Talk:Regional districts of British Columbia
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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.
What's with the recent edit???? Earl Andrew 03:08, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] "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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Origin of regional districts
In researching DARD Dewndey-Alouette I was reminded taht it was only created in 1967....waht was there before? I'm starting to refcall 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)
