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British Columbia provincial highway 19A British Columbia provincial highway 19A, known locally as the Oceanside Route or the Old Island Highway, is composed of the original 1953 alignments of Highway 19 within Nanaimo and between Craig's Crossing and Campbell River. The section of highway 19A between Craig's Crossing and Campbell River is 123 km long, and the Nanaimo alignment covers 12 km.
British Columbia provincial highway 1A There are many roads in the southwestern part of British Columbia that are designated as British Columbia provincial highway 1A. These roads are sections of the original 1941 route of Highway 1 before its various re-alignments, and are used today as service routes and frontage roads.
British Columbia provincial highway 20 Highway 20, also known as the Alexander MacKenzie highway, is the main East-West road in the southern interior of British Columbia. It runs 457 km from Williams Lake westward through the Chilcotin region to the Pacific Ocean at Bella Coola.
British Columbia provincial highway 21 British Columbia provincial highway 21 is a cross-border spur in the Kootenay region of the province. First opened in 1964, the highway travels 14 km northwest along the Kootenai River (not to be confused with the Kootenay River, which is further east), from its connection with Idaho State Highway 1 at the Rykerts Canada-U.
British Columbia provincial highway 22A British Columbia provincial highway 22A is a cross-border spur in the Okanagan region of the province. The highway was opened in 1967, and its number is derived from the decommissioned Washington State Route 251, with which the highway connects at the Canada-U.
British Columbia provincial highway 23 British Columbia provincial highway 23 is a north-south highway that straddles the Trans-Canada Highway in the province's high country region. Its section north of Revelstoke is the western part of the original routing of Highway 1 along the Columbia River prior to its re-alignment through Rogers Pass, and it is the main access to the Mica Dam facility on Kinbasket Lake, which is actually a reservoir of Mica Dam.
British Columbia provincial highway 24 British Columbia provincial highway 24, the Little Fort Highway or the Interlakes highway, is a 97 km-long east-west connection between the Cariboo Highway, just south of 100 Mile House, and the Southern Yellowhead Highway at Little Fort. It practically provides a "second-chance" route to travellers heading east from Vancouver who believe they chose the wrong route to the northern part of the province or toward Edmonton.
British Columbia provincial highway 27 British Columbia provincial highway 27, the Stuart Lake Highway, is a 53 km-long spur of the Yellowhead Highway in the north central part of the province. First opened in 1967, it provides a connection from Vanderhoof, on Highway 16, north to Fort St.
British Columbia provincial highway 28 British Columbia provincial highway 28 is an east-west highway on the northern part of Vancouver Island. It is the main link to the remote logging communities of Gold River and Tahsis, on the northwest coast of the Island.
British Columbia provincial highway 29 British Columbia provincial highway 29, known locally as Don Philips Way, is a shortcut route from the John Hart Highway to the Alaska Highway. It is also the main access to the coal mining community of Tumbler Ridge, as well as the W.
British Columbia provincial highway 30 British Columbia provincial highway 30, also known as Port Alice Highway, is a short north-south route connecting Port Alice with British Columbia provincial highway 19 between Port Hardy and Port McNeill on northern Vancouver Island.
British Columbia provincial highway 31 British Columbia provincial highway 31 is a slightly minor north-south highway through the Selkirk Mountains. The highway first gained its number in 1973, and it is one of the few numbered highways in the province that is not fully paved.
British Columbia provincial highway 33 British Columbia provincial highway 33 is a minor two-lane highway in the Okanagan region of the province. Highway 33, which is 129 km long, connects Rock Creek, on the Crowsnest Highway, north to Kelowna, on the Okanagan Highway, partially following the West Kettle River.
British Columbia provincial highway 35 British Columbia provincial highway 35, the North Francois Highway, is a 23 km-long minor spur of the Yellowhead Highway. First opened in 1973, Highway 35 provides a connection from the Yellowhead at the community of Burns Lake, south to Francois Lake, where a ferry connects the highway to the hamlet of Southbank.
British Columbia provincial highway 39 British Columbia provincial highway 39 is a very minor 29 km-long spur from the John Hart Highway northwest to the town of Mackenzie, on the shore of the southern arm of Williston Lake. Highway 39 and the town of Mackenzie were both built in the 1960s as a measure of support for workers on the construction project of the W.
British Columbia provincial highway 3B British Columbia provincial highway 3B, opened in 1967, is an alternate loop to the Crowsnest Highway between Nancy Greene Lake and an area called Meadows, just west of Erie on the Crowsnest. Originally, Highway 3B went between Nancy Greene Lake to Trail, where the Crowsnest picked up the route to the Meadows area.
British Columbia provincial highway 4 British Columbia provincial highway 4, known locally as the Alberni Highway and the Pacific Rim Highway, is the longest east-west main vehicle route on Vancouver Island, with a total length of 163 km. The highway to Port Alberni was completed in 1942, and has been designated as Highway 4 since 1953.
British Columbia provincial highway 5 Highway 5, also known as Route 5 and the Southern Yellowhead Highway, is a north-south route in the southern part of British Columbia, Canada. It is a part of the Trans-Canada Highway system, connecting the southern Trans-Canada route, Highway 1, with Highway 16 to the north, essentially providing the shortest land connection between Vancouver and Edmonton, Alberta.
British Columbia provincial highway 5A British Columbia provincial highway 5A, the Princeton-Kamloops Highway, is Highway 5's pre-1986 alignment south of Kamloops. Unlike the four-lane Highway 5 freeway, the 182 km-long Highway 5A is only two lanes.
British Columbia provincial highway 6 British Columbia provincial highway 6 is a two-lane east-west highway passing between the Kootenay and Okanagan regions. It is divided into two parts—the Nelson-Nelway Highway to the south, and the Vernon-Slocan Highway to the north.
British Columbia provincial highway 7 British Columbia provincial highway 7, known as the Lougheed Highway, is an alternative route to Highway 1 through the Lower Mainland. Whereas the four-lane Highway 1 follows the southern bank of the Fraser River, Highway 7, which is two lanes, follows the northern bank.
British Columbia provincial highway 7A British Columbia provincial highway 7A, known locally as the Barnet Highway, is Highway 7's original 1941 route between the harbour in Vancouver and Port Moody. The highway gained the '7A' designation in 1953.
British Columbia provincial highway 7B British Columbia provincial highway 7B, the Mary Hill Bypass, is a 9 km-long riverside east-west link between the cities of Coquitlam to the west and Port Coquitlam to the east. The Mary Hill Bypass gained its '7B' designation in 1996, when it was widened from two to four lanes.
British Columbia provincial highway 8 British Columbia provincial highway 8, known as the Nicola Highway, is an alternate route to Highway 97C between Highway 1 and the Coquihalla Highway. Highway 8 was first commissioned in 1953, and very little about the highway has changed since that year.
British Columbia provincial highway 9 British Columbia provincial highway 9, the Agassiz Highway, is a north-south route in the eastern part of the Fraser Valley. It acts as the last connection between Highways 1 and 7 eastbound before Hope, and is the main access to the resort village of Harrison Hot Springs.
British Columbia provincial highway 91 British Columbia provincial highway 91 is an alternative freeway route to Highway 99 through Delta, New Westminster and Richmond. The highway was built in two sections, the first section from Delta to East Richmond in 1986, and the second section across Richmond in 1989.
British Columbia provincial highway 91A British Columbia provincial highway 91A, known locally as the Queensborough Connector, is a 3 km-long spur off of Highway 91 into New Westminster. Residents of New Westminster can use Highway 91A as a convenient route towards the Canada/U.
British Columbia provincial highway 97C British Columbia provincial highway 97C, the Okanagan Connector or Coquihalla Connector, forms part of an important link between the Lower Mainland and the Okanagan valley around Kelowna. It bisects the Coquihalla Highway at Merritt.
British Columbia Parents and Teachers for Life British Columbia Parents and Teachers for Life (BCPTL) is a pro-life (anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia) group of parents, teachers, and other residents and former residents of British Columbia who have a common interest in the education of youth. The group seeks, in its own words "to promote a positive attitude towards human life and to have schools support universally applicable principles of morality.
British Columbia Pipers Association The British Columbia Pipers Association is a non-profit organization which sanctions all major bagpipe competitions in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. It frequently partners with Scottish heritage groups and athletic organizations to organize Highland Games in these three states.
British Columbia Provincial Police The British Columbia Provincial Police were the policing body for the Canadian province of British Columbia until 1950. Usually dated from the appointment of Chartres Brew as Chief Constable of the province and Chief Inspector of Police for the new mainland colony in 1858.
British Columbia Reform Party leadership elections This page covers the results of leadership elections in the British Columbia Reform Party, a political party in British Columbia, Canada. The 1995 election occurred by mail-in balloting, using a preferential voting method.
British Columbia Social Credit Party The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election. For three decades, the party dominated the British Columbian political scene, with the only break occurring between the 1972 and 1975 elections when the New Democratic Party of British Columbia was in power.
British Columbia Social Credit Party leadership conventions The British Columbia Social Credit Party, a conservative political party in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, did not hold any leadership conventions until 1973. The provincial Social Credit movement was divided in its early years, and did not have a functional leadership before forming a minority government in 1952.
British Columbia Southern Interior British Columbia Southern Interior (formerly known as Southern Interior) is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.
British Columbia Unity Party The British Columbia Unity Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party was founded as an attempted union of five conservative parties: the Reform Party of British Columbia, the British Columbia Social Credit Party, the British Columbia Conservative Party, the British Columbia Party, and the Family Coalition Party of British Columbia.
British Columbia University Act The British Columbia University Act was enacted by the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to establish degree-granting universities in British Columbia, Canada. The first University Act was passed in 1890; however, the university established under this statute did not succeed.
British Columbia Utilities Commission The British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) is an agency of the government of the Province of British Columbia responsible for regulating rates and standards of service quality of various energy utilities and of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), a crown corporation responsible for insuring vehicles and operators in the province.
British Columbia Youth Parliament The British Columbia Youth Parliament (BCYP) is a youth service organization that operates in the guise of a "parliament" in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The BCYP fulfills its motto of "Youth Serving Youth" by means of "legislation" enacting community service projects and other youth-oriented activities.
British Comedy Awards The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year. The awards began in 1990, and are shown live on ITV1, in December.
British Commandos The British Commandos were first formed by the Army in June 1940 during World War II as a well-armed but unregimented raider force employing unconventional and irregular tactics to assault, disrupt and reconnoitre the enemy in mainland Europe and Scandinavia.
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, also known as the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Empire Air Training Scheme, Empire Air Training Plan, Joint Air Training Scheme or more often simply "The Plan" or "The Scheme" was a massive air-training program involving Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia during the Second World War. It remains the single largest aviation training program in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers of the Commonwealth air forces during the Second World War.
British Commonwealth Forces Korea British Commonwealth Forces Korea (BCFK) was the formal name, from 1952, of the Commonwealth army, naval and air units serving with the United Nations in the Korean War. Australian, British, Canadian, Indian and New Zealand units were part of BCFK.
British Commonwealth Occupation Force The British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF), was the name of the joint Australian, British, Indian and New Zealand military forces in occupied Japan, from February 21, 1946 until the end of occupation in 1952. At its peak, BCOF comprised about 40,000 personnel, equal to about 25% of the total US military personnel in Japan.
British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines or BCPA, was registered in New South Wales, Australia in June 1946 with headquarters in Sydney. It was formed by the governments of Australia (50%), New Zealand (30%) and the UK (20%) to pursue trans-Pacific flights.
British Computer Society Young Professionals Group The British Computer Society Young Professionals Group (YPG) was formed in 1986 to provide representation and support to younger members of the IT profession. Today the group is one of the largest young professionals groups in the UK, with over 15,000 members.
British County Divisions The County Divisions of World War II were raised by the British Army in the dangerous days of 1941. They were static formations which were supposed to command the Independent Infantry Brigades (Home)which were on anti-invasion duties.
British Crime Survey The British Crime Survey or BCS is a systematic victim study, currently carried out by BMRB Social Research on behalf of the Home Office. The BCS seeks to measure the amount of crime in England and Wales by asking around 50,000 people aged 16 and over, living in private households, about the crimes they have experienced in the last year.
British Currency School The British Currency School was group of British economists active in the 1840s and 1850s who argued that excessive issue of banknotes was a major cause of price inflation, and believed that, in order to restrict circulation, issuers of new banknotes should be required to hold an equivalent value of gold as a reserve. In these beliefs they were supporting the provisions of the 1844 Bank Charter Act, which had been passed by the Conservative government of Robert Peel.
British degree abbreviations Degree abbreviations are used as an alternative way to specify an academic degree instead of spelling out the title in full, such as in reference books like Who's Who and on business cards. Many degrees have more than one abbreviation.
British diplomatic missions The United Kingdom has a large but streamlined network of diplomatic missions around the world. British diplomatic missions to other capitals of other Commonwealth countries are known as High Commissions (headed by High Commissioners). For some Commonwealth countries the Foreign and Commonwealth Office still uses the term 'Deputy High Commission' for Consulate-Generals (headed by Deputy High Commissioners}, although this terminology is being phased outbelow are Britain's diplomatic missions abroad, excluding honorary consulates.
British Dardanelles Army The British Dardanelles Army was formed in late 1916 and comprised the three army corps operating at Gallipoli. It was created as a result of the reorganisation of headquarters when the second Mediterranean front opened at Salonika.
British Democratic Party The British Democratic Party was a short-lived far-right political party in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1979 when the Leicester branch of the National Front broke away from the main party under the leadership of Anthony Reed Herbert.
British Dental Association The British Dental Association (BDA) is a professional association and trade union representing dentists in the United Kingdom with over 21,000 members and 3,500 student members. It is based in the Marylebone district of central London.
British Dietetic Association The British Dietetic Association (BDA) is a professional association and trade union for dieticians in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1936 and is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Scottish Trades Union Congress.
British Doctors Study The British doctors study is the generally accepted name of a prospective clinical trial which has been running from 1951 to 2001, and in 1956 provided convincing statistical proof that tobacco smoking increased the risk of lung cancer.
British Dragonfly Society The British Dragonfly Society is a conservation organization in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1983 and its aims are to promote and to encourage the study and conservation of dragonflies and damselflies and their natural habitats, especially in the United Kingdom.
British expedition to Tibet The British expedition to Tibet in 1903 and 1904 was actually an armed invasion of Tibet by British and Indian forces, seeking to prevent the Russian Empire from interfering in Tibetan affairs and thus gaining a foothold in one of the buffer states surrounding British India, under similar reasoning which had led British forces into Afghanistan twenty years before. Whilst British forces were remarkably successful in achieving their aims militarily, politically the invasion was very unpopular back in Britain, where it was virtually disowned post-war.
British East Africa British East Africa was an area of East Africa controlled by the British in the late 19th century, which became a protectorate covering roughly the area of present-day Kenya. It grew out of British commercial interests in the area in the 1880s and lasted until 1920, when it became the colony of Kenya.
British East India Company The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company", was one of the first joint-stock companies (preceded only by the Dutch East India Company). It was granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31 1599, with the intention of favouring trade privileges in India.
British Edward VIII postage stamps During the short reign of Edward VIII just one set of four definitive postage stamps was issued, between 20 January and 10 December 1936. They were in a clean, modern style, and were watermarked with a crown and "E8R".
British Electric Vehicles British Electric Vehicles of Southport, Lancashire, built industrial vehicles including both small electrically motorised trolleys for carrying raw materials and products around factories and electric locomotives desirable for use underground and in flamable environments.
British Electricity Authority The British Electricity Authority (BEA) was established in 1948 with the nationalisation of the UK's electricity supply industry, as a result of the Electricity Act 1947. The BEA took over the operations of over 600 small power companies to form 14 area boards.
British Emperor The characterisation British Emperor (or: British Empress), that is: being British and also being Emperor/Empress can only be applied to very few people, as Britain's monarchs are indicated as king or queen (latin: rex/regina) in almost all cases.
British Empire The British Empire was the most extensive empire in world history and for a substantial time was the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery, which began with the maritime explorations of the 15th century, that sparked the era of the European colonial empires.
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum is a museum in Bristol, United Kingdom which explores the history of the British Empire and the effect that British colonial rule had on the rest of the world. The museum opened in 2002 in Bristol's historic old railway station, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
British Empire Exhibition postage stamps Two postage stamps were issued to commemorate the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 - a halfpenny red and a three halfpenny brown. They were issued again the following year with "1925" replacing "1924".
British Empire Medal The British Empire Medal (Medal of the Order of the British Empire for Meritorious Service) is a British medal awarded for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the crown. While recipients are not technically members of the Order of the British Empire this honour is nevertheless affiliated with it.
British Empire Range The British Empire Range () is a mountain range on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The range is one of the most northern ranges in the world, surpassed only by the United States Range which lies immediately to the east.
British Empire Union The British Empire Union was created in the United Kingdom during World War I, in 1916, after changing its name from the Anti-German Union, which had been founded in 1915. Sir George Makgill was the BEU's Honorary Secretary and Lord Edward Illiffe was its treasurer.
British English British English (BrE) is a term used to distinguish the form of the English language used in the British Isles from forms used elsewhere. It includes all the varieties of English used within the Isles, including those found in England, Scotland, Wales, and the island of Ireland.
British European Airways Flight 548 On June 18, 1972, British European Airways Flight 548 (callsign BEALINE 548), a Hawker-Siddeley Trident 1C operated by British European Airways (BEA), crashed two minutes after takeoff from Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 passengers and crew on board. The crash occurred close to the town of Staines, near London, United Kingdom, and was the worst air accident to have occurred on British soil until the Lockerbie disaster of 1988.
British Eventing British Eventing (BE), formally known as the British Horse Trials Association (BHTA), is the UK's governing body for the sport of eventing. The organisation changed its name at the start of 2001, as the term 'horse trials' was gradually being replaced across the globe.
British Expedition to Ceylon In 1803 British forces attacked inland on Ceylon, taking Kandy in February 1803 but then losing it to counterattacking Sinhalese forces in June 1803. In 1804 British forces on Ceylon again took Kandy but were forced to evacuate the city later same year.
British Expeditionary Force The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British army sent to France and Belgium in World War I and British Forces in Europe from 1939–1940 during World War II. The BEF was established by Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane following the Second Boer War in case the United Kingdom ever needed to deploy quickly a force to take part in an overseas war.
British farthing coin A farthing (meaning fourth part) was a British coin worth one quarter of a penny. Such coins were first minted in England in the 13th century, and continued to be used until 31 December 1960, when they ceased to be legal tender.
British five pence coin The British decimal five pence (5p) coin – often pronounced "five pee" – was first issued in 1968 in preparation for the 1971 decimalisation of the currency. At that time it had the same value, size and weight as the existing shilling, and it may be viewed as a continuation of the older coin.
British flat racing Champion Apprentice The Champion Apprentice of flat racing in Great Britain is the apprentice jockey who has ridden the most winning horses during a season. The list below shows the Champion Apprentice and the number of winners for each year since 1922.
British flat racing Champion Jockey The Champion Jockey of flat racing in Great Britain is the jockey who has ridden the most winning horses during a season. The list below shows the Champion Jockey and the number of winners for each year since 1840.
British Fantasy Award The British Fantasy Awards are administered annually by the British Fantasy Society and were first awarded in 1971. The membership of the BFS vote to determine recommendations, short-lists and winners of the awards.
British Fantasy Society The British Fantasy Society (BFS) began in 1971 as the British Weird Fantasy Society, an offshoot of the British Science Fiction Association. The society is dedicated to promoting the best in the fantasy and horror genres.
British Fashion Awards The British Fashion Awards is a ceremony held annually in the United Kingdom to present awards to those who have made the most outstanding contributions to British clothing design during the year. The awards include that of British Designer of the Year, as well as awards to the 'most-fashionable' celebrities in various fields.
British Film Institute list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14 The 50 films you should see by the age of 14 is a list created by the British Film Institute in 2005 in order to to inspire parents and educators to take movies as seriously as books and other kinds of art. It was created by more than 70 experts including film producers, teachers, authors and critics that all made their own top ten.
British Football League The British Football League is a proposed association football league in the United Kingdom that would incorporate clubs from across the Home Nations. Its creation would involve the merger of the Scottish, the Welsh, and possibly the Northern Irish football league systems into the larger English football league system.
British Forces Broadcasting Service The British Forces Broadcasting Service was established by the British War Office (now the Ministry of Defence) in 1943. Today it provides radio and television programmes for HM Forces, and their dependents, in Germany, Gibraltar, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Belize, Brunei, Northern Ireland, Canada, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Middle East as well as a live satellite service to Royal Navy ships at sea.
British Forces Cyprus British Forces Cyprus is the name given to the British armed forces stationed in the UK sovereign base areas of Dhekelia and Akrotiri on the island of Cyprus. The United Kingdom retains a military presence on the island in order to keep a strategic location at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, for use as a staging point for forces sent to locations in the Middle East and Asia.
British Forces Germany The British Forces Germany (BFG) is the successor of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) and Royal Air Force Germany (RAFG), which were disbanded in 1994 after the end of the Cold War. The BFG is concentrated in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
British Forces Gibraltar British Forces Gibraltar is the name given to the British Armed Forces stationed in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. Gibraltar is utilised primarily as a training area, thanks to its good climate and rocky terrain, and as a stopover for units and ships en route to and from deployments.
British Forces Post Office The British Forces Post Office (BFPO) is an agency that provides a postal service to HM Forces, separate from that provided by Royal Mail in the United Kingdom. BFPO addresses are used for the delivery of mail in the UK and around the world.
British Free Corps In World War II, the British Free Corps (BFC) or Britisches Freikorps was a unit of the Waffen-SS consisting of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by the Nazis. Adrian Weale's research has identified about 59 men who belonged to this unit at one time or another, some for only a few days, and at no time did it reach more than 27 men in strength — smaller than a contemporary German platoon.
British general election, 1707 The British general election, 1707 was not an election as such, but the co-option of members of former Parliaments to serve in the House of Commons of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1708 The British general election, 1708 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 2nd Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1710 The British general election, 1710 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 3rd Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1713 The British general election, 1713 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 4th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1715 The British general election, 1715 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 5th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1722 The British general election, 1722 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 6th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1727 The British general election, 1727 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1734 The British general election, 1734 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1741 The British general election, 1741 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.
British general election, 1747 The British general election, 1747 returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.

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