Talk:List of regional districts of British Columbia/Archive 1

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This page was listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion in May, 2004. The result of that discussion was to keep the article. For an archive of the discussion, see Talk:List of British Columbia Regional Districts/Delete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyrius (talk • contribs) 04:02, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

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What's with the recent edit???? Earl Andrew 03:08, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Researching historical RDs

I was raised in what was the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District, and there are others no longer extant like Central Fraser Valley Regional District and Cheam Regional District (or Cheam-something Regional District....ah! Fraser-Cheam Regional District ). And speaking of which pls see an SFD discussion re how to divide BC into subregions, or not, as IMO Regional District boundaries and names flux over time too much to be useful subdivisions of the province to classify articles/stubs by.....Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/January/6#.7B.7BBritishColumbia-communities-stub.7D.7D with redlinked Cat:British Columbia communities stubs And Earl Andrew - pls join the BC WikiProject (via template above)Skookum1 09:35, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Capitalization

As at Category talk:Regional Districts of British Columbia, I do not like and protest the non-capitalization of either "regional" or "districts" here, as these are legal terms and titles, not ordinary words; and the articles themsleves e.g. Comox-Strathcona Regional District are capitalized not Comox-Strathcona regional district, which I'm sure you agree (if you're from BC) just looks plain "odd". I've overridden Category:Regional districts of British Columbia with the capitalized version and its capitalized-version subcats, and also put a delete tag on Category:British Columbia regional districts. When I created the Coast/Interior subcats I was mimicking the main articles British Columbia Coast and British Columbia Interior, but in retrospect now that I've gone and populated them I think ti would be mroe stylistic to match Category:Interior of British Columbia and Category:Coast of British Columbia (which can have northern/central/southern subcats as applicable, and Lower Mainland/South Island subcats in the coastal case); so if those could be bot-omated to be changed I think it would be better; we usually say "the Interior of British Columbia"; either will do, so it's ajudgement call, I'm just wondering if it's better to stick to the name-format of the Interior/Coast geographic (non-RD) cats. The RDs could also have cats like Category:Lillooet Country but I haven't added those yet because not all "Country" cats have been created; e.g. Kootenay Boundary Regional District can also have Category:Boundary Country, Category:Kootenay Country and (?) Category:Slocan Country. And IMO as on the template talk page at {{Subdivisions of British Columbia}} the historical regions, not the RDs, should be used to "break the province" down. as they are permanent and not subject to political change/revision (as they are on a regular basis). Oh, and also I think "Category:People from xxx Regional District is noxious; nobody says they're from a Regional District - but they do say they're from the Skeena Country or the Boundary Country or the Central Coast; all the "people fromCats should be regeared around the historical regions...). Skookum1 05:37, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

"Districts" needs to be capitalized in title

It is in the RD article/cat titles and in other subcats; it's like not capitalizing "Interior" or "Coast" or "Lower Mainland" - something people from outside BC do...(and people who haven't lived here long enough to know better....). I've changed the main category to the capitalized form but this and the Regional District Electoral Areas article need capitalization also (including "Electoral Area" as like RD it's a formal title for a specific type of government body, not a casual wording.Skookum1 14:52, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure about capitalization. It would seem that the formal legal name applies in individual and specific instances, but not for the general category, eg, "Greater Vancouver Regional District," but "Regional districts of British Columbia," or "a regional district" but "the Regional District." Mind you, I'd apply the same logic to "Category:Prime ministers of Canada," which is currently Category:Prime Ministers of Canada. bobanny 17:33, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Corrected intro

The intro as it was written did not agree with the government primer. Notably, regional districts are very similar to U.S. counties in some states in that they provide the whole suite of local government services to unincorporated areas and limited services in municipalities. I have corrected the information based on the primer. -- Mwalcoff 01:03, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Origin of regional districts

In researching DARD Dewndey-Alouette I was reminded that it was only created in 1967....what was there before? I'm starting to recall that the system Regional Districts was created by the WAC Bennett regime as part of a reorganization of municipal government in BC; I'm not sure but I think the closest thing to regional governments beforehand were the Land Districts, as overseen by Government Agents. As I remember the political motivation had to do with giving municipal govts planning powers over surrounding unincorporated areas...a political fracas at the time seen as a power play by the Bennett regime. I'll see what I can find out; in fact I'll write Rafe Mair as hewas on the political scene in those days, though still as a journalist I think. This also is partly to do with the un-incorporation of the District of Dewdney, which was created in 1893 and downgraded sometime since, I don't think in '67. I'll take it up on the Communities subjproject of WPCan as to what to do with/how to categorize former incorporated or downgraded municipalities; there are several others (e.g. Sandon in the Slocan).Skookum1 (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skookum1 (talk • contribs) 15:47, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Regional (D/d)istricts of British Columbia

I have inquired about the proper capitalization of the phrase "{R/r}egional {D/d}istrict" at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board#Regional (D/d)istricts of British Columbia. Comments would be highly appreciated. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 02:05, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Recent addition of table

The recent addition of a table under the "Current regional districts" section is a great addition and is much appreciated. Its order of the second through six columns is unconventional however. I recommend reversing the order of these columns as follows: Name, Head office location, Population, Area and Density. Hwy43 (talk) 03:21, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Map still needs updating

Noting the changes by User:Hinto re the updated map, the map is not fully updated - the northern boundary of Kitimat-Stikine has been amended to include Dease Lake which was formerly in the Stikine Region; it's not clear what has happened to Bear Lake and/or Fort Connelly, which were in the southward "panhandle" to the south of Dease Lake; it's unlikely that area is an exclave of the Stikine Region and is probably now either in Kitimat-Stikine or, as makes more sense, in Bulkley-Nechako. A while ago I wrote the regional district asking for an updated map but as yet have received no reply; there is no suitable map on their website to base revisions on.Skookum1 (talk) 22:40, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

It's been nearly four years since i posted about that, still no change on the map; I'll look on the RD of Kitimat-Stikine's webpage to see if there's an updated one, maybe on the "Primer on Regional Districts" page at the BC Govt, which I'll link here next visit. For sure the RDKS boundary has changed.....which means that the Stikine region now doesn't have very much, if any, of the Stikine River basin in it, and is likely due for a name/status change soon.Skookum1 (talk) 02:15, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

This PDF map from BC Stats shows the new boundary of the Stikine Region, as does this one of the RDKS]. Neither are shown on the main map of development regions, nor on the main map of regional districts that way. I'd imagine I'll find similar at the "RD Primer" site. But those two maps serve to demonstrated the new boundary, which is an oblong block of land northward to include Dease Lake, with its eastern boundary close to Boulder City, which I believe is a jade mine/camp, I'll look into it.Skookum1 (talk) 02:59, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Why are there no hyphens on the map? Shouldn't the correct name be used?

I just noticed that....it looks really strange to see "Kitimat Stikine" without the hyphen, for example.Skookum1 (talk) 19:31, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

origins of RDs lie in demise of Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board

This is a note towards further improvement, I know from "being there" that the RD system was come up with as a way for the provincial government to more closely govern regional affairs via proxies from mayor's chairs, as the Lower Mainland Regional Planning Board, which was a semi-autonomous and would have been democrtically elected regional board, came at loggerheads with the provincial government's plans for freeways and suburbanization; as its name suggests it covered all of what is now the GVRD and FVRD. I'll see what I can find about it; its report, which was a big landscape-format planning book, should be in most universityh libraries. The whole point of disbanding it was to prevent the growth of strong regional governments within BC and keep a leash on such concepts via making them only extensions of municipalities, which are "creatures of the provincial government". Skookum1 (talk) 04:25, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Oh there's lots out there online. I hadn't realized it started during the Boss Johnson era in 1949; some of those links also explain more about regional districts that could be added to this and other articles.Skookum1 (talk) 04:53, 6 March 2014 (UTC)