Talk:Victoria (British Columbia federal electoral district)
 | This article is written in Canadian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, centre, travelled, realize, analyze) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
 | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Use of ballot-names in election tables
editAs a standard in the historical ridings I've done so far, I've been putting names in the tables as they're listed on the ballot, or on the report of election from Elections BC or Elections Canada (presumably the same as the ballot). So links are double-built with the linked-name (if any) as well as the form on the ballot; Amor de Cosmos is A. de Cosmos and Sir John A. gets the whole Right Hon. treatment (he was already Right Hon. at the time).Skookum1 08:43, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Note on Dates of Byelections/Deaths
editThe usual format in the Elections Canada tables is month-day-year, but it seems that for the details of the Byelections, i.e. in the event of Mr So and So's death, the month/day order is reversed to year-month-day. This isn't entirely clear but for the time being all the byelection-reason announcements are in the later, all other dates are derived from the former. Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes it's not. I don't know why Elections Canada would use two different dating systems, but they do. Could be because Hansard has the byelection announcements, e.g. 'By-Election: On Mr. Tolmie's death, 13-10-1937' and the actual returns is from the Chief Electoral Officer, as in the date of the election caused by Mr. Tolmie's death 1937/11/29Skookum1 20:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Charles Morton/Three Greenhorns
editI don't think the reference to Charles Morton as one of the Three Greenhorns is correct because John Morton was one of them, not Charles, and Samuel Brighouse and William Hailstone made up the numbers. See The Three Greenhorns. I will delete this note in a few days' time unless anyone knows any better. Shaibalahmar (talk) 09:40, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
disambiguation to NB riding
editI feel that there should be a disambiguation link from this page to Victoria (New Brunswick provincial electoral district), as anyone searching for that riding may end up here. My edit to that effect was reverted, and I do not wish an edit war. Discussion? FUNgus guy (talk) 20:44, 8 January 2015 (UTC)