Talk:Columbia Valley
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[edit] There's two of these....actually three
The only officially-gazetted "Columbia Valley" in BC is the rural locality between Cultus Lake and the US border, adjacent to Lindell Beach, British Columbia. I don't think it has a post office or anything more than a few farms; it's only a name and rarely referred to, other than appearing on maps and perhaps in government/muni/RD reports. But it's a legal name, whereas the current article invokes a colloquial usage, i.e. for the Golden-Canal Flats area. It should also be noted that this article's title may be confusing for non-BC visitors, particularly Americans, as "Columbia Valley" you'd think would refer to the valley of the Columbia River, and indeed that's exactly how the lower Columbia below Grand Coulee is described, whether it's Walla Walla or Kelso/Longview. Given those three meanings, I'm of a mind that this page should be a disambiguation, and there should be three articles or disambig entries anyway; not sure how to break out the titles. Further, Columbia Country is a term which applies to the Revelstoke-Big Bend-Golden loop of the Columbia, plus the Invermere-Windermere-Panorama area, commonly heard in the combinations Columbia-Kootenay and Shuswap-Columbia or whatever, with the "Country" implicit in the formation of those compounds (as also "Shuswap Country".Skookum1 (talk) 17:01, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
