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New Westminster, British Columbia
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New Westminster
New Westminster
is a historically important
city
in the
Lower Mainland
region of
British Columbia
,
Canada
, and is a member municipality of the
Greater Vancouver Regional District
. It was founded as the capital of the new-born
Colony of British Columbia
in 1858, and continued in that role until the Mainland and Island Colonies were
merged in 1866
, and was the Mainland's largest city from that year until it was passed in population by
Vancouver
during the first decade of the 20th Century.
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