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Vancouver Island Vancouver Hist. 
a crown colony established on Vancouver Island in 1850 and united with mainland British Columbia in 1866. Also Vancouver.
- 1835 [The island which forms the western boundary of the inlet, and on which Nootka is situated, is named Vancouver's or Quadra's Island.]
- 1853 Vancouver's Island, which is destined to become the England of the North Pacific, should be made another province, with the large gold-bearing island of Queen Charlotte attached to it as a dependency.
- 1862 It will be said that to govern Vancouver at Quebec will be impossible, from any of knowledge of affairs there, but same will apply in a lesser degree to the Red River.
- 1918 Thus it is that the little Colony of Vancouver Island, though it existed as such only for the short period of seventeen years, (1849-66), plays no inconsiderable part in the early history of Canada on the Pacific.
- 1958 That rivalry became hostility when Vancouver Island Colony's citizens, to rid themselves of a new and unpopular governor, clamored for union with British Columbia.
- 1835 [The island which forms the western boundary of the inlet, and on which Nootka is situated, is named Vancouver's or Quadra's Island.]