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    British Columbia Choral Federation

    British Columbia Choral Federation (BCCF). Founded in 1978 as a service organization for those interested in choral music in British Columbia. The membership is drawn from choirs, individual singers, conductors, audience members, music institutions, and corporations.

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    British Columbia Eocene Fossils

    Palaeontological and geological studies of these deposits go back about 130 years. These include work carried out by George Mercer Dawson in 1890 as part of his survey of British Columbia for the Geological Survey of Canada, with occasional research published in the 1920s and 1930s.

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    British Columbia Music Educators' Association

    British Columbia Music Educators' Association (BCMEA). Organization founded in 1957 with Sherwood Robson as president.

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    British Columbia Provincial Police

    British Columbia Provincial Police had its origin in the police forces established in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia in 1858 to provide law and order following an influx of gold miners and settlers.

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    British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association

    British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association (BCRMTA). Founded in 1932 as the British Columbia Music Teachers' Federation, incorporating the Vancouver Music Teachers' Association (formed in 1920 with H. Roy Robertson as president) and other provincial groups.

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    British Columbia Research Council

    British Columbia Research Council, formerly a nonprofit society incorporated in 1944 to provide facilities for technological research and industrial development in BC. BC Research, a technical wing of the council, comprised scientific, engineering and technical laboratory facilities.

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    British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum

    The British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum was founded to pay tribute to those British Columbians who have brought special honour to the province through their sports accomplishments.

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    British Columbia Woodworkers' Strike

    British Columbia Woodworkers' Strike, 15 May - 20 June 1946, the first strike of BC District 1 of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) after coast-wide bargaining rights were won in 1943.

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    British Columbia's Dinosaur Excavations

    Skeletal remains of dinosaurs are an exceedingly rare resource in British Columbia, so much so that prior to 2002, there were only two reports of single dinosaurian skeletal elements from this province. This changed in 2002 when the first reported concentration of dinosaur bones was discovered only a few kilometres from Tumbler Ridge in the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Kaskapau Formation. Paleontologists from the newly formed Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre (P.R.P.R.C.), based in Tumbler Ridge, began an excavation on this site in the summer of 2003, which continued to 2005. Over 200 isolated skeletal elements were found and removed, and the bones were from a number of dinosaurs (theropods, ankylosaurs & hadrosaurs) and other vertebrates (turtles, crocodiles, fishes and freshwater rays). Although this was the first dinosaur site from British Columbia and one of the oldest in western Canada (~97 million years old) the specimens were not articulated or complete.

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    British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

    In 1939, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia signed an agreement creating the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). Located in Canada, the plan's mandate was to train Allied aircrews for the Second World War, including pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators, air gunners, and flight engineers. More than 130,000 crewmen and women were trained between 1939 and 1945, making this one of Canada's great contributions to Allied victory in the war. It led United States President Franklin Roosevelt to call Canada the "aerodrome of democracy."

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    British-Inuit Peace Treaty

    The British-Inuit Peace Treaty was signed at Chateau Bay, Labrador, on 21 August 1765, between Newfoundland Governor Hugh Palliser and representatives of the Inuit of central and southern Labrador. The British had suggested the treaty to resolve tensions between the Inuit and the British, support British interests and provide the Inuit with the protection of the British and certain other benefits. (See also Treaties with Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Indigenous-British Relations Pre-Confederation.)

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    British North America

    British North America refers to the British colonies and territories in North America after the US became independent in 1783 (see also American Revolution) and until Confederation in 1867. The British North America Act (BNA Act), which came into effect on 1 July 1867, united three of the five British North American colonies. The Act (renamed the Constitution Act, 1867, in 1982) is the foundational document of Canada’s Constitution.

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    Constitution Act, 1867 (document)

    Selected Text of the British North America Act: An Act for the Union of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the Government thereof; and for Purposes connected therewith: Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom: And...

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    British Subject Status

    British subject status was the precursor to Canadian citizenship, which was created on 1 January 1947 with the passage of the Canadian Citizenship Act. Until then, people who were considered Canadian citizens were subjects of the British Empire. In a monarchy, subjects serve the monarch; but in a democracy, the state serves its citizens. Changing Canadians from subjects to citizens provided a fundamental advancement in Canada’s democracy, rule of law, and civil rights. Like the Statute of Westminster in 1931, it was a key step in Canada’s journey toward sovereignty and autonomy from Britain.

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    Broadcasting

    IntroductionBroadcasting. Vast distances and the isolation of communities have posed major problems for Canada. Radio and TV therefore have contributed immensely to the nation's cultural life, particularly radio in the case of music.

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