British Columbia British Columbia British Columbia (BC; ) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 4.817 million , it is Canada's third-most populous province. The first British settlement in the area was Fort Victoria, established in 1843, which gave rise to the City of Victoria, at first the capital of the separate Colony of Vancouver Island. Subsequently, on the mainland, the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866) was founded by Richard Clement Moody and the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Moody was Chief
British Columbia Lottery Corporation Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) was incorporated under what was then the provincial "Company Act," and which has been subsequently replaced by the "Business Corporations Act". While incorporated under the same law as any other corporate entity in the Canadian province of British Columbia, it is without share capital and has only one shareholder. That shareholder is the province of British Columbia. This ownership structure makes BCLC what is known as, in Canada parlance, a "Crown corporation". To understand BCLC's corporate structure one must also refer to the provincial "Gaming Control Act" (GCA). The GCA stipulates that despite being incorporated under