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Facts About British Columbia From a 1980s Profile
The text outlines British Columbia as Canada’s third largest province, created from Vancouver Island and the mainland, with a population of about 1.2 million workers and 40 percent unionized. It notes public schooling from kindergarten to Grade 12, compulsory attendance 7 to 15, vast forest resources, timber exports, forestry employment, minerals value above 3.4 billion in 1987, 380 provincial parks, and dairy farming as the leading agriculture. Salmon is the premier fish, with over 20 valued species, and fish farming worth 6 million in 1986, expected to rise by 1990.
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