Vancouver Island was a Crown Colony before it joined Brithish Columbia just after confederation. Both the island and the city are named after Captain George Vancouver. Not to be confused with Vancouver Washington as some young lady did with a live hand grenade in her car a few years back as she tried to cross the border into Canada.
Vancouver Island is definately an island so your picture or map must not have been that high a resolution, there are a number of smaller islands between Vancouver Island and the mainland so that may have made it look like one big piece of the mainland.
Victoria is the capital city of BC. Hope this helps.
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History & Geography Lesson 102:
Through a Constitutional amendment on December 6th, 2001 Newfoundland was officially renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
The southern most tip of NL is 46.6 degrees. So it too is further south than the 49th parallel.
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