British Columbia, a western fertile prov. of British America, extending between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific, and from the United States on the S. to Alaska on the N., being 800 m. long and four times the size of Great Britain; rich in timber and minerals; rain is abundant, and cereals do well.
Population (circa 1900) given as 98,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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