Because British Columbia was found, settled, and founded by the British.
No
It was a colony of England. It was part of a region called British North America until 1858, at which time Queen Victoria made it into a crown colony, and gave it the name British Columbia.
The former British East Africa colony is now Kenya.
The British Empire gave the name to British Columbia, back when it was a colony of theirs. They wanted to name the colony after the Columbia river, but were afraid if they just called it 'Columbia', people would confuse it with Colombia, which is in South America. So, they put 'British' in front of it.
tobaco
No it was not a British colony.
why the philippine become a british colony
Portugal was not a British colony.
zimbabawe
They did this so that is would benifit the British colony......
Weihai - British Colony - was created in 1898.
the first British colony in Singapore is......................................
The British Colony The British Colony
Weihai - British Colony - ended in 1930.
British colony
Yes. Ceylon was a British colony from 1814-1949.