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Columbia Hist. 
1 n. the administrative district of the Hudson's Bay Company occupying approximately what are now Oregon, Washington, and southern British Columbia.
See also: Columbia Department
- 1824 (1931) The Climate of the Columbia is temperate regular and salubrious; on New Years Day I have seen at Fort George Pease, Carrots and Radishes in blossom and up to that Date we had neither Frost nor Snow.
2a n. before Confederation, the general area now designated as British Columbia, including New Caledonia.
- 1859 But not so long as that curious despotism exists in Columbia, or the de facto despotism exists here.
- 1872 Prince Edward Island, now that it shows a tendency to follow the example of Columbia, will, probably, be the subject of a supplementary competition
2b n. Rare British Columbia.
- 1922 The figures are indicative of the sums of money at the disposal of these aliens, and maybe the figures show incidentally why there is so much unemployment in Columbia by the Sea.
- 1824 (1931) The Climate of the Columbia is temperate regular and salubrious; on New Years Day I have seen at Fort George Pease, Carrots and Radishes in blossom and up to that Date we had neither Frost nor Snow.