Category talk:Vancouver Island

Creation
Category created April 7, 2007. Please add any discussion re: inclusions or future subdivision ideas. Thx. --Keefer4 | Talk 07:07, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Subdivisions
Let's see....hmm, we usually hear "West Coast of Vancouver Island", "North Island", "South Island", "Mid-Island" also sometimes. Doesn't work great; Gold River is technically "West Coast of Vancouver Island" but part of "North Island"....I've already been pondering "Queen Charlotte Strait" as a region name because of Kwakwaka'wakw and Central Coast considerations which bridge the Island to the adjoining archipelago and chunks of the mainland. And Port Renfrew and Jordan River et al are "communities along the Strait of Juan de Fuca", and not "Western Communities". Similarly Saanich Peninsula and Malahat seem a bit small/too specific, and Cowichan Valley and Comox Valley are also micro-regions; at a parallel level I suppose might be Greater Nanaimo, but "Mid-Island" maybe more comfortably includes Ladysmith, Chemainus and Parksville, no? The reason I'm pondering this right now is because Bear Mountain (resort) is in the CRD cat and Vancouver Island cats, theoretically redundant unless there's a non-RD cat like South Island or maybe a Malahat or Western Communities one it could be put in. "South Island" is problematic because some people will see it purely geographically, with Bamfield and Clo-oose in the designation when they're really "West Coast". Ideally West Coast would break up into "Juan de Fuca", "Barkley Sound", "Clayoquot Sound" as regions, which is what they really are if there were enough articles (yet) in each, ..."Nootka Sound", "Kyuquot Sound" and "Quatsino Sound" are all "North Island" or perhaps they would have both parents? I'm also going to try to source the term Gulf of Georgia (not as a redirect to the Strait, which is what's there currently but is inaccurate) as it is often used to include the Vancouver island littoral; e.g. "weather around the Gulf today will be..." means not just the Gulf Islands Nanoose, Chemainus, Parksville, Qualicum etc as well as the Sunshine Coast....even news/promo items about Bear Mountain mention the Gulf of Georgia (as part of teh view). It's hard with teh Island, huh? Because of the tinines and also looseness of the traditional regions, e.g. the Comox, Cowichan and Alberni Valleys, or the Peninsula or the Tofino-Ucluelet microcosm of "West Coast"; if we subdivide the Island to regions I'd say we neeed a map/directory; the overlapping/intersecting "Countries" of the Interior and North are a piece of cake by comparison.Skookum1 (talk) 15:27, 27 March 2008 (UTC)