Talk:List of airports in the Lower Mainland

Airstrip or aerodrome at Alvin
Alvin, for those who don't recognize the name, is located at the head of Pitt Lake, or rather about 6km up the Pitt River (now - originally it was at the head of Pitt Lake). On BC travel maps for years there was a little airplane symbol indicating an airport; this was once a busy logging area and i think there was the makings of not-quite-a-town; not sure if it was a water aerodrome or an airstrip, though I think there's an airstrip there now; I'll check on the sat-map as it should show up on there; that it had a map-symbol for years suggests to me it was a registered airport, but I'll leave that for someone from the Airports/Aviation wikiproject to determine....Skookum1 (talk) 23:56, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Answered on your talk page. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:53, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Schmloof is WRONG re Greater Vancouver/Metro Vancouver
(also posted on Schmloof's talkpage) You're wrong. Metro Vancouver is not the "common name" for Greater Vancouver; Greater Vancouver is. Metro Vancouver is the name of the regional government, but not even of the formal district boundaries its jurisdiction applies in; it's also a "rebranding" and a neologism that hasn't really caught on, despite being pushed by the Big Media. The list of airports, like the list of filming locations, is titled "n the Vancouver area" because places like Abbotsford and Chilliwack aren't in the Greater Vancouver Regional District, which is governed by the Metro Vancouver board (the board likes the name, no one else does except companies who want to use slogans like 'best in Metro", whether it's TO or Halifax or Vancouver being referred to). You were outta line in making that change.Skookum1 (talk) 12:35, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd change it back, by the way, to List of airports in the Vancouver area, but that redirect was already in place (and has been redirected by Schmloof); and List of airports in the Vancouver area and and should include Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Hope and Squamish airports, and could include whatever's at Gibsons/Sechelt. The division of BC, and classification of things in BC, by regional district, is entirely a wiki-fiction and should be phased out.  It does not reflect reality, how people think or talk or how the province is organized.  By making such changes - and "going along with" rebranding efforts - Wikipedia is not being encyclopedic, it is being a marketing-campaign tool.  List of airports in the Lower Mainland already exists as a redirect, but wasn't used as a title because most outside of Canada don't know what it means; the one remaining phrase, used by government and so citable is List of airports in Southwestern British Columbia (Southwestern British Columbia is a "development region" with defined boundaries, although in that case the airports at Pemberton, Lillooet, the Bridge River Country lakes, Lytton and so on would also be included.  Airports in particular are not under the governance of regional districts, except when it comes to building permits and water/sewer arrangements (if they're not in municipalities, that is - and the Greater Vancouver Water Board retains that name).  Airports are under federal jurisdiction and the feds don't classify them by regional district, that's one thing for certain; just because ONE federal agency (StatsCan) uses and obsesses and misuses regional districts doesn't mean they all do, or that anyone else but StatsCan and classification-obsessed Wikipedians do....Skookum1 (talk) 12:44, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey I think you're reading into this way too much. My reason for the name change was really quite simple: I thought that in the original name, "Greater Vancouver" came directly from "Greater Vancouver Regional District"... it would make sense.  And therefore, since the GVRD changed its name, I thought it was appropriate to move it to the new name. I personally support List of airports in the Vancouver area myself, but I saw that there was already a redirect, so I didn't move it back to that name.  Could we move it there now?
 * On a side note: I really don't appreciate how scathing you were in your comments. Even though you backed yourself up with legitimate arguments, there are much better ways of debating than essentially yelling at me, saying I'm "wrong" and "out of line".  I probably should have initiated a discussion first, but based on my initial reasoning, it didn't seem necessary.  You seem much more of a "classification-obsessed Wikipedian" than I feel I am.  Also, I've heard "Metro Vancouver" used much more than "Greater Vancouver" colloquially nowadays, although I've noticed a correlation between its use and the age of the user, ie. younger people seem to use "Metro Vancouver" more often.  Perhaps "Greater Vancouver" is more common now, but it will probably be phased out in a few years. Schmloof (talk) 05:33, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Photo?
Anyone know where this is? The uploader didn't supply much info.
 * Well, only someone from far away would use "Vancouver" to mean Hope, Pemberton or Chilliwack (which are my three ideas about where this is)....I thought Chilliwack at first, especially because of the hillside at right, but the mountains in the background don't look right....and while it could be Hope's airport, the mountains there don't have that particular kinda of barren rockface - which I'm taking to be the northwestern ramparts of the Lillooet Ranges above Mt Currie, and that mountain would be Mount Matier or Snowspider, which are near Joffre Lakes Provincial Park. It could be the Squamish airport in Brackendale but I don't think so, and while Agassiz has a strip it doesn't have hangars.  I'll look at the satellite maps for the Hope and Pemberton airports and maybe Squamish and see if there's a mountain lined up to the flight path the way this one is....and how many hangars there are and on which side....my gut feeling says Pemberton, but ....Skookum1 (talk) 06:45, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It's Pemberton, it's the only paved strip that has forested mountainsides immediate to the right of its flightpath; this is look NxW (which is almost W) towards the Joffre massif; that logged area in the centre is Joffre Creek, where Hwy 99 goes.Skookum1 (talk) 08:15, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Well done, skookum. Thanks - TheMightyQuill (talk) 02:48, 1 November 2010 (UTC)