British Columbia Is Sitting On One of the Most Valuable Land In History

British Columbia may be the most valuable ground in Canada. Most of it was never covered by a historic treaty.

About $1 billion in trade moves through the Port of Vancouver every day. One valley in the southeast supplies coal for steel mills across Asia. Gold in the northwest grades higher than most mines on Earth. And in 1858, a gold rush pushed Britain to turn the mainland into a colony before it slipped away.

These are 15 facts about what this land is really worth, and who still has a claim to it.