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Territory (the rest of which is now the yukon/nwt). it also happens, this time round, to be the 200th snniversary of simon fraser's trip down the Fraser, the 25th of alex mackenie's trip to Bella Coola, and the 230th anniversary of the visit of captain cook, and what the hell let's throw in whatever happened in 1778 (uite a bit, actully). So the 50 thing is just one of several potential meaningless events....I disagree that the creation of the
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someone with more access to BC local media can eyeball this or keep it on their watchlist; events and news related to this are more likely to turn up in the smalltown weeklies than in the Big
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The purpose of this article is to make it clear that (i) the "BC 150" programme is founded on a rather flimsy historical foundation as the basis for a feel-good series of public events and government grants in advance of the 2010 Olympics, and that (ii) the anniversary it marks is in fact the 150th
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British Columbia. That anniversary will be in 2016, 150 years after the three parts of today's province were merged into one political jurisdiction with the same boundaries as today and
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it's being, er, celebrated.....as with all BC-related political/org articles, pov-watch and brochure-watch should be vigilantly kept here; I'm just waking up so am not going to bother with the overdone boldings just now; I'll trim down the language/content but won't be able to watch page much; if
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creation.....the historical events this commemoration is supposedly for (really it's pre-Olympics hoo-hah) are certainly relevant to the article, but not in teh overall brochure-lecture here; this article isn't even about the sesquicentennial or whatever it's called; it's about
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