Talk:List of regions of Canada

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[edit] "Central Canada"

This name is hardly widespread across the country as a term for Ontario and Quebec. If you were to ask most British Columbians where 'Central Canada' was, they would likely answer Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Ontario and Quebec are simply Eastern Canada, as they very obviously are geographically. I've never heard "Central Canada" except as used by Ontarians, although I understand that residents of the Atlantic Provinces use it too. 38.112.113.242 19:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. You give an extreme example (people from BC). I could give an equally extreme example - to a Newfoundlander all the rest of us are "the west".
While the geographic center of Canada might be somewhere in Manitoba, it is "very" common usage in "the West" (where I'm from) to refer to Toronto as "the center of the universe", and, if we differentiate the easternmost provinces from the big two that are in the middle (at least going both by size and which are currently holding the bulk of the population), you then have three regions, "west, "east" and "central". Often, because it is so vast and so different, we slice off a fourth piece and call it "the north". But let's use some basic logic. How many different names you end up with for different regions really depends on into how many pieces you decide to cut the pie. The most logical and easiest way is by province and territory. Otherwise you might as well still refer to my part of the country as "Rupert's Land".
Many of my fellow Westerners (many of whom have not ever spent much time in "the east" (except for perhaps the odd flight to Toronto) will only cut the pie into two pieces - "west" and "east" - "us" and "them" - and the most common place I'm seen that arbitrary boundary placed is somewhere near Thunder Bay. But for those of us from "the west" who have spent a lot of time in Atlantic Canada, we are more inclined to refer to Ontario and Quebec as "central Canada" (when being polite).Garth of the Forest 22:31, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Districts

What about the former districts of Canada? Surely they should be mentioned. Alx xlA 04:03, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] British Columbia section

OK, there are problems with this section, and a long debate behind them, I think which might be at Talk:Geographic regions of British Columbia but also in places like Talk:Interior of British Columbia and Talk:Lower Mainland, as well as on the Regional Districts pages/talkpages. Essentially the list as given combines apples and oranges, i.e. traditoinal "country" designations with an RD in one case and a tourism promo district in another (I removed it, the reference to the marketing-board-created "British Columbia Rockies" which is actually the same thing as the Kootenays; List of official tourism regions of British Columbia would be the place rfor that along with Coast Cariboo Chilcotin or whatever it's called, and the non sequitur Rainbow Country (Chilliwack), which is really the Upper Fraser Valley and has more rain than rainbows...anyway here's the current list, plust my comments; a corrected list will follow once I'm done, this probably will have to be saved in the meantime in case I have to sign off (battery's low).

  • British Columbia Interior
    • Cariboo
    • Kootenays
    • Okanagan
    • Nechako Plateau - this is a geographic feature, not a refgion per se; Nechako Country maybe, although with Omineca Coujntry and Bulkley Country this is really what's meant when people say Northern Interior of British Columbia....confusingly though Prince George, the largest city in the area, considers itself Central Interior. Not sure what to do here, User:CindyBo, who lives in PG, and I have debated it; region can be defined by Highway 16 more or less but this isn't "the Yellowhead Country", which lies (to me) upstream from PG (i.e. SE of it, not NW). Interior section could theoretically be broken down into Northern, Central and Southenr, if only there were some kind of way of defining those areas; Kamloops considers itselrf Central Interior, but to a PGer it's Southern; and Southern Interior now is a riding spanning the Okanagan and the West Kootenay combined; Northern Interior in usage often doesn't mean the Peace River Country, and as noted in PG terms doesn't include that city e3ven though it includes the regions immediately around it....all very confusing.
    • Peace River Country
    • Thompson Nicola This needs to be broken into Thompson Country and Nicola Country; it currently redirects to an RD pagbe; granted the Thompson-Nciola RD is one of the only ones whose boundaries and names haven't changed (much) but it's out of pladfe here, especially because it includes part of Cariboo; Other Interior areas missing here are the Fraser Canyon (as a region, not a geographic feature, and which includes part of the Thompson Country as well as the Lillooet Country and parts of both the Chilcotin and Cariboo...and in RD terms the Upper Fraser Valley RD a well as teh SLRD and TNRD; anyway other equivalents here are Similkameen Country (parallel to the Nicola in size in fact), Boundary Country, Columbia Country, Shuswap Country, Chilcotin Country; Boundary Country could be subsection, along with Slocan Country, inside the Kootenays section.
  • Lower Mainland - as below should be subsection of Coast of British Columbia, i.e. as part of South Coast
    • Metro Vancouver
    • Fraser Valley
    • Sea to Sky Corridor - has to be included somewhere, and not really part of the Lower Mainland, though in practical/operational terms it is, and overlaps parttly with theLillooet Country. Lately rebranded {Sea to Sky Country} but for years it was "the Corrridor"
  • Gulf Islands - should be included in "South Coast"; I won't bother commenting further in this setion but will simply post a rearrangemnet of it in the rewritten section below.
  • Queen Charlotte Islands
  • North Coast
  • Sunshine Coast
  • Vancouver Island

These are just notes for now, also to maybe excplain things a bit for editors from other parts of Canada; I've tried to sort out this list, hoping others will tweak my notes but I'll wait before posting to main article. I hope y'all see my point here; the list cannot be abbreviated if it's going to include particulars of any kind (e.g the Charlottes as part of North Coast) and it also sholuldn't mix parameters, i.e. RDs vs other regional designations/definitions.Skookum1 (talk) 14:34, 6 February 2008 (UTC)