=British Columbia.= Area 372,630 square miles. Vancouver Island became a crown colony in 1849; ten years later the mainland was organized as a separate colony; in 1866 island and mainland became one; and in 1871 the colony became a province of the Dominion of Canada. =Index=: =D= Organic existence since 1859, or including Vancouver Island, since 1849, 1; origin of name, 57; gold-fields, 22; created separate colony, 1858, 229; early government of, 231-235; revenue, 232; roads, etc., 232, 237-238, 249-253; relations with the Hudson's Bay Company, 233; character of early population, 241-243; formal establishment of colony at Fort Langley, 1858, 245-246; Hill's Bar affair, 248-249; plans for transcontinental road, 253-254; population in 1859, 256; agriculture, 256-257; financial problems, 258-262; dissatisfaction with dual governorship, 289; popular grievances, 290-291; views of Douglas, 291-293; Legislative Council, 294-297; union of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, 297-300, 308; British Columbia Legislature meets for first time in Victoria, Dec. 17, 1867, 311; entry into Dominion, 311-316; terms of union, 313-315; first Legislative Assembly after the union, 315; transcontinental railway, 317-328; population, 1900,328; agriculture, 329-330; fisheries, 330-331; lumber, 332-333; minerals, 333-334; industrial problems, 335; oriental labour, 336-337; education, 338-340. =Md= Opposition to entry into Confederation, 149; difficulties removed, 149; terms of union, 149-150; union completed, July 20, 1871, 150; difficulties over building of Canadian Pacific Railway drive province to verge of secession, 215, 233-234. =Bib.=: Begg, _History of British Columbia_; Bancroft, _History of British Columbia_; Macdonald, _British Columbia and Vancouver's Island_; Macfie, _Vancouver Island and British Columbia_; Morice, _The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia_; Herring, _Among the People of British Columbia_; Fitzgerald, _The Hudson's Bay Company and Vancouver Island_; Mayne, _Four Years in British Columbia_; Baillie-Grohman, _Sport and Life in Western America and British Columbia_; Métin, _La Colombie Britannique; Indians of British Columbia_ (R. S. C., 1888); Langevin, _Report on British Columbia_. =British Law.= =Sy= Attempts to introduce after passage of Quebec Act, 65. =S= Introduced into Upper Canada, 85. =British Legion.= =Dr= Loyalists commanded by Tarleton, 202. =British Newspapers.= =Hd= Sympathy with rebels expressed in, 190. _See also_ Newspapers.