Talk:Stikine Region, British Columbia
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Please note that there is no "Stikine Regional District". This entire area is unincorporated, that is, no municipal or regional districts exist in the "Stikine Region". --maclean25 06:11, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
I've switched over the census data information to the stuff from the Statistics Canada Website (www.statcan.ca) - I realize that the previous info was from BC Stats, but it just didn't make any sense - Atlin, for instance, has several hundred people in it. I know that my changes don't actually show a proper population for Atlin, but at least I've clarified what the information *IS* saying. AshleyMorton 17:53, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
- The map is of Regional Districts and interestingly the designated RD doesn't include most of the Stikine basin/plateau, which is to the south of the red-marked area. I found this page by a redirect from Stikine, which should actually be a disambiguation page (Stikine Plateau, Stikine River, STikine Ranges, Stikine Territory, and so on - I dropped by to add a tag to Stikine Territory q.v.). I think maybe the use of "Region" in the title complicates the non-RD issue, which is why I titled Cariboo District and Chilcotin District that way, although in speech you'd be more likely to use Cariboo Country or Chilcotin Country (or most likely of all "the Chilcotin", "the Cariboo", "the Stikine" etc). In historical usages, saying "Cariboo District" or "Lillooet District" tended to mean the land districts of those names; similar to the saying Cariboo Region implies the/a Cariboo Regional District. I've always like the "Country" designation better, part by feel and part because it conveys things neither the LD or RD associations do; in the case of the Lillooet Country vs the Lillooet District (Land District) the boundaries are in fact very different. With the Stikine though, and elsewhere, I think avoiding the use of "Region" and using "District" instead will get the idea better, and avoid confusion with RD articles.Skookum1 19:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Issue with IPA of pronunciation
(pronounced [stəˈkin])
If I knew how to write IPA, I'd at least add whatever "Stih-keen" comes off as, i.e. not with the schwa as indicated; yeah, it's pronounced that way, but I'd venture if you sampled around a lot of people, particularly First Nation but not limited to them would make a point of the "i", rather than lazify it into a schwa. Yeah, I may do that sometime myself; but the proper way, and closer to the original Tahltan also, is more of an "ih" sound, whatever the IPA for that is.Skookum1 10:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
