Talk:Vancouver Island
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This article had used the map at Image:Vanisle.png. I've replaced it with Image:Vancouver-island-relief.jpg. Kbh3rd 02:30, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Image:Vancouver-island-relief.jpg is an attractive map. And I would like to learn how it was made. But, in some ways it is not as useful as it could be. In particular, it hides some important details. It hides the deep inlet that Port Alberni lies at the base of. It hides that Nootka Sound, the location of the Nootka Sound Controversy, which lead to the Nootka Convention, is an island.
Confession, I have played with that map-making tool, and made the map of Vancouver Island that I uploaded today, before I noticed that the article already had a map. Maybe an article should only have one map? I am just a beginner here. I don't know. But the one I made is only 13K, less than a tenth as much to download as the relief map. Geo Swan 21:57, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Let's move discussion of the relief map's shortcomings to its own talk page. I've made a note there. As far as the two maps, I don't think that the two there now are complementary – they're rather redundant. As discussed on the map's talk page, I'll see about improving the relief map. --Kbh3rd 23:38, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Add more informations toward the electric power cables between Canada and Vancouver Island, also under HVDC Vancouver-Island
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[edit] Population
Anyone willing to do a section on population (i.e., major centres)? I did one on geography today. Fishhead64 19:38, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "National Maps?"
The National Maps show a nation of Vancouver consisting of the island and the mainland coastal regions from Queen Charlotte Sound to Cape Flattery
What reference is this? I've seen "Wakish Nation" for Vancouver Island, but never a nation of "Vancouver". What year was this map? "National Maps" - what are these? Cloest I can think of here is the old Vancouver (electoral district), the original Vancouver Island riding (outside of Victoria; actually the first was the protem Vancouver Island (electoral district) at the time of Confederation, in which seats were filled with byelections; the seat with shortened name filled in the 1872 election.)Skookum1 22:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Marine transportation section
This almost looks like a List of passenger ferry services to Vancouver Island; and it's missing the Sayward-Prince Rupert run, whatever that's called officially. This section should maybe be more on the overall shipping/commercial life, including ferries as well as whalewatchers and tourcraft, and as a sideline the extensive marina/sportscraft lifestyle/culture/economy of most Island towns; the list of ferry routes - in that amount of detail - is maybe better as a subarticle; or titled under "Access", with the Marine Transportation section reworked to discuss the ports of Nanaimo and Victoria and so on, and about the passenger services and general marine life of the inland waters; there's also the water taxi services that are important on the west side of the Island, and I'd guess also out of North Island towns into the Broughton Archipelago etc.; Military bases, including one-time Fort Rupert and Nootka Sound as well as Nanoose, Comox, Esquimalt, Pat Bay should also be ref'd; again maybe as a subpage/list; ditto on the mainland, could be the same list?Skookum1 00:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fixed Link
The addition of information about the idea of a fixed link to the mainland might benefit from some connection to the similar discussion at Strait of Georgia. KenWalker | Talk 04:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 8000 yrs
Eight Thousand Years? I may be wrong but i don't think people have been around for eight thousand years as this article says under Native settlers. Also, weren't the first humans from Africa? Just wanted to clarify.
- Homo sapiens sapiens have been around for about 250,000 years, to be exact; and archaeological evidence places aboriginal people in British Columbia about 11,500 years ago (see here. It seems not unreasonable to assume that humans have been indigenous to Vancouver Island for at least 8000 years. Fishhead64 20:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History questions
This page says that the Spanish explorers Juan José Pérez Hernández and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra both sailed to the Vancouver Island area, but that "neither actually landed". However the page on Juan José Pérez Hernández says "In ... 1774, ... Pérez ... reached Nootka Sound ..., part of today's Vancouver Island. There he had an extended set of interactions with the natives, including the first trade of trade goods."
Are these two pages in disagreement? The Pérez page provides a reference, while this page's account of the Spanish does not. Also, while Quadra may not have landed on the island during his 1775 voyage, he certainly landed later, as he was the Spanish commandant of Nootka when Vancouver arrived.
Also, when Vancouver and the Spanish jointly mapped the island and determined it was in fact an island, they decided to name it after both Vancouver and Quadra. The first maps of the island, both British and Spanish made, show it with both names. In Spanish, Isla de Quadra y Vancouver, and in English (Vancouver's map not least of all), Quadra and Vancouver's Island. Granted the name Quadra did not stick for long, but does this warrant a mention in this article? Pfly 06:47, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Some old vandalism
I have tried to incorporate the text removed in this edit by Shank77. The next edit removed the profanity but didn't revert the vandalism. I found it easy to incorporate most of the text except the paragraphs on climate, where I couldn't figure out how to make the paragraphs flow well without loss of information. For reference, here is the diff of my edit. Graham87 12:33, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Air transportation
If two airports are mentioned, both should be named. Currently, only Victoria International is named. Could someone please optimize that?
Aren't there actually three airports? Victoria Intl, Nanaimo and Comox Valley? --Ds77 23:54, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
