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e. The Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) is a set of Canadian immigration programs operated by the Government of Canada in partnership with individual provinces, each of which having its own requirements and 'streams' (i.e., target groups). [1] In a program stream, provinces and territories may, for example, target: business people, students ...
The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [27] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.
The table below lists the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in British Columbia by population, using data from the Canada 2016 Census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA), as defined by Statistics Canada.
LGN: Licensed Graduate Nurse [10] (British Columbia, Canada) LGN(P): Licensed Graduate Nurse, Provisional [10] (British Columbia, Canada) LNC: Legal Nurse Consultant; LNCC: Legal Nurse Consultant, Certified; LNP: Licensed Nurse Practitioner—Used by the Commonwealth of Virginia, Board of Nursing, as a license status [11] LPN: Licensed ...
British Columbia's Prime Location on Canada's West Coast. Geography has played a significant role in the province's economic development.B.C.’s location on Canada's west coast puts it at the commercial crossroads of the Asia-Pacific region and North America.
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia[a] (BC NDP) is a social democratic [4] political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party sits on the centre-left [5][6] of the political spectrum and is one of the two major parties in British Columbia; since the 1990s, its rival is the centre-right BC United (formerly known as the BC Liberals).
c. $ 3.6 billion in 2019–20. Staff. c. 22,000. Website. www.phsa.ca. Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is a publicly funded health service provider in the province of British Columbia. PHSA is unique in Canada as the only health authority having a province-wide mandate for specialized health services, although within British ...
Website. princegeorge.ca. Prince George is a city in British Columbia, Canada, situated at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers. The city itself has a population of 76,708; [3] the metro census agglomeration has a population of 89,490. [4] It is often called the province's "northern capital".