Talk:Spuzzum

Spelling of humour

--humour/humor and humourous/humorous-- (the Canadian spelling is "humorous"; see Humour, wikt:humour) says Usgnus.

Hey, I'm pretty spelling impaired so I checked out Canadian_spelling#Spelling as well as Humour, but neither specifically addressed humourous/humorous - but [1] claims that the Hansards (the official transcripts of proceedings) by the Parliament of Canada use "humour" and "humorous" - go figure. In fact it seems as though "humourous" is almost always incorrect... j-beda 01:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Using correct terminology in the article

So is it a village or town? The article uses both. -- œ^™ 18:46, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it can be classed as either a village or a town in the proper sense. It's actually unincorporated (as can be seen on the sign itself), but an unincorporated what remains a question. The closest I can come is an unincorporated settlement. The reference in the unincorporated areas article is flagged for needing more references, but I think it would be apt to change its status. I'd like to research this more when I get home. CaseyCC (talk) 19:58, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Technically, I think it's a Post Office? XenCDN (talk) 00:11, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

First nations-related article?

This page is about the place in BC, not the First Nations people that reside there. If an article on Spuzzum is a First Nations-related article, then wouldn't anywhere there is a First Nations reserve be a First Nations-related article as well? I am a novice editor, but if there are no objections, I am going to remove the First Nations-related stub tag and at the same time try to expand this article. An article on a place like Spuzzum may seem trivial, but it`s a place near and dear to me so I would like to do this article some justice. CaseyCC (talk) 03:55, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

I would guess it's because the article devotes several paragraphs to the First Nations subject. But meh, it's just a stub tag, I don't think anyone will care if you remove it. Please do be bold and expand it though! Just don't forget to cite your sources. -- œ^™ 18:53, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, given the number of places in BC that are both reserve communities and non-native communities, there's an ongoing issue for me of whether these should be in teh Category:Populated places in the Fraser Valley Regional District (which is mis-named); in some cases like Port Douglas I removed it, in fact, because the whole population there is not governed by the regional district, but by the Douglas First Nation, which is outside the governance of the RD; that's a somewhat separate issue than this one because of Spuzzum's duality as both native and non-native....but NB the Spuzzum First Nation and Spuzzum Indian Reserve articles (maybe that 2nd one might better be titled Spuzzum Rancherie, a term I'm familiar with but maybe is obsolete locally), while being separate from this one (and from each other, one being about the government, the other being about the place, and Spuzzum people technically should be separate if ever an ethnographic article is written). But tell me CaseyCC, how many non-native residents/properties are there since the store burned down? And how can we cite the population in question, since if I'm not mistaken StatsCan lumps Spuzzum and Yale etc in one area? And re Yale, like Lillooet and Lytton, it's dominantly native, yet not reserve (at least not downtown)....my gist here is that if communities that are dominantly native, even off-reserve, don't ahve the FN tag, then it's ignoring the FN population (though stubs are just stubs and meant to indicate tha there's particular subject matter wanting). My suggestion, anyway, is that "Spuzzum Indian Reserve" (whatever its number/name) be redirected to this page, and that the reserve as part of the community have a section here; the First Nation government article would remain separate.....though the redirect from e.g. Spuzzum Indian Reserve No. 1, would be where the "First Nations reserves in BC" category would be placed, rather than on this article. NB, again, I really really dislike that category-name as a neologism and will be taking it up as a CfD soon, when I have the energy for the fray....Skookum1 (talk) 19:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the response Skookum1. Statscan lists the population at 20 (as of 2006 census) but does not give a breakdown as to how many are native and how many are non-native (or any other breakdown for that matter). Interestingly, it is listed as an 'Indian reserve', though it's unclear if that means Spuzzum proper or just the reserve (yes, that sounds stupid). Statscan shows the population for Yale as of 2006 as a whopping 10 people, though on the Yale, British Columbia article they show the population as being 186 (unsourced) so I'm tempted to think that neither of them are referring to the city/town/unincorporated settlement, but rather the reservation. Though the numbers for Spuzzum and Yale (20 and 10, respectively) seem very low even if they just refer to the reserves. I think is of relatively little consequence to the article, but I'm interested in finding this out for myself. Of course as you point out, this does lead to the bigger issue of continuity with other BC articles and first nations articles. Meh, for now I'll leave the FN stub tag just because I don't have the time to look into this further right now, but I will get around to it hopefully sometime soon.CaseyCC (talk) 03:02, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Stub?

Is the 'stub' tag warranted on a page such as this? There really isn't anything more that can be said about Spuzzum (or other settlements as small as this)... — Preceding unsigned comment added by XenCDN (talk • contribs) 00:12, 13 July 2012 (UTC)