User:OldManRivers/Sḵwxwú7mesh

Welcome to my Sḵwxwú7mesh Sandbox!

This page is my attempt to organize and classify articles relating to Sḵwxwú7mesh. Any blue links OR RED LINKS people can add are much appreciated. Feel free to use or modify this page in any way that enhances the coverage of the Sḵwxwú7mesh on wikipedia.

Sacred or Important Places edit

Siwash Rock
St. Paull's Catholic Church
- - - - St. Paul one-L, or is it two?

Places edit

Potlatch Creek
Horseshoe Bay (Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia; nominally "Horseshoe Bay (Howe Sound)" would be for the waterbody if there was a need for a separate article, prob not though huh. There's more than one H-Bay in BC so that's why Howe Sound in Brackets instead of BC)
Gibsons Landing (Gibsons, British Columbia unlesss there'sa difference)
Port Mellon
Woodfibre
Wreck Beach/Tower Beach
Jericho Beach..... Maj. Matthews has a whole bunch of beach names...
Vanier Park/Kitsilano Point
Stanley Park
Moodyville
Gastown (aka "Lucklucky" - grove of little maples, or little maple grove, in Skwxwu7mesh snichim supposedly, whatever your proper spelling is.
False Creek (esp. re the freshwater spring and the old fishery)
Cheakamus Powerhouse - I'll start it, same as Daisy Lake Dam and Daisy Lake (hydro kid - Dad was construction boss on these projects; we lived in the trailer camp at the powerhouse in c.'56-'57)
Burrard Peninsula/Ulkxsen or however it's spelled.

Musqueam, Mahlie, Great Fraser Midden.....I know I know someone else's turf. You don't have any Musqueam writing-type fridns do you? They're undercovvered severely....

Islands, Mountains, Valleys edit

Mount Garibaldi
Mount Cayley
The Lions (Peaks)
Black Tusk
Tantalus Range nb some individual peaks might have or need articles
Cloudburst Mountain
Mount Brew - whatever that disambiguates to.
Stawamus Chief
Mount Fee
Buck Mountain - needs disambiguation name
Mamquam Mountain
Sky Pilot (peak)

Rivers, Lakes, & Waterbodies edit

Cheakamus Lake
Garibaldi Lake
Callaghan Lake, and Callaghan Creek and Callaghan Falls
Lake Lovely Water - will probably have an article one day
Levette Lake - just happen to know about it, went swimming there once, has a big lavacrystal beneath its surface you can stand on; if you've never swum there check it' out.
Howe Sound
English Bay
False Creek
Burrard Inlet
Indian Arm

Shannon Falls Provincial Park
Darrell Bay or Darrell Bay ferry terminal
Murrin Provincial Park (Murrin Lake....petroglyphs no?)
Watts Point volcanic centre - just in case that spot has a name.
Brandywine Falls

Communities edit

Which was the one Pembertoonians called "Watertank", up by Pincrest/Black Tusk Estates; the joint Skwxwu7mesh-Lil'wat community?

Consider Sḵwxwú7mesh toponymy as an article; can't be OR, but some notes on how/why S%E1%B8%B5wxw%C3%BA7mesh peple named things, and a map/.list of known placenames (more than already given above).14:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

History edit

Fur Traders, Explorers, and Missionaries edit

Fort Langley

Persons edit

August Jack Khatsahlano
Joe Capilano
Harriet Nahanee
Andy Paull
Dan George
J.S. "Skitt" Matthews - may already have an article with J-spelled out S-spelled out, noted here because of his documentation of names and acquaintance with Skwxwu7mesh chiefs/ elders.

Cultural items (tools, artifacts, etc.) edit

Spindle whorl (Coast Salish)
Hand drum (see bodhran and look through the cats its in; music articles can be technical)
Longhouse (Coast Salish)
Bighouse (Northwest Coast)
Fish weir
Oolican grease - Eulachon sp. is for the core article; I usuall ysee "Oolichan" with thee two-o's,when not the eu- form. See Grease Trail and subarticles.
- I seem to recall anarticle: maybe only a section in eulachon
Clam farm or Clam farming
- more Kwakwaka'wakw than Skwxwu7mesh? just guessing not that I'd know

Religion and Stories edit

Ceremonies, beliefs, events edit

Slahal
Potlatch
Tribal Journeys This it the name of the festival. Just like Vancouver Folk Music Festival or Expo 86. Plus, they aren't canoe races.