British Columbia in Canada
British Columbia (BC; French: Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 5.2 million as of 2021, it is Canada’s third-most populous province.
The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Queen Victoria, who reigned over the British Empire at the time of Confederation. The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second-largest in the Pacific Northwest. In October 2013, Greater Vancouver had an estimated population of approximately 2.5 million. Since 2017.
British Columbia in Canada
In 1866, Vancouver Island became part of the colony of British Columbia, and Victoria became the united colony’s capital. In 1871, British Columbia became the sixth province of Canada. Its Latin motto is Splendor sine occasu (“Splendour without Diminishment”). British Columbia evolved from British possessions that were established in what is now British Columbia by 1871.
Because of the many mountain ranges and rugged coastline, British Columbia’s climate varies dramatically across the province.
Coastal southern British Columbia has a mild, rainy oceanic climate, influenced by the North Pacific Current, which has its origins in the Kuroshio Current.
Hucuktlis Lake on Vancouver Island receives an average of 6,903 mm (271.8 in) of rain annually, and some parts of the area are even classified as warm-summer Mediterranean, the northernmost occurrence in the world.
In Victoria, the annual average temperature is 11.2 °C (52.2 °F), the warmest in Canada.
Heavy snowfall occurs in all elevated mountainous terrain providing bases for skiers in both south and central British Columbia. Many highway mountain passes in the southern interior receive more snow than some of the snowiest cities in Canada, and freezing rain and fog are sometimes present there as well.
This can This may lead to hazardous driving conditions, since people are often travelling between warmer regions such as Vancouver or Kamloops, and are unaware that the road conditions may be icy and slippery.
