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  2. Alaska boundary dispute - Wikipedia

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    This lease was later brought up by the Province of British Columbia as bearing upon its own territorial interests in the region, but was ignored by Ottawa and London. [4] The United States bought Alaska in 1867 from Russia in the Alaska Purchase, but the boundary terms were ambiguous. In 1871, British Columbia united with the new Dominion of ...

  3. British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation, or BCRIC (pronounced "brick"), was a holding company formed under the government of William R. Bennett. The company took over ownership of various sawmills and mines that had been bought and bailed out by the government. The name was eventually changed to Westar Group Ltd.

  4. BC Hydro - Wikipedia

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    The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, operating as BC Hydro, is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia.It is the main electricity distributor, serving more than 4 million customers in most areas, [3] with the exception of the City of New Westminster, where the city runs its own electrical department [4] and portions of the West Kootenay, Okanagan, the ...

  5. Economy of British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    British Columbia's (B.C.) International Export Markets, 2017-2018 British Columbia's Goods and Commodity Exports, 2018. British Columbia is an important hub for goods shipped to and from Asia, and as a result, B.C.’s export markets are more diversified than Canada and other provinces. [39]

  6. Sales taxes in British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    On 26 August 2011 Elections BC, the independent electoral overseer, announced that British Columbia voters defeated the new tax in the binding referendum conducted in June and July 2011 via a mail-in ballot. It was the first binding referendum on taxation in any state/provincial or national jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Nations. The ...

  7. British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [27] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

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  9. Dairyland Canada - Wikipedia

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    Dairyland is a dairy business that operates in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.Now owned by Saputo Dairy Foods Canada, Dairyland was originally an operating arm of BC dairy farmers' cooperatives and was legally named Agrifoods International Cooperative Ltd. at the time of the sale of the majority of its assets to Saputo Incorporated.