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
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