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Alexis Creek First Nation

The Alexis Creek First Nation is the band government of the Tsi Del Del subgroup of the Tsilhqot'in people, located in the Chilcotin District in the western Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Ashcroft Indian Band

The Ashcroft First Nation is a First Nations government Thompson Canyon area of the Central Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Atlin District

The Atlin District, also known as the Atlin Country, is a historical region located in the far northwestern corner of the Canadian province of British Columbia, centred on Atlin Lake and the gold-rush capital of the region, the town of Atlin.

Big Bend Country

Big Bend Country is a term used in the Canadian province British Columbia to refer to the region around the northernmost bend of the Columbia River, where the river leaves its initial northwestward course along the Rocky Mountain Trench to curve around the northern end of the Selkirk Mountains to head southeast between that range and the Monashee Mountains, which lie to the west.

Boston Bar First Nation

The Boston Bar First Nation is a First Nations government in the Fraser Canyon region of the Southern Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Bridge River Indian Band

The Bridge River Indian Band also known as the Nxwísten First Nation, the Xwisten First Nation, and the Bridge River Band, is a First Nations government located in the Central Interior-Fraser Canyon region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Coldwater Indian Band

Coldwater First Nation is a Nlaka'pamux First Nations government located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Cook's Ferry Indian Band

The Cook's Ferry First Nation is a Nlaka'pamux First Nations government located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick

The Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick (in French: Cour du Banc de la Reine du Nouveau-Brunswick) is the superior court of the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

Financial regulation

Canadian securities regulation is instead done at province level by separate agencies coordinated through the Canadian Securities Administrators.

Forbes George Vernon

Forbes George Vernon (21 August 1843 – 20 January 1911), Lieutenant (ret.) British Army, was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1875 to 1882, and from 1886 to 1894, representing the riding of Yale.

Haisla people

The Haisla (also Xa’islak’ala, X̄a’islakʼala, X̌àʼislakʼala, X̣aʼislak’ala, Xai:sla) are an indigenous people living at Kitamaat in the North Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

High Bar First Nation

The High Bar First Nation is a First Nations government of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation, located in the Fraser Canyon-Cariboo region of the Central Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Kaslo-Slocan

Kaslo-Slocan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the town of Kaslo on Kootenay Lake as well as the mining towns of the "Silvery Slocan".

Lil'wat First Nation

The Lil'wat First Nation, aka the Lil'wat Nation or the Mount Currie Indian Band, is a First Nations government located in the southern Coast Mountains region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Liquor Distribution Branch

The Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB), aka the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, is one of the two governmental bodies responsible for distributing alcoholic beverages and regulating and monitoring the liquor industry in the Canadian province of British Columbia within the Ministry of Justice, under Minister Suzanne Anton.

Little Shuswap Indian Band

The Little Shuswap Indian Band is a First Nations band government of a community of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation, located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Lower Nicola Indian Band

Lower Nicola Indian Band is a Nlaka'pamux First Nations government located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Nechako Country

The Nechako Country, also referred to as the Nechako District or simply "the Nechako" is one of the historical geographic regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia, located southwest of the city of Prince George and south of Hwy 16 on the inland side of the Hazelton Mountains (an inland subrange of the Coast Mountains), and comprising the basin of the Nechako River and its tributaries.

Order of Manitoba

The Order of Manitoba is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Oregon Jack Creek Band

The Oregon Jack Creek Band is a First Nations government in the Thompson Canyon area of the Southern Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Peter Aucoin

Aucoin worked in an advisory capacity to the Canadian government at federal, provincial, and municipal levels.

Salmo River

The Salmo River is a tributary of the Pend d'Oreille River in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Seton Lake First Nation

The Seton Lake First Nation, aka the Seton Lake Indian Band, is a First Nations government located in the Central Interior-Fraser Canyon region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Shackan First Nation

The Shackan Indian Band is a Nlaka'pamux First Nations government located in the Nicola Country of the Southern Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Shuswap Country

The Shuswap Country, or simply "the Shuswap" (pronounced /ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/) is a term used in the Canadian province of British Columbia to refer to the environs of Shuswap Lake.

Skeetchestn Indian Band

The Skeetchestn Indian Band is a member of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation, located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Spallumcheen Indian Band

The Spallumcheen Indian Band, also called the Splats'in First Nations is a member of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation, located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Sto:lo Nation

The Sto:lo Nation is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Fraser Valley region of the Canadian province of British Columbia that is the tribal council for First Nations band governments in the area of Chilliwack, Abbotsford and at Nicomen Island.

Stó:lō Tribal Council

The Stó:lō Tribal Council is a First Nations Tribal Council in the Fraser Valley-Greater Vancouver region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Stone First Nation

The Stone First Nation or Yunesit'in First Nation is a band government of the Yunesit'in subgroup of the Tsilhqot'in people, whose territory is the Chilcotin District in the western Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Western Basin of Lake Erie

Even with average depths of less than 25 feet, this part of the lake contains world famous walleye fishing grounds with numerous charter fishing boats operating out of the U.S. states of Michigan and Ohio and the Canadian province of Ontario.

Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band

The Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band, also called the Pellt'iq't First Nation is a member of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation, located in the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Xeni Gwet'in First Nation

The Xeni Gwet'in First Nation is a First Nations government located in the southwestern Chilcotin District in the western Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.


see also

AGLC

Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission, an agency of the Government of the Canadian province of Alberta,

Ammosaurus

In the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia, scientists have unearthed prosauropods from the McCoy Brook Formation, which is about 200 to 197 million years old, from the Early Jurassic Hettangian stage.

Assumption Place

Assumption Place is an office building in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick in the city of Moncton.

At the Hundredth Meridian

In the video, Downie is wearing a ball-cap advertising Gros Morne National Park, located in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Broderick Park

Broderick Park is situated within easy view of the Peace Bridge, which links the State of New York with the Canadian Province of Ontario at Fort Erie.

Broomball

Broomball is popular in the Canadian province of Manitoba, where Glenella is the Broomball Capital of the World.

Bunny hug

The term 'bunny hug' is also used in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan to refer to hooded sweatshirts or 'hoodies'.

Cimo

CIMO-FM, a French-language radio station located in the Canadian province of Quebec

Clemenceau, Saskatchewan

Clemenceau is a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan named after Georges Clemenceau, the French physician, journalist and statesman.

Collin Peterson

In 1998, Peterson gained attention by proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow the residents of Minnesota's Northwest Angle to vote on whether they wanted to secede from the United States and join the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police

The Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police is the head of the Ontario Provincial Police force in the Canadian province of Ontario.

Emery Barnes

Elected Speaker of the Legislature in 1994, he was also the first black person to hold this position in any Canadian province.

Federation autonome du collegial

The Federation autonome du collegial (FAC) is a teachers union in the Canadian province of Quebec, representing teachers at a number of the province's CEGEPs.

Fox Valley

Fox Valley, Saskatchewan, a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

General Service Area

General Service Area is a term used by the Canadian province of Nova Scotia to describe the boundaries of areas that are communities or place names in Nova Scotia.

John Baxter

John Babington Macaulay Baxter (1868–1946), Premier of the Canadian Province of New Brunswick, 1925–1931

John Mathieson

John Alexander Mathieson (1863–1947), Premier of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, 1911–1917

Kinsol Trestle

The Kinsol Trestle, also known as the Koksilah River Trestle, is a wooden railway trestle located on Vancouver Island north of Shawnigan Lake in the Canadian Province of British Columbia.

L'Église réformée du Québec

L'Église Réformée du Québec, or "Reformed Church of Quebec", is a small conservative French-speaking Reformed Christian denomination located primarily within the Canadian province of Quebec.

Lady Lake

Lady Lake, Saskatchewan, a hamlet in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan

Lumby

Lumby, British Columbia, a community in the Canadian province of British Columbia

Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow

Margaret Barr was born on April 16, 1923 in the small town of Elkhorn in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Martin No. 122, Saskatchewan

Martin No. 122 is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, located to the north and south of the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately 200 kilometres (km) east of Regina in SARM Division No. 1.

Michel Pigeon

Michel Pigeon (born 1945) is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the riding of Charlesbourg in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election.

Mid-Peninsula Highway

The Mid-Peninsula Highway is a proposed freeway across the Niagara Peninsula in the Canadian province of Ontario.

Nepisiguit

Nepisiguit River, a river in the Canadian province of New Brunswick

New York State Route 189

Past the station, the highway continues north into the Canadian province of Quebec as Route 209.

Ontario Health Insurance Plan

The Ontario Health Insurance Plan (in French: Assurance-Santé de l'Ontario, and commonly known in both languages by the acronym OHIP, pronounced "oh-hip") is the government-run health insurance plan for the Canadian province of Ontario.

Ontario Highway 131

Highway 131 was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Simcoe County and the city of Barrie.

Osler

Osler, Saskatchewan is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan named after Edmund Boyd Osler.

Pacific Northwest English

The Pacific Northwest is defined as an area that includes the American states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Petitcodiac

Petitcodiac River, a river in the Canadian province of New Brunswick

Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta (often referred to colloquially as Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta) is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta.

Radekhiv

Ed Stelmach, the premier of the Canadian province of Alberta from 2006 to 2011, is descended from immigrants who arrived in Canada from Radekhiv.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, an active suffragan diocese in the Canadian province of Ontario

Sackville, Nova Scotia

Sackville can refer to several different communities in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia located along the Sackville River.

Saint-Jean-Chrysostome

Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Lévis, Quebec, a former municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec which now forms part of the city of Lévis

Sointula

Sointula, British Columbia, a community in the Canadian province of British Columbia,

Stikine District

the Stikine Region, an administrative region of the Canadian province of British Columbia

the Stikine Country, aka the Stikine District, a geographic region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, roughly equivalent to the Stikine Mining Division aka Stikine Mining District of the British Columbia Dept. of Mines

Sunset Beach, Ontario

There are four communities named Sunset Beach in the Canadian province of Ontario.

The Ovens, Nova Scotia

The private park located in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, owned and operated by Angela and Steve Chapin (brother of Harry Chapin), located at the meeting point of Lunenburg and Rose Bay in Lunenburg County.

Turtle Mountain

Turtle Mountain Provincial Park, a provincial park located in the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of Manitoba

U.S. Route 23 in Michigan

Overall, this highway ran from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, by way of Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario.

Union Bay

Union Bay, British Columbia, a community in the Canadian province of British Columbia

WFNS

Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, a non-profit charitable organization promoting creative writing and the profession of writing in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia

Whitestone

Whitestone, Ontario, a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, and a community within the township