Talk:Nelson, British Columbia
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[stats canada figures for Nelson]
Some of the edits have an excessively "complainy" tone; this violates Wikipedia's NPOV policy. I'm thinking of the air quality guy and whoever said Shambles is "expensive". Because "expensive" is completely subjective I have deleted it completely. Wikipedia is not supposed to be a soapbox - you can write a letter to the NDN or complain on the shambhala boards if you think they charge too much.
As for the air quality section, as is in spite of its rather soft language it seems just a tad overly opinionated for an encyclopedia entry. It would be good to make the language more "objective" and provide harder statistics. PS your air quality link is broken.
Overall though I really like the way this article is coming along!
--manderr
[edit] New image
First off, the image is very nice. One question though - isn't the body of water Kootenay Lake? I don't remember a "Peace River" in the Kootenays - only the one up north near Fort Nelson.(I've temporarily reworked the caption to be more generic until this can be sorted out.) --Ckatzchatspy 16:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- That is a nice photo. I agree with Ckatz though - the photo appears to have been taken on Kootenay Lake just off downtown Nelson looking east up Kootenay Lake towards the 'Orange Bridge'. Nelson is on the right side of the photo with the downtown off the edge of the photo. Al guy 01:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- The Peace River definitely does not flow through Nelson - that is the West Arm of Kootenay Lake.Rewand 05:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
- Good eyes, people. i was traveling BC when i took this shot, more than three years ago, and when adding it i was 89% sure it depicted Peace River. i realize now that that isn't good enough for any encyclopedia. As this was my first time contributing to Wikipedia, and also my first time releasing anything into public domain, i wanted to be as descriptive as possible. Oops. This picture was indeed taken off downtown Nelson -- down the street from the a bar called the Civic, at dawn, mind you -- so it sounds very likely we're talking about Lake Kootenay and Orange Bridge. i've changed the image summary to simply call it a "lake", but given your comments (and hopefully mine as well), i think we can agree that this is in fact Lake Kootenay and Orange Bridge. My apologies. Damon daMeno 05:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ktunaxa and Sinixt
- The West Kootenay region of British Columbia, where the city of Nelson is situated, is the traditional territory of the Sinixt or Lakes First Nation. The area also has a significant Kutenai (Kutnaxa) presence.
Canadian usage is Ktunaxa for one thing, coulda fixed that but noticed it only during copy-paste to here. I'm pretty sure Nelson and the lower Kootenay River is part of the Ktunaxa land claim as well, and for sure they were at war over the aera in the early 19th and late 18th Centuries, on and off, right into times of white presence; cites for this are variously in Teit and Howay and other older histories so I won't add anythign here jsut yet, unless someone else would care to adjust the lines to reflect the Ktunaxa perception and not just hte Sinixt, and "you" can safely add that the Nelson-Castlegar or Nelson-Playmor Jctn was disputed territory; I think the Ktunaxa even raided into the Slocan, the Sinixt heartland and the proverbial sacred valley; according to websites and local lore (I was in Winlaw last summer) something like a native Tibet with a people given over to prayer and sanctity. Yeah, OK, but there's still this war thing with the Ktunaxa; "presence" seems a euphemism for "fought over with" and "also historically claimed as territory by" etc. Not in hte mood to look stuff up just now, it's after 4am; I'll find bits of Teit maybe, in his History of hte Okanagan people, I think it's in there and I have a TIF I think, but tomorrow or soon; g'nite.Skookum1 (talk) 07:15, 30 May 2008 (UTC).
