Talk:St. Catharines

Captain Dick

I read in the article that one of the first settlers of St. Catharines was a man called Captain Dick. How did he get that name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.29.95.198 (talk) 03:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Rename page

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The result of the proposal was move. Mindmatrix 20:53, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Rename: St. Catharines, Ontario → St. Catharines

This is the primary use of the term, and possibly the only use. An internet search which excludes the terms "Ontario", "Canada", "Niagara" and "horseshoe" still finds nearly 400,000 hits, the first dozen pages of which are related to this city. Per WP:CANSTYLE, the city should have the undisambiguated title, which currently points here anyway. Mindmatrix 15:30, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

• Support as nominator. Mindmatrix 15:30, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support, per nom. Skeezix1000 (talk) 20:30, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
• Support per nom. DigitalC (talk) 04:21, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

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Addressing Niagara Centre MP Overlap

The Federal and Municipal boundaries do not line up, and as such a section of the city is represented by Malcolm Allen. This area includes the Shaver Medical Facility, Brock University, and some local businesses and dwellings. These Municipal interests that are shared with the federal government fall under his constituency. Adding Malcolm Allen as second MPP representing St.Catharines. (Though it is up for discussion as to if he should be the first since his name does come alphabetically before Rick Dykstra SamichX 01:05, 20 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.38.190.233 (talk)

Please note that the Provincial riding of Welland (as of 2004) should end before entering the City of St. Catharines. If it is no longer different and Peter Kormos is an MPP for a section of St. Catharines, please note the distinction. SamichX —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.38.190.233 (talk) 22:50, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Short Hills Provincial Park

As far as i can tell from consulting various maps of SHPP, zero or almost zero of it is in St Catharines. The park would appear, to me, to be mostly in Pelham with a part in Thorold. There might be a tiny part on the southwest corner of the intersection of DeCew and Pelham roads that's in St Catharines but, if memory serves me correctly, that part of St Catharines is in private hands belonging to landowners who front on Pelham Road. Those lands are not part of the park. I definitely think it's erroneous to include Short Hills PP as a park in St Catharines, especially given that, by first approximation, about 100% of the park is not. 142.140.230.111 (talk) 20:49, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

obesity?

Obesity should be under demographics. A city can't be obese. Only people can be. Get with the program yankee76. You seem to have a problem with Heritage's comments. I agree with Heritage. This belong's in a Canadian obesity topic not in St. Catharine Ontario. It is not current and is specious. It should be put in demographic data or another topic altogether.