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Did you know... that the new municipality of Jumbo Glacier, British Columbia has a mayor and two councillors, but no residents?
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I started this, don't really have time to expand it, but it's a blank spot in BC municipalities and skiing articles; not yet a ski resort, doesn't even have buildings yet. Lots of political controversy see
here. As many of you know, I took myself out of the loop a couple of years ago so this is a very raw stub and |I've forgotten a lot of templates and formatting and such.....I'll find the muni templates and add the regional skiing template, even though this isn't yet a ski hill; also as it's a municipal article where the ski resort will be privately owned (so far as I know), should the ski business article be different from the municipal one? And
Jumbo Glacier should be a glacier article, though like
Whistler Mountain and such greatly intertwined with
Whistler, British Columbia and
Whistler Blackcomb.
Skookum1 (
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16:43, 29 January 2013 (UTC)reply
I've initiated expansion by adding relevant sections suggested by
Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian communities/Structure guideline and adding an infobox. I'll add some more content over time, particularly the History section if no one else steps up (see hidden note within the section).
The map within the infobox is actually a map of Invermere's location from
its article. I'll leave it to the discretion of other editors on whether a map specific to Jumbo Glacier's location should be created.
Hwy43 (
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04:06, 30 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Their website uses "Central Purcell Range"....though the range's official name is "mountains" ("range" in official terminology, as used on BC Names and established by geographer S. Holland in Landforms of British Columbia, replaced "mountains" for smaller ranges; and he/they don't use capital-R "range" though e.g.
Omineca Ranges or
Chilcotin Ranges exist for larger subgroupings of the large groupings labelled "Mountains" like the Purcells and Selkirks, and their parent grouping the
Columbia Mountains (which includes the Monashees and Cariboos).....sources that call this the Rockies are very wrong, though the US Selkirks and Percells [sic] are classified as Rockies, as are the Cabinet and Salish Mountains to the south of them across
Lake Koocanusa.
Skookum1 (
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06:01, 1 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Hm, turns out there's at least
a view of the Lake of the Hanging Glacier (whatever the lake's real name is...watch the main page's slideshow)] from the four glaciers the resort will have lifts to; not clear if it's in the municipality or not, though; like the bottom end of the Blackcomb Glacier and places like the Overlord Glacier at Whistler, which aren't in the resort, it's maybe outside the muni boundaries.....people CAN ski out via the Spearhead Glacier, but it's not a good idea, you wind up over by Skookumchuck Hot Springs or have a long hike back via Long Goat Creek.....I haven't had time to look at the plans from MoF posted by
User:The Interior, maybe this evening (it's afternoon here, I'm on Thai time....
Skookum1 (
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07:57, 30 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Its prominence group is indeed Farnham, which is its "line parent"; the
Farnham Group article is as yet unsourced, I'm guessing that comes from
bivouac.com or peakbagger.com......"not an official name" though prominence groups are maybe the next-best thing....Purcells is otherwise a very big meta-range, like the Selkirks (most of the Selkirks subdivisions have range-names). Jumbo is definitely not in the park/protected area though maybe the northern part of the Commander Glacier is, I'll have to look that up on BC Parks....The Wilderness Committee, Sierra Club or the Ktunaxa Nation might have pages about the project.....or the East Kootenay Regional District? - of which Jumbo Glacier will be a member municipality (weird because it has no residents....)
Skookum1 (
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05:54, 30 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Weirdly, like all else about this, I just mouse-overed most of the links on that page....they're from the Ministry of Forests, not the Ministry of Municipal Affairs or MoE or even Ministry of Tourism and Culture......MoF is a branch of that new
Natural Resources ministry now, so far as I know, though I don't see it mentioned......."expediting development by streamlining the process" etc.....enviro objections can be found on Ktunaxa and NGO links. And in the
6000 comments that were ignored during the EA review......don't mean to stump, but there's nothing un-controversial about this......maybe it should have a "current events" tag on it?
Skookum1 (
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07:45, 30 January 2013 (UTC)reply
According to
these PDFs it's not in the muni, if that's the same thing as the "development area"....oddly, Jumbo Glacier won't have lifts on it....which begs the question how do you get back up if you use it?? Photo caption should be amended, or preferably a pic used actually of somewhere IN the muni/development area....most people visiting there will never see this view, which is accessed from Horsethief Creek, the next basin north...nor is the Hanging Glacier skiable by the look of it.....
Skookum1 (
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17:11, 31 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Looks like you're right, thrown off by the resort website. Looks like LoHG will be an attraction though, from what I can see. Hopefully Canoe's email will get a more appropriate image. The master plan has one of the valley and planned townsite that would be ideal ... The Interior(Talk)21:10, 31 January 2013 (UTC)reply
How they'll make it an attraction when there's no lift down to it, and it's accessed via a completely different valley anyway, is completely beyond me....and like I said the muni name is deceiving because the Jumbo Glacier itself isn't even in the development area, nor will it be lift-serviced.....maybe there's a Phase II? All the media copy about this has said only "Jumbo" (meaning the mountain), "Jumbo Glacier" was new to me but obviously a marketing pitch built into the brand/ the big glacier is
Commander Glacier. A listing of the serviced glaciers prob a good idea, I'll look into it; can't remember if the Blackcomb glaciers of Whistler's little one have their own articles; probably not....
Skookum1 (
talk)
05:51, 1 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Resort input
I emailed the resort to see if they wish to provide images under a free licence. I asked them to respond here or by email to me. See
Details on licencing to choose a licence. CC-by-3.0 is a very common one. Be aware that the images can be used by anyone for any purpose including commercial. You can insist on 'attribution' though. This can be a name, company, and/or website. See
Commons OTRS for details about emailing permission. If you provide a link to the images from a website, then we can deal with upload and you can then send the email. The images need to be uploaded first so OTRS has a file name to tag. 30 days max. before deletion if no permission email is sent.--
Canoe1967 (
talk)
17:39, 31 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Material deleted on controversy?
I know there was some material someone added about the ongoing controversy and continued efforts to block this development; wasn't me, and it may have been POV in nature, though it was cited......but now there's very little, only a brief mention that the hearings went through, and no mention at all of the municipal controversy (the extraordinary creation of a municipality with no actual residents......). The result is a POV document, IMO. Whose decision was it to delete that material, rather than tone it down, if needed? I will try to find the edit in question, I just noticed this now......the controversy continues to rage, and the development's own site mentions it and has negative p.r. about it; whose POV is being presented, whose is missing?
Skookum1 (
talk)
05:11, 1 February 2013 (UTC)reply
No material was deleted. There was only one sentence in the lead explicitly involving controversy, which was originally
contributed by you. I
copyedited it, removing subjective POV terms (or to use your words, I "toned it down") such as "highly" and "strongly". What you are seeing is additional
content added by The Interior about "grizzly bears and other wildlife" and protests in Victoria in the History section.
And, as for the original "...and unlike other municipalities, has only a mayor and three councillors and no residents" statement, that has been moved to the Government section and now reads as "Despite not yet having any residents, the first council consists of a mayor, Greg Deck, and two councillors, Nancy Hugunin and Steve Ostrander."
Hwy43 (
talk)
05:42, 1 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Hmm I"m sure I saw something yesterday, maybe it was an IP edit and was reversed by someone before you saw it.....I'll study this later.....
Skookum1 (
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05:48, 1 February 2013 (UTC)reply
hm must have been hallucinating....long time since I had dreams about wiki-editing LOL must have been something like that....anticipating POV edits from enviro groups that haven't happened yet ;-)
Skookum1 (
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06:06, 1 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Areas for expansion: proposed dev. - a more detailed description of the planned community and facilities. Opposition: the opposition continues, the Ktunaxa have named the region [
Qat'Muk] ("Got'Mook"), Scotty Niedermeyer (my favourite player growing up!), Bruce Cockburn, and the NDP have all made statements against it, and also suggesting that investment isn't in place (how they know this, I'm not sure).
G&M,
G&M. The NDP also aren't happy with the whole incorporation with no people deal. The Interior(Talk)23:06, 2 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Oppostion on investment is common at this stage I would think. My dad kicked himself for not buying a 120x120' lot at Whistler in the late 60s for about $C2,000. He was working building Cypress Bowl lifts at the time and decided the money was better spent on a new roof for the house.--
Canoe1967 (
talk)
23:49, 2 February 2013 (UTC)reply
My landlord at Whistler owned all of Alpha Lake and the west side of Hwy 99 including the Husky and Creekside (if that's what they're still called). Not sure the extent of the property but it included the old "Trap" cabin and the Jordan Lodge, which is now the Nita Lake Lodge (1902 and 1904 respectively, both beautiful old log places, now vanished to "progress")....he bought that land in the '60s for 50 cents an acre......when I was living in the Jordan Lodge in '85, townhouse-type city lots on the streets branching south of the road to the train station were going for 450-475k each.....this is all speculatoin, which is why the muni was created, much like how IPP licenses were granted private incorporations with no capital or line of credit; the Haida Gwaii renaming deal carried with it a Haida Nation promise to use their credit to help the Naikun wind project get started; stories like this are legion; land is a commodity, sometimes a "futures"...and this development is no different. what I want to know is if they're going to have 750 workers, will they be citizens? Or will only property owners be citizens? In Whistler if you're Canadian and own property, you vote in TWO municipalities; the long-time-resident working populatoin are considered "transient" and discouraged from voting....sorry to stump; and re Qatmuk have a look on the resort site what's said there, as I already noted above somewhere.
Skookum1 (
talk)
11:40, 3 February 2013 (UTC)reply
I couldn't find an article for BC, but
List of summer villages in Alberta states that people can vote in two places. It seems that only 'grandfathered' villages have this option. It would be interesting to see if this muni will be have dual vote system, and whether seasonal residents can vote. I haven't heard back from the resort yet. They may not check their web email often and I may ask about it if/when they do respond. When I lived full time and worked in
Jasper, Alberta the town was controlled by Parks Canada. I moved out before they got a 'dual governance' in 2001. I was told Jasper always got a hard time from Parks Canada because development of
Banff, Alberta was too 'fast and loose'. I doubt Jumbo has a dual vote system yet, and don't know if they will wish one or be allowed one. The BC laws concerning this and Whistler's status should be online somewhere and perhaps material can be added to the Whistler article(s) explaining it.--
Canoe1967 (
talk)
17:28, 3 February 2013 (UTC)reply
I believe under the Municipal Act it's standard across the board; Whistler just has an extraordinary high rate of non-resident property owners......I think it includes corporate owners, many of whom don't actually pay taxes e.g. BC Hydro in Lillooet, for one.
Skookum1 (
talk)
10:17, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
trying to find MINFILE cite for mining claim, 1890
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