Talk:Kananaskis Country

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In addition to recreation and tourism, some of the other uses like cattle rangeland should be mentioned. If you drive into K-country on Hwy 541 from Longview for most of the summer & fall...you see LOTS of cattle roaming around all the way north to Highwood pass. Also, I think that there are some forestry companies also in K-country (in the southern half - south of Highwood house) ...or is that area considered K-country? I'm unsure, so that's why I'm putting this into the discussion page instead of the article page. Dzubint 17:03, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * late reply: cattle can be found all over K-country. whenever I drive through I usually hit a texas gate or two.--DiogenesTheHobo 06:53, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Cattle grazing and forestry ("timber harvesting") are mentioned under the Administration heading. And, yes, the area south of Highwood House is part of K-C, but only as far as Johnson Creek Trail (hwy 532) on hwy 940.--BC 17:08, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

What's in a name?
What does the name mean? TREKphiler  hit me ♠  20:21, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Go to: . Perhaps we should include a section on the name in the article. B C talk  00:27, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

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Inception filming
Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't some scenes from the movie Inception filmed in this location? 08:40, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Never saw it, and don't plan to. But according to IMDb it was. 117Avenue (talk) 18:37, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Potential split
This article is in need of a three-way split, as there are three different geographies that this article could be about. The majority of the content in this article is about Kananaskis Country, with some info on Kananaskis ID. I don't see any content on the unincorporated community of Kananaskis. (Please advise if these observations are incorrect.) The following articles redirect to Kananaskis, Alberta: Before a formal request is made to split, I would like to solicit ideas on what should be done to detangle all of this. My initial thoughts are: Please let me know your thoughts. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 06:06, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Kananaskis, Alberta is technically an unincorporated community on Hwy 1A that is 4 km west of Hwy 1X on the north side of the Bow River (coordinates are 51° 04' 34" N 115° 07' 46" W). It is under the jurisdiction of the MD of Bighorn No. 8.
 * Kananaskis Country is an area of provincial parks and Crown land located to the south of the unincorporated community sharing the same name. It is often referred to simply as Kananaskis despite that name technically applying to the community to the north.
 * Kananaskis Improvement District is a municipality (improvement district) administered by the Province of Alberta. Per its official website (see second paragraph), the improvement district (ID) shares most physical boundaries with Kananaskis Country.
 * Kananaskis;
 * Kananaskis Country; and
 * Kananaskis No. 5, Alberta.
 * Kananaskis becomes a dab with the following three listed on the dab page (along with the five other articles that start with Kananaskis);
 * Kananaskis, Alberta becomes an article on the unincorporated community;
 * Kananaskis Country becomes an article on the area;
 * Kananaskis Improvement District becomes an article on the municipality; and
 * Kananaskis No. 5, Alberta becomes a redirect to Kananaskis Improvement District (not Kananaskis, Alberta).


 * Kananaskis is also an unincorporated community? Sounds all good, except Kananaskis Village, Alberta also needs to be added to the mix of hatnotes and disabiguation. 117Avenue (talk) 06:38, 1 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed. It it is one of the five other articles starting with Kananaskis referred to above. Hwy43 (talk) 14:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree that this is entangled, and it is getting confusing, and I agree with your initial thoughts on how to disentangle. Here are some of my observations and concerns: I thought that Kananaskis Village referred to the group of hotels/"resort" area on hwy 40 near Nakiska. The content of Kananaskis Village, Alberta seems to be about the "unincorporated community" on 1A, although the coordinates point to the "resort". So, the village article should be renamed/moved. BC  talk to me  07:23, 1 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Correct. Kananaskis Village is the unincorporated "resort" community on Hwy 40. The first sentence in the article is applicable to Kananaskis, while the second sentence is applicable to Kananaskis Village. That article should be revised so that it is only about Kananaskis Village. Hwy43 (talk) 14:04, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * That would explain why I thought the coords were wrong. 117Avenue (talk) 22:47, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree, separate articels for the hamlet (Kananaskis, Alberta), resort village (Kananaskis VIllage, Alberta), parks (Kananaskis Country). The improvement district could, for the time being, coincide with the parks article, as the boundaries are virtually the same (I believe that Kananaskis Country, although holding the more popular meaning of the term Kananaskis, are not a formal entity). Are there separate articles for the other improvement districts, or are they redirects to the parks articles? --Qyd (talk) 14:12, 1 May 2011 (UTC)


 * All the other IDs redirect to the articles of the applicable national park or Willmore Wilderness Park. In those situtations, the ID boundaries are coincident with the park boundaries, whereas that is not the case here. Kananaskis ID is unique from the others due to its inclusion of land that is outside of national/provincial parks. I see merit in coinciding the ID with Kananaskis Country until everything else mentioned here is resolved. I see the following steps to implement the above (revised May 3, 2011 based on subsequent discussion):
 * fix Kananaskis Village, Alberta; ✅
 * move Kananaskis, Alberta over its redirect to Kananaskis Country to free up the former; ✅
 * convert the Kananaskis, Alberta redirect to create Kananaskis, Alberta (community) as an article about the unincorporated community in the MD of Bighorn; ✅
 * convert the Kananaskis Kananaskis, Alberta redirect to a dab page listing the three above and others that may apply; ✅ and
 * make a decision of splitting a portion of Kananaskis Country to Kananaskis Improvement District create an article for Kananaskis Improvement District. ✅
 * I will take care of the first step right now. Unless someone thinks the second step should be done more formally, could someone take care of the second step? Once done, I'll take care of the third and fourth steps. Hwy43 (talk) 20:29, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It is important to disambiguate all the links to Kananaskis, Alberta, before proceeding with step 3. 117Avenue (talk) 21:33, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

After thinking about this overnight, I realized that the unincorporated community isn't the primary topic in all the things that Kananaskis, Alberta could refer to, the dab page should be at Kananaskis, Alberta, like we did at Fairview, Alberta. 117Avenue (talk) 21:33, 1 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree that it is not the primary topic. Are you suggesting that step three be converting the Kananaskis, Alberta redirect to the dab page? If so, what would be the article name for the unincorporated community? Kananaskis, Alberta (unincorporated community)? It is lengthy, but we can't use Kananaskis, Alberta (hamlet) as it is not designated as a hamlet. A truncated version of Kananaskis, Alberta (community) or Kananaskis, Alberta (locality) per StatCan are other options that come to mind. Also, would you be willing to complete step two as you are proficient in this? Hwy43 (talk) 22:07, 1 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Either (unincorporated community) or (locality), I am leaning towards (locality) as an official source has used that title. Sure, I can give it a go. 117Avenue (talk) 22:48, 1 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you for facilitating the move. I see the reasoning for your preference. Looking more closely at the StatCan source, I note that all of the MD of Bighorn's hamlets are also considered localities by StatCan, notwithstanding the Alberta hamlet designation. Also, searching the name of an urban municipality at GeoSearch2006, such as Canmore and Bighorn No. 8, I notice that a StatCan locality can also refer to an incorporated municipality. One benefit of using (community), aside from the length of the article name, would be alignment with the umbrella term we've used to group all of Alberta's incorporated municipalities and unincorporated communities at List of communities in Alberta. Meanwhile (unincorporated community) may confuse as there are different types of unincorporated communities such as hamlets. Any new thoughts resulting from these observations? Hwy43 (talk) 02:08, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * With this information, I see no term that will differentiate it from Kananaskis Village. Also, the next census is only a week away, will any of these terms be changed? 117Avenue (talk) 03:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm unaware if any terms will change. Kananaskis and Kananaskis Village are both localities in the eyes of StatCan, and unincorporated communities in the eyes of the Province of Alberta. Their common names differentiate themselves from each other. Aren't we are striving to differentiate the unincorporated community/locality of Kananaskis from the forthcoming Kananaskis, Alberta dab page? Hwy43 (talk) 03:16, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * In that case, any term could be used, unless GeoSearch2006 also calls Kananaskis I.D. a locality. 117Avenue (talk) 03:24, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Good thinking. It does. I intend to create Kananaskis, Alberta (community). Hwy43 (talk) 03:40, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, go with that. Also Kananaskis Improvement District has a lot of links to it, so it should be created fairly soon. 117Avenue (talk) 06:13, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll put both on my to-do list and strive to have them complete within the next day or so. Hwy43 (talk) 07:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

An issue that I found while disambiguating, was that this article doesn't have any history before the 1980s, but the name Kananaskis seems to have been in use during the Second World War (Japanese Canadian internment, List of concentration and internment camps, History of Alberta), what should those direct to? 117Avenue (talk) 06:13, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Interesting. Of the four articles, the most frequented article will likely be Kananaskis Country in my opinion. It also covers the largest geography of the four. Unless a reference confirms otherwise, I would suggest Kananaskis Country be the destination for those wikilinks given it that the Kananaskis Country already has some history within it (G8 Summit). Hwy43 (talk) 07:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Done, 117Avenue (talk) 08:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Kananaskis, Alberta (community) and Kananaskis Improvement District are now created. The latter is worthy of its own article as it is the only improvement district that is not wholly coincident with a single provincial or national park. It contains numerous different provincial parks and other Crown land areas I intend to make numerous improvements in the following day or so to both Kananaskis Country and Kananaskis Improvement District as a result of the split. Hwy43 (talk) 07:13, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

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