Talk:Tsawwassen

Youth Problems
Why no mention of Tsawwassen's huge problems with rowdy young people and massive house party culture? Verged
 * There aren't a lot of upper-middle class towns without rowdy young people and house party culture. Feel free to add specific instances, if they have a good citation (I added a destructive party awhile back to Ladner, British Columbia, but it gained national newspaper coverage, which is properly referenced). - dharmabum 10:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * A valid point, but Tsawwassen is known amongst young people throughout the Lower Mainland for it's particularily extreme house party culture. I have no references to this, unfortunatley, and obviously my common knowledge isn't good enough. Next time a house is trashed, though, I will add a bit and reference to a local newspaper. Cheers. Verged

I don't believe that Tsawwassen is a huge problem, through my experience as a rowdy teen. I think Ladner has more of a problem.

The youth in Tsawwassen, like any community, tend to reflect their social environment. Over the years, Tsawwassen has attracted many professionals and business executives that tended to start families later in age than the average. While older parents may not have found raising young children to be any more challenging than would have younger parents, these older parents have faced greater challenges than younger parents when raising teenagers. Not only is the generation gap between parent and teen wider for older parents, but older parents tend to have less energy. Moreover, these older parents with professional and executive jobs have likely spent more time and energy developing their careers than the average, especially during the more impressionable younger years of their children; hence, the means to raise a family in Tsawwassen. Children raised in these environments tend to receive less attention from their parents than the average. Many of these children have nannies. Recreational activities are treated by the parents as glorified babysitting services. As teenagers, these children are encouraged to find jobs earlier than the average (check out the local Safeway, Starbucks, and other businesses). Some may also have allowances. Needless to say, youths with relatively large homes, their own disposable income, and older parents that just don't understand, are perfectly poised to develop a "massive house party culture". What do you think?

Downtown Tsawwassen
There are several references to "downtown Tsawwassen" in the article, but what part of Tsawwassen that refers to is not clear. I lived in Tsawwassen through my adolescence, so I know you mean 56th and 12th, but perhaps this should be a little more clear in the article? I'm not really sure where to add this, but I guess the Main Streets section would be appropriate. Andrew jur e  n (talk) 14:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Good point; a fairly minor change to Main Streets seems to accomplish this if you want to take a look at it. - dharm a bum 20:02, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Downtown Tsawwassen consists of 12th and 56th. There are few clothing stores and NO proper mall. The mall is about 8 stores, and non of them chains....
 * There are 3 malls at that intersection. Major chains include two Starbucks, Safeway, Rogers Video, Home Hardware, White Spot, Tim Horton's, Little Caesar's, Panago, and Shoppers Drug Mart. Just off the top of my head, I can list around four dozen stores in those 3 malls (although, admittedly, only a half-dozen clothing stores). Seriously, have you ever been to Tsawwassen? - dharmabum 09:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Ladner Vs. Tsawwassen
There exists in the two places a sort of friendly animosity, especially between SDSS and DSS. Should it be mentioned in the article? 154.20.135.89 03:31, 7 August 2006 (UTC)


 * a) Care to elaborate? and b) Is it verifiable (with reliable sources? -→ Buchanan-Hermit ™ / ?!  03:39, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, it's just simply that people feign an intolerance for the people from the opposite town or the land itself. A ridiculosly basic sentiment among residents of Tsawwassen is that "ladner smells," due to the large amounts of farm land. It's not verifiable, really, as there's no documentation of it. Just word of mouth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.135.89 (talk • contribs)
 * Then it probably shouldn't be mentioned at all. -→ Buchanan-Hermit ™ / ?!  04:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't believe there is an "intolerance" in any way - suggesting an intolerance without any documentation is irresponsible.
 * It's more of a friendly competition between the two towns. Games between the towns are usually published in the local newspapers which service both the areas. That and you have to blame somebody for the awful manure smell from the farms between the towns in the springtime.Leah 02:11, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

54•40
Their page says they're from this town, but then we don't have them in the notable residents section. Should they be added? Magicmuggle (talk) 04:04, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciation
"Residents of Tsawwassen pronounce the 'T' and not the first 's'." On what is this assertion based? What is the correct pronunciation in the Coast Salish language? It has always been my impression that "ts" was pronounced "ts" - and locally, the two seem to be used interchangeably. fishhead64 (talk) 23:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

The government of Canada has a guide to pronouncing First Nations place names in British Columbia. Unfortunately, there’s no audio, just phonetic spellings. It says Tsawwassen is pronounced tah-WASS-en. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Creamore (talk • contribs) 01:40, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Jumanji
The actual spelling of the store was "Sir Sav-A-Lot" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.51.182 (talk) 20:40, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Moved. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 20:12, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

– Per WP:CSG ie. CANSTYLE and PRECISION, the comma-province dab should be removed from this title. Before the usual knee-jerk PRIMARYTOPIC dispute on behalf of the Tsawwassen indigenous group gets tossed out again as too often elsewhere, here are viewer stats to demonstrate that the community article is the PRIMARYTOPIC: As with Bella Bella, Bella Coola and Lillooet, separating people/language items from town and related geo-googles is difficult to do but would yield similar results to the ones already compiled at those RMs.Skookum1 (talk) 08:12, 31 March 2014 (UTC) Skookum1 (talk) 08:12, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Tsawwassen, British Columbia → Tsawwassen
 * Tsawwassen → Tsawwassen (disambiguation)
 * "Tsawwassen, British Columbia" was viewed 2,561 times this March
 * the "Tsawwassen" dab page was viewed 561 times this month
 * "Tsawwassen First Nation" was viewed 465 times
 * "Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal", was viewed 526 times
 * There is no separate language article as these people are part of the Hunquminum or Downriver Halkomelem-speaking group of peoples. There is also no separate ethnographic article as of yet.  For the sake of completeness:
 * "Tsawwassen Indian Reserve" was viewed 180 times.


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Tsawwassen - clarification re move
Hi there. I'm confused about why Tsawwassen, British Columbia was moved to being only Tsawwassen. Tsawwassen is one of the 3 communities comprising the municipality of Delta, BC. The others, Ladner, British Columbia and North Delta, British Columbia are listed with the comma-province dab, yet the community of Tsawwassen has been changed. In addition, the Tsawwassen First Nation page refers to the lands and peoples of the Tsawwassen First Nation - a self-governed indigenous people. TFN lands are separate from the municipality of Delta, British Columbia (which also, by the way, uses the comma-province dab) geographically, legally, etc. and as such there is a need for clarification between Tsawwassen (Delta), British Columbia, and the Tsawwassen First Nation lands. Perhaps new pages should be written to clarify the difference between "Tsawwassen peoples" (TFN) and "Tsawwassen residents," etc., but wouldn't it actually be *less* ambiguous to move Tsawwassen back to the original formatting of using the comma-province dab, or to change all 3 Delta communities to be "Tsawwassen (Delta), British Columbia", etc. so that whose searching can clarify between the community of Tsawwassen and the TFN?

Thanks! Sunnytsawwassen (talk) 21:57, 30 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Placenames in Canada that are WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of the word do not carry disambiguation i.e. the comma-province tag, doesn't matter is they're within a municipality or not, per WP:CSG. Delta and North Delta have the comma-province dab because there are other meanings for "Delta" and "North Delta"; Vancouver, Nanaimo, Coquitlam etc aren't dabbed, for example.Skookum1 (talk) 05:57, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Gotcha! Thanks for the clarification, Skookum1... my hope is for this Wikipedia page to be accurate since Facebook uses it as the source for information for its description, etc. of Tsawwassen, making it hard for people to set Tsawwassen as a place they live/are from. Appreciate your feedback. Sunnytsawwassen (talk) 03:41, 1 January 2015 (UTC)