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Descriptor English: British Columbia
Descriptor Spanish: Colombia Británica
Descriptor Columbia Británica
Scope note: Provincia de Canadá situada en la costa del Pacífico. Su capital es Victoria. El nombre que le fue dado en 1858 se deriva del Río Columbia, que a su vez fue denominado por el capitán estadounidense Robert Gray en honor a su barco Columbia, que a su vez recibió ese nombre por Colón. (Traducción libre del original: Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p. 178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p. 81-82)
Descriptor Portuguese: Colúmbia Britânica
Descriptor French: Colombie-Britannique
Tree number(s): Z01.107.567.176.160
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001955
Scope note: A province of Canada on the Pacific coast. Its capital is Victoria. The name given in 1858 derives from the Columbia River which was named by the American captain Robert Gray for his ship Columbia which in turn was named for Columbus. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p81-2)
Annotation: a province of Canada on the Pacific coast
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
DeCS ID: 1981
Unique ID: D001955
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1995/02/17
British Columbia - Preferred
Concept UI M0002924
Scope note A province of Canada on the Pacific coast. Its capital is Victoria. The name given in 1858 derives from the Columbia River which was named by the American captain Robert Gray for his ship Columbia which in turn was named for Columbus. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p81-2)
Preferred term British Columbia



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