User talk:Skookum1/Archive 7

AFD
The template doesn't autocreate the AFD page; you need to click on the redlink, use afd2 to create the page, and then go to AFD and use afd3 to add it to today's list. You can review WP:AFD if you need further information. Bearcat (talk) 16:44, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Where I've added the phrase "add your reasoning here" to the page, please replace that with your deletion rationale. Bearcat (talk) 17:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Xwechtaal coming back
You know the story of the Xwechtaal. Well, I have always been told that when the train first came down from Port Moody to Vancouver, the Indians along the south shore of the inlet took fright and ran. A great long black snake of a thing with a big black head came twirling around the curves blowing long blasts, Hoooo, Hoooo, Hoooo, and the Indians thought it was a Xwechtaal coming back. ''
 * – Andy Paull speaking to Vancouver archivist Major Mathews''

Hahahaha. OldManRivers (talk) 19:37, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Worth adding to a CPR article, if there's one on the inauguration maybe; or/also to the Consolidation steam engine, the one that used to be down at Kits Beach.Skookum1 (talk) 19:55, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Engine 374 is not a consolidation. it is an american class. and 374 is actually 372 which were switched in 1945 when CPR steamed it to the park. 374 was accidently scrapped; 372 took its place. 372 is stamped into the motion, and has a different valve cover. Also 374 not first engine, old curly worked from port moody in1880, and a work train entered Vancouver in nov. 1885. sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 23:44, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeayh, I knew about Old Curly; what happened to it/her? Thing is the people in teh story had already seen steamers; would'nt a fullblown freight locomotive hav e a different order of, uh, sound than Old Curly.  Or was it/she a big'un?  Any idea which it was that used to run the old excursion up the Canyon a few times of week, as seen in old photos?  Observation cars, open top, 1880s-1890s to Boston Bar/North Bend?  Great pic, if ever uesd (it's in my ones-to-find-aritcles for) would be good to i.d. the engine; I'll dig it out another time and post a link here.02:56, 25 June 2008 (UTC)Skookum1 (talk)

old curly rusted at the PNE for many years, now she is rusting some more at Heritage Village. You and Rivers are thinking of the 374 type. American type, then Atlantics, then Moguls, etc. Check out the CPR Hudson that will be in town next week. sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 04:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

chex out confederation locomotive —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 04:55, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

NWT Dene and wider meaning of Dene
I live in Nunavut and unfortunally know little about the various subjects. The only reason I edited it was to remove the rather silly line that seemed it indicate that the two groups were at war into the 21st century. Having said that, I get the impression that Dene is a political term, when used in the NWT, to refer to a certain group of people, Dogrib, similar to the term Inuvialuit. However, the term appears to mean something else when used outside the NWT. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 06:46, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Cariboo/Cariboo Plateau
I replied on my talk page. --Black Tusk (talk) 16:26, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I also added the mountain range cat on the Explorer Ridge article which I'm not sure about. Does this look alright to you? The other mountain ranges in the cat are on land. --Black Tusk (talk) 18:38, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh culture
You've probably not doubt seen the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh culture sub-article I created. I wanted to turn the whole thing into a series, which it is becoming. There is one book by Hill-Tout, the German Anthropologist or Ethnologist who worked with my people. He recorded a lot of notes and his book is hard to come by. VPL has one in their reference section and their lend out one is on "TRACE" status, what ever that means. My grandmother has a copy so it's still in print, just need to take some time and track it down. In any case, I'm hoping to really expand Sḵwx̱wú7mesh history, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh culture]], and eventually Sḵwx̱wú7mesh society. The hardest one will be Sḵwx̱wú7mesh spirituality or Sḵwx̱wú7mesh mythology, how ever it worded because so much of my peoples spirituality beliefs are held secret or there was never any interest from ethnographers or anthropologists. There is a lot more places I can touch up, plus re-writing parts of the articles so the sum of it's parts are just as good as the whole. Have a look-see and tell me what you think, suggestions, etc. (Please use paragraph when you respond to! Long run-on paragraphs are hard for the eyes to keep up with.) OldManRivers (talk) 18:09, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

I will also be taking off for a month this weekend. Going to Alert Bay for two weeks. My friend is having a "Traditional Games Festival". Slahal, Indian Baseball, rock throwing, spear throwing, archery, weaving races, and a bunch of other games. It's a fundraiser for our trip on the Tribal Journey's to Cowichan territory. 4 canoes coming out of Alert Bay. I'm getting really excited for it. My friends family is also having a potlatch in Kingcome around the 12th that I might go check out for a bit before we leave on the 14th for Tribal Journey's. We'll be landing in Cowichan on the 28th. They are expecting over 100 canoes. Some coming from Alaska. Should be a good trip. OldManRivers (talk) 18:09, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't forget to take lots of wiki-pictures, whether of the canoes or of the setting or totempoles/community of Kingcome!!! 100 canoes, wow - please make sure to get a picture of 'em all, whether beached or in the bay....Skookum1 (talk) 18:17, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Have fun, take ankle tape for paddling blisters on the hands. Wish I could come. cheers sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 03:29, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey SFS, you might know - I had an email from someone wanting to know the official name of the old WWI airfield near Dog Creek, on the plateua-edge of the canyon there; a pic that's on my site, adapted from Randall & Kat's Flying Photos, attracted the query (http://www.cayoosh.com/dogcreek.html maybe or gangranch.html or bigbar.html - gallery pages with little text).Skookum1 (talk) 03:39, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Dunno. there is however, a series of 4 books by some aviation nutter, documenting all the aviation fields in the province. History use etc. a small publisher and hard to find. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 05:18, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Land districts
You've mentioned land districts in BC several times in past conversations, and I've seen old maps of them, and I have a vague idea of what they are (were?). But not a very clear idea. I just searched for a page about them and couldn't find one -- nor any page about any land district specifically. Are there any? Perhaps a page about land districts in general (at least in BC or Canada -- they exist elsewhere I gather, with other meanings), would be useful? I saw your sandbox list of land districts, but would suggest also adding a page about them in general. Pfly (talk) 18:09, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * They're the basis of the land survey system here, dating to the colonial Lands Act of 1860. You'll note in BCGNIS and CanGeoNames that they're given as the location of a given feature; they're immutable, other than being renamable, which Regional Districts aren't (RDs are the cloest we get to counties...).  Mostly they show up on land titles and land descriptions, e.g. park/riding boundaries, descriptions of parcels of land; they're not used directly in administrative things other than Land Titles, I think and tehre may not be much else to say about them, otehr than why/when they get subdivided and the things the government uses them for.  All topographical/mineral/resource/etc data is amassed/categorized through them; the census uses the RDs mostly.....Skookum1 (talk) 18:14, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Diatremes
Just thought you would like to know I created some diatreme articles; HP diatreme, Cross diatreme, and Blackfoot diatreme (about to stub up McAllister Diatreme as well) in British Columbia and the Gahcho Kué kimberlite pipes in the Northwest Territories which is the site of the Gahcho Kue Diamond Mine Project. The diatremes in British Columbia are in the Rocky Mountains I think. --Black Tusk (talk) 04:43, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * There's a whole era underway in gas exporation in the Interior that was really evident on various online reports when you search certain obsscure placenames across a vast swathe of BC; the "basins" and the other geological/mineralogical macrocomplexes or whatzamhoozits that they reckon is underneath everything because of teh way things are built. We'll see, the jury's out, but there's lots of exploration gong on, and because of the public nature of investment capital's portfolios, so lots of maps of mineral activity as submitted to the Dept of Mines and so on.  Not as purely vulcanological as diatremes but there's lots of volcanic, and volanic-affected content.  I'm starting to gather, by the way, from keeping up with various articles in your brood, that the Fraser Glacier article when it gets written - Fraser Glaciation I guess it would be, being the regional subarticle of the overall conteintnal Wisconsin Glaciation - would have a whole big fat section on all the volcanic activity beneath the ice; the outflow from the upper Interior part of the basin was out through the Peace and the lesser esat-of-the-Rockies rivers; must have been nasty lahars when the Chilcotin basalts were laid down, or the Wells Gray ons went off.  Gives me some idea, given what I've seen of relatively minor debris flows (living up in Whistler for years you see a lot on that highway, and also around Mission and between there and Lillooet, which is my home turf), what scoured out the Fraser and Homathko Canyons; the southeast outflow of the main water sof the Fraser Glacier went down what is now the Okanagan/Columbia; into Salt Lake maybe, I'm not sure; no the Columbia must be older than that.  Interaction between teh volcanoes and the glaciers must have made the place pretty surreal; "melt rooms" around the eruptions, when not under heaps and heaps of pressure and flattened.  BTW wanna see a neat Peneplain? - find the bivouac for Cardtable Mountain; there's higher-res images in the photo essays but you have to belong to see 'em.  Oh before I send this I thought of Timeline of recent volcanic activity in the Pacific Northwest (rather than of BC); vs another for Alaska beyond Fairweather/Elias and another for Cali south of Shasta and so on through Yellowstone, Mexico etc; somewhere I've seen wikitable or templating to make lateral timeline chronologies; a lot of what I'm seeing is in teh last few thousands years, and there's enough to remark on in the last thousand, which is "yesterday" in geological time.  Translation "red hot and cookin'" and the place does have the capacity to set off a firecracker adn some nasty ash and lava and lahar and ejecta and gas and, well, we both know the scenario.  The timeline could show relative force/damage of course, but also any determined connection with native oral history.  BTW you should google for the Medeek - that may already have an article, not a very good/long one if it does - -- and Dimlahamid/Dzilke; I don't think that was volcanic but likely tectonic; the Rocher DeBoule Range ("rolling rock") remains a major geohazard, I think.Skookum1 (talk) 06:31, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * BTW you nkow about The Five Fingers and The Thumb up above the north end of Coquitlam Lake, right? Saw 'em from the plaen more than once; pretty crazy looking, must be plugs or at least eroded basalts of some kind; very ancient rock though, I'd say, by where it is, maybe the formation's not volcanic though.  Nobody can climb them, they're on teh watershed boundary and darned inaccessible anyway.  amazing from the air on a good day.  Still puzzled by the "Fire" range up west of Port Douglas, why they have those names; there's hot springs pu there but I've never heard of volcanoes; might be just a riff of Fire Mountain.06:39, 29 June 2008 (UTC)Skookum1 (talk)

Fire lake is sometimes called Tipella Lake. Dunno the fire appelation root sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 15:58, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The Thumb is a volcanic plug (not sure about The Five Fingers) although I never really seen a photo of it before. I wonder if there's any photos of the diatremes. Mount Garibaldi passed GA BTW. --Black Tusk (talk) 17:07, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
 * See Talk:The Thumb (British Columbia).Skookum1 (talk) 17:18, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Award
Well deserved. Just imagine if you weren't on a wikibreak! -- KenWalker | Talk 15:22, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

What do you think?
I am amusing myself with being able to plot an array of locations on a google map. Do you think something like this would survive an AfD? I have in mind doing something like this for Nanaimo which would be more historic locations than current landmarks. -- KenWalker | Talk 20:26, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Can't see why not; although they might like it better if it was a WikiMapia one ;-) ..... so long as it's titled a "List of" I can't see any reason for dispute. There's a lot sillier things out there, to be sure, and this ain't silly.  I've pondered similar use of latlongs for some area maps, e.g. the Cariboo "gold camp" (mining district) and all the zillions of little places in the Kootenay or the vanished places around Princeton and Merritt or of IRs in various regions - Cowichan, Fraser Valley etc, and so on; Pfly would be good at making maps directly from the latlongs, but he's as you know kinda busy with diapers and bottles right now......btw found on Holland's map (see Black Tusk's talkpage for the link) that Nahwitti Lowland and Nanaimo Lowland are the two other major geographic divisions of Vancouver Island other than the Vancouver Island Ranges; his map also cuts off the Cobble Hill and Gowlland Range areas from the VI Ranges, and provides an "exact" boundary for the Ranges; I was gonna go try and amend that map when I get a chance (my hard drive's too full to be able to screw around with imaging right now, though....).Skookum1 (talk) 20:33, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The idea of lists of coordinates could be useful. The folks that do roads might find a use for it.  I also think the idea of going out to google is a compromise.  I will check out what Wikimapia has.  That Holland article is a wealth of info.  Didn't find maps of his other than what are in the article.  Have a good weeknd.-- KenWalker | Talk 22:21, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Found it not on his page but on Talk:Intermontane Belt- the toc for the map/doc links for both the main document and the map, which in the print edition is folded up inside the cover. The list of coordinates for roads is frightening to do; I still have nightmares about the road-, stream/river-, coastline- and region-plotting datapointing I did in bivouac....and there I had a parsing thing where I could copy paste what's in Basemap's distance/polygon measuring tools results and strip it to latlong format; I think I have piles of some rivers and maybe even some roads out there, as I'm a data packrat; once I get my old hard drive fired up again I'll see what I have...but to recreate it all in Wikipedia? - only if we can mass-adapt it from geodata sets with some kind of map-parsing; otherwise it's too labour intensives.  Believe me I know.....Skookum1 (talk) 02:13, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Intermontane Belt, which I encountered while stub sorting the new Interior-geo-stub, I'll be going on about on that talkpage with Black Tusk, though maybe will move my ideais/ discussion to the WP CanadaGeography or main Geography wptalkpages - Geologic zones, Physiographic regions, Ecoregions, Biogeoclimatic zones and more region-defining and also parallel (but not synonymous terrain-wise or in meaning) we've got aplenty and need to organize; some use names that are more properly geographic regions by their wording, as opposed to, for example Fraser Basin and Plateau complex which is a World Wildlife Federation-motivated article using a federal classification system; a federal classification system which seems different, if only in nomenclature, from the accepted provincial one (which is Holland, who isn't just a wealth of information he is the information in terms of the formal geographic designations used by Basemap, BCGNIS etc. Anyway that Fraser Basin article is an ecoregion article; but its name suggests a geograhpic region or a pair of geographic objects anyway; the area of the Basin - centred on PG - is part of the Nechako Plateau in geographic-area terms; phsyiographic areas and geographic areas aren't exactly the same either, as human geography influences ordinary geographic regions, as with Cariboo or the Kootenays.  Anyway, a complex topic, figure I had to raise it sooner or later, we've got too many cliamte, biogeoclimatic, ecoregional, geographic and geologic and other ological stuff all overlapping; what a maze....no wonder I'd ratehr play music, but somebody's got to get at this stuff; a symptom of the problem with compartmentalization of science, every bit as much as the similarloy fragmentary and overlapping political geographic reginos of BC (health, forestry, environment ministr y regions etc).Skookum1 (talk) 02:22, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the map and holland link which I have saved. The geology stuff gets dry for me but I have been tinkering more with coordinates.  See User:KenWalker/sandbox/List of Nanaimo Landmarks and Historic locations.  I think it could be useful.  Finding the locations on a map has me thinking I may do some driving around in Nanaimo tomorrow. -- KenWalker | Talk 09:53, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Ken, plz put the Wellington dunsmuir tramline locations on; the Harewood aerial tram line, the tipple at Depture Bay, Wharves at nanaimo hbr etc. thanks sfs ( I have been looking for these things for a while now.  Do you think the Museum would lend me the little Baldwin loco Victoria? it needs some TLC.  ) Wharves on list alread, v. Good. How bout Chinatown? Interesting list btw. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 14:31, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I think I will head to Nanaimo this morning with my camera and my library card and see what I can find.-- KenWalker | Talk 17:22, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Ken, the Jordan River Dam bit, it was not a BCER project? I have been trying to improve BC Hydro as they have the power of Zeus in this province, Do you know when they took over the Jordan River bit? Does nanaimo have its own power plant? Qualicum Did. (what kind of gear was in the Qualicum Plant? ) sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 14:40, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Jordan River: I read some stuff about its history, maybe the source referred to in it, and don't remember BCER being involved but it could easily get by me.  There is some stuff online about it that I read trying to figure out the actual location of the dam.  No idea about a power plant in Nanaimo, but if I make it to the library there I can see if there is an easy answer to that and let you know.  The Qualicum power plant was diesel.  It is a museum now although they don't have a web site.  They have preserved some of the equipment.  This tablet has a bit on it. -- KenWalker | Talk 17:22, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Can you find the make of the diesel; probably English Crossley or Ruston. But might be a Fairbanks or Union. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 20:49, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Will pick up their brochure, it does answer that question. So check out List of Coal Mines and Landmarks in Nanaimo area. -- KenWalker | Talk 09:06, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Ken, Wow ! Very detailed, and very useful.Thank you. Have you read "five shillings a day"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 14:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey SFS - you might know or have some info; I just checked MINFILE for the Giant Mascot Mine, which needs an article like many other BC mines, e..g Highland Valley Mine. What do you know about Giant Mascot?  Re diesel power, my Dad as you may know was regional production super for the Upper Fraser Valley with Hydro; the limit of his territory was the diesel plant in Boston Bar; sorry, never visited it, and don't have any of Dad's company fonds, just observing that there was one there.  Nanaimo's plant donuts-to-dollars was coal-fired and probably originally Dunsmuir-owned, I'd bet.Skookum1 (talk) 16:57, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Mascot Mine. Hedley If I remember right. There were 2 mines the Nickel Plate and the Mascot. One high up on the hill. a cable way and a winding road to access. I can throw together some stuff. There is an excellent print history of Hedley around, it just came out. Alas don't own one. Re power-- Hedley had a hydro plant. Princeton had a steam plant. What kind of motor was in Boston Bar? Did you ride on the carrier across the river. It brings to mind a question about the power plants at Bralorne. sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 17:48, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Skook. there is a brief article on Hedley mines  see Hedley Mascot Mine  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 17:56, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Skook, Started Highland Valley Copper, I have some pics of it somewhere in a box but will take months if not years to find. Hedley too, I have more info on, and will dig out when inclined. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfsorrow2 (talk • contribs) 18:06, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Why doesn't Hydro buy Harmac for pennies and throw in 2 large turbines for power then lease the paper and pulp plant to a fibre company? Win Win all around. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sfsorrow2 (talk • contribs) 18:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Get this: I make a page for Highland Valley. It gets deleted and merged to Logan Lake with details omitted. Then my link to "Strip Mines" is called vandalism and I am the one told to back off. And the freekin punter doesn't even have to balls to open up his talk page. So then I go to create a page called "wikinazi" to hook his name to but the term is permanently locked off.

"Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Open-pit mining. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Sceptre (talk) 17:59, 6 July 2008 (UTC)" A seventeen year old meathead. I am getting so fed up with wiki. Can't do this or that. Nothing will get done and will no longer waste my time.


 * Don't give up SFS; I got blocked unjustly too and have stuck it out; Scorpios we just don't back down; and I took some actions on my own on your behalf - see this and also on your IP-user talkpage which is linked through that other link. About Highland Valley Copper (which I'll get around to un-merging) note that that title seems to be the company or its local subsidiary (whomever), whereas Highland Valley Copper Mine would be ht title for the mine.  Generally company articles should have "Inc." or "Ltd" attached, unless they're superbig/well-known like BC Hydro and Weyerhauser.  Some companies are sneaky now and use google-able names like Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, which winds up being a mis-eadling Wikipedia title (esp. since a lot of their resorts aren't in the Rockies, e.g. Red Mtn).  I'll bhe changing it when I get the breather to Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, Inc..  Anyway, what you did was not vandalism and I'll be seeing about getting a higher-up admin to slap Sceptre on his pee-pee for it; that was part of the point of my leaving a little doo-doo on his page, which from a scan of it seems to demonstrate you're not the only person he's used his admin powers on.  Don't give up because of the little twerps, the big twerps need you.....Skookum1 (talk) 21:27, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks guys for the help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 22:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Nils desperandum gestae illegitimae. Wrote a bunch on highland valley on Logan lake page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 23:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Saw your new userpage; should I post ideas there? Because I'm wondering what you might know about Gold Harbour, British Columbia and Surf Inlet, British Columbia and their respective mines/companies.  Also, since you've been around at least as long as me, do you reemmber on the old BC tourism highways maps that the coastal communities shown included "Government Cannery".  Seemed to be there for years, but there's no former-official name listing in BCGNIS; any idea if it was Bella Bella or maybe it was Smith Inlet or Namu or ??? I remember Namu being on the same maps, so that won't be it.  This could be fun, you know about obscure mines and places quite a bit....Giant Mascot and Hedley Mascot Mine were owned by the same company I think; the Giant Mascot Mine, also known as the Emory Mine (or Emory-something mine) and also as Giant Nickel, was on SEttler Creek, a tributary of, I think, the Little Silver, in the southern Lillooet Ranges; I remmber being told somewhere back in teh '70s that bascially a whole mountain had been turned into a big hole; guess I'll look on teh NASA images I've got link-saved on  sandbox (which I'll link here for you once I dig its name out again).  And what bout Hendrix Lake?  Cassiar?  Phoenix and so on; guess it's all how long they were around, there's so many long-gone palces that were gone befor WWI, never mind that vanished post-WWII.....Gold harbour's size in teh linked pics off that page surprised me; its main modern notability seems to be as a new national Heritage Site - the area, not the old mine-town/location.Skookum1 (talk) 03:47, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't really have a user page. There is the sfsorrow one and the IP address one. but no formal system as most days Im too lazy to log on. so I use yers instead. WHERE DO YOU COME UP WITH THESE NAMES FOR MINES? Yeesh. Gold Hbr is Tasu. Surf Inlt is Belmont Surf inlet. Giant mascot is Mascot or Hedley. etc etc. There is a usegroup for old Cassiar residents, I have an email link somewhre for the group. Phoenix features in Garnet Basques book and R. turner's new book on the Boundary. I do not remember government cannery. It was not the Port Edward cannery near Pr. Rupert. It could have been Namu as they shut all the canneries in the 1950s. sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 05:35, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Skook. Now you got me. As far as my pea brain gets it. Gold Hbr was the site of the 1852 gold strike; Tasu was the iron mine. Ikeda something else. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 15:28, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Gold Harbour I got from a BC MINFILE page, as a gold mine, but if you say Tasu was an iron mine I'll believe that; there's alink to pics of the town on the Tasu page....so looks like I jumbled that; "Gold Harbour" is also the locality, as it was the location of Haina and also of another Haida village also named Tasu; looks like I've got some untangling to do. Ikeda never heard of except as a surname; maybe search google with "Ikeda MINFILE" and see what comes up.  Gov't Cannery's a mystery to me now, unless I find one of those old roadmaps that have it on it....seen it in atlases too....and Hedley Mascot and Giant Mascot were NOT the same; ref MINFILE on "Giant Mascot"; its access road was via Emory Creek, I'm gathering from what I've found on it and which fits with what I'd heard of it when I was younger - "near Hope".  BTW changes like the one on Surf Inlet pls suyggest on the talkpage first so thtey can be put in properly; just bear in mind tha the opening name should match the titel, and should be in bold, not italics.  "Belmont, also known as Surf Inlet" may be the way it reads and really it needs retitling to Belmont, which I'll get to sometime soon.  Even stubs take a fair bit of work to set up, refs and such, and I've got real-world errands to cope with today....(famous last words)Skookum1 (talk) 15:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Saw your Cassiar edit - I'll add Jade City, British Columbia to the see alsos, plus other towns in that area.....thought I'd ask you for your interpretations of Cassiar Country, Stikine Country, Omineca Country and their relations in Category:Northern Interior of British Columbia. Puzzled over how to treat areas in northern BC, like what's in between the Cassiar Country and the Atlin Country - the Teslin Country? The Taku Country?  Also putting Ft Nelson in Category:Peace Country doesn't seem right, nor Muncho Lake etc; any suggestions on a useful region-name up that way?  also re that tramline at Cassair - you know that heritage commerical that's on lately where they heroize the telecom executives who built the national microwave network and they rant about a cable car being needed to build one of the stations - from what I know, that's Dog Mountain, maybe Zofka Ridge (depending on which name is used) near Hope; opposite Laidlaw/Popkum.  Any knowledge of that?Skookum1 (talk) 15:59, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Never herd the term Peace Country--thought it was Peace District, or Peace River Block.

Yup, the BC Tel link. Dog Mountain I think. The cable car is still there to service the microwave site. it was built by McLennan in 1957. There is a CN site too the other side of Hope, up the Coquillaha about 6 miles. the lower station still there but cables taken down. Up north, htere is bush and bugs. things that do not care which electoral district they are in. sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 16:20, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

QCI--on the topic. just found out that Aero camp was set up in 1917 to cut airplane spruce for Curtiss HS boats. The yanks put an embargo on their spruce coming from the Olympic penninsula. See Darius Kinsey photos. Aero camp was re-established by Bob Swanson in the Second war. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 16:31, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Not electoral districts, regions, the old-fashioned names like Lillooet Country, Shsuwap Country; I don't like the RDs myself.....Skookum1 (talk) 16:37, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Kalaupapa, Hawaii
I saw your edit summary before looking at the actual edit, and my first thought was "a leprosy feline"? :-) Nyttend (talk) 03:39, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Or maybe a leprosy cat is a rare breed or whatever; no, I just do so much editing, lately "adding cats" that I use Wiki-shorthand terms all the time instead of real English.Skookum1 (talk) 03:41, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Ikeda
Capsule Geology The Rose claim, located on the southeast coast of Moresby Island, is on the ridge between Ikeda Cove and Collison Bay between 122 and 198 metres above sea level. The Crown-granted claim (Lot 1871) covers 33.64 acres. The showings extend from the ridge-top down the northwestern slope and just over the boundary onto the adjacent claims, Elva Nos. 3 and 4 and Maple. All claims are part of a large block held by Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited (See Lily, 103B 028).

The showings were discovered by A. Ikeda and associates during the period 1901-1906 while prospecting in the vicinity of their Lily claim showings. Some stripping and prospecting ensued but the magnetite showings, being copper-poor, were of little interest at that time. The Rose claim was part of the Chrysanthemum Group of eight claims Crown-granted in 1913 (Lots 97, 100, 1868, 1869, and 1871 to 1874).

St. Eugene Mining Corporation, Limited, acquired the Lily and other claims in the mid 40's and drilled 2 holes for 24 metres in 1957 on the Rose claim. Silver Standard Mines Limited carried out a magnetometer survey in 1959. The Granby Mining Company Limited mapped the showings in detail in 1962 and Jedway Iron Ore Limited drilled 37 short holes totalling 1405 metres in 1965. Jedway started mining the property in 1966 on a royalty basis.

In 1985 and 1986, Falconbridge Limited conducted geological mapping, geochemical surveys and drilling in the area.

The Vancouver Group, Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation, consisting of basaltic greenstones, is conformably overlain by limestones and argillites of the Jurassic to Triassic Kunga Group. The rocks are cut by dikes and sills of diabase, fine diorite porphyry, and diorite. Later dikes include andesite and felsite. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 16:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

TASU
The property is located on the south side of Tasu Sound, west coast of Moresby Island, Queen Charlotte Islands. The Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 ore zones, respectively, extend up the north slope of the mountain between elevations of 91 and 457 metres. The concentrator is located at the shoreline just west of Gowing Island.

The magnetite occurrence was discovered by the Haida Indians in the latter part of the eighteenth century. In 1908 prospector named Gowing, of Grand Forks, was sent by lumberman J.E. Corlett, of Seattle, to investigate the rumour of the occurrence of an unknown mineral. He was guided to Tasu Sound by Henry Moody and his father, both prominent Haida's of Skidgate Mission on Graham Island, who not only knew of the original discovery but had prospected the hillside and found magnetite-copper outcrops. Gowing was made to wait on the island, which now bears his name, while his guides sampled the showings and staked 4 claims, one of which was later Crown-granted as the Tassoo claim. Gowing agreed to purchase the 4 claims for $2,000.00. Mr. Moody, Senior, sent word to Albert Jones, son of a close friend, to come and stake adjacent claims in order to share in the discovery. Albert Jones' arrival was delayed and Henry Moody returned to stake additional claims surrounding the original four.

On Gowing's return a partnership was formed, including himself, J.E. Corlett and F.C. Elliott of Revelstoke, to acquire and develop the 20 claim property, now known as the Warwick group. Trenching during 1908, and 61 metres of adit driven in 1909, was carried out under the names Elliott Mining Company and Tassoo Mining and Smelting Company, respectively; there is no record of these as Canadian incorporations. The property was subsequently optioned to R.R. Hedley and associates, of Vancouver, who incorporated the Tassoo Syndicate, Limited, in December 1913. A tramline was built to the shore and ore shipments began in 1914. Exploration and development work included driving a 91-metre long adit at 360 metres on the Tassoo claim and sinking a 12-metre deep winze. Production was from two stopes in the adit. A lower adit at elevation 323 metres was driven 61 metres, but not far enough to encounter the ore. J.E. Corlett obtained Crown-grants on 24 claims (Lots 600-623) including the Tassoo (Lot 604) and Warwick (Lot 615) claims, in 1915. The mine operated intermittently until 1917.

All that remained of the property in later years was two key claims, the Tassoo and Warwick Crown-grants. In 1952 Albert Jones returned with son Cliff, and George Brown, to stake 6 claims adjoining the two Crown-grants. In 1953 Dr. Alex Smith acquired the two Crown-grants at a tax sale and in 1955 optioned the 6 claims from Albert Jones.

Frobisher Limited, which was controlled by Ventures Limited, incorporated Wesfrob Mines Limited in February 1956 to acquire, explore and develop the property, then comprising 21 Crown-granted and 11 recorded claims. During 1956-1957 some 6706 metres of diamond drilling was done on No. 3 zone. No further work was done until 1961 when geological and magnetometer surveys were carried out and 4971 metres of diamond drilling in 70 holes. Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited, through a merger with Ventures Limited in 1962 acquired Wesfrob Mines as a wholly owned subsidiary. Diamond drilling continued and to the end of 1964 totalled some 40,234 metres. Proven ore reserves at that time were 22,679,625 tonnes averaging 41.33 per cent iron; of this the No. 3 zone contained about 6,168,858 tonnes averaging 47.65 per cent iron and 0.66 per cent copper.

The 7,257 ton per day mill was put into production in June 1967 with ore from the No. 3 zone open pit. Open pits were subsequently established on the No. 2 and No. 1 zones. Ore passes were driven from No. 2 and No. 3 (upper) zones to a haulage adit driven at the 198-metre level. In 1973 this level was extended 66 metres and a crosscut driven to No. 3 zone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 16:55, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * here is the MINFILE Record Summary for Gold Harbour Mines Inc. or Ltd. or whatever....I gather that the town in the Tasu page pictures is the iron mine? Or was there another town/camp for the gold mine, or was the same site used?.Skookum1 (talk) 17:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

my mistake Tasu was gold; Ikeda iron. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 17:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Begg Racoon Nisbet etc
A few quick replies: That noracines.ca site sure has a lot of texts. I glanced at the one you linked to. Reading scanned pages online is annoying at best, unfortunately. A while back I found a 300+ page book online, scanned like that. I really wanted to read it thoroughly but couldn't bear to do so online, so I laboriously printed most of it out. What a pain that was, but it sure made it easier to read and scribble marginalia onto. Also, semi-tangential to that Begg Alaska Boundary thing, I was browsing for books to take on our trip to Montana and found one called The Salmon War. It looked like a fairly in depth treatment. Skimming through I realized I know almost nothing about the topic. I didn't get it for vacation reading, but maybe afterwards I'll check it out. Lots of politics involved, which I tend to find boring, but then again I always feel like I ought to know more about Canadian politics, if only because Canadians (and the rest of the world it seems) know so much about American politics!


 * The Alaska Boundary coverage was extremely interesting; just read the intro, and then compare it to the USPOV content of Alaska boundary dispute. We always know about your poltics, and have to; Americans think they have no reason to learn ours, but really it's an extensino of yours, especially true as far as Old West history re BC/North-West Territory.  Did I ref you to http://www.dickshovel.com/two.html btw?  Gonna go play; comments added below were added first.  See ya in a bit.Skookum1 (talk) 17:26, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Just re-noted that bit on a book titled Salmon War - who's the author? It was an NDP-era fiasco, so likely to get panned by a Liberal/Social Credit backer/supporter.  All BC political books sohould be read with a grain of salt because of the political polarization and made-up truths nature of the place....Skookum1 (talk) 17:34, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

HMS Racoon; that was the ship that put an end to the Pacific Fur Company, eh? I hadn't heard the actual name before (or had but forgot). You added it to WikiProject Ships, so maybe it will get a bit of attention. Those ship people added an infobox to the Princess Royal page I made (ship infoboxes confuse me, so that was nice). If I get a chance I'll see if I have any further info on the Racoon. I haven't read much of the online Scholefield or Begg, finding that online reading so annoying. The one printed book I have that is specifically on BC history is The West Beyond the West. It seems okay, but is rather heavy on the politics and light on the geography for my taste. I've a bunch of other books that are cross-boundary in scope.
 * Barman's book is a pretentious overblown bore full of post-modern politics/whining. If I could burn books, hers would be at the top of the list; it's garbage and full of gaffes, but her Toronto reviewers and UBC colleagues don't know enough BC history, local or otherwise, to be able to call her on her bullshit.  For an overview, I recommend the Akriggs' "BC Chronicle"; it and other things like Begg and Scholefield/Howay are orderable through MacLeod's Books in Vancouver (tell Don I sent you).  I'm getting used to the online books, esp. if you put them on "large" and they turn out to be fairly searchable - you have to use the "go" button on the search window rather than hit "enter" though.  The Racoon didn't turf out the PFC, btw, they'd already left; I'm in the midst of drafting a talkpage comment about Astoria because at some point in 1818 there was a re-possession ceremony by the US because of consequences of clauses in the Treaty of Ghent; this is explained in Begg, maybe S&H, and definitely in the Akriggs (who spend a lot of energy bitching about it, as opposed to their older-generation colleagues who are more moderate in their Yankee-bashing).  Still haven't finished that edit comment, gonna go play music right now, but I put egg on my face re a certain change in the lead paragraph at Ft Astoria; the fort itself seems to have been still under the aegis of the NWC after 1818; but titularly it was again US property, even though the company wasn't; somehow it works, but I cant' make sense of it; Ft George was among NWC assets sold to the HBC in 1821....Skookum1 (talk) 17:26, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

For the Montana trip I got the Jack Nisbet book Sources of the River, about David Thompson. Have you read that one? It looks very readable yet well researched. It's high time I filled in the gaps of my Thompson knowledge (which is almost all gaps right now). I added a bit from the book to the Kullyspell House and Saleesh House pages (looked them up because our trip will be going right by those sites). Also just learned of yet another US-Canada spelling difference: Peigan/Piegan people. Too bad Thompson's name "Saleesh River" for the entire Flathead-Clark Fork-Pend Oreille river system didn't catch on. There's far too many confusingly changing names in the whole region!
 * If you happen to cross the border during that trip, I recommend the loop up via Trail via Castlegar to New Denver, over to Kaslo, down to Nelson, then down Kootenay Lake to Creston, then back into the US there if you like (Yahk's pretty dull, Cranbrook's a "big ugly" as far as towns go, but don't tell them I said that). If you do go up the Slocan (to New Denver) the Cedar Creek Cafe in Winlaw is ultra-tasty, but so's Cissy's coffee place across the highway ;-)Skookum1 (talk)
 * NB at Castlegar don't stay on Highway 3 to get to New Denver from that route; follow the signs to Pass Valley and it'll bring you into the Slocan somewhere in between South Slocan and Slocan Park...apparently the much more beuatiful of the two routes.....Skookum1 (talk) 17:37, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd love to do part of the trip through BC, but our passports have lapsed and as I understand crossing the border these days is not as simple as it used to be, so alas, we probably won't. Plus we got a place to stay post-Glacier that is south of Missoula, so that takes us rather away from the border anyway (And actually if I remember right, the main difficulty is getting back into the US without a passport or birth certificate or something of the sort. Perhaps I'll double check anyway). We have a "someday" plan for a trip north from Spokane-ish through what I vaguely think of as Kootenay Country, perhaps to Kootenay Park and our old friend Yoho. ... someday. Pfly (talk) 18:20, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The passport thing was big politics up here because of our dependence on tourism and also on international trucking and, to border counties, it was big politics because of their dependence on cross-border shoppers and their local spin-off tourism (meals etc). You'll probably find out your fine with your drivers' license/ they mostly colour-profile; it's not an issue for coming into Canada, you only need your DL for sure.  Cross-border lingo's funny; if somebody up here said "Kootenay Park" they might htink you were meaning Kokanee Park (which is also a short form), high in the mountains just norht of Nelson.  For Kootenay National Park we always say it that way, I'd expect in the East Kootenay they'd say "up in the national park" to refer to it in local conversation, or by its full title; Yoho is either just Yoho or Yoho National Park; only provincial and regional parks get abbreviated like that; other than maybe Mount Revelstoke National Park, as Mount Revelstoke Park, but I don't recall hearing any of the others referred to that way.  Been to Missoula long ago, on a return-hitch from Denver/Aspen via Rifle/Baggs and Rock Springs/Lander/West yellowstone, got marooned in the Gallatin Range for hours....that whole trip would make a good little short story I guess, though without an introduction or conclusion...got back from Missoula, where my ride from somewhere that side of Butte/Anaconda had given me their floor for hte night, and tried to make it back via Whitefish and Eureka; which I did, but not without having to set up in the pitchdark miles and miles from nowhere after slogging for miles (I'm a determined walker, even with heavy packs); finally crossed at Elko or whatever it's called; an easier drive than hithc, to be sure; but if the mood strikes you another loop you could do is up through there and via Fernie and Crowsnest to Pincher Creek, side-jog to Waterton Lakes (the Canadian half of Glacier National Park, and I take it back, Waterton Park it's often called, but that's another exception); Prince of Wales Hotel salon is an eye-popper with a view of the lake; anyway it's back down through Helena; probably the long way around; and the West Kootenay is more interesting, I'd say; the West Kootenay and East Kootenay divide at Creston, which is in the Mountain Tiem Zone unlike Nelson to its north; I'd always thought of Creston as WEst Kootenay because it's near Kootenay Lake, but apparnetly not so; and I think there are those who say the east sdie of Kootenay Lake is also, by definition, East Kootenay; to me that term means from Yahk onwards to Cranbrook; but then I use it to mean the Columbia Valley, too, but according to those from there it's not in the Kootenays ("Kootenay Country" is kind old-fashioned though the weather guys do you use, which is probably where you got it from) because it's nowhere near the Kootenay River; liekwise the Arrow Lakes, though that's so tied into the West Kootenay it's usually seen as part of it; likewise the Boundary Country, which is actually older settler/development-wise than the Kootenays but is now derelict and only part-populated; I've seen "North Kootenay" in reference to Revelstoke but if anything I'd say it was Columbia Country (with the Arrow Lakes and the Big Bend and Golden/Columbia Valley, but that's a subregion of the larger Kootenay region anyway; and that region is because of the Kootenay Land District, which sans the Okanagan and Kettle/Granby basins is defined by the Columbia's drainage in Canada.  Hmmm just remembered that I have to create Category:Flathead Country which is a subarea of the East Kootenay metaregion, and should provide some interesting controversy as it its usage re Montana; the other subcat of EK in that area is Category:Elk Valley and it's just not the same; though the Flathead is only accessed through there.....ah well, hope you didn't mind the geolingo lesson; it's funny how it shifts around BC, how one term means something in one area and not quite the same in the other, or the difference up North (in what htey call the Central interior, i.e. PG-Quesnel) in saying "down on the Coast" (Vancouver/Victoria and including hte Lower Mainland) and "out on the Coast" (a more general term but more referring to the outer, Central and North Coasts; then there's the neologism westcoast vs "West Coast" and re that last term what BCers mean by it, and what people from TO or east of the Rockies mean by it; we mean it to include Seattle to LA/Deigo, for them it's just "WEst Coast of Canada" (Toronto's winter beach....).  Anyway, time for a sooke; played amazingly just now, wish I'd had that Zoom H4 mp3 recordeI've had my eye on for a while...gonna get it soon, hopefully.Skookum1 (talk) 20:25, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Re border crossing: Things have changed from the way it was when I lived in Buffalo, NY, routinely driving to Toronto in my late teens early twenties. It was so lax they often didn't even ask to see ID at all, and certainly not for passengers. Usually just a "Citizenship? Where going? How long? Ok, have fun!" Re Kootenay Park: Yea, it reads odd to me too, I was just to lazy to type "National". Re trip routes through BC: One of the things I like the most about living in the PNW is that within a day to several days drive in any direction there are interesting scenic places I would like to explore. There's so much it would take a lifetime to decently explore without even getting past several hundred miles from home. And that's exactly my plan. Plus some places warrant more than one visit. I think the term "Kootenay Country" was in my head due to a touristy booklet I browsed in a hotel lobby a couple months ago. Its "Kootenay Country" extended far north. It was a rather shallow take on the region though, trying its hardest to make every single tiny town sound like a wonderland, come visit and spend money here! Anyway, my notion of where "the Kootenays" are was first formed by the location of the national park. It was only much later I learned more about the river. The geolingo info is good. BC is big, compared to US states anyway, getting the hang of all its various regions would be like doing the same for WA, OR, ID, and MT, and then some I figure. A few years ago I was surprised en route to Yellowstone by the Wallowa Mountains. Craggy glaciered mountains in northeast Oregon, I had no idea! Anyway, on this trip we're about to take at least I'll get to see the Kootenai River (if not the Kootenay River). Never have before. We'll probably stop to see Kootenai Falls. I'll try to imagine David Thompson portaging around it. Pfly (talk) 05:02, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

I know what you mean about the lack of a Pacific Northwest History category. Then again the Oregon Country category covers it to some degree, with perhaps a less than ideal name. As for modern political geography cats, I'm always irked by the arbitrary nature of this state or that state, province, country, etc. Old historical geographic units often don't correspond well to modern boundaries. Within the US an example is the Cherokee homeland. It irked me when I was working on pages about various old Cherokee sites that some are in Tennessee, some in North Carolina, some Georgia, Alabama, etc. But anyway, it seems to me that even if a place it not within the present boundary of BC (or any geopolitical unit) but had an important role in its history, it is sensible to add to the category. WikiProjects might be different, unless they are history specific. It would be odd, for example, to see WikiProject Canada on, say, the Fort Nez Perces page. Pfly (talk) 17:13, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Turns out Category:History of the Pacific Northwest already exists, with OR, BC, WA etc subcats. In cases like Astoria I'd prefer it not be "refined" out if History of Oregon is there; if it has to be that way, then History of British Columbia I think I'll add just to annoy Aboutmovies....ditto with Colville, Okanagan and so on....did I forward you the stuff about the Sinixt on The Tyee by the way; if not I've got some "interesting" stuff to email-forward to you......Skookum1 (talk) 17:29, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Does the Cranky Wanker subcategory exist? sfs

"Canadian Columbia"
Yo skook, I read a comment you posted just the other day, when was there ever a campaign to change us to "Canadian Columbia"?? I never heard of it, but then I haven't been around very long. However I do agree that Canadian Columbia sounds horrible and a billion times worse than British Columbia. If we do rename it Canadian Columbia, then I think we'll be the laughing stock of canada. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TotallyTempo (talk • contribs) 01:04, 15 July 2008 (UTC) TotallyTempo (talk) 01:05, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The proposal was only ever in a letter-to-the-editor naive/fringe sort of way, same as the various pomps who campaign for Canadian Southwest instead of Pacific Northwest (for BC, that is); the BC Coast is by definition the "West Coast of Canada", though to us, as a side comment, "West Coast" has always included down to California, at least for my generation (50s), and for those from BC for a long time, not relatively new arrivals from other parts of Canada.....the Canadian Columbia thing, when it comes up along with other silly ideas, has to do with eradicating the British legacy, as if it were a bad t hing, isntead of intrinsic to BC's history and culture; it would be like renaming Quebec "French Canada". The terms "American Columbia" and "Southern Columbia" I've seen used by historians, somewhat idly but in the corse of lamenting its loss,, as names for the lost parts of the Columbia District.....I agree it would make us the laughing-stock; in may ways we already are....Skookum1 (talk) 02:10, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

NO NO NO. ALL WRONG. It is British California. Please. sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 03:52, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * LOL & chuckles. 'Twas me who coined that, back in the '70s, can't remember if I ever sent it as a letter to the editor but somehow it got into circulation; I'd come up with it not just because of the British-ized version of West Coast-ness, but also its similar shape and in fact there's the old historical links; British Columbia was founded as an extension of California mining culture and of the California population; it was in a very real sense what the name says; the British gold colony on the Pacific, isolated by vastness and danger from the cities of the East, just like California.  I swear, it was me, nobody had used it before that; maybe my memory may jog as to when....it's an easy-enough comparison to make, on the other hand; I wouldn't be surprised at all about the parallel naming/coining, it's definitely a pun or sort-of-pun to be made ("pastiche"?).  Works for me.  I recommend it as our name upon attaining statehood...wadday think? :-) Skookum1 (talk) 05:28, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Statehood. Hmmm. We already have the Peoples Democratic Socialist Republic of the Drive; Her Majesty's Crown Colony of Ambleside; the 51st State of the Union of Langley; the Maharajas of North Delhi-ta; the Emerald City of Loopyland called Saltspring; Disneyland of Descent called Whistler and on and on.


 * The one that has interesting appeal is Skookum Illahee, the Skookum Country, also the Country where "Skookum" is used/known, or where the Skookum/monster roams; but that term would include AK, YT, WA, OR, ID, MT etc. Nice idea and way catchier than Cascadia IMO, and with historical/cultural roots on both sides of the aboriginal/settler divide, no?Skookum1 (talk) 05:30, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * "Skookumiht (yaka) Illahee" would be "Skookum1's Country/Land".Skookum1 (talk) 05:44, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * sfs, see user talk:CindyBo and User talk:24.81.76.183|your numerical-ID talkpage]]. Keep the banter on talkpages, remember?  Cindy writes on all kinds of stuff you'll be intersted in.  Hey wghat do you know about Bulion, i.e. the pit/town south of Barkerville?Skookum1 (talk) 05:44, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Bullion-- very little, there is a very good book on Quesnelle Forks, it might be in there or Bruce Ramsay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 15:43, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

--- Yeah man we could go to "Skookum Columbia"...afterall British Columbia is pretty skookum. Random story skookum, I was in otario for the first time ever, and over dinner one day me and the boys were talking and I said, "yeah that's pretty skookum" and nobody had any clue what I meant. I couldn't believe it, I was naive to think skookum was really a common word, not just westcoast. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TotallyTempo (talk • contribs) 05:03, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Alberni Canal
I didn't read up on any past discussions about it; the only thing I did was to correct the fact that the word "Canal" should have been capitalized but wasn't. Bearcat (talk) 02:19, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Hi Skookum, I just got a chance to look at my talk page. I've been pretty busy this spring and summer. Work has been insane and time consumimg and I rarely get online these days. I'm hoping to be able to relax and get back on here a bit more. No, you didn't lend me the Water Powers book and yes a Steamboats of the Peace River would definitely be worthwhile... but the information is sparse, which is why I was leery of attempting it. For some reason I've always found it difficult to find good sources for the history of that area. I'll keep a look out though. I know there was a DA Thomas and a Peace River that worked up there. Ci ndy Bo talk  02:26, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Nice to hear from you, Cin......on the subject of the Peace River, and the Omineca, I just found a bunch of great resources at http:/www.nosracines.ca - Bancroft, Begg, Scholefield & Howay, and more. Begg and Scholefield & Howay have lots of steambot/railway stuff, and also Begg's account of the Omineca/Peace has details not currently on the Omineca Gold Rush page, dollar value, no. of men (1,200) and so on, plus Wright's wagon road from Babine to Stuart Lakes (I think it was, or Babine to Takla), and boats on those lakes......similarly found lots of great stuff in various palces about the Stikine rush, and also am still procrastinating writing Steamboats of the Thompson and Shuswap and haven't done Steamboats of Lake Okanagan or its Skaha counterpart up from stub yet; been distracted elsewhere like always, lately in maritime names and the boundary disputes. The links t o the books in question are on User talk:KenWalker among other places; I've got to make a sandbox with all the online books I've found lately. If you just go to nosracines.ca and at right on the English intro page you'll see "all articles relating to British Columbia", and shop through there; business directories as well as historeis and mining reports etc. as well as full versions of Morice's histories and much more. Also http://www.livinglandscapes.ca from the RBCM has a Northern/Central Interior section. I've been reading Begg and Scholefield & Howay quite a bit, and Wade's The Thompson Country (The Cariboo Road, sadly, isn't online); see Thompson Country for that link. Nice to ahve you back, now who did I give Water Powers to? hmmmmSkookum1 (talk) 02:38, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Alaska Boundary Dispute
I looked over the article you sent me, and posted an updated version of the map in Talk:Alaska boundary dispute reflecting the position of British Columbia. Let me know what you think. shaggy (talk) 19:50, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Flag of Vancouver Island
If it does have a blazon, I don't know what it is. I just reconstructed the image based on the two images I referenced on the flag's description page.

BTW, the FOTW page says that the staff of Mercury in the seal represents commerce. --  Denelson83  00:16, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Bridge River Cones
Hi; do you know if the satellite photos of the Bridge River Cones are in the public doman? I'm asking you this because you seem to have been the one who added the link and I can't seem to find the permission. Black Tusk (talk) 01:17, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * US government data (that's not classified) is public domain/fair use - there's a JPL/NASA tag but I'm not familiar with it; look at the documentation of the image on Monashee Mountains or Vancouver Island Ranges. Same series; also Atlin Lake.Skookum1 (talk) 02:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Good, thanks. I noticed when I looked at the site's link it has NASA so I had a feeling they are public doman but I asked you because there's a note saying: NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted" but there appears to be no note for these images so it's most likely not a big deal. Anyway I cropped some of those images for some of the volcano articles, such as the Ring Creek lava flow at Mount Garibaldi, a lava flow from Silverthrone and an image of Silverthrone. Black Tusk (talk) 03:35, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Comments
Hi Skookum1. As a suggestion, could you put your comments in the talk page rather than embedding it into the html? That is where most people will see it unless they are actually doing an edit. Also that allows replies and such without cluttering up the actual page. PerlKnitter (talk) 15:41, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Peace Paddlers
Skook, i see you have gussied up and put garlands on the Peace article. One thing the U of A server is real persnickity and so the link is now dead. It has great pics of steamers tho. Read discussion page on Peace. sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 11:32, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Needles ferry
I created this page and thought you might be interested/able to help. I figured the "town" info could fit in within this ferry article, since it doesn't exist anymore. But I really couldn't find much on the internet, and don't have much info on bc history at hand. Maybe you can find a little more in your books and expand? - TheMightyQuill (talk) 15:25, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't have much on the Arrow Lakes in what books I still have, and those are nearly all back in BC; the online resrouces like Howay and Begg don't say much in particular if at all, mostly to do with mining/steamboat traffic from a certain era. Local histories of the Arrow Lakes are likely to be where stuff is found, or in the various ghost towns books/series, which I don't have.  I think the title shoudl maybe be Needles-Fauquier Ferry too, no?  Not sure about the capitalization on "ferry" - what do the other BC ferry articles use, e.g. Lytton Ferry?  Is there a name-guideline for that?Skookum1 (talk) 15:59, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Just leeting you know I'm now also active here, a volcano wiki currently in contruction. Black Tusk (talk) 21:26, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Timber rattler
Hi Skookum1, After more than a year, I haven't been able to forget your comment that the common name "timber rattler" (and possibly also " timber rattlesnake") is used in Canada to refer to C. o. oreganus. I'd be very grateful if you could find any publication that I could use as references to link these names to this subspecies. Cheers, --Jwinius (talk) 15:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It appears it's not just a Canadian usage - I just did a google search] and turned up lots of US entries (including the Wisconsin Timbler Rattlers minor league bsseball team); Timber rattler often turns up in environmental summaries in BC - I'll look up one ref I know of in the Western Canada Wilderness Committee's site on teh so-called "Rainshadow Wilderness" (Bridge River-Lillooet Country and central Fraser Canyon in usual-speak).Skookum1 (talk) 15:58, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

cmc image
If you go here and search for control # 27000 it'll bring up the image, but no, they don't give much more info. It might be Spence's Bridge. I uploaded that a long time ago, so I'll try to fix up the image info on commons now. TheMightyQuill (talk) 20:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Knock it off - please
Hey Skookum, this kind of edit summary is getting kind of tiresome. Most Wikipedians are not in the habit of adding articles to WikiProjects we're not members of. If you want to add them, that's fine; but drawing conclusions like this only shows your lack of familiarity with how others approach their editing. And a tendency to assume bad faith that is getting a little irritating. -Pete (talk) 05:29, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

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Hazelton
Hi, I see that New Hazelton, British Columbia is categorized as a ghost town, whereras it is "Old" Hazelton, British Columbia that is the ghost town. These two "towns" are often confused with eachother, and they're usually both just called "Hazelton" these days. I did the Hazelton article first and then when someone started a New Hazelton stub, I copied a bunch of the information over. But I don't know how to go about showing their distinctions. Old Hazelton was the staging area for the Omineca Gold Rush and the sternwheeler landing, but when the railway went through it bypassed the old town and New Hazelton was formed, where that historic robbery occurred, and it is that town that still survives today, population 700 and some. Still... someone searching for information on the town is likely to search for Hazelton, not "New" Hazelton. Any thoughts? Ci ndy Bo talk  19:09, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but not many clear ones. I had a look at thte main Hazelton article a while back and realized it really needs to be a bunch of different articles; my reasoning for the ghost towns cat is that even New Hazelton is vastly shrunken from its former size; just because a palce is still inhabited, even incorporated, doesnt' mean it's not a ghost town (New Denver, Slocan City, Greenwood etc.).  I wanted to get a regional map made for this area, but user:pfly who's really good with that sort of thing, just had a kid and has his hands full (of what I don't need to know).  Regional maps of this kind are needed for the Cariboo, the Slocan, the Bridge River-Lillooet and the Omineca, amond others....btw Steamboats of the Omineca Gold Rush came to mind while looking at Category:Steamboat articles by route, which I made yesterday.....reason for that title is otherwise Steamboats of Takla and Babine Lakes?  Blin-Wright had a boat up there, and another tollroad; cant' remember where I came across that, maybe BCGNIS.....Skookum1 (talk) 19:26, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that there was really only one steamboat that could be associated with the Omineca Gold Rush and I believe it was the only one to ever make it to Takla Lake. Wright's steamboat was the Enterprise (1862) from our Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River:

"In 1871 during the Omineca Gold Rush, the Wrights decided to take the Enterprise up to Takla Landing, 230 miles northwest of Quesnel, following a route that even the seasoned Hudson's Bay Company canoe-men regarded as extremely difficult. From Quesnel, she arrived in Fort George, then a large First Nations village and a Hudson’s Bay Company Post, and continued onto the Nechako River, up to the Stuart River and through Stuart Lake onto Tachie River to Trembleur Lake to Middle River, finally arriving at Takla Lake on August 12th. It would be a journey worthy of its own chapter of sternwheeler history and a fitting swan song for the pioneer steamer because, although it was an amazing accomplishment, it was made too late. Other supply routes had been made to the Omineca diggings, from Hazelton via the Skeena River. On her journey back from Takla, the Enterprise was wrecked and abandoned on Trembleur Lake."
 * Whereas the ones on the Skeena weren't really helpful to that gold rush either. They were used for the Collins telegraph or later for the railway, not the gold rush per se. I will double check though. What's still missing in the BC steamboat/gold rush set is Steamboats of the Stikine River (mostly William Moore's boats) and the associated article Cassiar Gold Rush. Not a lot out there on that gold rush though. Just tidbits here and there. Will be fascinating stuff once it's all brought together though. Moore and his son's exploits alone will make a good story. Ci ndy Bo talk  20:15, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh yeah, William Moore got a barge up to Takla too. I forgot. . Ci ndy Bo talk  20:23, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Lately I found a bunch of stuff on the Stikine Gold Rush and Fort Stikine also the Peace River Gold Rush/Finlay Gold Rush while reading through Howay/Scholefield and Begg......books are linked on Alaska boundary dispute and otherwise at http://www.nosracines.ca, where you might want to look through the British Columbia subindex.Skookum1 (talk) 20:29, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * About dragging the Enterprise all that way - have you seen Fitzcarraldo??Skookum1 (talk) 20:30, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * T.W. Pateron's Ghost Towns and Gold Camps series of books (Sunfire publ. I think) has a volume on the northwest of the province which probably has lots of useful stuff; I've only read the Bounadry-Okanagan-Similkameen voluem.Skookum1 (talk) 20:31, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Stikine and Cassiar Gold Rush same one or different? Ci ndy Bo talk  20:34, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Different; Stikine Gold Rush early '60s, Cassiar Gold Rush c.70 onwards; both used steamboats via the Stikine for access, though; bear in mind also one took place before the Alaska purchase, the other after; I'll try and find page-specific links in Howay/Scholefield and Begg for you; Bancroft probably also has something....Skookum1 (talk) 21:50, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

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Mystery of the Mountain Row Index
It is a mystery. I had a heckuva time trying to get the template to work at all --- it was always inserting mystery spaces (like you found), and often didn't update (like you found). I have no idea why. I figured I must not understand templates. We need a super template expert to look at it and see what's wrong. hike395 (talk) 04:57, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Why not just use wikitable - see List of ships in British Columbia or List of ghost towns in British Columbia; easily made sortable, way less complicated to use....certain oddities in code but nothing, well, weird like this is....probably should be on a WikiProject Templates talkpage or wahtever teh appropriate disdussion board/department is....Skookum1 (talk) 05:06, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Stikine
It was already being denoted as unorganized in the Subdivisions of British Columbia template (and I'm not the one who did that). So if that's wrong, it needs to be changed there too. Bearcat (talk) 15:27, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's where I saw the other reference to "unorganized"....I'll take it out, as it's not correct as it is an organized region, just not an RD.Skookum1 (talk) 15:33, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Welcome
...to the WikiProject. And thanks for your additions. If you need anything don't hesitate to pop by! Regards, --Cameron* 17:34, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Klahowya Tillikums
Thanks for your kindly "welcome back". I'm heavilly loaded up with school, so not logging-in much. Tom Lougheed (talk) 00:23, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Watcha takin'?Skookum1 (talk) 00:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * A math doctorate, with a specialty in Math Education. I want to become a college professor. Tom Lougheed (talk) 00:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Somehow that's more intriguing than the usual "I want to be a fireman"....I wanted to become a college professor too, which is why I went back to SFU thinking of finishing in history....then I met too many college professors of-the-new-cloth and decided I didn't want to be like them....different in math I suppose.....and more room for eccentric clothing/behaviour too..... ;-) Skookum1 (talk) 15:56, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Any progress about what to do with the (very valuable) vocabulary? I notice that other groups have "wictionaries", which seems to be appropriate for us. Tom Lougheed (talk) 00:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Given it some thought from time to time; in the meantime the vocabulary list has grown on its own, as various users have contributed either citable bits (all uncited, though) and a lot of personal interpretations/reminiscences. Much technically OR, in fact, as "personal reportage" and both of us are guilty of it, really; the reality is that CJ is organic in the population and the shortcomings of academia in showing interest in non-indigenous usages makes them hard to cite; if I ever published a book on the subject, with conversations and written exchanges I had on my own, then they could be citable (e.g. the skokum hiyu name for the CJ I encountered at Siska.  Despite efforts by some Chinuk Wawa-oriented editor to split off "Chinook Jargon use by English-language speakers", the main page continued to grow with non-indigenous references, English or otherwise; I've realized since that split-off article is a POV Fork and shouldn't have been tolerated and should be re-integrated; tyee needs a dab page as it goes currently to Tribal chief or the like, and saltchuck is in wiktionary for a saltwater marsh (as used in Puget Sound, apparently) but also needs a dab as Saltchuk Resources or something like that is a big company and "saltchuck" has other meanings in BC (maybe I can get Keefer4, who's been absent for quite a while, to look up his old journalistic styleguides for a cite....).  Anyway the vocabulary really doesn't belong on the article page; it could be moved to a subpage like what was done at Tillicum for entries that weren't linked yet.....Wiktionary - I think it's Wiktionary, maybe WikiSource - has the entirety of Shaw in it now, unannotated; it's the basis of my own online vocabulary http://www.cayoosh.net/hiyu/shaw.html but I annotated my version because some of Shaw's translations are so antiquated/contrived - "abase" for mamook keekwulee, for instance, and other quasi-clerical names - and my version integrates material from other dictionaries.  Wiktionary might be the place to put everything, though not in English Wiktionary (other than words used in English, and it's quite a list really) and maybe a separate Chinook Wiktionary is the way to go; you've seen this incubator, right?  It actually had a POV fork, too, and became http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/chn until apparently re-merged; it was an attempt to build a GR-Wawa-only incubator to shut out non-GR Wawa, but not just myself but other contributors added Shavian CJ spellings and the opinion there is it shoudl be a table showing all variations, not just the "official" one now being advanced by GR and the academics.  I almost hjave to recuse myself on the basis of wp:COI but my conscience won't let me, as other contributors and the entire academic field surrounding it, and most likely to be cited about it, are all POV in the extreme....Maybe we should copy the vocabulary list to a sandbox - I'll make one off my page - and get at harshly editing it and where possibel citing it; the body of the article needs re-ordering and obviously citation, and the POV-fork article needs to be "brought back in", and it was never properly titled anyway as "CJ usage by English-language spakers" is not hte same thing as "CJ words used in English".  I'm unlikely to have the time in coming weeks/months, and already spend too much time in Wikipedia as it is; but some basic actions to protect that vocabulary from deletion we could start on; I wish I had Terry's book handy, and my old xerox copies of El Comancho and other sources like Jacobs.....Shaw is treated as gospel on the one hand, and GR-Wawa as gospel on the other (Zenk, Hymes, Johnston and Holton), but there was no gospel; a couple of times I've had to undo edits which presumed to give the "correct" spelling or pronunciation of a CJ word as there were no correct pronunciations, it's not the nature of CJ to be that way; that's citable somewhere in Barbara Harris' work but her materials aren't online (and are accessed only via one of the POV academics now in charge of her files at U.Vic.....damned gatekeepers.....).  Anyway good to have you back, having you around will get me paying more attention to those pages; but like I said I'm definitely a POV person within chinookology; it would help if I published somewhere else on the web, but.....(I'll write some books someday, but other topics than CJ will be first up to bat....in the meantime I'm pursuing, or pretending to, a musical/compositional career of sorts).....Skookum1 (talk) 15:54, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * There's also a reverse-hybridization thing relative to GR's creole status - I keep on coming across name-cites in BCGNIS and elsewhere, where the local native language has incorporated a CJism to the point it's considered to be their own language; see the BCGNIS for Comox Glacier, for instance, where kwenis or whatever is its Comox or Pentlatch - but kwahnice is in CJ and IIRC not from a Salishan language; and sometimes CJisms are as much French in origin as CJ, so it's hard to say whether htey were loanwords from the one or the other; or simlutaneous....maybe some academic out there is workign through such notions, but I doubt it; I did find one direct citation that CJ study was frowned upon because of its assocation with abuses in the rez schools....it's a built-in prejudice; b ut at the same time in one online forum my username was assailed as "appropriation of native culture/identity" as if non-indigenopus peoples don't have the right ot use the Jargon; on the one hand the subject of shame and disfavour, on the other some kind of private cultural property. If I ever do write a book or article, it's most likely to be on the POV-forking of Chinook and how the one side is trying to use it to deny the cultural inheritance of the other.....whatever, such conversations are maybe better left for email.  I've gotten a lot better lately at stepping back from my own POV (well, not always) so am mindful of making more wiki-like edits and additions to articles such as CJ now....anyway time for brekky....Skookum1 (talk) 16:07, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Personal page
I noticed that the page of black-and-white muscle photos has moved to a different location than linked to on your personal page. I liked the casual photos, and the abstracts. Tom Lougheed (talk) 00:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

NWC & PFC posts in Columbia District
After finally getting kid one to nap I took a quick look through Meinig's The Great Columbia Plain and made a list. You wrote something about wanting pages made for PFC posts, or something. I thought I'd post this summary here. With more time perhaps pages can be made and/or existing pages improved.

Ignoring posts not in the Columbia's drainage basin, except Kamloops (aka Thompson River), there are 13 posts mentioned, with 6 established by the PFC and 7 by the NWC. Upon NWC takeover in 1813 all became NWC posts of course, but at least 3 basically disappear (Spokane and She-Whaps, being right next to existing NWC posts, and the PFC's Clearwater post, which the NWC seems to have just abandoned). Here's my basic list with a few notes, in approximate chronological order:


 * 1) Kootanae House: NWC est. 1807 -> aban. 1809? 1812? On uppermost Columbia River.
 * 2) Kullyspell House: NWC est. 1809 -> aban. 1811. On lower Clark Fork.
 * 3) Saleesh House: NWC est. 1809 -> aban. ?, became HBC post? aka "Flathead Post". On middle Clark Fork.
 * 4) Spokane House: NWC est. 1810 -> aban. 1821? (superceded de facto by Fort Nez Perces?). At confluence of Spokane and Little Spokane Rivers.
 * 5) Kootenay (Fort): NWC est. "by 1810". On Kootenay River near today's Libby, MT.
 * 6) Thompson River: NWC est. 1812 -> becomes Kamloops. Built across Thompson River from PFC post of She-whaps.
 * 7) Fort Nez Percés: NWC est. 1818 -> HBC post. Near mouth of Walla Walla River on Columbia River. Takes over focal point role of Spokane House. HQ for Snake River brigades.
 * 8) Fort Astoria: PFC est. 1811 -> NWC takeover 1813, renamed Fort George -> restored to US 1818? New NWC Fort George post built right next to old one?
 * 9) Fort George: NWC est. 1818 right next to old Astoria/George after old site returned to US control?
 * 10) Fort Okanogan: PFC est. 1811 -> NWC takeover 1813 -> HBC post. At confluence of Okanogan and Columbia Rivers.
 * 11) Willamette Trading Post: PFC est. 1812 -> NWC takeover 1813. On lower Willamette River.
 * 12) Spokane: PFC est. 1812 -> NWC takeover 1813, never used? Built next to NWC's Spokane House.
 * 13) She-whaps: PFC est. 1812 -> NWC takeover 1813, never used? Across Thompson River from Kamloops.
 * 14) Clearwater: PFC est. 1812 -> NWC takeover 1813, never used? On Clearwater River "somewhere below Lapwai Creek".

Ok, gotta run! I'll try to add a bit more to this later. There's some curious clues in Meinig about Astoria becoming George and a new post being built right next to the old one which was returned to US control in 1818. There's a lack of info on the NWC post of "Kootenay" (not Kootenae House). There's also some interesting analysis of the systems as a whole and how the PFC system was far better organized in geographical terms and how even though the NWC acquired it all, there were problems in merging the existing posts and getting the whole thing to work. Also the names of the posts are rough at best. Anyway, more like that, gotta run! Pfly (talk) 01:30, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I see now what Begg/Howay&Scholefield meant about Ft Okanogan as a retreat from an intended Lower Columbia establishment; they'd been sent down from farther up, then fall back on the Okanogan confluence as a location; which given its location on the route to New Caledonia makes pretty good sense; if only there were much in the way of fur in the Okanagan country, that's for sure (you could skin lizards for boots, though) and as I recall the post didn't do all that well, which is why the guys came back down to Fort Astoria and got offered the joint over dinner, basically. Kootenay I've seen a reference to the location of; but these are all forts, yes?  Because there were other posts, I know for sure - Head of the Lakes, later Arrowhead - and another one I've never seen a name for at the head of Lake Okanagan, which is where Chief Nicola had his first job, taking care of the post from the two French-Canadians who'd put it up; probably not much more than a cabin; and in a name-ref in BCGNIS lately I saw something about a similar sotry, where natives could be put in charge of things in total trust an they kept good accounts, even did good business on behalf of the absnent white men, and not a shell or ounce of powder or flour would be missing; that's the story with Nicola, his reliability; but ditto elsewhere, and i seem to recall other NWC elsewheres; maybe Head of the Lakes Post was HBC-era only, not sure of its date of establishment/ but somehow the 00-decde of the 1800s is when I remember this story to have happened; damn maybe that's when his father died, I'll be back about that.  Point is I'm pretty sure there wer other minor posts; not forts - more like vault/cache/cabins, local depots where stuff would be collected ("stuff" = fur and whatever) for transport to the bigger posts; I don't have Teit immediately handy, think I've got him on one of my external drives.  But thanks much for the list, I'll get to that business of looking up the respective passages in the "Old White Men" historians - I'll just shorthand them as OWM now, makes it simpler (but that is a strange-loking acronym isn/t it?  I'm just drying off from playing out int he rain - walked all the way back from the North End in a torrential raintstorm, playing up a storm with the spaeker on, even if it was 1:30am, and stayed out another hour up on the Dal campus playing; soaked to the skin; ansering yours and black Tusk's messages and gonna have a smoke and hit the bed; 3:38am at the moment.  Played some great stuff tonight, too bad I didn't have the recorder with me - if I'd had a nice watertight bag to carry it in, which is something Il'l have to anticipate as I like playing in the rain; good of you to make Nekaune (sp?); the Kanakas article can be seriously enriched with material from the fur posts and related ships - Koppel maintains the renting-out of the island's youth was a major source for Kamehameha - but there's also later-era and current bios of Canadian Kanakas, or clans/families connected to them, among both indigneous and non-indigenous combinations; Portugesee-Haisal-Hungarian-Hawaiian' still a Kanaka, essentially; it's a bona fide ethnicity still in BC; I went to a seminar where the guy giving it was Kanaka....7th or 8th generation in BC, very rare, must be old "fur blood" (somewhere I heard someone use that for those who'd worked in the fur trad,e of any background....anyway g'nite...Skookum1 (talk) 06:44, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I've copied the list above to my sandbox, with a few BCGNIS and GNIS links I just dug up. Feel free to comment in and amongst there. I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing much due to time contraints, but you never know. The Okanogan post, as I understand, was not in itself productive, but was strategically important as marking the Columbia River end of the route to Kamloops, which was apparently a fairly productive region for furs (and of course connected to New Caledonia once in NWC hands). Apparently the PFC expedition of 1811 that established the Okanogan post split up, with one group staying there to build and man the post, another returning to Astoria, and a third going up to the Thompson River region for the winter, establishing the PFC Kamloops (She-whaps?) post early in 1812. So for the PFC's brief life the Okanogan post was perhaps the key inland post. As for posts vs forts, I think most of them started off as "posts", even if only a small leaky warehouse and a crude hut thrown together quickly. Some evolved into "forts" over time. Okanogan would be one example. The PFC post was, I think, quite ramshackle and hardly a fort, but later in NWC and HBC hands it was pallisaded and so on. And yea, fortification probably usually followed with indigeneous conflict of one kind or another. Some places, like Fort Nez Perces, were probably conceived of as fortified from the start, but I suspect most were not. And yea there were a number of temporary caches/cabins/etc with a lifespan of a year or several. Some of those survived long enough to become "posts" (Thompson's Kootenae House seems to have been temporary, then repaired, then abandoned, then reoccupied, and probably relocated a bit too). There's probably no strong line between a temporary cabin or post meant to last a few years and a site notable enough to be included on a list like this. The PFC's Clearwater post probably falls more toward the temporary-then-abandoned side of things. But according to Meinig the Clearwater post was a failure in that in local Nez Perce would not go out trapping, but a success in that through barter a good supply of horses could be had. Apparently the NWC and HBC continued acquiring horses in the general region long after the PFC Clearwater post was gone. That might raise the notability of the Clearwater post, since it apparently set in motion an enduring side-trade. I guess the main point of this list is to highlight not the sites that endured, but the ones that played a role in the brief competition between the PFC and the NWC. Like, the PFC's Spokane post was just a flash in the pan, but is notable as a direct challenge to the NWC's Spokane House, likewise but reversed for the posts at Kamloops, with the NWC countering the PFC post there. The PFC never got around to establishing posts in competition with the NWC's Kullyspell, Saleesh, and Kootenay posts, but they did apparently sent trading and trapping parties into the region, capturing a decent amount of the fur trade via trading brigades. I'm still not sure about the names of the Kamloops posts, for either the PFC or NWC. Meinig and other sources seem to offer various names from She-whaps to Cumcloups, with many simply saying Fort Kamloops or Fort Thompson, which names probably came about slightly later than 1812-1813. Anyway, most of this stuff I gleamed from Meinig. If I find time I'll flesh it out with details from that book. He doesn't dwell on the details of each post but takes a broader view, which can be interesting. From a broad geographical view he finds the PFC's system far better organized. They had their ocean port at Astoria, where ships could bring supplies and take furs to China. Then they had one main interior post at Okanogan with an extensions north to Kamloops and east to Spokane and the Flathead and Kootenay districts. Plus they had the horse-trading thing with the Nez Perce and had established a viable land route to St. Louis via the Snake River and South Pass. In contrast the NWC's Columbia District was still anchored to Montreal overland by 1813. They had plans to try to establish ocean access via the Columbia River, but the existence of Astoria complicated it somewhat. Their posts and routes were not as streamlined as the PFC's. They could cross the mountains and reach Kootenae House, and with some overland work access the Flathead region and Spokane. But they didn't have a good post on the Columbia itself, and the network of posts they did have was more jumbled than the PFC's simple Astoria-Okanogan-fur districts pattern. Anyway there is much more on all this. It seems that the PFC might have out done the NWC in the Columbia region if they hadn't fallen on bad luck of 1813. Also, the NWC eventually set up a system much like the one the PFC had in mind from the start and had begun to put in place. And with the HBC inheriting the whole thing, it makes the PFC's work all the more notable for having, in some ways, set the Columbia system up. Cool wrt music-- my big accomplishment has been for the 2 year old to let me play piano for a bit without coming over and "helping". But today his nap got messed up and I only finally managed to get him to sleep around 10:30. Then I had to wind down and now it's 1:30. I must get some sleep! But for this PFC/NWC post/fort stuff, perhaps look/add to my sandbox? Pfly (talk) 08:25, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

[undent]Begg's account of David Thompson's work gives the location of Fort Kootenay as being at the source of hte Columbia, i.e. Columbia Lake, but he doesn't indicate which end of the lake it was at; my guess would be the southern end at what is now Canal Flats. this is Begg, the mention is on p.96 and just below it begins his account of the PFC, which I'll proceed to read further now....Skookum1 (talk) 16:46, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Just read that Begg bit (the Google Books version is nice). I think by Fort Kootenay he means Kootanae House. At least the description fits. Also I just found . I entered the lat/long from BCGNIS into Google Maps and got this map. If the coords are right it was just north of Invermere. I think I've read that it was on or near the shore of Windermere Lake. So not quite the source, but close. Close to the west approach to Athabasca Pass I think. I think Thompson called the Columbia the Kootenae River, not realizing at the time it was the Columbia. Pfly (talk) 22:33, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
 * then what did he call the Kootenay River - or had he not been farther south than Columbia Lake at that point?Skookum1 (talk) 01:56, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm just going through Wade's The Thompson Coutnry, which promises to have great detail on the forts at Kamloops; in his preface he points to Father Morice's History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia which is also online - some on googlebooks I think - but I thought you would find this interesting, which mentions the post at the head of Lake Okanagan as being an outlier of Spokane; he doesn't say whether it was NWC or PFC and the names Montigny and Pion don't help much either, as the PFC had French Canadians just like the NWC did; he also mentions "...had established a post at Walla Walla" - would that be Nez Perces. Anyway I'll try and come back with other passages; hopefully that's a pagelink; if not the page number I meant to cite is 16.Skookum1 (talk) 02:48, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thte whole of Wad'es Chapter II concerns the first explorations of the country; he appeaers to contradict himself on pp.31-32 where he says Thompson descended the river to found Thompson's River Post, then on the next page he says Alexander Ross found no rivalry when he set up She-whaps.....Skookum1 (talk) 03:23, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Not much in Morice's early-period chapters, although nice detail on the composition of the brigades and teh sequence of fort-creation and the piont that Alexandria was set up expressly as a destination/terminus for a trail to connect to the Columbia; nicer details in Wade on Ross' tenure; Morice has some really great detail on Fort chilcotin though, and explains about Fort Kluskus (Tluskus he calls it) and Babine's role, et al. including character sketches of John McIntosh and whatsisname Fisher, and a really canny "read" on D. McLean's family origins and his own fate and that of his kids....Morice in later chapters seems more concerned with when various priests came by various posts and baptised how many; I'll have to read more of it later, gotta crash.Skookum1 (talk) 04:03, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

(outdent) then what did he call the Kootenay River - or had he not been farther south than Columbia Lake at that point? Yea, he first built Kootenae House soon after crossing the Rockies for the first time, at Howse Pass in 1807 (I was wrong about Kootenae House being near Athabasca Pass, that would be Boat Encampment). He hadn't been across the continental divide before. So he came down to this big river flowing north. At first he thought it might be Fraser's Tacoutche Tesse. In any case his goal was the Kootenais he knew lived to the south and wanted to trade. So he canoed up to the Windermere area where the Kootenais had camps. He liked the area so much he decided to establish a post there. Apparently the Kootenais did not know whether the river was the Columbia (or rather, which river was the "main river"-- not surprisingly since they were most familiar with the Kootenay River, their "main river"). They told Thompson about the Kootenay River and soon guided him across Canal Flats. The Kootenais seem to have known a lot more about the Kootenay River and Thompson came to think it might be the main branch of the Columbia. Anyway, it appears that Thompson called the upper upper Columbia "Kootenae" after the people he met in the Windermere area, and he called the Kootenay River "Flat Bow" after the Flat Bow Kootenai people. Later he "officially" named the Kootenay "McGillivray's River", after William and Duncan McGillivray. By then he knew his "Kootenae River" was most likely the Columbia itself. Anyway, it is curious how Thompson explored and mapped the major northern tributaries of the Columbia (Kootenay, Flathead-Clark Fork-Pend Oreille, etc) in detail over several years without quite being able to reach the main river itself, not knowing for some time that the very first river he found and built a post on was the Columbia. Pfly (talk) 05:12, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Some offhand thoughts about: ...the post at the head of Lake Okanagan as being an outlier of Spokane... I'd guess that would be NWC after the takeover of the PFC. Spokane House was the main interior headquarters until at least 1818, so once the NWC acquired Okanogan it would naturally become an "outlier" of Spokane House. For the PFC it would have been just the opposite, with their Spokane post being an outlier of Okanogan. The phrase "at the head of Lake Okanagan" seems odd. That would be far north of the PFC/NWC Fort Okanogan, which was at the river's junction with the Columbia. Plus, isn't the "head" of a lake its upriver end? On:  "...had established a post at Walla Walla" - would that be Nez Perces. Yea I reckon so. Lots of these forts had several lives under different powers and often moved around. Fort Walla Walla is probably most known as a later-era US fort near the city of Walla Walla. There's an "Old Fort Walla Walla", which is nearer to the Columbia. The NWC Fort Nez Perces is, I think, an even older "Fort Walla Walla". The site is apparently underwater now, thanks to one of the big dams. And yea, sounds like there are errors in that Thompson River stuff. Pfly (talk) 05:12, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, the head of Lake Okanagan - as in up by Vernon. Teit gives something like Okanaqen for the name of an indigenous fortress there; Nicola's family was from the Penticton end but for some reason his father had taken refuge in the redoubt there because of continuous attack, and that's why the chief of the Kamloops Shuswap (his own brother) told him about Nicola Lake and moving up there to get away from the b.s.  I'll dig out the Teit, I think it's on my old D: drive, and mail it to you (TIFs) as it's quite interesting overall.  The north end of the lake makes a whole lot more sense for a post than the south, if you know hte surrounding country - more valleys converge on the north, the country is more open, less arid/harsh and the forests thicker (more fur-bearing).  Why it was connected to Spokane House and not Fort Okanogan is a mystery though; unless it's because the one was NWC the other was PFC.....the name-roster of the respective companies will tell the tale.  Montigny and Pion, keep your eyes open.  Head-of-the-Lakes aka Arrowhead may have been the same kind of post; it's historically significant as where the survivors of the Dalles des Morts straggled into; but then so is this post as "where Nicola earned his stripes....and got his armoury for the war on the Setons"....hmmm had another thought about the North Okanagan post (to coin a phrase), but it slipped my mind in the course of the just-now tangents.  More coffee, I'll be back....Skookum1 (talk) 13:14, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh oh... I misunderstood, thinking the post being described was Fort Okanogan. Now it makes more sense. I hadn't heard of a post at the head of Okanagan Lake, but it makes sense that there would be something or other along the road, and yea, the north end makes sense. There's a bit of info about Dalles des Mortes in the Nisbet book. Been meaning to see if there's anything worth adding to the page about it. Pfly (talk) 14:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah; Fort Spokane and Spokane House are two different articles....and your note about the US military's Fort Walla Walla being different than Nez Perces also made me think of it - should Fort George and Fort Astoria be separate articles? Likewise She-whaps and Thompson's Riveer Post; or should Fort Astoria incorporate both of the former, and the latter be written up in a joint article, as they all became one post (all three, as there were two of one of them). This was something I( was already puzzling over re Fort Stikine, as that's a redirect to Wrangell now, though from what I read Fort Wrangel, other than having a different purpose, wasn't on the same site, though near to it....and the same spot had been the Russian Redoubt San Dionysios (Dionysos), htough the Russian name was the Russian word for "redoubt".....I'm faced with similar stuff in the course of the Lillooet town article; there were also Parsonville, Maryswville, Fort Berens/Behrens and Bridge River in the vicinity of today's town, as well as Cayoosh Flat, which is what became the town proper. Further complicating matters is the presence of three major villages in the area, plus lots of smaller name-sites.  In the case of Kamloops I was already going to suggest a local map showing hte locations of each post...but I've got so many map projects for you (Grewater Hazelton, the Cariboo goldfields, the early posts/towns of the East Kootenay/Columbia Valley.....damn if only we got paid for all this huh? Time for brekky (and more REgis and Kelly, who keep me company over my cold coffee each morning....).Skookum1 (talk) 13:36, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The 2 or 3 sources I dug up call the PFC post Fort Spokane, or just Spokane, so I guess that may be the name of the place, even though it's hard to believe it was ever anything close to a "fort". On whether Fort George and She-whaps should have a pages, my gut reaction is that it makes more sense to describe them within the Fort Astoria and Fort Kamloops pages. If for some reason they grew to great length then maybe split them off. At least give them redirect pages for the other names, etc. Same with Spokane House and Fort Spokane I would say, especially since Fort Spokane lasted no more than 2 years and was "absorbed" into Spokane House. I think I added some info about that to the Spokane House page last night, actually. Anyway, gotta run myself! Pfly (talk) 14:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Begg
Hey, also I just found Begg's book "History of British Columbia from Its Earliest Discovery..." online at Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=vsQOAAAAYAAJ and available in PDF form. Perhaps easier to read than in the archives website. Just fyi. Pfly (talk) 08:59, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Hart Highlands
Hi, I see you made an article for the Hart Highlands Ski Hill. Do you think we should we have one for Hart Highlands? I can probably dig up a bit of info. The history is fairly sparse though. This area's only been incorporated with the rest of the city since '75 or so. Ci ndy Bo talk  02:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I did link it that way; various neighbourhoods elsewhere are documented, in Kamloops and such, not just the Lower Mainland; matybe there's a farm history, or individual logging/highway history there, like at Spuzzum and Shaw Sprigns and such; over time such an article can grow. I don't konw PG neighbourhoods enough to have begun, but linked it assuming it was gonna be so at some point.  I also made Purden Ski Village but haven't got to Tabor yet; made Little Mac and Murray Ridge and Shames also, and re-set up templates - Ski areas and resorts in British Columbia and Ski resorts in South-Central British Columbia (incomplete) and re-did Ski resorts in the Canadian Rockies; if there's so much as a community rope tow in Dease Lake or Muncho, it should go in there too; see ski.  Anyway, yeah do a neighbourhood stub, or series of stubs, and start a Category:Neighbourhoods in Prince George, British Columbia (or is that "of"?).  Anyway g'nite, gonna go have a look at the wacchlist.Skookum1 (talk) 03:45, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Books
Just looked more closely at the books you recommended. I already have The Resettlement of British Columbia on my list, and just added On the Edge of Empire. The Lutz you mentioned must be Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations. Gosh, only $85! Heh. My list of books to check out is pretty long and included a lot of expensive ones, and out of print books too. Here's a few relevant to the stuff we talk about. Let me know if you are familiar with any and if they are decent or not. Some on Google Books (limited preview), some on Amazon (often unavailable and/or spendy):


 * Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History, Gary Graham Coupland, et al


 * Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island, Daniel Wright Clayton.


 * Maps & Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier, Hugh Brody


 * The Lifeline of the Oregon Country: The Fraser-Columbia Brigade System, 1811-47, James R. Gibson


 * The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History, Harold Adams Innis, A. J. Ray


 * Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies, John M. Findlay (ed)


 * Spain and the North Pacific Coast Essays in Recognition of the Bicentennial, Robin Inglis

More on other topics later. Started reading the Begg book as a PDF. So far he seems to have his facts in good order and with much detail, but man does he pepper the text with patriotic pro-British Canada BC stuff! Definitely a counterpart to some US-centric books with rabid POV. And not only does Begg rah-rah Britain and Canada whenever he can, but he puts down Spain, the US, the Russians, and anyone else in the way. It definitely reads like it was written in the late 19th century! Anyway, seems great for detailed history, if you can see past the POV, wow. Pfly (talk) 21:21, 5 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanx. The title On the Edge of Empire twigged my memory for Tools of Empire, which I meant to tell you about a while back.  Nothing about BC in it, but I think you'll find the chapters on steamboats as high-tech military advances will really make you look at the steamboat era in a different way, even though he's only talking about Asia, the Mid-East and Africa.....can't remember the author.Skookum1 (talk) 21:33, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Another reply, on Willamette Valley

 * There was a lot of beaver in the Williamette, I think; might have been trapped out....must have been a lot of natives, although I haven't seen anything in the Oregon history articles about pre-Oregon colonization populations.

I have a copy of the excellent Atlas of Oregon (I wish every state, province, and place had such a great map book devoted to it). It gives the pre-contact population of what is now Oregon at 50,000 to 100,000. And that mostly concentrated along the Columbia River, the lower Willamette Valley, and a few other resource-rich coastal estuaries and river valleys. A language map shows the Chinookan family at the northern end of the Willamette Valley along the Columbia River, with the rest of the valley speaking the Takelman-Kalapuyan, which I hadn't heard of before. There are also a number of detailed maps showing epidemics. It looks like the Willamette Valley got hit hard by at least 7 to 9 major epidemics (smallpox, measles, malaria, influenza...) before 1840. There's a map showing conflicts and war with the Indians, and the Willamette Valley is strikingly empty. It looks like the valley was nearly depopulated by the time Oregon Trail settlers began arriving en masse. The few survivers ceded the whole valley in 1855. One curious battle/conflict/event on the map is labeled "Umpqua Massacre (North West Co.) 1818".

Also, the atlas's exploration maps show some trading posts, interesting to note which and by what name/spelling: Boat Encampment, Kootenay House, Spokane House, Flathead Post, Okanogan Post, Fort Walla Walla, Fort Vancouver, Fort Astoria (Fort George), Fort Umpqua, Fort Colville, Fort Boise, Fort Hall, Henry's Fort (these last three in Idaho), and various far flung places like Yerba Buena.

Anyway, on beaver trapping in the Willamette Valley, from what I can remember from old reading I think the fur companies had trouble recruiting the Indians and eventually brought in some Iroquois trappers and sent out company trapping parties down eventually clear to California. I suspect the region never yielded as richly as regions like Flathead and Kootenay. But I am not sure. Something to look into. Pfly (talk) 22:27, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Y'know Surrey here is the "City of Beaver" which was warmly and wryly received. S'pose Salem is the same way. What a good idea, leghold traps for methheads... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 02:43, 6 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Doh, how could I forget? One of the biggest cities in the Willamette Valley is called Beaverton, Oregon. Pfly (talk) 04:23, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Just to follow up, a bit of research suggests the HBC deliberately trapped out the Willamette to create a "fur desert", as they call it, hoping to discourage Americans from coming to the region. Pfly (talk) 17:36, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

showbc.com
I ran across one IP adding several links to it and removed those. I then checked Special:Linksearch and found a couple more. One was being used as a reference so I left that but removed the otheres. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 21:03, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I had a look at one of the pages, then tried one of the videos linked, supposedly a tour of Barkerville; it didn't go there, but somewhere else entirely, though I think that might have been a code-flaw. I'm not sure what ot make of the site; only google ads, seems otherwise funded to build video gallieries for cmomunities; still making money whenver somebody goes ot that page though, with no real content other than the vids....www.britishcolumbia.com is privately-operated and carries ads, but also has lots of useful texts and sometimes is hte only ref available for some communities.  HelloBC.com as noted is "legit" as the government tourism site but also does rebranding, as in "Kootenay Rockies" and "Coast Chilcotin Cariboo" (usual region-joining is Cariboo-Chilcotin-Central Coast) and "Northern Vancouver Island" (we say "North Island").  ShowBC.com, by its name, woudl seem to be affiliated or a byproduct of a similar govenrment program, though not directly from BC Tourism.....I guess it'll all depend on what it's being linked to/on re certain pages in future, we'll see......Skookum1 (talk) 21:29, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

COPYRIGHT NOTICE
The material from the Doukhobor Gazetteer which appears on the Raspberry, BC Wikipedia page is copyrighted and appears there without permission. As you appear to be involved on that page, please remove or else contact the author for appropriate permission and acknowledgements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.87.229.18 (talk) 14:21, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You are just PLAIN WRONG and apaprently seem to think your copyright inclucdes ownership of facts, which it does not; you only own your precise wording. In any case, given your shitty attitude, I won't even try and create articles for the dozens of Doukhobour communiti8es without Wiki articles, and Doukhobour history can slide into copyrighted oblivion for all I care.  I don't like being accused of plagiarism when I made careful efforts not to plagiarize.  So go stuff it, and if you don't want the world to know about the history of your poeple without having to buy your book, I hope they don't buy your book and it's maybe a good thing your history gets forgotten....Skookum1 (talk) 16:08, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course I could always use only Simma Holt and local newspaper editors/collumnists as sources, and avoid Doukhobour sources altogether......is it prereferable to you that anti-Doukhobour columnists will be hte primary source of information on Doukhkobours? I just think you don't have a clear understanding of what copyright is, or what Wikipedia is, for taht matter.  Your Gazette article cant' be augmneted over time, it's fixed in stone; Wiki articles can be enhanced from multiple sources, made better than anything previously extant by virtue of that; it seems you'd rather have this community deleted from wikisapce......so be it, and your little three sentencesabout Raspberry are all that will ever exist; the Wiki article would have been a place wheer additions about events and people in Raspberry's history could be added as they were found; but you have essentially asked for it, and Doukhobour-dom, to be wiped from Wikispace.  A fine way to build a legacy and let people learn about your people.  Own your history all you want; just don't expect anyone else to care.Skookum1 (talk) 16:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for adding the copywio template. I should only have raised a question to the IP at the discussion page. Nsaa (talk) 00:45, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Na-Dene Spelling Conventions
Hello! Please, join our discussion on the spelling of "Na-Dene" on the Na-Dene languages talk page. Thank you! --Pe t 'usek [ petr dot hrubis at gmail dot com ] 11:10, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

BC Regional Districts
No problem...I'm still checking for double redirects, since the link that's supposed to automatically check for that right after a move doesn't seem to be doing so. Categories will have to be changed over manually — AWB isn't working in Linux right now, so I can't just do those all myself. As for the people categories, for what it's worth, it's actually pretty standard form on Wikipedia to group people by a census division (county, regional district, etc.) if they're from towns or cities too small, or with too few notable people on Wikipedia at present, to merit categorization by individual town or city. It would be pretty rare for people anywhere in Canada to identify themselves as being from Timiskaming District or Westman Region or La Vallée-de-l'Or rather than a specific city or town, so it's not really a uniquely BC issue — it's just a Wikipedia workaround for places which aren't big enough to merit subcategorization by municipality. Bearcat (talk) 20:08, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thin is, in BC we do say things like "I'm from the Cariboo" or "I'm from the Okanagan" or "he's from the Kootenays"....the solution I'm using will be to create, e.g. within Category:People from the Thompson-Nicola Regional District into subcats Category:People from the Nicola Country, Category:People from the Thompson Country etc ("People from Merritt" and Kamloops cats already exisst and similarly for other areas, e.g. Category:People from the Chilcotin as a subccat of the Cariboo RD people cat.....btw Category:People from Okanagan-Similkameen should have "Regional District" added to its title. can a non-admin change a cat title?  Or would you mind fixing that one?Skookum1 (talk) 20:16, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * One reason I don't like the RD people cats is that RDs were only come up with c.1967 or so, and they're just not suitable for old-era people; John Fall Allison and Francis Xavier Richter I can comfortably put in a Category:People from the Similkameen but I don't like putting them somewhere that didnt' exist yet....even moreso with early FN peoples, and part of my objection to RDs as region-classifiers is that lands outside provincial jurisdiction are also outside regional district jurisdictions (whether that's IRs or prov/fed parks). Most of the area of nearly all RDs is outside the RD's actual jurisdiction, whether by dint of Tree Farm License, provincial park, or IR/federal lands.....people whoc can't/dont' vote in RD elecdtions can't be considered tobe part of the RD; likewise FN governments, which are otuside RD jurisdition and in very real ways even outside provincial jurisidictino; if you ask them, they're not even in BC....Skookum1 (talk) 20:20, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

More RDishness
Agreed that "the" needs to be added as appropriate for categories.... more broadly, I do share your general squeamishness about really thumping away at regional districts here on Wikipedia as if they really are powerful definers of identity -- they simply aren't, and I think editors from outside the province have, though acting in good faith, perhaps been a bit too quick to treat RDs as if they were highly-visible and frequently-referenced geographical units, like, say, counties. This in turn becomes a sort of self-fulfilling problem, in that editors from outside the province who have mostly learned about BC's second-level geographical classification through its treatment on Wikipedia are more likely to perpetuate the sort of high-profile role for the RDs that doesn't exist in people's headspace.

Anyway, I don't know why there's no consistent RD name format (the Foo-Bar Regional District vs the Regional District of Foo-Bar), but it shouldn't be fudged in the name of Wikipedian cleanliness. There seems to be a rough pattern of RDXY being a more common format in the hinterlands and XYRD being more common in the core, but there are exceptions (TNRD, CSRD, PRRD, NRRD and SQCRD; RDN). To draw upon my local example, I've never heard of an "East Kootenay Regional District," ever, period. It's always always been the "Regional District of East Kootenay," and almost always been referred to in plain speech as the Arr-Dee-Eee-Kay -- reinforcing, I think, their status in peoples heads as alphabet-soup institutions rather than places. The Tom (talk) 01:17, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, that's largely true of BC, also (and LA)......but I agree, institutions is the critical meaning of the usage/awareness that we're familiar with; in fact, I'd venture that if word-occurrence data in speech nearly anywhere in BC that "SLRD" or "RDMW" are used at least five times more often (or more) than the full name of the RD; the other reference would be contextual - "the regional district" (without identifier) when referring to the local body; rarely the full name in speech, unless by a news broadcaster. Never to the place, or not in the sense these other editors are using it for/interpreting it as.  I'm of the opinion now that applying "external" usages/interpretations of RDs constitutes something between original research and synthesis; creating a standard classification where none existed.  I may be doing a POV fork with the georegion cats - the "historical geographic regions" as I put it on their template; and those familiar with the usages know they're actually pretty exact as far as borders/areas go; maybe I'll do an external paper some day somewhere that can then be cited ;-)  I've tried explaining over and over that RDs are creatures of the Municipal Act and special enacting legislations (usually Orders-in-Council, even less democratic than the ledge already isn't), and that while lots of things belong in those categories - many notable regional parks could use articles, for example - there's things and people that just don't belong.  BC has distinct 'geocultural units" because of its landscape and history and the evolved identities of various regions; until latter-day consumerist/broadcast homogenization set in anyway, though still quite evident from region to region, especially in the Interior.  That they overlap is part of the interconnectedness of the frontier landscape, in much the same way that native territories overlap.  My stock line about this is the RD is who you go to for a septic field permit or whose representative you have to expect if you build an addition or deck on your place way out in the middle of nowhere.  I don't know if you've noticed some of my edits - the use of "seat" is entirely inappropriate (unless RD sites use it - do they??).  As also inclusion of FN/IR communities which are unrepresented in the RD's government ("such as it is", because it's really an amalgam of governments with represetnatives from the regions the towns get to dominate thereby....or rather the mayors do, and those who got them elected; I know I'm being POV but it's the talkpage ;-) I haven't had the time to launch a set of MinEnvironment categories for BC Parks, but I think it's obvious; it's also a way for common doublings like Thompson Okanagan MoE Region where I guess MoE could be "Parks Region" - can't be "Region", though, too confusing.  Thompson-Okanagan, Thompson-Shuswap, Okanagan-Shuswap/Shuswap-Okanagan, Okanagan-Similkameen, Boundary-Similkameen, Okanagan-Boundary, Thompson-Nicola, Nicola-Similkameen.....Yale-Lillooet is comparatively simple by comparison, huh?  Anyway it's that complex of usages that made it necesary to me to create teh contents of [[:Category:Interior of British Columbia and its coastal kin (incomplete there for various technical stalling-points on definitions/boundaries/names).  But some of those doublings occur in other adminiatrative or geographic/scientific systems, and there are others yet; RDs aren't the way to sort out BC's hundreds of notable mountains, townlets, obscure historical people and events, and various things that just have nothing to do with what an RD is in the life and mindset of the province.  I've been pondering some style guidelines for hte Canadian English guidelines, things like the capitalization of Interior, the inclusino of "the" with RD names, and other things hte outside paradigm can't ken about this wacky place; yeah, the country system is tangled; but the artificial boundaries and sometimes awkward or not-really-descriptive names of the RDs are also tangled; "Stikine Region" could at least have been "Cassiar-Stikine Region" and Fort Nelson ain't exactly in the Northern Rockies, huh?  In the meantime I'll do what I can about creating various "people from" or "xxx people" cats (when not causing confusion with native peoples, like "Lillooet people" vs "people from Llllooet".....g'nite.Skookum1 (talk) 05:35, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I should also note, and not unimportantly re original/research, that the RD cat usages and the way they're used in articles is being replicated around the world because of Wikipedia's interwiki reality; this is one of the reasons it's a bad idea to use them in the way they're being used....Will this sell? Probably not, but it's an example of Heisenbergian syndrome in historiography and geography; the creation of conventions of analysis and definition external to a culture which re-define it and thereby change it.....likewise the use of things like Cariboo A, Cariboo Regional District instead of Electoral Area A, Cariboo Regional District which is what it should be if actual BC usages are applied (instead of Census Canada's terminology, which was teh reason given for that)Skookum1 (talk) 05:43, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Deserts
Thanks for the help over at List of North American deserts, which is turning into an interesting and challenging self-education program. I don't know the northern deserts at all well, but I've lived and worked in all of the southern ones. I see we share a number of interests.... Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 19:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Interesting Topic.

Apple Pie, Cake, Cobbler, Donuts, pudding, jello... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 01:57, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Songhees
I noticed your edit to Fort Victoria (British Columbia) about the Songhees moving to the north side of Esquimalt Harbour. They did have a location on the north side of Victoria Harbour (see Songhees). Did they have both? -- KenWalker | Talk 17:52, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes; I know the spot you're talking about, where the big mock-heritage resort is now. Can't remember the sequence of events; the replacement reserve for the one on the Inner Harbour was the one on the north side of Esquimalt Harbour; that's even in BCGNIS somewhere and I wish we could search their info sections instead of just by title or location.  Just not sure in which year that transfer was made; when the Inner Harbour reserve was decommissioned, I'd guess.  This is the sort of information, by the way, I think belongs in IR articles (such few as exist despite a List page which indicates they all should, although the assumption is made their identical with communities, which isn't quite the case - land-title history, i.e. the reserve as a political artifact; many reserves have histories of being adjusted, augmented, reduced etc...anyway I'll try and rmeember where I've seen the bit about the Songhees transfer to Esquimalt an the circumstances; read it recently...and IIRC in more than one place, might have been in all the Begg and Scholefield/Howay I've been reading (lost of physical detail on the fort and surrounding lands in those, by the way, particularly Scholefield & Howay).Skookum1 (talk) 20:20, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Koreatown, Vancouver
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Maquinna rating (and Fraser River now)
Yeah, top was for sure an overreach. I'm not going to say he wasn't important, but he surely does not belong as a top importance Canada article (the assessment doesn't go to the subprojects). See Category:Top-importance Canada-related articles, which has basically only the provinces, a couple Canada-wide topics, and major cities (which I just added). He might need work and deserve better coverage, but he's not top importance. - Oreo Priest  talk 04:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * These top ratings were relevant at the British Columbia level and were assimilated into the combined template; if the Canada WikiProject is too rigid to embrace provincial-level ratings it's not very much in touch with the country's reality. The Fraser is primal in the history, economy and transportation of BC, similar to but not to the same extent as the Columbia (top, or at least high, rating in WP Oregon and WP Washington) or the Mississippi in the US projects and related state projects (at last "high").  The Geography of Canada WikiProject is now part of the Canada template, and the Fraser would be top-relevant in that subproject, likewise the History of Canada WikiProject.  The Canada WikiProject too often seems to be restritive by way of insisting on national stanadards that play down important content, and sometimes relevant perspectives, that are outside the supposed national norm; this applies in all things, not just Wikipedia.  Shouldn't the Canada WikiProject loosen up its knickers now that all the provincail projets and the geography adn history subprojects (and others) are now incorporated in a common t emplate; there's got to be a way to make the template inclusive, rather than restrictive....."inclusiveness" being a Canadian buzzword no less...there mut be a way to add extra functions to the province and subproject switches for sub-ratings.  And to me major articles badly in need of work should get top-priority attention.  So there's gotta be a waySkookum1 (talk) 05:59, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Malibu
Then the introduction and the infobox need to be revised, because they both give the misleading impression that it's just a summer camp. Bearcat (talk) 18:25, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * If you read the article you'll find the passages on its prior existence as a resort, although the writers of the page use "Malibu Club" to refer to T.F. Hamilton's operation which I don't believe was its DBA name. The Young Life camp is what there is at Malibu now, but their terminology "Malibu Camp" is in-house and not, again, the official name of the place.  I changed the intro to add the plainjane name and various other fixes (the opening word "Malibu" is only in italics now, I thought I'd put it to bold).  BTW I tried to make some edits and get "there is no section" when I try to use a sect-edit, and I get the Malibu, British Columbia redirect when I try to use the main edit-page.  !08 Mile Ranch also has a longer DBA name, but like other resorts-on-the-spot its listed under its gazetted name, not its DBA name.Skookum1 (talk) 18:30, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Just to note the page has spam/POV aspects which need correcting (note the last sentences of the first paragraph, e.g.).Skookum1 (talk) 18:32, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field
Just letting you know I cleaned up the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field article majorly by doing the major expansion I mentioned on my talk page. Further improvements will be made ;-). Black Tusk (talk) 21:57, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Elk/Beaver Lake
I'll give it some thought, but my work is keeping me busy! fishhead64 (talk) 21:36, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

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ATTN: sfsorrow
Barkley Valley just created; figure you might now something.Skookum1 (talk) 21:20, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Not much, is that the Alpha claim on Cayush? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 14:01, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't know what you mean by Alpha claim, but yes it's in the Cayoosh, just north of Duffey Lake. The only MINFILE eports I can find discuss other properties in which Barkley Valley Mines Inc. (Ltd? "Barkley Valley Mine"?); one in the Callaghan Valley and another somewhere, but nothing on the mine in the Cayoosh.Skookum1 (talk) 17:54, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

There was a gold mine at Cayuse in the 30s, I think it was called Alpha or Apex. they did hard rock were the chinese did placer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 03:37, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Goats and Rivers
Whoops. All well, should be a simple merge. I guess my habit on dabbing by river parent is to use the the full name, "River" and all. I'd merge 'em now except I'm not sure which dab is preferable (there's something in WikiProject Rivers about it I think). Plus I just woke up and can't think straight yet. Anyway, Goat River (Kootenay) and Goat River (Kootenay River) are them. Leaving for Boston early tomorrow, so, may not have brain-time for a bit. Pfly (talk) 14:18, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Boston? Almost my part of the world....business or something?  Halifax ain't much farther, but not that you've any reason to strike further afield.......there's a food place on Revere Beach that has HUGE roast beef sandwiches, and cheap buckets of dee-fried oysters/clams; about 2/3 along the length of the beach measuring north to south, just across the road from the artdeco metalwork lattice that lines the beach (whatever that's called).....Skookum1 (talk) 14:24, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * If you go by WikiProject Rivers then Goat River (Kootenay River) would be the preferred name. Kmusser (talk) 14:48, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * It appears, then, that lots of what's in Category:Rivers of British Columbia will need changes, as there are many I created/disambig'd with region or "truncated river" names, e.g. Beaver River (Selkirks) and Beaver River (Liard), by what WP:Rivers mandates, should be Beaver River (Columbia River) and Beaver River (Liard River), for starters...Skookum1 (talk) 14:57, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Probably, but it depends, keep in mind the point is to disambiguate, I believe the guideline is to use political units first and then the parent stream for rivers that cross political boundaries - so adding "River" in the disamb makes it clear you're not referring to a county, city, region, or something of the same name, but if that's still not unique you can use something else - I could imagine that the Columbia might have several tributaries called Beaver River in which case Beaver River (Columbia River) wouldn't be a good name. Kmusser (talk) 15:35, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * "Political units" is a dicey term; there are so many different kinds of them in BC, and the designation of Regional Districts as political-geographic units is highly problematic - see this discussion. So I used the traditonal geographic regions, e.g. Willow River (Cariboo) - the Willow is a tributary of the Fraser - as one example; I'll come back with more maybe, but I think you get the idea - the Willow as an example spans the Cariboo Regional District and the Fraser-Fort George Regional District; it has its discharged in the Robson Valley but is historically identified with the Cariboo (creeks feeding its headwaters were the most famous strikes of the Cariboo Gold Rush.....Skookum1 (talk) 15:47, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I think using geographic region names is fine, I don't usually use political boundaries below the state/province level except for very small streams that are entirely within one county in which case I'll use the county name. Kmusser (talk) 16:30, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

''Boston? Almost my part of the world....business or something?''
 * Family, to see the new kiddo, Caleb, and such. Prolly won't get to Halifax! Vermont is more likely. :-) Pfly (talk) 20:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I was just kidding of course.....but if you're in northern Vermont you should make a point of taking the extra hour or so to go check out Montreal; it's well worth it, no matter what you're into (although, being Gallic/Latin, it's also incredibly maddening....).Skookum1 (talk) 20:25, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Heh, well yes. But I've daydreamed in the past about exploring the maritime provinces, seeing Halifax, et al. There are (long) ferries from Boston I think. And Montreal is someplace I've almost gone to multiple times, but never seem to manage it. It would have been a simple train trip back when I lived in NYC, but never came to be. Someday for sure. T's family has a cabin up in Maine, rather near the border with Quebec. Someday it could serve as a base for longer forays. Someday. Pfly (talk) 21:28, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

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source
A source you might want to seek out if you don't already have it, I just picked up a copy and it has lots of good stuff on early Canadian history, including First Nations info - I'm planning on adding some items from it to that Oregon Country map you keep complaining about. Despite the name it does go past 1800 for the Pacific Northwest.



CJ story source needed
> figured you might have some knowledge of teh story discussed in this new section on Talk:Chinook Jargon Skookum1 15:21, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry -- I only know the Jargon I've heard from members of my family. I haven't read any books on the Jargon, although I've looked for dictionaries. Tom Lougheed (talk) 21:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * MacLeod's Books at Richards & Pender can help you, I'm sure, although I'd think a Seattle-area antiquarian must have something; still, it's popular material nowadays; there's a facebook group now, by the way, started by some non-indigenous (mostly) folks into reviving/honouring its role in the region's past and present etc; can't remember the bumpf :-) The odd part about the excised story is I remember hearing it told/discussed at one of the first two CJ conferences - those I atteneded - and also remember coming across it on-line; and the most likely place for that was in Tenas Wawa - it surprises me that Pasco now denies the story is his; but there are other sources such as his; I'll just have to poke around; I'm tired of the denialism and obfuscation/agenda/myopia of current CJ studies - mainstream, that is - and don't want to be POV about it; I'm just concerned for completeness as well as truth; the story is cited somewhere as an example of "spontaneous creolization" or whatever the term used in the page about it, something like that; using CJ as a framework, "a Chinese" (to use the modern "correctified" term) and a Swede improvise further lexicon in the course of their story, and manage to communicate contextually; IIRC the story indicates they traded words from each other's language, not only peppered their CJ with Chinese or Swedish words/pidgin; and somewhere glemde - forgot - is documented as becoming part of Puget Sound Jargon.  Current CJ studies are uninterested in such material, as it's inconvenient to their view that the proper form of hte language is as it was spoken/pronounced by native people, and that it is not of interest to study beyond that - even though its widespread use among non-native populations is what spread it beyond the Columbia; the "carrier" agents were the fur companies and the miners/prospectors....there's so much to this, but in wikiworld it's all synthesis if pieced togehter to make any kind of real sense; otherwise the claimed sense of academic CJ studies will prevail; sorry to go on about it, it's an old and sore issue with me; I'd invoke COI on myself but others less wiki-conscious are not likely to; the POV fork of the "among English speakers" page I've still got to take up with a formal merge; the split, and the title, are wrong by Wiki guidelines; but I've got so much on the boil I just don't have the energy to take on the process.....thanks anyway....our main task here is to deal with the lexicon; "words that were/are used in English" is the context of those that should remain, other than the key words of native origin which define the "pure" form of hte lexicon; what I mean by that is that quite often in regional English people would pepper CJ words in their English (or theoretically, French or Norwegian or Hawaiian or Japanese... etc.); it's a style of usage; "CJ word loans/usage in English" is maybe a better way for that stuff, and there's lots of examples in the historical literature, but the other style of CJ usage among non-indigenous, which is more straight CJ, maybe peppered with English or whatever; such conversations rarely got written down, and later on recorded, although they get referred to.....many people who could have been recorded among non-indigenous users, including mother-tongue users (bi/trilingual mother tongue - I know of two women from Pavilion who were raised speaking CJ and the Tscweylecw/Tskwaylaxw/Pavilion dialect/interdialect of St'at'imcets/Secwepemc spoken there....the bias in formal CJ studies has overlooked these people; in my view, somewhat wilfully and not without prejudice...but there I go being POV again.....Skookum1 (talk) 01:24, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Mohawk Civil War redirects to Oka Crisis
I hadn't seen your comment here before but I agree with you 100%. I have replied there. Double Blue (Talk) 05:41, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Category:International rivers
Should we be including boundary-rivers in this category? Should be decided now, when there is attention on it. Spamming yourself, Meco and CharlotteWebb on this. Franamax (talk) 00:03, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

RDs
I'm not being "hard as a stone" — virtually every argument you cited about the difference between an RD in BC and a county in Ontario was factually wrong about the way the Ontario system actually works. I have no issue whatsoever with reorganizing the categories if you don't feel that the current system is helpful, but I have a tremendous issue with the attitude you've decided to take regarding this. Instead of just changing the categories to the way you feel they should be organized, you've chosen to go on a rampage and insult the intelligence of anybody who ever participated in organizing them any differently — and that's really not acceptable Wikipedia behaviour at all.

For starters, it was British Columbians who started organizing things that way in the first place, not anybody else — my only "crime", such as it is, was to extend the categorization system that had already been started by the BC contingent itself.

Classification systems do not constitute "original research". They're purely geographic groupings, not assertions that "this is the same way the provincial government officially classifies these things" — Wikipedia does not have any inherent requirement to organize any category system on here in the "official" way, because officialism is not what categories are for or about. As an example, the similar categories in Quebec are organized by their broader administrative region rather than their individual RCM. And, for the record, I'm the one who organized them that way. So there's no inherent reason why the BC categories can't be organized similarly.

But you need to rethink your reasoning, because the fact that the current method isn't the BC government's official method of classifying the objects has no relevance to the discussion, and the claim that they're completely different from Ontario counties was based on a complete and total distortion of what Ontario counties actually are. In fact, the closest thing to original research I've seen in the entire discussion so far is the claim that there's a genuinely meaningful distinction between BC RDs and Ontario counties in the first place — you have yet to show a single proof of the claim that actually displays any understanding whatsoever of how the Ontario system works.

Seriously, though: if you were to put even half as much energy into actually reorganizing the categories as you've been putting into snarking at other editors because you don't like the way they're organized now, you could have everything done in a few hours tops. Are you familiar with the Wikipedia principle of WP:BOLD? How about WP:AGF and WP:CIVIL? Bearcat (talk) 16:37, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Hudson Bay Company and WikiProject Alaska
Hi Skookum, thanks for your response to the removal of the WP Alaska template. You may be right about the various HBC outposts, although I didn't see any of them mentioned in the body of the HBC article. My opinion, and maybe this should be discussed on the WP Alaska talk page to get feedback from other project members, is that the connection of HBC to Alaska is peripheral enough that the article does not fall within the scope of the project: There's no mention of "Alaska," no mention of places at any time considered part of Alaska and no Alaska-related categories. For a less important article, this might have gone unnoticed, but because HBC is so well linked-to, it was selected as one of about 20 articles for the Wikipedia 0.7 selection of WP Alaska articles. This is how it came to my attention that it had been added to the project. It stood out among the other articles which (with one exception) covered representative Alaskan topics. I take your point that there is a connection to be made between HBC and Alaskan History, but it may not be substantial enough to bring the article into the scope of the project, and in any case it has yet to be made in the article. Have I rambled enough yet? -- Shunpiker (talk) 13:25, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Greetings!
I came to your userpage after responding to your comments at Talk:First Nations in British Columbia. I know they say one shouldn't use one's userpage as a personal website, but I was fascinated and read through it all. It gives a depth and complexity to know "where someone is coming from" -- although of course you could be a teenage prodigy in New Delhi -- but somehow I think not. Anyway, I did have one serious question: the "bad hair day" image is great, but is there any chance you could give the original artist's name? I know you took the shot, but who painted the picture? You may not be in a position to find out, or the bus shelter may have been destroyed, but if you can, that would be a bonus. Thanks. BrainyBabe (talk) 08:36, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge discussion
Hi, I was wondering if you could reply to the discussion you started about merging the 1997 flood articles, found here? I replied to the discussion and would like to hear your input to determine if there needs to be further discussion before tags can be removed. Thanks and happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 23:51, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Green Party
The image size was pretty easy to fix. The #px switch actually goes inside the wikilinks, not outside. We don't need to use the "thumb" switch on an image that's already inside an infobox, though, because that just puts an extra box around it.

Regarding the copyright, is the new image a version that the party actually uses on any of its campaign materials? I can see that it's a field-reversed version of the logo that's present in the banner on top of the party's main website, green where the other one's white and white where it's green. So is it, for example, a version that the party actually uses on press releases where the background paper is white instead of green? If so, then it can be tagged as "fair use" in the same manner as any other political party logo. I've already done so, but if the new logo's status is purely unofficial then it might have to be deleted. Bearcat (talk) 02:09, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Fundy Basin
Just thought you would like to know I finally created the Fundy Basin article. Black Tusk (talk) 15:22, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * There's a section in Holland on the Georgia Basin/Georgia Depression, Fraser Lowland, Shawnigan Highland -?- something like that - Nanaimo Lowland, Nahwitti Lowland and other lower-Coast landforms; I just haven't had time and also had to delete my copy of the Holland PDF/map for space reasons on the laptop....Skookum1 (talk) 22:06, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't worry. I have been working on volcanic areas outside of British Columbia anyway, even expanded the Alberta volcano section on list of volcanoes in Canada by including at least 40 diatremes.....didn't know Alberta had so many volcanoes lol. Black Tusk (talk) 03:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * There's probably dozen more hidden in the ground that have not been discovered. An unexpected volcanic disaster in Alberta while British Columbia is taking a break from the Tseax eruption. (^_^) Black Tusk (talk)

Siwash tribe
The easiest way to request deletion of a page you created is to blank the page. I tagged it G7 for you. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 22:00, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * As noted on the soon-to-be-gone talkpage and in the template I find myself surprised this did not exist, or that a Siwash article did not exist; just because a word is un-p.c. doesn 't mean it shoudl be deleted, it still has a history, even as a derisive. "Siwash tribe" was a common way to refer to the Coast Salish peoples in the old days, and "Siwash language" you'll also see in sources; it's evolved into a derisive, like Chinaman and other words, but jsut because of that it does have a history.  Or I suppose tehre was never an article, but that surprises me; thought I'd seen it linked on Chinook Jargon use by English-language speakers or on Chinook Jargon, maybe only defined there; all of Siwash, Siwash language, Siwash tribe et al. could simply redirect to Chinook Jargon, like maybe other CJ words which may not otherwise warrant an article but which will turn up in sources to the currency that this one does, i.e. in English-language sources.....Skookum1 (talk) 22:00, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Oi ! Mesachie One
I see you have been degrading my Texada Term Paper. Lord only knows what you expect for an A. While the piece is not complete it is far better than most, and is way beyond the usual Coast Realty blurbs that passes for info around... sfs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 02:25, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * What in heaven's name are you talking about; see this it's the article's history, you can review MY edits; Iv'e mostly only applied style guidelines, italics, links, cats and such, and tidied up grammar and spelling and occasional bits of clarifying context. Don't complain, make it better.....Skookum1 (talk) 02:53, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Making it Bitter
The meaningless Grade marker, and Importance meter is what I was on about. a little excursion by me into territoriality and pettiness. I shall take up bingo in the future. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.76.183 (talk) 16:14, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * You completely misunderstaqnd the "class" and "importance" rankings; "class" is for the status of the article - does it have a map/picture, are things cited properly, is it free of errors/POV; "importance" is nation-wide, and tehre's only "top, high, mid, low" and "mid" doesn't cut it on the Canada-scale (other BC pages have been downgraded since the WP:BC's absorption into WPCan); "top" and "high" only a few things get out of many candidates, mostarticles of any kind are "low". Again, "class" is not a "mark", it's a rating to indicate what work needs yet to be done; it goes "stub, start, C, B, A, GA (good article) and FA (featured article)", with the goal being to improve the article so that it qualifies for GA or FA - FA means that it would appear on the main intro page to Wikipedia at some point, or is a candidate for same.  These have nothing to do with you personally, nothing at all.Skookum1 (talk) 16:37, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Big Bend Country
I created a stub for this page, based roughly on pages like Boundary Country and Columbia Country. I know next to nothing about the region and its history, but the redlink on the Columbia River page was bothering me. I did a quick google search and found a couple things. First the term "Big Bend Country" got a lot of hits for a region in Texas-- Big Bend (Texas) and the Big Bend region of Washington. I see now that the Big Bend page already has a redlink to Big Bend (British Columbia), which I had been considering naming the page given the other Big Bends around. Perhaps I will move the page after I post this. Second, the only hits I got on my quick google search were a few tourist/travel type websites, which I ignored, and Bancroft's History of British Columbia. So I used Bancroft as the only real source, even though he writes about the gold rush and not really about the geography of the region. Like, can it be defined more precisely than "region near the northern bend of the Columbia"? Anyway, I thought I'd let you know. Perhaps you can fix my inevitable mistakes and expand it in time. (on second thought, since there is no "Big Bend Country" page, I'll just leave it with that name for now. If you, or anyone, thinks it would be better disambig'ed, go for it. It probably makes sense to disambig now rather than later, but what do I know) Pfly (talk) 04:40, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * In Nat'l Geographic's archives, though not in the on-line availables which only go back so far, there's a title-article "Big Bend Country" on the Texan region, which is nearly synonymous with Big Bend National Park (name?) except for the adjoining cities, no? I even think the capital-C is quite common in the Texan usage, right?  And not so much maybe on the lower Columbia Big Bend?  In BC histories and travel guides you do see it both ways; but as with Omnineca Country and Nicola Country we tend to "think in capitals" so while you'll see "Big Bend country" you'll also see "Big Bend Country".  Now, as to how it's distinct from the Columbia Country that's tricky, as they're almost the same thing; the Columbia Country includes the Columbia Valley, and the Arrowhead (Beaton-Comaplix-Galena and kinda Nakusp) and in some takes also includes the Arrow Lakes, inasmuch as the latter are also reckoned to be part of, or closely attached culturally/historically, to the West Kootenay (which means the lowermost Canadian Columbia, the Slocan and the Nelson-(West shore of) Kootenay Lake, and sometimes Christina Lake.  The Big Bend Country is t he horseshoe of the Columbia from Revelstoke around to Golden (or vice-versa); it's "core" is the Boat Encampment, Mica Creek, Big Bend aera, but also indes Downie Creek and there were some other townlets and settlements around the eastern half of the horseshoe; Big Bend Highway should go to whatever the route is numbered as today.  Big Bend Country I thought existed; it would have to be a disambig anyway, or go to the Texan one, with the WA and BC ones as disambiguated titles with a hatnote maybe.  Most of hte usages I've seen in Howay and Begg and such seem to use small-c.....BC Tourism and other bodies have used it in caps form.....Beautiful British Columbia Magazine has an old article on the area, just before it was flooded out, using "Big Bend Country" with a capital-C but I don't know the issue/year (it was a quarterly, and a very nice one; the modern version isn't anywhere near as cool....if you're ever in VPL check it out and pull issues from the late '50s early '60s, window into another world in the out-country.....Funny I thought Big Bend Country I'd made - is there a delete record? - when I made the category; though maybe I put it off for lack of a concrete source; I was lucky with Thompson Country in that it's the titel of a book.....Skookum1 (talk) 20:59, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I dunno about delete records, was just working on eliminating redlinks on the Columbia River page. From what you say it sounds like the page ought to be Big Bend Country (British Columbia) or something similar. The disambig page for these things appears to be simply Big Bend. There's a couple of British Columbia redlinks on that page. Your comment about capital C Country is interesting. I just checked Meinig's book, which is right beside me anyway, and sure enough, when he writes about the Washington region he consistently spells it "Big Bend country". I'd never have caught that detail. The Texas region though.. you are probably right about it tending to be capital C Country. Anyway, have to run any moment as naptime is almost over. Pfly (talk) 23:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The capitalization matter is complicated by the fact that many sources, period and contemporary alike, are edited and/or published according to broader styleguides than the BC usage; capitalization usage tends to be in local media and writers/publishers, and again pointedly in (older) tourism materials and travelogues; BC was around a long time before there were regional districts; the early land districts provided some region-names, which have different meanings than they do now (e.g. the Lillooet District, which included the Bonaparte Plateau, Clinton etc. in general reference; now it's only a Land District reference in those areas, which have their own "country" names, which evolved over time as different areas opened up; there's also as I may have told you before their usage as Mining Districts, which isn't quite the same as Land Districts though based around them and the old Gold Commissioner/Government Agent since - which was regional government in BC pretty well up until the creation of the regional districts; local despots, essentially, especially in the old days; a Gold Commissioner was boss of a Mining District, and pretty well the next best thing to God; Mining Districts don't have the presence and power that they used to (well, they still have the power, it's just more covert...); nowadays the Forests Districts - which span the "countries" - are the de facto law on the ground, as 85% of the province is given over to management by the Ministry of Forests (hence my objections, or oneo f htem, to the use of regional districts as if they were actually all that important, which they're not....). Countries aren't always single valleys either (though they are in many cases, and sometimes they're called valleys - Bulkley Valley, Robson Valley; the Lillooet, Omineca and Cassiar Countries/districts are networks of valleys, likewise the West Kootenay.  The Thompson Country isn't all of the Thompson's basin, either; part is the Shuswap, another part is the Bonaparte and yet another is the Nicola Country; and there's still areas of the Thompson Plateau unaccounted for in that list, e.g. the Clear Range and Hat Creek; you can extend "+country" on nearly any terrain-locality in BC, though there's a level where the capitalizations kick in; "up in the Tyaughton country" vs "Tyaughton Lake is in the Bridge River Country" - although in passing I'm pretty sure I've seen capital-c even on Tyaughton (beautiful spot, recommend it as part of a loop trip into Canada when your kid's big enough - see Spruce Lake Protected Area and related articles)....the "country" usage is ingrained in BC,definitely a usage inherited from the days when BC was a transborder expression of the American West and its ways and lingo....and there's a real sense of "country" in the sense of vastness and/or distinct-ness in all cases; "the country around Churn Creek" isn't quite the same in context as "the Churn Creek country" (which I've never seen capitalized, and largely have heard only spoken, as with other cases like it, i.e. remote/minor "countries"); it tends to be only large regions that are capital-C, though there are exceptions; but again finding citations for the capitalized versions is gonna be tricky, and I've noticed a lot of Wiki title-capiatlization oddnesses resulting from guidelines; one of my concerns with the broad application of guidelines is the standardization of diversities and variations in modern English; the creation of a stylistic hegemony resulting from those very rules; it has the effect of synthesis and the creation of a neologos, a new paradigm of the language....this issue, how to cite teh "countries" even though smalltown editors and boosters/historians are hard to source unless your in locus, are the kind of thing that gets me thinking in that direction, that without allegedly wanting to, the net effect of the collective WikiMind is to generate new formalities of langauge, and new modes of classification, nad committe-created terms and categories; all very curious huh?........"curious" in the British sense there...the flip side of BC being an extension of the Old West is that it was also heavily British to the point of being considered more royalist and British in flavour than parts of the Auld Sod, be it Scotland or England or Wales; right alongside the Yankee or Southern miner or rancher, and mixed in with aristocratic Germans and adventurers from all over....their legacy is one reason I started teh capital-C country categories, being bold and all that; they're well-known usages, the most common usages next to certain others like the tourism and envirnoment regions (Thompson-Okanagan, Kamloops-Shuswap) and ingrained electoral district names - Okanagan-Similkameen, Boundary-Similkameen; I've seen Thompson-Lillooet too, and heard it spoken as such (with "the", not with "country" - though I've heard "in the Thompson and Lillooet Countries" (weather broadcaster, my capitailzation because of teh regional identities he's invoking).  The regional districts are just part of the mosaic, and things like the capitalization of Country and of things like the Interior and the Island and the Mainland; all that has been washed away in the name of national guidelines; here it's citability, but with the dominance of Central Canada in publishing and academia and media, i.e. their styleguides, there are fewer and fewer materials, or those in wide circulation enough to be citable anyway, where local usages are easy to cite and reflect in Wikipedia and in anything else; for me it's a bit of "my heritage" slipping away as I've watched it happen; and I'm like Canute against the tide or Lear against the wind, more like, about thte govt's rebranding of regoins like "Kootenay Rockies" and conctions like "Coast Cariboo Chilcotin" (which at least has a history behind it, though the boundaries have been oddly extended to include Lillooet and the Bridge River Country - which though richest in gold, are not in "Gold Country" (have to do a List of British Columbia tourism regions I think...).  I notieced by the way on one of the Okanagan talk pages, either Talk:Okanogan County, Washington or Talk:Okanagan orhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Skookum1&action=edit&section=70 Category talk:Okanagan Country, about the Washington usage of that term, apparently in capitalized form....hadn't considered that before, though I've seen Flathead Country and Clearwater Country and such re MT/ID; Category:Okanagan Country and certain others could probably be shortened to most-modern-usage which is just plain Category:Okanagan (gets even more complicated because of Category:Okanogan, maybe one can redirect?).  Anyway, g'nite, hope it's not a long one; I'm back to edited tracks, and trying to convert/edit some old al fresco vids from down on the docks last winter....rough sound, bojangles duds, but some neat grooves....Skookum1 (talk) 00:08, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Woo, long reply- shorter reply: I knew there were some Country regions in the US too, and a quick search turned up a number of wikipedia pages, like: Texas Hill Country or just Hill Country, this one is pretty famous; North Country, New York, a term I heard often enough while at Oswego College; Copper Country; Pike's Peak Country; and others. Some are clearly tourism-oriented of recent coinage, like Green Country (Oklahoma) and maybe Wine Country (California). Some are historic are not used today, like Ohio Country, Illinois Country, and of course Oregon Country. Btw did you notice your link to Gold Country goes to a real page, but in California? Some years ago I began an attempt to make an "atlas", using GIS, of what I naively called "Cascadia", which included western OR, WA, and BC. I never got beyond sketch maps except for one "political map", which showed counties in the US and regional districts in BC. I had not previously known about regional districts, or any other possible "county equivalent". They seemed to fit the bill for "most similar" to US counties, but iirc of much more recent origin and with a much larger range of sizes. I never really learned what they were really. I would love to find some kind of atlas, perhaps historical in part, of British Columbia, showing the various ways of divying up the land, from land districts, mining districts, forest districts, etc, to "countries", and so on. Canadian provinces are so large, compared to US states, it is difficult to get a decent geographical overview sense of the lay of the land and such. Ah well. Have fun musicking. I rather wish I had time for any such fun. Even 10 minutes to play some Bach would be lovely. Someday.. Pfly (talk) 07:06, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

request your contribution re Canadian residential school system
I've seen you are interested in Canadian residential school system. Would you care to add a few sentences (or more!) to Human rights in Canada? I just started the latter, and it got swiftly slapped with a, i.e. someone telling me off for only really talking about Human flagpoles (which I've also just started, asked for help with here.  Anyway, any contribution is welcome. And if you really ARE still on a wikibreak, apologies for disturbing you. BrainyBabe (talk) 17:59, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll make some comments on the respective talkpages, but largely (though you wouldn't know it from my edit history) I don't have the stomach for a lot of political content, especially voluminous material like human rights violations; in that case I'm going to propose a name-change to List of human rights violations in Canada, which is more apparently what your conception of the article is in its complete form. The broader issue of human rights if that's the main component of the title would cover the legal history of human rights, which is a lot more involved and more of a general subject than just a directory of the violations; this would include, interestingly, things like the head tax attempted on Americans during the gold rush (!) and the escaped-slave defence against extradition by the US Consul in 1858/59 Victoria....and the shooting of Ginger Goodwin and other such events; also the Oka Crisis internments of "non-combatants" and int'l observers and such; yes, there's a lot that could be added but my energies are already over-extended; the wikibreak template I've been meaning to amend, at the same time as removing myself further from daily maintenance; there are articles that I've done research for that I should add to before I'm gone (again).....but as said I'll add some comments/suggestions on the respective talkpages.  One piece of wiki-advice I'll give you is to avoid the use of qualitatives and comparisons, unless you can cite them ("worse for indigenous people" and "one of the worst human rights abuses in Canadian history" are entirely subjective and NPOV; NPOV takes a while to get used to, and to shelve one's own perspective in the course of finding neutral language/exposition - WP:Soapbox etc applies to articles written with a tub-thump content-set/language, though a lot remains unedited for NPOV out there in all fields/topic areas.  Also does the source for "Human flagpoles" in the opening paragraph establish that term, or where is its coinage from?  I also don't think it's unique to the Inuit, cf. Hans Island and Fort Astoria and many others; I've seen the term in the media but I doubt that it's in widespread use; "Cold War relocation of Inuit" is probably a more accurate and wiki-style title.Skookum1 (talk) 20:50, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your thoughts. Please do add them to the article talkpages (I am not sure if it is etiquette for me to do so), because even if you cannot change the article itself, others can use your links. Human rights in Canada should indeed be expanded to more than just violations.  Human Rights in Canada, bizarrely, goes elsewhere, which I have asked for help with redirecting.  Human flagpoles is not the best title and I like yours, if there are no other such events to which it might refer.  I didn't know of the places you mentioned, though I was aware of Canadian territorail disputes, but aren't the ones you mention uninhabited?  As for NPOV, yes I agree: "one of the worst human rights abuses in Canadian history" is not my phrase but that of the Royal Commission (as cited in both articles). BrainyBabe (talk) 09:04, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Geography of Canada template suggestion
I was looking at some articles related to Canadian geography and noticed some of the articles have conflicting ratings. The Canada WikiProject too often seems to be restritive by way of insisting on national standards that play down important content, and sometimes relevent perspectives, that are outside the supposed national norm; this applies in all things, not just Wikipedia. The Geography of Canada WikiProject should have its own template to deal with this issue since most Wikipedians don't seem to give a damn for Canadian geography. There's topics that are rated mid importance that are supposed to be more appropriately high or top importance (e.g. Canadian Shield, Canadian Rockies, Fraser River etc). And to me major articles badly in need of work should get high or top-priority attention. Anyway I wanted to send you this because I know you are conclusive with the same issue. Black Tusk (talk) 22:36, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * And especially because there's very few Wikipedians involved with the Geography of Canada WikiProject. Black Tusk (talk) 22:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Tseax villages
Thanks for adding the village names on Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds Provincial Park that were destroyed during the Tseax eruption; learnt more about the eruption tonight ;-). Black Tusk (talk) 04:35, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm surprised you havent' been all over Dimlahamid and Dzilke, the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en "cities" that were destroyed by the Rocher Deboule Range; whether it was seismic in origin or what I wouldn't care to venture, haven't raed the litearture deeply; there's only two books I know of, Barbeau's Downfall of Temlahan and Glavin's Death Feast at Dimlahamid, although I know Stpehen Hume in the Sun has written about the events also; but again, there are other legendary places that were destroyed by this or that - remember my story about Frog-Woman and the Volcano stories up and down the Coast - there's a paleohistory out there that likely isn't as yet charted, or hasn't quite been tired together with, any hard evidence other than a few like the Tseax; I just added it to theNative peoples of the Pacific Northwest template btw; couldn't come up with a good short form for it. Volcanic incidents in Pacific Northwest legends might make an existing bit of research, but it would be synthesis and is off-limits...hmmm just realized I should put the Scowlitz Mounds on taht template....add anything else you might think of; remember it's meant to be a region-wide template not too local...."Holy Mountains" might make a good section though there'd be a name spat over such an addition for sure :-) just thinking of Garibaldi, Cayley, baker, Rainier et al. - "Mountains with particular spiritual significance" etc.....this would include Ts?ylos (Monmouth) and The Lions.....hmmmmmm now where's OldManRivers lately....probably having a life ;-)Skookum1 (talk) 05:02, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * lol. I haven't seen OMR on Wikipedia since June, even took the "wikibreak" off his talk page..... Black Tusk (talk) 14:59, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I wonder if there was any First Nation villages destroyed during Meager's 2350 BP eruption. It makes me think about the Tseax eruption since Nisga'a villages would have been destroyed in the similar way. Pyroclastic flows and floods most likely swept down the Lillooet River valley.......and with the ash thickness it would be hard to know what could be buried but it would probably be burt to a crisp; see the buried trees here that were burned in place. Black Tusk (talk) 17:30, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Silverthrone
Yeah here we go again. I will probably be able to get a clearer sat-image of the Silverthrone Caldera and add labels to the several peaks around its rim and inside the caldera. More Silverthrone suggestions would be useful ;-). Black Tusk (talk) 01:39, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

rockies template
Make you a deal.. I'll put in the subheads for National/BC/AB parks, but you get to sort them :P Prince of Canadat 02:48, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Easy enough, just x-reffing Category:Provincial Parks of British Columbia, which I'm doing at the moment; anything that's not in that or a federal park is gonna be in Alberta ;-); just tidying up a few entries, copule of thers to go...Skookum1 (talk) 02:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see you're still working on the format; I'll be back after and take a break; park names are misspelled but I'll fix that once you're done....Skookum1 (talk) 02:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Formatting is done, just sort into list1/list2/list3 :) Prince of Canadat 03:10, 4 October 2008 (UTC)