Excerpt from Wrigley's British Columbia Directory, 1918: In Four Main Sections, Year Book of British Columbia, a Compilation of the Wonderful Resources of British Columbia, Summarized From Official Sources; Gazetteer and Alphabetical Directory, Describing 2010 Cities, Towns, Villages, Settlements and Places Railway. For the election of the new coun cil, which for the first time in the history of the united colonies was preponderatingly representative in character, the colony was divided into eight electoral districts, con sisting of Victoria city, Victoria district, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Hope, Yale and Lytton, Lillooet and Clinton, and Cari boo and Kootenay. Of these, Victoria city returned two members. The election was held in November, and the council met in January, 1871. The chief work of the session was, of course, the ratification of the terms of union previously agreed upon. This done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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