British Columbia of British Columbia, and Victoria became the united colony's capital. In 1871, British Columbia became the sixth province of Canada. Its Latin motto is "Splendor sine occasu" ("Splendour without Diminishment"). The capital of British Columbia remains Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Queen Victoria who ruled during the creation of the original colonies. The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second-largest in the Pacific Northwest. In October 2013, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4,606,371 (about 2.5 million of whom were in Greater Vancouver). The
The Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors systems in British Columbia by regulating and governing the practice of land surveying in the province." The ABCLS is governed by the "Land Surveyors Act", a Provincial statute which sets out the framework within which the Association and its members operate. The ABCLS is headquartered in Sidney, British Columbia. The profession of land surveying was not regulated in British Columbia until the late 1800s. Before 1891, the provincial government recognized a cadre of professional Surveyors - many of whom had been Royal Engineers In 1890, the Association of Provincial Land Surveyors was launched during a two-day long meeting held in