Talk:Etobicoke

message: From the article: "Public transit does not serve the area well, with few rapid transit connections."
I don't know who wrote this, but this statement is either out of date or just plain inaccurate.
The Bloor-Danforth subway line of the Toronto Transit Commision stretches far into Etobicoke, which is in turn serviced by various bus and streetcar routes. I think that this should be corrected but will wait for opinions. --Stephen 00:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public Transit 

message: How come it looks somewhat English, and yet the "k" in "coke" is completely silent, like French pronunciation? Is it First Nations? If so, which Nation, and what does it mean?
: Great, seems an Anon has answered. --Menchi 01:26, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC)
k is not silent in French. I have heard that it was originally spelt Etobico, and that perhaps it was altered by analogy with Nanticoke. However, as the k in Nanticoke is not silent, that seems questionable. I suppose this could be looked up. Trontonian
: No, it isn't silent at all (musique)! :-} --Menchi 02:21, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC)
I don't know how authoritative this is, but there's an explanation here:
: "Etobicoke" comes from the Ojibway name wah-do-be-kaung, meaning "the place where the wild alders grow." Augustus Jones, the first Provincial Land Surveyor, also spelled it "Ato-Be-Coake." Presumably the "k" at the end was once pronounced (or why would it be there?), but it has become silent over time. Again, there's no real evidence as to when or why this happened. The silent-k pronunciation may be closer to the original Ojibway, or it may just be lazy.
Acidtoyman (talk) 23:45, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Placename [[etymology]] 

message: "Ian Brown, former Canadian-American citizen and and presently a US Marine, to wed Bree Clegg Saturday, December 17th, 2005 in Manchester, New Hampshire at Saint Anselm College's Abbey Church."
I've never heard of Ian Brown, and nothing about this description seems worthwhile.
Isn't Snow, the Reggae/Dancehall guy from Etobicoke?  He's certainly more famous than Ian Brown.  PCAndrew (talk) 19:29, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable residents of Etobicoke 

message: I fixed some spelling and formatting in the demographics section.  The numbers only add up to 97.6%, so maybe that should be verified again.  --Vgedris 13:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics 

message: Why were the prefixes "Hon" removed from the two Etobicoke cabinet ministers. It's perfectly reasonable and appropriate to include them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.150.238 (talk • contribs) 
:They were removed because we don't generally include them in infoboxes (they take up extra space and really add nothing).  They also were inconsistent with other individuals who didn't have "Hon." but who are "Honourable". Lexicon (talk) 01:41, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misc 

message: Etobicoke's population isn't independently reported by the Canadian Census anymore...2006 census figure is calculated by summing all of Etobicoke's component census tracts. Marathone 09:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2006 census 

message: I'm trying to find archives of the municipal website at http://web.archive.org/*/http://www.city.etobicoke.on.ca/ - Unfortunately I am just getting "Apache Server" messages WhisperToMe (talk) 07:16, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Municipal website

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