Sunday, January 31, 2010

Welcome to the blog! It contains everything about British Columbia! Hope you enjoy.

Provincal representatives







The provincal bird is a Steller's Jay
The provincal tree is theWestern Cedar.
The provincal flower is the Pacific Dogwood.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Area

British Columbia’s area is 944,735 Km2.

Capital




British Columbia’s capital is Victoria.

Year Province Joined Canada

British Columbia joined Canada in 1871. So, it joined the confederation.

Landscape


The landscape is changing from one place to an other.


British Columbia’s landscape has the Rocky Mountains, and lots of more mountains. There are deep fertile valleys, plateaus, rivers and finally streams.


Principal Industries




One of the principal industries are forestry. 96% of forestry is coniferous. The tree they cut down the most is the hemlocks, and also the lodgepole pine and the spruce.

Agriculture is a other principal industry, it feeds the population and it is exported to some parts of the world.


Then there is mining. British Columbia has lots of sorts of minerals.


Next is fishing in British Columbia there salmons and sturgeons. Even more!


Finally there is tourism. Tourism is getting better and better in British Columbia.