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
University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) The University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus (commonly referred to as UBCO) is a campus of the University of British Columbia, located in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. It is home to close to 9,700 undergraduate and graduate students. The campus is the research and innovation hub in the southern interior of the province, in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. The current site of UBC Okanagan was originally used by Okanagan University College, which had been founded in 1989 (in principle) as a part of a plan by the government to improve access to post-secondary education