BC150 is the name given by the government of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, to a programme of events and celebrations that were held in 2008.
[1] A government hosted website — www.BC150.ca — was launched on January 31, 2008,[2] but discontinued about April 2009.
[3] The colony founded in 1858 consisted of the Hudson's Bay Company's territory of New Caledonia, which covered most of the mainland of today's province of British Columbia.
The three colonies were intertwined from their beginnings, as it was the Governor of the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island, Sir James Douglas, who urged Britain to create the mainland colony in 1858 and was then named its first governor who unilaterally declared the mainland colony to prevent American takeover, forcing London's hand in formalizing British possession of the mainland.
From the creation of the mainland colony in 1858 until his retirement in 1864, he administered both from Victoria.