responsible for licensing and regulating firearms in Canada. As of March 2009, the Canadian Firearms Program recorded a total of 1,852,333 valid firearm licenses, which is roughly 5.53% of the Canadian population (based on CIA World Factbook July 2009 estimate). The four most licensed provinces are Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia. Canadian_Firearms_Program
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| Tom Christensen For the former tennis player see Tommy Christensen.Tom Christensen is a Canadian politician and former lawyer. He is British Columbia's Minister of Children and Family Development. Christensen has also served as Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, and as Minister of Education.In the 2001 British Columbia general election he was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Okanagan-Vernon representing the British Columbia Liberal Party. Tom_Christensen
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| Arrow Lakes The Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada, divided into Upper Arrow Lake and Lower Arrow Lake, are widenings of the Columbia River. The lakes are situated between the Selkirk Mountains to the east and the Monashee Mountains to the west. Beachland is fairly rare, and is interspersed with rocky headlands and steep cliffs. Mountain sides are heavily forested, and rise sharply to elevations around 2,600 metres. Arrow_Lakes
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| Simon Fraser Student Society The Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) is the students' union of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. It was founded after the opening of Simon Fraser University in 1967.The SFSS consists of over 26,000 students, with an annual budget of over one million dollars. Simon_Fraser_Student_Society
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| British Columbia general election, 1933 British Columbia general election of 1933 was the eighteenth general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on September 13, 1933, and held on November 2, 1933. The new legislature met for the first time on February 20, 1934.The Liberal Party won a majority government. British_Columbia_general_election,_1933
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| John Work John Work (c. 1792 22 December 1861) was a chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company and one of the original founding families in Victoria, British Columbia, operating the large 'Hillside Farm' in the vicinity of today's Hillside neighbourhood. He originally spelled his name Wark. He was married to Josette Legace (granddaughter of a Spokane Chief). He died in Victoria in 1861. John_Work
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| Francis Rattenbury Francis Mawson Rattenbury (1867-1935) was an architect born in England, although most of his career was spent in British Columbia, Canada where he designed many notable buildings. Divorced amid scandal, he ended his life in England where he was murdered at the age of 68 by his second wife's lover. Francis_Rattenbury
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| Emily Carr University of Art and Design Emily Carr University of Art and Design (formerly the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design) is a public post-secondary University located on Granville Island in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It is named for Canadian artist Emily Carr. On April 28, 2008, the Provincial Government announced its intention to amend the University Act at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to upgrade Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design into a full university, named Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Emily_Carr_University_of_Art_and_Design
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| Coquitlam River Coquitlam River ( or Coquitlam_River
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| Honey flow Honey_flow
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| University of the Fraser Valley The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), (formerly known as University College of the Fraser Valley) was founded in 1974 as the Fraser Valley College. The college was the response to the communities in the Fraser Valley needing expanded vocational training. In 1988, it became a university college, with degree-granting status. As the University College of the Fraser Valley, it grew rapidly, becoming one of the largest university colleges in Canada. The university press, The Cascade, is a member of CUP. University_of_the_Fraser_Valley
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| Walter Koerner Walter Charles Koerner, CC, OBC (July 21, 1898 Canadian businessman and philanthropist.Born in Nový Hrozenkov, Moravia, he emigrated to Canada in 1938 after serving in World War I. His family had been involved in the forest industry and continued the tradition in Canada founding the Alaska Pine and Cellulose company. Walter_Koerner
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| List of minimum wages in Canada Constitution of Canada, the responsibility for enacting and enforcing labour laws including minimum wages in Canada rests with the ten provinces. The three territories also having been granted this power by virtue of federal legislation. This means that each province and territory has its own minimum wage. List_of_minimum_wages_in_Canada
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| Alsek River The Alsek River is a wilderness river flowing from the Yukon into Northern British Columbia and into Alaska. The surrounding area from the Western edge of the Alsek to East of the East Alsek is known to locals as Dry Bay. Alsek_River
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| Salmon River (Alaska) Salmon River is a braided stream that flows through Hyder, Alaska and empties into the Portland Canal. It is fed by meltwater from the Salmon Glacier, which is located within British Columbia approximately 13 miles north of its confluence into the Canal and is road-accessible from the town of Stewart, British Columbia. The river crosses the Canada-United States border at . Salmon_River_(Alaska)
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| Taku River Not to be confused with the Taku Arm of Tagish Lake The Taku River is a river running from British Columbia, Canada to the northwestern coast of North America, at Juneau, Alaska. Its mouth coincides with the Alaska-British Columbia border.During the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, the Taku Indians controlled the trade routes on the river and compelled natives of the Interior to use them as middle-men, instead of allowing trade directly with white settlers. Taku_River
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| Fraser Valley Regional District The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km² (5,159Prince Edward Island. It was created by an amalgamation of the Fraser-Cheam Regional District and Central Fraser Valley Regional District and the portion of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District from and including the District of Mission eastwards. Fraser_Valley_Regional_District
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| Bountiful, British Columbia Talk:Bountiful,_British_Columbia
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| Regional District of Nanaimo The Regional District of Nanaimo is a regional district located on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the south by the Cowichan Valley Regional District, to the west by the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, and to the northwest by the Comox Valley Regional District. Its administration offices are located in Nanaimo. During the 2006 census, its population was established at 138,631. Regional_District_of_Nanaimo
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| Illecillewaet River Illecillewaet_River
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| Englishman River Englishman River is located in the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It starts on the eastern slopes of the Beaufort Range, originating from tiny Jewel Lake and flowing in an easterly direction for 40Strait of Georgia at Parksville, British Columbia. It is an important watershed providing habitat for various species of salmon and community water to the residents of Parksville and surrounding area. Englishman_River
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| Kicking Horse Pass Kicking Horse Pass (el. 1627 m, 5339 ft) is a high mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta/British Columbia border, and lying within Yoho and Banff National Parks. The pass is of historical significance because the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway was constructed between Lake Louise, Alberta and Field, British Columbia using this route in 1880s, in preference to the originally planned route through the more northerly Yellowhead Pass. Kicking_Horse_Pass
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| Police board police board is an appointed form of local government charged with the responsibility of overseeing a territorial police department in Canada - the term is also used for the same function in Scotland. Every municipality in Canada that operates their own police force is required to establish such a board. The legislation of Police Boards is in the jurisdiction of each provincial legislature. Police_board
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| Varroa destructor Varroa destructor is an external parasitic mite that attacks honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera. The disease caused by the mites is called varroatosis. Varroa_destructor
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| Italianate architecture Talk:Italianate_architecture
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| Glacier National Park (U.S.) Talk:Glacier_National_Park_(U.S.)
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| Capilano River Capilano River, flowing north to south through the Coast Mountains, is located on Vancouver's North Shore and empties into Burrard Inlet, opposite Stanley Park. The river is one of three primary sources of drinking water for residents of Greater Vancouver. The Cleveland Dam, built in 1954, impounds a reservoir for this purpose. The entire reservoir and watershed area upstream of the dam is closed to the public to ensure the quality of the drinking water. Capilano_River
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| Special Constabulary Talk:Special_Constabulary
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| Danezaa Daneẕaa (ᑕᓀᖚ, also spelled Dunneza, or Tsattine, and historicially often referred to as the Beaver tribe by Europeans) are a First Nation of the Athapaskan language group, whose traditional territory is around the Peace River of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. About 1,000 Dane-zaa live in British Columbia as part of Doig River First Nation, Blueberry River First Nation, Halfway River First Nation and Prophet River First Nation communities. Danezaa
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| Data quality Data are of high quality "if they are fit for their intended uses in operations, decision making and planning" (J. M. Juran). Alternatively, the data are deemed of high quality if they correctly represent the real-world construct to which they refer. Furthermore, apart from these definitions, as data volume increases, the question of internal consistency within data becomes paramount, regardless of fitness for use for any external purpose, e.g. Data_quality
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| Carole Taylor Carole Taylor (born 1945) is a Canadian journalist and politician. She previously served as British Columbia's Minister of Finance under Liberal premier Gordon Campbell.Carole Taylor graduated from Weston Collegiate in 1964. She later attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto and graduated with a BA in English. Carole_Taylor
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| Columbia River Treaty The Columbia River Treaty is an international agreement between Canada and the United States of America (U.S.) on the development and operation of dams in the upper Columbia River basin. Columbia_River_Treaty
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| Peace Arch Park Peace Arch Park (Peace Arch State Park in the United States and Peace Arch Provincial Park in Canada) is a park straddling the International Boundary between the United States and Canada at the extreme western end of the main contiguous section of the two countries' land border, where it reaches Semiahmoo Bay of Puget Sound on the continent's Pacific Coast. (There are also separate sections of the land border further west on Point Roberts peninsula, and in Alaska.) Peace_Arch_Park
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| Columbia-Shuswap Regional District The Columbia-Shuswap Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located in the heart of the Southern Interior region on the Trans-Canada Highway between Vancouver and Calgary. The regional district comprises the regions known as the Shuswap Country, which focuses around Shuswap Lake and lies to the north of the Okanagan, and the northern part of the Columbia Country, namely the "Big Bend" of the valley of the Columbia River from the Town of Golden to the City of Revelstoke (Revelstoke is sometimes referred to as being in the North Kootenay, Golden is usually thought of as being part of the East Kootenay sub-region, the Columbia Valley). Columbia-Shuswap_Regional_District
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| Requests for comment/Denelson83 Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Denelson83
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| Comox-Strathcona Regional District The Regional District of Comox-Strathcona was a regional district of British Columbia, Canada from 1967 to 2008. On February 15, 2008 Comox-Strathcona was abolished and replaced by two successor regional districts, Comox Valley and Strathcona.The district covered large portions of northern Vancouver Island and included part of the mainland north of the Sunshine Coast. Comox-Strathcona_Regional_District
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| Sekani language Sekani language is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Sekani people of north-central British Columbia, Canada. Sekani_language
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| Cassidy, British Columbia Cassidy, British Columbia is located south of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island and is home to the Ray Collishaw Air Terminal, Nanaimo's only airfield. It is home to farms and is generally rural. Its proximity to Nanaimo means it provides a short commute for those looking to live away from town. It's 2008 population was 1002 people. Cassidy,_British_Columbia
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| Oowekyala language Oowekyala (also Wuikala, Rivers Inlet, Wuikenukv, Oweekeno, Wikeno, Owikeno, Oowekeeno, Oweekano, Awikenox, Oowek'yala, Oweek'ala) is a dialect (or a sublanguage) of Heiltsuk-Oowekyala, a Northern Wakashan (Kwakiutlan) language spoken around Rivers Inlet and Owikeno Lake in the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, spoken by the Wuikinuxv people, whose government is the Wuikinuxv Nation. Oowekyala_language
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| Rivers Inlet Rivers Inlet is a fjord in the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, its entrance from the Dean Channel near that fjord's mouth, about southwest of the community of Bella Coola and about north of the northern tip of Vancouver Island and the western entrance of the Queen Charlotte Strait.The inlet is about in length from its head at the community of Rivers Inlet, British Columbia, which is a logging and fishing town that is also the home of the Wuikinuxv people and their government, the Wuikinuxv Nation, also known variously as the Owekeeno, Awikenox, Oowekeeno and also as the Rivers Inlet people. Rivers_Inlet
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| BC Rail Talk:BC_Rail
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| Klemtu, British Columbia Klemtu is a small village on Swindle Island in the coastal fjords of British Columbia, Canada.Klemtu is the home of the Kitasoo tribe of Tsimshians, originally from Kitasu Bay, and the Xai'xais of Kynoc Inlet, these two tribal organizations live together as the Kitasoo/Xai'xais Nation. Klemtu,_British_Columbia
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| Nathaniel Nemetz Nathaniel Theodore (Nathan) Nemetz, CC, OBC, QC (September 8 1913–October 21, 1997) was a Canadian lawyer and judge.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he moved with his family to Vancouver when he was 10. He received a BA from the University of British Columbia in 1934 and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1937. Nathaniel_Nemetz
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| H. R. MacMillan Harvey Reginald ("H.R.") MacMillan, CC, CBE (September 9, 1885 - February 9, 1976) was a Canadian forester, forestry industrialist, wartime administrator, and philanthropist.Born in Newmarket, Ontario, he graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College in 1906 with an honours degree in biology. H._R._MacMillan
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