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This name is hardly widespread across the country as a term for Ontario and Quebec. If you were to ask most British Columbians where 'Central Canada' was, they would likely answer Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Ontario and Quebec are simply Eastern Canada, as they very obviously are geographically. I've never heard "Central Canada" except as used by Ontarians, although I understand that residents of the Atlantic Provinces use it too. 38.112.113.242 19:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
What about the former districts of Canada? Surely they should be mentioned. Alx xlA 04:03, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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OK, there are problems with this section, and a long debate behind them, I think which might be at Talk:Geographic regions of British Columbia but also in places like Talk:Interior of British Columbia and Talk:Lower Mainland, as well as on the Regional Districts pages/talkpages. Essentially the list as given combines apples and oranges, i.e. traditoinal "country" designations with an RD in one case and a tourism promo district in another (I removed it, the reference to the marketing-board-created "British Columbia Rockies" which is actually the same thing as the Kootenays; List of official tourism regions of British Columbia would be the place rfor that along with Coast Cariboo Chilcotin or whatever it's called, and the non sequitur Rainbow Country (Chilliwack), which is really the Upper Fraser Valley and has more rain than rainbows...anyway here's the current list, plust my comments; a corrected list will follow once I'm done, this probably will have to be saved in the meantime in case I have to sign off (battery's low).
These are just notes for now, also to maybe excplain things a bit for editors from other parts of Canada; I've tried to sort out this list, hoping others will tweak my notes but I'll wait before posting to main article. I hope y'all see my point here; the list cannot be abbreviated if it's going to include particulars of any kind (e.g the Charlottes as part of North Coast) and it also sholuldn't mix parameters, i.e. RDs vs other regional designations/definitions. Skookum1 ( talk) 14:34, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I changed the listing, which had come to read Metro Vancouver, I suppose because of a double-redirect issue, guess I'll go back and pipe that; the issue is that Metro Vancouver is not a region, it is a regional district, a government in that region. It's not the same thing; and in a way Metro Vancouver is of such a recent coinage and also political intent (and it does have a political intent). Greater VAncouver is a concept, Metro Vancouver is a brand name, basically put. And it's only coincidence, and somewhat design, that Greater Vancouver and the Greater Vancouver Regional District (now Metro Vancouver) are near-identical in landscape; but the other links in this section go to region articles, and pointedly not to regional district articles......so it's also a question of not mixing different kinds of links in a list.... Skookum1 ( talk) 03:22, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
But I know many people who call Greater Vancouver Metro Vancouver and seen it many discussion forums. Happyperson25 ( talk) 06:28, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Some one put a sad face ): just before the big chart of Canada's regions! JoJaEpp ( talk) 22:16, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
I am proposing to move incorporated local and regional jurisdictions from the list of regions and subregions of Alberta to the article's talk page. These jurisdictions are fully duplicated in a separate list article that specialises in this info. My understanding of "regions" is that they are primarily geographic, cultural, or economic in nature. They generally do not comprise individual counties, regional municipalities, regional districts, judicial districts, territorial districts, improvment districts, or electoral areas. However several of these kinds of districts may be grouped into a region if they have certain geographical, economic, or cultural traits in common. I'll wait a couple of weeks to allow for other comments, but I may move these districts to the talk pages if I see no opposition to doing so from other editors. Even then, the removed content can be returned to the mains list/article if there is a later editorial consensus to do so. Should that happen though, I will then have to consider adding lists of counties and regional districts from the other provinces that have these kinds of internal divisions. This could make for a very long and never-ending Wikipedia list of Canadian "regions". ChrisCarss Former24.108.99.31 ( talk) 12:10, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
J'aime la wikipedia, même si c'est en anglais. Je peut juste aller sur Google Traduction et fait anglais à français traduction! Ça m'aide beaucoup! Merci!
This list has been rather volatile because of an apparent lack of consensus about how the regions should be defined. As with the Alberta regions, I believe any significant regions that can be identified in Sask. should be mainly geographic or administrative at a supra-municipal level. I think tourism regions are too specialized and narrow in scope to be included here. All the provinces have tourism regions, but the Saskatchewan regions of this type are the only regions in this list, which is a sign of inconsistent criteria for including or excluding regions of provinces. The main Wikipedia article for this province identifies 2 primary geographic regions in Saskatchewan based on topography; Northern Saskatchewan which occupies that provinces section of the Canadian Shield, and Southern Saskatchewan that comprises the province's section of the prairie grassland. This division seems to make a lot of sense and is consistent with the criteria for the other provinces. Accordingly, I'm not erasing the tourism regions from this project for now, but moving them from the main list to this section of the discussion page so that interested editors can consider the future, if any, of these regions in this article list. However, I have to point out that as with the removal of municipal regional municipalities from the lists for some provinces, reinstating the tourism regions to the Sask. list would require adding the tourism regions for all the other provinces and territories as well. This again would make for a very long unwieldy list that would swamp these pages with dubious regional listings.
These are the Sask. tourism regions moved to this page from the main article list:
"The Government of Saskatchewan divides the province into three tourism regions: [1] Northern Saskatchewan tourism region, Central Saskatchewan tourism region, and Southern Saskatchewan tourism region." ~~ ChrisCarss Former24.108.99.31 ( talk) 13:56, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
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This name is hardly widespread across the country as a term for Ontario and Quebec. If you were to ask most British Columbians where 'Central Canada' was, they would likely answer Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Ontario and Quebec are simply Eastern Canada, as they very obviously are geographically. I've never heard "Central Canada" except as used by Ontarians, although I understand that residents of the Atlantic Provinces use it too. 38.112.113.242 19:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
What about the former districts of Canada? Surely they should be mentioned. Alx xlA 04:03, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Image:Can-pol w.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot 05:40, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
OK, there are problems with this section, and a long debate behind them, I think which might be at Talk:Geographic regions of British Columbia but also in places like Talk:Interior of British Columbia and Talk:Lower Mainland, as well as on the Regional Districts pages/talkpages. Essentially the list as given combines apples and oranges, i.e. traditoinal "country" designations with an RD in one case and a tourism promo district in another (I removed it, the reference to the marketing-board-created "British Columbia Rockies" which is actually the same thing as the Kootenays; List of official tourism regions of British Columbia would be the place rfor that along with Coast Cariboo Chilcotin or whatever it's called, and the non sequitur Rainbow Country (Chilliwack), which is really the Upper Fraser Valley and has more rain than rainbows...anyway here's the current list, plust my comments; a corrected list will follow once I'm done, this probably will have to be saved in the meantime in case I have to sign off (battery's low).
These are just notes for now, also to maybe excplain things a bit for editors from other parts of Canada; I've tried to sort out this list, hoping others will tweak my notes but I'll wait before posting to main article. I hope y'all see my point here; the list cannot be abbreviated if it's going to include particulars of any kind (e.g the Charlottes as part of North Coast) and it also sholuldn't mix parameters, i.e. RDs vs other regional designations/definitions. Skookum1 ( talk) 14:34, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I changed the listing, which had come to read Metro Vancouver, I suppose because of a double-redirect issue, guess I'll go back and pipe that; the issue is that Metro Vancouver is not a region, it is a regional district, a government in that region. It's not the same thing; and in a way Metro Vancouver is of such a recent coinage and also political intent (and it does have a political intent). Greater VAncouver is a concept, Metro Vancouver is a brand name, basically put. And it's only coincidence, and somewhat design, that Greater Vancouver and the Greater Vancouver Regional District (now Metro Vancouver) are near-identical in landscape; but the other links in this section go to region articles, and pointedly not to regional district articles......so it's also a question of not mixing different kinds of links in a list.... Skookum1 ( talk) 03:22, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
But I know many people who call Greater Vancouver Metro Vancouver and seen it many discussion forums. Happyperson25 ( talk) 06:28, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Some one put a sad face ): just before the big chart of Canada's regions! JoJaEpp ( talk) 22:16, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
I am proposing to move incorporated local and regional jurisdictions from the list of regions and subregions of Alberta to the article's talk page. These jurisdictions are fully duplicated in a separate list article that specialises in this info. My understanding of "regions" is that they are primarily geographic, cultural, or economic in nature. They generally do not comprise individual counties, regional municipalities, regional districts, judicial districts, territorial districts, improvment districts, or electoral areas. However several of these kinds of districts may be grouped into a region if they have certain geographical, economic, or cultural traits in common. I'll wait a couple of weeks to allow for other comments, but I may move these districts to the talk pages if I see no opposition to doing so from other editors. Even then, the removed content can be returned to the mains list/article if there is a later editorial consensus to do so. Should that happen though, I will then have to consider adding lists of counties and regional districts from the other provinces that have these kinds of internal divisions. This could make for a very long and never-ending Wikipedia list of Canadian "regions". ChrisCarss Former24.108.99.31 ( talk) 12:10, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
J'aime la wikipedia, même si c'est en anglais. Je peut juste aller sur Google Traduction et fait anglais à français traduction! Ça m'aide beaucoup! Merci!
This list has been rather volatile because of an apparent lack of consensus about how the regions should be defined. As with the Alberta regions, I believe any significant regions that can be identified in Sask. should be mainly geographic or administrative at a supra-municipal level. I think tourism regions are too specialized and narrow in scope to be included here. All the provinces have tourism regions, but the Saskatchewan regions of this type are the only regions in this list, which is a sign of inconsistent criteria for including or excluding regions of provinces. The main Wikipedia article for this province identifies 2 primary geographic regions in Saskatchewan based on topography; Northern Saskatchewan which occupies that provinces section of the Canadian Shield, and Southern Saskatchewan that comprises the province's section of the prairie grassland. This division seems to make a lot of sense and is consistent with the criteria for the other provinces. Accordingly, I'm not erasing the tourism regions from this project for now, but moving them from the main list to this section of the discussion page so that interested editors can consider the future, if any, of these regions in this article list. However, I have to point out that as with the removal of municipal regional municipalities from the lists for some provinces, reinstating the tourism regions to the Sask. list would require adding the tourism regions for all the other provinces and territories as well. This again would make for a very long unwieldy list that would swamp these pages with dubious regional listings.
These are the Sask. tourism regions moved to this page from the main article list:
"The Government of Saskatchewan divides the province into three tourism regions: [1] Northern Saskatchewan tourism region, Central Saskatchewan tourism region, and Southern Saskatchewan tourism region." ~~ ChrisCarss Former24.108.99.31 ( talk) 13:56, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
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