Diocese of British Columbia Diocese of British Columbia The Diocese of British Columbia is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon of the Anglican Church of Canada. Despite the name, the diocese comprises only the 32,630 square kilometres of Vancouver Island and the adjacent Gulf Islands in the civil Province of British Columbia. Its see city is Victoria, and it presently maintains fifty-five parishes serving nearly 13,000 Anglicans. The diocese was established in 1859, and is the oldest in the ecclesiastical province, once extending over the entire civil province of British Columbia, hence the origin of its name. Its first
Avola, British Columbia Avola, British Columbia Avola is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. The community is located along British Columbia Highway 5, approximately 190 kilometres north of Kamloops and 148 kilometres south of the highway's northern terminus at Tête Jaune Cache. The community was originally established as Stillwater Flats. However, due to the existence of another Stillwater post office in the province, the new name Avola was selected when the community received its own post office in 1913. In 2015, the Nature Conservancy of Canada acquired 7.4 acres of wetland and forest