GeoByte1:The English explorer Captain Cook came to what is now British Columbia looking for the Northwest Passage, a water route from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
GeoByte2:In 1885 the Canadian Pacific Railway connected British Columbia to eastern Canada.
GeoByte3:Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia.
GeoByte4:More than half of Canada's lumber comes from the forests of British Columbia.
GeoByte5:Vancouver, British Columbia, is the largest port in western North America.
GeoByte6:The first large immigration into British Columbia came with the gold strike of 1858.