Talk:James Island (British Columbia)
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[edit] Explosive Plant and other James Island History
I have edited this article to conform with what I found about the history of CIL at [1]. It would be interesting to fill in a couple more details. Defence Industries Ltd, according the to CIL history, was largely Crown owned plants. Does that mean this island or the munitions plant was government owned? The original article had the company history wrong assuming the CIL history has it right. I wonder if there is a way to find out which of the companies merged into Canadian Explosives owned this island. There was one from Vancouver and one from Vancouver, according the Company names. I wonder if the houses came from Nanaimo is right. CIL had a plant (Giant Powder Company) on the Nanoose pennisula, Powder Point, that may have been connected. It had a famous explosion Jan 1, 1918 that they say blew out windows in Nanaimo and could be heard in Vancouver, quite a few miles away. The other thing that might be sourceable is the ownership of the Island. Google searches show it has been for sale in the range of $46 million. Not sure when. Apparently it is an island that is owned in one whole piece. There have been local rumours that it has been owned by a group of software industry titans. Are there individually owned properties on the island or is it owned entirely by a single owner group? --KenWalker | Talk 22:47, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
- Er, I just found the online cadastre....thought you would have more knowledge of where th e government stores t hat data; can I look it up there, or do you need a title search to find out this kind of stuff? BCeID, re Geomatics and Land Mgmt Bureau etc; links if you want 'em not just now.... I de-brochurized it; it wasn't as bad as Bear Mountain but it was close.....curious this island would have an article when the larger Sidney island (and just as historic, though without a dynamite plant) doesn't....I'd say it was spawned to give the resort a geographic face....btw is Little Tillicum in Qualicum worth a neighbourhood article, or a whatever article?Skookum1 (talk) 05:23, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] town/village name
Would the townsite on James Island ahve been named James Island, British Columbia, or would it have been something like something-or-other-point or something-or-other-bay?Skookum1 (talk) 15:55, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- It wasn't an official name. See [2] -KenWalker | Talk 16:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- Well, still if it was the only name, it's still a community name.....not the kind of place someone would write a company-town memoir of, like the mining towns, but maybe there's stuff on the town around, or pix; this is one of those "should have a separate article, but is it worht the bother even if we find stuff" items. Or shouodl we just throw the company towns and ghost towns cat on this article, even though it's an island article?Skookum1 (talk) 16:10, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
