Talk:Nelson, British Columbia

message: [stats canada figures for Nelson]
The movie "Roxanne", staring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah, was filmed here in 1987.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.135.250.66 (talk) 15:59, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's in the article. --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 16:08, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

message: First off, the image is very nice. One question though - isn't the body of water Kootenay Lake? I don't remember a "Peace River" in the Kootenays - only the one up north near Fort Nelson.(I've temporarily reworked the caption to be more generic until this can be sorted out.) --Ckatzchatspy 16:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a nice photo.  I agree with Ckatz though - the photo appears to have been taken on Kootenay Lake just off downtown Nelson looking east up Kootenay Lake towards the 'Orange Bridge'.  Nelson is on the right side of the photo with the downtown off the edge of the photo. Al guy 01:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

text: The Peace River definitely does not flow through Nelson - that is the West Arm of Kootenay Lake.Rewand 05:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Good eyes, people.  i was traveling BC when i took this shot, more than three years ago, and when adding it i was 89% sure it depicted Peace River.  i realize now that that isn't good enough for any encyclopedia.  As this was my first time contributing to Wikipedia, and also my first time releasing anything into public domain, i wanted to be as descriptive as possible.  Oops.  This picture was indeed taken off downtown Nelson -- down the street from the a bar called the Civic, at dawn, mind you -- so it sounds very likely we're talking about Lake Kootenay and Orange Bridge.  i've changed the image summary to simply call it a "lake", but given your comments (and hopefully mine as well), i think we can agree that this is in fact Lake Kootenay and Orange Bridge.  My apologies.  Damon daMeno 05:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image 

message: :The West Kootenay region of British Columbia, where the city of Nelson is situated, is the traditional territory of the Sinixt or Lakes First Nation. The area also has a significant Kutenai (Kutnaxa) presence.
Canadian usage is Ktunaxa for one thing, coulda fixed that but noticed it only during copy-paste to here.  I'm pretty sure Nelson and the lower Kootenay River is part of the Ktunaxa land claim as well, and for sure they were at war over the aera in the early 19th and late 18th Centuries, on and off, right into times of white presence; cites for this are variously in Teit and Howay and other older histories so I won't add anythign here jsut yet, unless someone else would care to adjust the lines to reflect the Ktunaxa perception and not just hte Sinixt, and "you" can safely add that the Nelson-Castlegar or Nelson-Playmor Jctn was disputed territory; I think the Ktunaxa even raided into the Slocan, the Sinixt heartland and the proverbial sacred valley; according to websites and local lore (I was in Winlaw last summer) something like a native Tibet with a people given over to prayer and sanctity.  Yeah, OK, but there's still this war thing with the Ktunaxa; "presence" seems a euphemism for "fought over with" and "also historically claimed as territory by" etc.  Not in hte mood to look stuff up just now, it's after 4am; I'll find bits of Teit maybe, in his History of hte Okanagan people, I think it's in there and I have a TIF I think, but tomorrow or soon; g'nite.Skookum1 (talk) 07:15, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ktunaxa and Sinixt

message: I've added a new link for the Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism Association - the official tourism DMO (Destination Marketing Association) for Nelson and the Kootenay Lake area.(Drey777 (talk) 05:03, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, we often try to avoid such links unless they directly enhance the encyclopaedic content. Thank you, however, for your contribution. I've left a note on your talk page with links to some introductory material about the project. Cheers. --Ckatzchatspy 07:54, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tourism Links 

message: Everything below the 2nd para in "History" other than climate reads like a tourist brochure. Citations are inadequate. This is not an encyclopedia quality article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by MagisterL (talk • contribs) 14:12, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: A common problem with town and city articles.  WP:SoFixIt.Skookum1 (talk) 08:17, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reads like a tourist brochure 

message: Something about the origin of the name would be appropriate.  Was the city named after a person or family?  ... PeterEasthope (talk) 15:55, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it should be added; it was named for Hugh Nelson, an early expressman/freight company/steamship figure allied to Frank Barnard.  See BC Names entry "Nelson (city".Skookum1 (talk) 03:48, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Name 

message: The Francis Rattenbury article listings of his works could use one.Skookum1 (talk) 08:15, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  anyone have a pic of the courthouse? 

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