User talk:Simtropolitan/Archive 1

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Arundhati bakshi 01:06, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Air Nunavut

I noticed that you had the external link and the destinations listed as Canadian North here. I removed them because nothing on its site indicates that it operates sked service. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Simtropolitan 14:58 (GMT-05:00), 25 May 2006

Old Settlements

It's debatable as to them actually being settlements or not and it's part of the reason that I broke up the list into the way it is. As an example of places being communities it is unlikley that anyone in Nunavut would think of Alert as one. It's somewhere that people are posted, be they military or Envionment, for a period of time. My understanding is that the people who are there are still considered to be residents of the provience they came from. In the same way that a student from here who goes to university in Alberta for 4 years is still a resident of Nunavut. But that's still original research until I can find confirmation.

Ennadai was a weather station, such as Mould Bay on Prince Patrick Island, at Ennadai Lake and there were Inuit in the area. It was never really a settlement but from this it does appear that there was contact. But of course in those days a lot of people if not most were still nomadic. I'll ask one of my co-workers later and see what he know about the place.

Now for the other two I will have to tell you first about something I do know so I can tell you my suspicions of Tavani & Padlei. If you look at the second of the two maps at Victoria Island (Canada) you can see that on the green part in the NWT both Fort Collinson and Holman (now Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories) are marked. Fort Collinson, now abandoned, was either a Hudsons Bay or North West Company post. Just south of Collinson, but north of Ulukhaktok is Minto Inlet and there was another trading post there. Then at the bottom of the island on the southwest coast there was a Hudsons Bay post on Reid Island. These posts like many others would have had only one or two people living there all year round, to start with. In some places there may have been a missionary or RCMP post as well. Over time a few families might have stated to spend most of the year near the post rather than persist in the nomadic lifestyle. In some cases they may have done so to stay near the daughter that was living with the post manager, in others the wildlife in the area was sufficent to enable them to survive and trade with moving. They traded the fox skins that for the most part were not wanted by the Inuit. Over time the North West Company post shut down and the HBC was left with two posts. They decided over time to shut them down and make one post at Ulukhaktok. At that time Ulukhaktok was just a place that the Inuit sometimes visited to get slate for Ulu's. So the whole point of this is, where Reid Island, Fort Collinson and Minto Inlet settlements in the same way that Ulukhaktok is? My opinion is that the were not and were trading posts only.

Most of the above is gained from having lived in Ulukhaktok for 20 years but I do actually have a proper source for most of it. Now on to Padlei. Based on what I could find on the net I think that it was not much more than an abandoned trading post but I don't know for what company. This story from 2000 talks of a woman going to Padlei to seek help. She must have known that there would be people there. Now Inuit in those days tended to move to the same area at the same season year after year. So she may have known that people would be there to hunt caribou or that there was a post there. Next this says that Padlei was a trading post and this at least shows that the place was west of Hudson Bay. Now this caption and the larger picture give more information. If you look at the bed they are sitting on and the wall behind them it's easy to see that this is not taken inside the post host. Anyway in the 1950s most Inuit would not have been let into the house. However, the wall looks solid rather than a tent frame so I would suspect that a few families were living semi-permenant in the area similiar to the posts in the previous paragraph. And this (search for Padlei) indicates it was an HBC post. Of course this is just guess work based onwhat I know rather than properly sourced material. By the way the co-op and hotel in Arviat are also called Padlei. I'm not sure what the word means but I did see that the people were called Padleimiut.

Tavani is much harder to find. There's this PDF, google sat map and multimap and this map which shows bot Padlei and Tavani. The hotel in Whale Cove is called Tavani. Now searching for Tavani Northwest Territories got this which again says an abandoned trading post.

Hello Simtropolitan. I just started Tavani, Nunavut. Am hoping other editors with some good resources can contribute to it as I haven't found much. Cheers Rosiestephenson (talk) 02:03, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I will ask later if anyone knows the meaning of either Tavani or Padlei but with the large differences in dialects it may not make any sense. A tip on searching for this sort of thing is to always try them under Nunavut and Northwest Territories. Sorry about the length of this. One last link, this has a cople of pictures taken in the 1950s in the Padlei area by Richard Harrington when the people were starving. Hope some of this helps. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 08:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the information, when I www.google.com Googled these communities I could find anything except I did find that Ennadai is a location for the Ennadai Lodge which was built in 2000. Once again, many thanks, I will use this information well. Simtropolitan 09:36 EDST, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I did ask the guy at work but all he knew of Ennadai was that people didn't like working there because of the mosquitos. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:57, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Following up. Don't know if you noticed or not but User:Gcapp1959 had some info which he put at the end of User talk:CambridgeBayWeather#Old Settlements and I followed up on his talk page. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:Canadian dogs

Hello, please place a sentence at the top of this +cat explaining what it means. Why is Labrador Retriever in it ? Headphonos 15:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Introductory Inuktitut

I assume that from what you said that you tried NAC and their order form. Have you tried some of the rare bookshops on the net. I was able to get some out of print books about the north but they can cost quite a lot. You might also try googling the ISBN number. Did you see this page (scroll to the bottom), you might want to ask User:Diderot as he appears to have a copy. The Office of the Langauge Commissioner may have something. And if you want you could try and email his wife Alexina Kublu and ask if she knows where a copy could be found. Good luck. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Nunavut portal

Can you have a look at this and see if it would be any good for the portal or Cambridge Bay. This kind of stuff usually doesn't happen up here. I would put it in but I'm too close to the subject, having had a run-in with one of the dead guys, and probably couldn't write it in a neutral manner. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 02:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The CW Television Network

As far as I know, The CW Television Network's full name is simply that, and not "The Columbia-Warner Television Network" (Columbia appears to refer to the first word in "Columbia Broadcasting System," the old full name for CBS, which has not been used since April 17, 1974 — almost 32 years before The CW was even announced). Although the "C" definitely refers to CBS (see prior parenthesis for why it's CBS and not Columbia) and the "W" definitely refers to Warner Bros., "CW" is not expanded on in any official name for the network. Hense, your edit has been undone. Thank you for your understanding. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 23:05, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Stealth Blimp

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Umass dorms

Thank you so much for expanding the "Former buildings" section. I never even knew that there was information out there on that. I even stumbled across a valuable website. Thanks again. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 15:23, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

No problem, I'll post more UMass sites if I can find any. They really have poor online organization, and over the last semester I've found they have many old neglected pages hidden on their servers. I'll keep you posted. Simtropolitan (talk) 2:30, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for adding that information the the University of Massachusetts Amherst pages. Why did you add that information, as I never would've even thought of including that stuff on this project and I go there! If you want to collaborate on anything in the future or want guidance or information, I am more than willing to work with you to help you. Thanks again and have a happy holidays! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:47, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Also, you might be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Massachusetts to help coordinate tasks. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 04:56, 20 December 2010 (UTC)