Talk:Bodies of water in Vancouver

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For a city so surrounded by water, there's surprisingly little within its boundaries. Thus, the topic grew significance from a discussion at Talk:Vancouver

I'm hoping this article will inspire some interesting photos, maps, knowledge, issues, etc. The possibility exists to merge it into a section of Vancouver or to split out each body of water into its own article. A map of Vancouver showing the location of each of these, labelled, would be fantastic. Anyone? --Ds13 05:48, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)

I've added a basic satellite image with color overlays. If anyone has feedback, I can make edits or just give you the XCF source image (with layers and transparency) so you can do it. I'd really rather just leave the source image somewhere in Wikipedia, obviously, but XCF is not an "accepted" image format, so I didn't know if just uploading a non-referenced, non-standard source image file was a good idea. --Ds13 19:41, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)

[edit] Boundary waters

For the purposes of classification, is False Creek a "boundary water", in the same sense as English Bay, for example? (i.e. defining the boundary of Vancouver but not within Vancouver?) --Ds13 22:37, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

You may be right. Even though it is wholly contained within city boundaries, I believe it is administered by the federal government. Usgnus

[edit] Spanish Bank Creek

The official name, according to the Vancouver Park Board, is Spanish Bank. Whether that carries over to the creek is up for debate, but at least one source (added to article) uses Spanish Bank Creek. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vancouver for discussion on Spanish Bank. BTW, I changed this page when I was changing all references to Spanish Banks; I did not single out this page. If anyone feels strongly about the creek's name, change it back and leave a note on this talk page and I won't revert the change again. Usgnus 19:03, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

The urbanstreams.org site uses Spanish Banks Creek at the top of the page but refers to the Spanish Bank Streamkeepers at the bottom of the page. Usgnus 19:14, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Historical bodies of water and swamps/creeks

The original extension of False Creek to Glen Drive comes immediately to mind; its First Nations name calls the head-pond of it "bubbling up", as a large underground spring fed it in that area; supposedly connected to Still Creek/Burnaby Lake and Trout Lake. There was also the "Tea Swamp", named for the cedar-stained colour of its water, in the Kingsway & Fraser/Knight area (or thereabouts). And Lost Lagoon being originally almost a through-channel, likewise a swampy channel between False Creek and Burrard Inlet, around where Columbia Street is. The flat part of Kitsilano-Alma was once called Malaria Flats because it was so swampy and, um, malaria-ridden - this extended up as far as Kind Ed in its furthest reaches, way past 16th anyway. Somewhere there's a website showing the pre-urbanization creeks....I imagine this article, like others in the WikiProject, should list water-objects in the rest of the GVRD too, no?Skookum1 21:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)