The British Columbia Terms of Union is an Order in Council of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. It forms part of the Constitution of Canada.[1]
British Columbia then joined the four-year-old Confederation and became the sixth province of Canada on July 20, 1871. The confederation agreement was based on terms of union negotiated in the Canadian capital of Ottawa between the Colony of British Columbia (on the west coast of North America, bordering the Pacific Ocean) and the new Dominion of Canada, extending its territory and reach continent-wide, coast to coast. The Terms of Union agreement document consists of 14 articles.