- Province of British Columbia Land Area, 226,186,240 acres; Water Area, 1,560,960 acres; Total Area, 227,747,200 acres. Population—1881, 60,000; 1891, 98,173; 1901, 178,657; 1911, 392,480 ; 1920, 555,536; 1921 (Dominion Census), 524,582; 1924, 400,863. Entered Confederation 20th July, 1871. Seat of Government, Victoria. Lieutenant-Governor—Honourable Walter Cameron Nichol. Private Secretary—H. J. S. Muskett. Lieutenant-Governors Since Confederation Sir Joseph J. W. Trutch, K.C.M.G., July 3, 1871. Hon. Albert Norton Richards, K.C., June 27, 1876. Clement Francis Cornwall, June 4, 1881. Hugh Nelson, February 8, 1887. Hon. Edgar Dewdney, October 17, 1892. Thomas Robert McInnes, M.D., November 18, 1897. Sir Henri Joly de Lotbiniere, K.C.M.G., June 21, 1900. James Dunsmuir, May 11, 1906. Thomas William Paterson, December 3, 1909. Sir Frank Stillman Barnard, December 5, 1914. Hon. Edward Gawler Prior, December 9, 1919. Walter Cameron Nichol, December 24, 1920. Executive Council Premier and President of Executive Council—The Honourable John Oliver. Provincial Secretary—The Hon. Wm. Sloan (acting). Minister of Finance, Education and Industries—The Hon. John Duncan McLean, C.M. Attorney-General and Minister of Labor—The Hon. Alex Malcolm Manson, K.C. Minister of Public Works and Railways—The Hon. William Henry Sutherland, M.D., C.M. Minister of Lands—The Hon. Thos. Dufferin Pattullo. Minister of Agriculture—The Hon. Edward Dodsley Barrow. Minister of Mines and Commissioner of Fisheries—The Hon. William Sloan.