Talk:Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia
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[edit] Title issue and also...
Capitalization seems to be an issue here; "upper" should be lower-case, I'd say. Just found this page by accident; was already thinking of separate lists of inland-water vessels on various routes in the BC Interior; The Thompson-Shuswap, Kootenay Lake, Atlin Lake, Okanagan Lake, the Skeena, the Lakes Route etc.; also on the New Caledonia rivers as I recall (Nechako, Stuart, Nation, Omineca) and on the Stikine (and Taku?). Just adding this note for later, as I'm not going to tackle the page/article tonight, nor any of the others; currently working on List of ships in British Columbia; this page is properly a list page, though not as currently written; a non-list page IMO would be titled something like "Steamer service on the upper Fraser River (in British Columbia)"; there were more steamers, too, than those already listed on this page.Skookum1 08:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] More Steamers?
I wrote the article in the hopes that someone with additional information would be able to add to it and improve upon it, which, even as a Newbie, I realize that is what Wikipedia is all about. I agree with your idea on changing the title and I realize now that the whole Upper {or upper} Fraser River reference will cause confusion. In the Central Interior, we often refer to our section of the Fraser from Soda Creek to Tete Jaune Cache as the Upper Fraser. See: [1] But in BC we certainly do not have a monopoly on the name. In fact after some browsing on the internet I am confused. However, in all of the sources I consulted, there were only twelve steamers ever mentioned in regards this particular section of the Fraser during this time period. I would be very interested in learning about any additional ones and whatever details anyone has on them. I thought it was important for someone to at least make a start on an article on this topic, as there are many others that already exist that have bearing on it and I linked to some of them as I went along. I appreciate any interest and help on this article and would love to learn more myself.--CindyBo 23:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
