Talk:British Columbia Interior

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A good start. The one subregion which stuck out as odd to me was 'Northeast Interior', I have never heard it referred to in conversation formal or informal, although granted, yes in the odd publication or report, mostly written from an outside BC persepctive. Seems most refer to the entire quadrant as Peace River country, excepting perhaps the area immediately bordering the NWT. Anyway, look forward to more discussion on all these. WOrking on tentative map sketches now of the three regions.--Keefer4 07:43, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I guess I picked up "Northeastern Interior" from modern-day media/govt stuff; I of course know the Peace River Block, aka Peace Block aka Peace Country (although that latter, older term, included lands now inundated by Lake Williston, and kind of including the Finlay and Parsnip Countries, which also don't exist in quite the same way anymore). Part of my reason in saying "NE Interior" was because of Fort Nelson and the lower Liard area - is that considered part of the Peace River Block? By extension certainly, but technically, or no?Skookum1 20:40, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I guess it should stay, as normally Fort Nelson is not included in most definitions of Peace Country or the like, I've heard the term Northern Rockies ballyhooed about before for that area. Same with 'Muskwa-Kechika'. Min. of FOR considers Fort Nelson its own Forest District, while Environment currently lumps it in with Peace-Omineca.--Keefer4 20:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

As with my comments on the Lower Mainland region thread re: Hope, I think it would be tolerable to include Pemberton within both Coast and Interior regions, for reasons you've cited in the article. Back to the maps... --Keefer4 05:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Tentative 'Interior'/Coast border sketchmaps here for south and here for north. Note gray area for upper Skeena Valley, I'm proposing an eventual inclusion for communities from Kitwanga-->Hazelton in both Coast and Interior regions when we finally get down to actual categorization. The northernmost community considered exclusively 'coast' thus would be Stewart, although unsettled resource/recreation areas in Coast Mountains bordering Alaska and fairly close to river mouths could be too, ie: part of Tatsenshini. So, the communities in multiple regions then would be: Hope (LM/Interior), Pemberton(Interior/Coast), Mt. Currie(Interior/Coast), Yale(Interior/LM?), Port Douglas(?) although you may have more to say about that one, Kitwanga (Coast/Interior), Kitseguecla (Interior/Coast), Gitanyow (Kitwancool) Hazeltons, Kispiox (all Interior/Coast). I don't think it's an unwieldy list for inclusion in both, eventually. For the most part I can only go on how people have self-identified (as mentioned in Talk:Lower Mainland) as well as a hodgepodge of maps, electoral districts etc over the years. I suppose, like the lengthy Lower Mainland discussion, these will have to be identified and cited, although possibly without as much controversy!--Keefer4 06:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)