The Colony of British Columbia was a British Crown Colony that resulted from the 1866 merger of two British colonies, the Colony of Vancouver Island and...
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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...
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America from 1849 to 1866, after which it was united with the mainland to form the Colony of British Columbia. The united colony joined Canadian Confederation...
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modern-day Canada: Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866) Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) History of British Columbia This disambiguation page lists...
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Matthew Baillie Begbie (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) judges)
1894) was a British lawyer, politician, and judge. In 1858, Begbie became the first Chief Justice of the Crown Colony of British Columbia in colonial...
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The dollar was the currency of British Columbia between 1865 and 1871. It replaced the British pound at a rate of 1 pound per 4.866 dollars and was equivalent...
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in 1866, when the colony of British Columbia was amalgamated with the Colony of Vancouver Island to form the Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871), which...
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Robert Beaven (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) people)
with British Columbia, Beaven became involved with politics as secretary of Amor De Cosmos' Confederation League which advocated that the colony enter...
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in 1871 when British Columbia became a province. Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) Executive Council of British Columbia Legislative Assembly of British...
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as 2½ pence. It was issued jointly by Vancouver Island and British Columbia as each colony had insufficient postal trade to justify printing separate...
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Anthony Musgrave (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) people)
in July, 1871, British Columbia joined Canada as its sixth province. Musgrave did a brief stint as governor of the South African colony of Natal. Musgrave's...
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created in 1871 when the Colony of British Columbia joined Confederation. Since then the lieutenant governor has been the representative of the monarchy...
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Frederick Seymour (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) people)
various British colonies from 1842 to 1863, when he returned to England. From 1864 to 1866, he served as the second Governor of the Colony of British Columbia...
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form a single colony in 1866, which later joined the Canadian Confederation on 20 July 1871. An influential historian of British Columbia, Margaret Ormsby...
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was British Columbia's first superintendent of Indian Affairs and a businessman, politician and doctor. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Vancouver...
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agencies in North America, the British Columbia Provincial Police was formed to police the new Colony of British Columbia in 1858, with Chartres Brew as...
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of British Columbia Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866) Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) History of Vancouver History of Victoria History of...
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William George Cox (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) judges)
Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo and Boundary Districts in the Colony of British Columbia, Canada during the Rock Creek Gold Rush. He was born in Ireland...
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John Carmichael Haynes (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) judges)
in British Columbia. He was born in Landscape, County Cork, the son of Jonas Haynes and Hester Carmichael, and came to Victoria, British Columbia by way...
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Fenian raids (redirect from Battle of Pigeon Hill (1866))
and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871. A number of separate incursions by the Fenian Brotherhood...
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Henry Pering Pellew Crease (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) judges)
Columbia. He was the first Attorney General of the united Colony of British Columbia, and sat on the Supreme Court of that province for 26 years. Crease was...
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New Westminster (redirect from New Westminster, British Columbia)
of the Colony of British Columbia in 1858 and continued in that role until the Mainland and Island colonies were merged in 1866. It was the British Columbia...
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Clement Francis Cornwall (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) judges)
Legislative Assembly , and was also a member of the same body in 1871 during the period in which British Columbia joined Canadian confederation. Immediately...
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Thomas Cunningham (Canadian politician) (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) people)
and political figure in British Columbia. He represented New Westminster City in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from an 1889 byelection...
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Thomas Earle (Canadian politician) (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) people)
district of British Columbia in 1863, establishing a grocery business in Victoria in 1873. He was also involved in railway construction in British Columbia, Oregon...
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in 1858, were combined in 1866 with the name Colony of British Columbia until joining Confederation in 1871. British Columbia also was expanded with the...
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Legislative Assembly of Alberta Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Legislative Assembly of Manitoba Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Newfoundland...
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British Columbia College of New Caledonia Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) Colony of Vancouver Island Columbia District Columbia Lake Columbia Mountains...
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Chartres Brew (category Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871) judges)
judge in the Colony of British Columbia, later a province of Canada. Brew's name was conferred on two mountain summits in British Columbia, both named...
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Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire...
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