Talk:Geography of British Columbia

Structure of the article
Subtopics to be included, (see Geography of Alberta)
 * Terrain
 * Mountains
 * Water
 * Climate

maybe a geospatial map like Image:Map of Quebec (English).png from Geography of Quebec?

--feydey 11:23, 2 November 2005 (UTC)


 * The Alberta and Quebec examples look limited. Even the Feature Article Geography of India is not going to win any comprehensiveness awards. Maybe I'm too ambitious but I propose the following structure:
 * Physical geography
 * Terrain
 * Mountains
 * Water
 * Bioclimatic geography
 * Ecodomains, ecodivisions and ecoprovinces
 * ecoregions and ecosections
 * Human geogarphy
 * Population
 * Migration
 * Urban
 * Rural
 * Economic geography
 * Resource extraction
 * Exporting and importing
 * Tourism and recreation
 * Political geography
 * Municipalities
 * Regional districts
 * Federal and provincial politics

I'm not confident about Manufacturing and Service as separate sections because they seem too limited. I also not confident about lumping Ecosystems into Physical Geography, because Ecosystems will be (by far) the largest section and this can probably be linked with climate a lot better in a separate Bioclimatic Geography section. --maclean25 04:39, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Provincial Politics
Added a minor edit: The BC Social Credit Party dominated politics in the province for much of "the latter part of" the twentieth century. They were not a player at all until 1952. -- Fishhead64 09:14, 07 Dec 05

Issue with caption of Atlin Lake satphoto
The photo illustrates well the narrowness of lakes in B.C.. Uh, Atlin Lake isn't very "narrow" at all; it's one of the widest natural lakes in the province - much wider than Harrison or Chilko, for example 8km wide vs. 5.5km wide ea.. I think the better term might be "elongated", maybe, or something less limiting in terms of actual width; "fjord-like" is what I've used in certain lake descriptions elsewhere (Chilko, Seton, a few others), and what they nearly all are, really, is freshwater fjords (Atlin, Babine, Morice, Takla, Quesnel, Chilko/Taseko/Tatlayoko, Okanagan, Kootenay, Shuswap, and all the restSkookum1 09:00, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I think "fjord-like" and "elongated" both sound better than narrowness, pick one and fix the caption? feydey 10:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Fraser tributaries
The Stuart is a tributary of the Nechako, not the Fraser; and if it's included then so should be the Bulkley. See Fraser River for hierarchy-tree of tribs from Yellowhead Pass downstream; and tribs of tribs. The McGregor River should be in here, and the Raush and Milk and Willow and Cottonwood, even if no one in the lower part of the province has heard of them.Skookum1 04:36, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Everyone should use list of British Columbia rivers as their guide. Although it is still incomplete, it is my Bible.  As well it should be - I completed a good deal of it!!  As, apparently, did you! :) Fishhead64 06:03, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I believe the table contains only British Columbia's principal rivers and as such doesn't reflect the full "hierarchy-tree of tribs" since the table would be then huge. The source is Statistics Canada and I am not saying they know everything, so if You have suggestions... feydey 03:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Population
The 2001 census definitley pegged vancouver with a population of over 2 million, where were the statistics in the table obtained from?


 * From Statistics Canada - I believe you are thinking of the "Metro Area" population. There are three numbers, each relevant in different circumstances:


 * a) Municipality: City of Vancouver has a population (2001) of 545,671.
 * b) Urban Area: Vancouver has a population (2001) of 1,829,854.
 * c) Metro Area: Vancouver has a population (2001) of 1,986,965.


 * "Urban Areas" are areas of continuous poplation density, while "Metro Areas" are defined by commuter populations. So, for instance "White Rock" is a separate Urban Area, because of the gap between the developed area of Surrey and the developed area of White Rock/South Surrey.  However, it's a part of the Metro Area of Vancouver, because of the major commuter flow between White Rock and Vancouver.  The table lists Urban Areas.  That's why it might be slightly smaller than other numbers you've seen. AshleyMorton 13:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Biogeoclimatic zones
Hi everyone, I noticed that while the Ecoregions of BC are sourced they don't actually meet the standard biogeoclimatic zones of BC as used by the government of BC or most researchers and industry people in the province. The BEC system is pretty unique to BC and is very well laid out. Would anyone be upset if I re-did this section and possibly moved it to its own page? Stealth cat 15:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Probably a good idea as it will, when complete, be fairly lengthy in its own right. But just to note that there are several geographic classification systems for BC; the ecoregions as you note are different from the biogeoclimatic zones (I used to have the provincially-published map of them; beautiful, huh?), and there's also Holland's classification by landform (used for the mountain range and plateau systems in the Category:Mountain ranges of British Columbia and also the traditional "country" divisions (see Category:Interior of British Columbia for starters on that) and still others, e.g. geological classifications like the volcanic systems that User:Black Tusk works so assiduously on.  As per the discussion on Talk:Lower Mainland there's further nomenclatural/classification systems, largely derived from either the RD system, the LD system, or any number of government ministries and agencies, e.g. MoE regional boundaries are different from MoF or Health Boards or whatever else.  An overlapping jigsaw, and too changeable for use as a category system (the "countries" system isn't, which is why I preferred it and launched those categories).  Geological regions of British Columbia might also be a good article, if someone has the wherewithal and knowledge to write it, as also with your Biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia and Ecoregions of British Columbia and so on.Skookum1 17:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Political geography section
Don't quite know where to start, but here's the intro as it is at the moment:
 * ''British Columbia is divided into defined regions for three political purposes. One is for the purpose of providing local government services. This involves municipalities, which are incorporated areas, and regional districts, which are federations of member municipalities and rural areas. Another purpose is for the provision of provincial services. The provincial government has dividing certain services into regional services, such as health authorities and agricultural commissions, which administer specified regions according to their own policies. The province is also divided to provide electoral districts by Elections BC for provincial elections and Elections Canada for federal elections. In addition to these, Indian Reserves have been established throughout the province but are administered by the federal government.

That opening line should be "into defined regions for a wide variety of political purposes", as there's no way that forests policy and environment policy and health policy and so on are not "political purposes". The primary geographic zones of the province are reflected in the Ministry of Environment Regions, governance of forests is divided similarly, but with a different map/regions reflecting the province's primary economic structure/nodes, with tourism regions that again mirror certain economic and geographic pattersn; all are very real and are at least as important in political life and daily administration fo the province as regional and electoral districts; in fact, I daresay far moreso, especially as concerns British Columbia Inistry of Forests Regions. BC does not have "three" kinds of political subdivisions, but a multi-layered cake of them. I'll try and come up with a brief precis of the different region systems and provice cites/links to them; I think there's too much emphasis on regional districts in Wikipedia as it is, they're only bit players in the BC poiltical/geographic reality.Skookum1 (talk) 20:46, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Hours of sunshine in Interior valleys
On the climate section, it's stated that the valleys of the Southern Interior get a lot of cloud and fog and that total hours of sunshine are less than the Coast; this may be true of the Kamloops and Okanagan and other areas, but as I recall Lillooet and Lytton get considerably more sunshine...on satellite weather maps, you'll often notice a slip of clear sky in Interior cloud cover, stretching north from Boston Bar, which is due to the extreme rainshadow effect of the Lillooet Ranges; typically Lillooet will have clear weather when Hat Creek and Cache Creek do not, for example.....hours of sunshine and number of sunny days I was hoping to find in the climate table here, for comparison to the Okanagan and Kamloops pages, but so far this is just temp/precipitation. Anyone care to expand the climate section accordingly? I've made a similar note/request on the Lillooet page.Skookum1 (talk) 04:00, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Palm trees
In editing just now I removed a pic of palm trees in Vancouver, which is irrelevant and misleading; the same person who placed that here has done the same repeatedly on Vancouver articles. It should be removed if it appears again; only pics actually representative of BC should not be here, not just exotics planted along English Bay.Skookum1 (talk) 09:51, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Annual data and wettest/driest/snowiest and hottest/coldest etc
There's no Climate of BC, or Climate of Canada, article/talkpage to post this to; a query had come up on Talk:Lillooet, British Columbia about climate extremes and variation there, I'd written Environment Canada about the changing locations of the weather stations there and how their site's data only rounds off the latlong to the nearest minute, and where to find annual record data; their reply is at the bottom of this section.Skookum1 (talk) 04:19, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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Under BC climate- what are the seasons?
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