Talk:Fraser River
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[edit] Tributaries
how much detail should be listed in the Tributaries section? should the Coquihalla River be listed, for example? --Doviende 23:11, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
- By all means. And any other significant ones, too.--Keefer4 09:57, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Flooding
Nothing is mentioned about the yearly flooding, and especially the major flooding concerns today.
70.69.51.111 06:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
- Actually the Great Floods of 1894 and 1948 are crying out to have separate articles done; Flood control on the Fraser River is a worthy article subject, of course, under whatever tit; there's a great pic from 1894 of the Fraser's waters right up to the deck of the Alexandra Suspension Bridge that can be used for at least one illustration, although the flooded-out Matsqui Prairie or inundated Chilliwack or the washouts in Mission/Dewdney are all online archive shots too.Skookum1 (talk) 17:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] About "top" status
I changed that a few hours ago and thought maybe I'd better make some comments here; I'm too used to taking liberties with edit comments and putting reasons for stuff there ;-) Lately I've been workign with the WPWash and WPOreg folks on Columbia River, which they've got close to, if not at, FA status, and it's a magnum opus or river articles. I'm not in a position to augment the Fraser article from where I am (Halifax) although through discussion I'm able to offer ideas/hithces and all that; there are a few key subarticles:
- Fraser Canyon
- Fraser Canyon Gold Rush/Fraser Canyon War
- Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia, and related template
- Steamboats of the Lower Fraser River and Harrison Lake, which I haven't started yet....(the related template has been, though, in a draft form at Template talk:Steamboats British Columbia)_
- Fraser Canyon Highway Tunnels is a redirect ot Fraser Canyon
- Fraser Canyon Railway Tunnels could use a writeup, whether with both CPR and CNR together or separately.
- Siska, British Columbia I've started and now realize it's a collection of articles, and isn't a bona fide official placename; Cisco still is, and Siska Flat for the Indian Reserve, despite the usual vernacular use of Siska ever since I guess the building of the Siska Lodge. I'll try and finish most of what I know about it (by now, after digging) but in general all the canyon towns/localities need writeups, especially the old roadhouses and the bars; Hill's Bar, Nicaragua Bar, Kanaka Bar....a few I've made like Foster Bar. List of roadhouses of the Cariboo Road is probably a good idea, adn nearly all items will/can have articles, and Canadian Pacific Railway stations in British Columbia and its CNR counterpart come to mind (the PGE/BCR stations aren't really worth it; most were huts....)
- A {{History of the Fraser Canyon}} template to integrate all these seesm a good idea; or as a section within {{Gold rushes in British Columbia}} which is another idea Iv'e got kicking around.
But back to the main Fraser article; it's sorely lacking, sorry to say; I encourage the regional editors to start adding to/augmenting it....we can do better than this. As in the previous section, separate articles on the Great Fraser Flood of 1894 and Great Fraser Flood of 1948, by whatever titles, are more than worthwhile and there's lots of images for both; maybe once I get finished with the Interior steamboats stuff I'll get back to these floods, but again I don't have a lot of print sources on hand, just personal knowledge that somebody else will ahve to cite for me; also the New Westminster Great Fire has been needing as standalone article for a while; Vancouver's fire has its own, yes? No? Not sure....Skookum1 (talk) 20:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- List of gold-mining bars on the Fraser River or something to that effect is also like the roadhouses a key history article here; I have a friend who's working on a piece taht should be acitable/published source on all of them, but there's lots already out there for many....Skookum1 (talk) 20:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
