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Thishdin
Hoax. Nice try, and to my mind of much greater interest than dozens of dutiful articles about this or that character in "popular culture" (i.e. that which is cannily marketed to preteens of all ages), which of course live, flourish and multiply. Oh, I can quibble with the details, such as inability to spell "separate"; but this attempt, though doomed, is fairly noble. -- Hoary 05:29, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) ..... PS our author (or somebody sharing the same IP number) has now fixed the spelling of "separate". -- Hoary 08:10, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - this was speedy deleted once and recreated. It's kind of funny, though. Cdc 05:51, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Waaa? BJAODN, of course. Gamaliel 05:57, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I left a message on the user's page to indicate that if he's describing some work of fiction, the article needs to make it clear, and that if it's not notable fiction, or if it's original fiction, Wikipedia really isn't the place for it. It's a shame, though, because it sounds honestly sorta cool.  -- Antaeus Feldspar 06:18, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * If he's describing fiction? There's clearly no "if" about it. Delete. I wouldn't argue against a speedy even. -R. fiend 06:56, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not arguing that. But I can name you at least two cases where articles about potentially encyclopedic topics were marked for speedy deletion because a) one was describing a fictional character, without mentioning "this is a fictional character from the such-and-such comic book series", b) one was a purportedly psychic individual and the description was written from a perspective that accepted unquestioningly that she had extrasensory powers she had used to evade the Nazis.  Both would have needed work, of course, and neither of these specific examples would have been worth it, as they were both copyvios.  But the mistake of forgetting to say "Oh, and this is all fiction which can be found in such-and-such book or comic or TV show" is so frequent I don't think we want to set a precedent of speedy deleting anything that we don't understand but know is fictional.  (Particularly as even long-time users forget to click "What links here", which clears up the mystery 70-80% of the time...) -- Antaeus Feldspar 08:26, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Er, are you suggesting that (b) would have been OK had it not been a copyvio? Say it ain't so! (Oh right, yes -- lots of people here believe that even "Sollog" deserves oxygen of publicity on Wikipedia. Count me out!) Meanwhile, Thishdin is a potentially encyclopedic topic within a real-life and notable work of fiction to the tune of having a grand total of zero hits at Google. I bet the author is chuckling over the earnestness with which his/her little joke is being discussed. -- Hoary 08:38, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Are you saying that without even knowing who (b) was that you can automatically judge that she was not "potentially encyclopedic", as I phrased it? no, I am not suggesting that (b) would have been okay if it hadn't been a copyvio, because in this particular case it wasn't.  What I'm saying is that it would be a mistake to adopt a general rule of "if it's clearly not a real series of events that happened according to the way most observers would interpret things, let's speedy delete it."  That means that if a potentially encyclopedic topic gets written about by someone who doesn't think to put context in or who doesn't have the perspective to know that the way they see things isn't the way most people do, it relies on blind luck that it gets seen by the person who recognizes the context or the lack of perspective before the person who says "oh, fiction!" and slaps it with a  tag.  Considering how many people regularly announce on VfD "I don't know what the hell this is!  Some -- fan-thing, that's all I know!" when clicking "What links here" would have told them exactly what it's from, that's not what strikes me as a very good idea. -- Antaeus Feldspar 09:36, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Antaeus, I didn't notice the mention of "Speedy". Speediness aside, any article about "a purportedly psychic individual [which article unquestioningly accepts] that she had extrasensory powers she had used to evade the Nazis" sounds like a candidate for deletion, unless of course the purported psychic abilities supplement some other feature of the person that's notable. In practice, the combination seems rare: "psychics" tend to be notable only for their appetite for publicity (e.g. by writing Wikipedia articles about themselves) and their ability to make money. -- Hoary 13:56, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Agreed! =D  I have no problem whatever with articles on purported "psychics" being put up on VfD, because most of them are not notable no matter what they or their followers think.  I just don't want us to miss the exceptions, even if I don't believe those exceptions really have psychic powers either, because they could be the rare case where an individual really has become notable, even if they wouldn't in a less gullible world.  So, yeah, VfD is okay, but speedy delete IMHO would be improper.  -- Antaeus Feldspar 20:54, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * BJAOD... Tree octopi, as linked in the article appear to be a hoax or joke rather than part of fiction Kappa 09:19, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Misinformation. utcursch 13:15, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's just a test page, should probably have been speedied. --[[User:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway|Talk]] 14:00, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete: I think it's a conscious joke.  The reference to the tree octopus (another of the famous hoax websites, this from U.Washington pranksters or U. Oregon) gives it away, if nothing else had.  BJAODN.  Geogre 14:24, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete and send to BJAODN. P Ingerson 18:50, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete Whatever it is, it doesn't belong on wiki. Wyss 20:55, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Nonsense. Jayjg 21:04, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete and send to BJAODN. Blatant hoaxing at its finest (and neat satire on certain styles of anime, if I'm not mistaken). I took the liberty of wikifying, and of course fixing "octopi". JRM 21:46, 2004 Dec 8 (UTC)
 * Delete [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 21:53, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Sent to BJADON! Delete!  --L33tminion | (talk) 21:21, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. BJAODN material. JFW | T@lk  11:24, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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Granby Prédateurs

The Granby Prédateurs ("Predators") were a Canadian junior ice hockey team founded in 1981 after the team moved from Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, where they had been known as the Sorel Éperviers. The team had been known as the Granby Bisons, but changed their name to the Prédateurs in 1995. They played at Arena Leonard Grondin in Granby, Quebec, Canada.

However, the combination of a small, aging arena and low attendance forced the team to move soon after. In 1997 the Prédateurs moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where they became the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles.

NHL alumni
National Hockey League alumni from the Prédateurs two seasons include Philippe Audet, Francis Bouillon, Xavier Delisle, Jason Doig, Daniel Goneau, Benoit Gratton and Georges Laraque. Michel Therrien, who had coached the team to the Memorial Cup, later coached the Montreal Canadiens.

Season-by-season record

 * Granby Prédateurs (1995–1997)

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This category is for groups of notable individuals from notable families who have made their fortunes, derive their fame, derive their wealth, or derive their income from political professions.

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Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a Christmas song released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. It was the seventh single release by John Lennon outside his work with the Beatles. The song reached number four in the UK, where its release was delayed until November 1972, and has occasionally re-emerged on the UK Singles Chart, most notably after Lennon's murder in December 1980, when it peaked at number two.

Also a protest song against the Vietnam War, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has since become a Christmas standard, frequently recorded by other artists, appearing on compilation albums of seasonal music, and named in polls as a holiday favourite. In a UK-wide poll in December 2012, it was voted tenth on the ITV television special The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song.

Background
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" was the culmination of more than two years of peace activism undertaken by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that began with the bed-ins they convened in March and May 1969, the first of which took place during their honeymoon. The song's direct antecedent was an international multimedia campaign launched by the couple in December 1969 – at the height of the counterculture movement and its protests against America's involvement in the Vietnam War – that primarily consisted of renting billboard space in 12 major cities around the world for the display of black-and-white posters that declared "WAR IS OVER! If You Want It – Happy Christmas from John & Yoko". Although a similar line had previously appeared in the 1968 anti-war songs "The War Is Over" by Phil Ochs and "The Unknown Soldier" by the Doors (which features the refrain "The war is over"), the use of "War is over" (minus the definite article) by Lennon and Ono may be coincidental; there is no evidence to confirm that they were acquainted with these earlier works, or if so whether they were influenced by them.

Recognising the accessibility and popular appeal that made his 1971 single "Imagine" more commercially successful than his other post-Beatles songs, Lennon concluded, "Now I understand what you have to do: Put your political message across with a little honey." He conceived "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" as a means of elaborating upon the themes of social unity and peaceful change enacted through personal accountability and empowerment that served as the basis of the earlier billboard campaign,  trying to convey optimism while avoiding the sentimentality that he felt often characterised Christmas songs. From 1963 to 1969, the Beatles had issued special recordings at Christmas directly to members of their fan club. After the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon was the first former member to release an original Christmas song. "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" would be followed by George Harrison's "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" (1974), Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" (1979) and Ringo Starr's album I Wanna Be Santa Claus (1999).

Recording
In late October 1971, with not much more than bare-bones melody and half-formed lyrics, Lennon recorded an acoustic guitar demo of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" in his rooms at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, where he and Ono were living. Ono would receive co-writing credit, but the actual extent of her contribution at this initial stage is unclear since she did not participate in the demo, which was atypical of their collaborations. Another demo of the song was made in late October after the couple had taken an apartment in Greenwich Village. Lennon brought in Phil Spector to help produce, as he had with his previous two albums, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, which had been released in the US several weeks earlier.

The first recording session was held on the evening of Thursday, 28 October, at the Record Plant studio. After the session musicians – some of whom had performed at one time or another as members of the Plastic Ono Band – laid down the basic instrumental backing and overdub tracks, Lennon and Ono added the main vocals. One of the four guitarists present filled in for bassist Klaus Voormann, whose flight from Germany had been delayed. The following day, Ono and the session musicians, including Voormann, recorded the single's B-side, "Listen, the Snow Is Falling". The Harlem Community Choir – 30 children, most of them four to twelve years of age – came to the studio on the afternoon of 31 October to record backing vocals for the counter-melody and sing-along chorus. Photographs for the original sleeve cover were also taken during that session by Iain Macmillan.

Composition
The song begins with spoken Christmas greetings from Ono and Lennon to their children from previous marriages: Ono whispers, "Happy Christmas, Kyoko", then Lennon whispers, "Happy Christmas, Julian". Lyric sheets accompanying the compilation albums Shaved Fish (1975) and The John Lennon Collection (1982) erroneously transcribe this introduction as, "Happy Christmas, Yoko. Happy Christmas, John."

When Lennon first played his demo for Phil Spector, the producer remarked that the song's opening line, "So this is Christmas…", was rhythmically identical to the 1961 single "I Love How You Love Me" by The Paris Sisters, which Spector himself had produced. At the recording studio, Lennon instructed the guitarists to incorporate mandolin-style riffs similar to the ones heard in "Try Some, Buy Some", a single that Spector and George Harrison had produced in February 1971 for his wife, Ronnie Spector, formerly of the Ronettes. Spector also included percussion instruments of the sort he used on the 1963 album A Christmas Gift for You.

In addition to these reappropriated elements, the chords and melodic structure of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" are similar to the traditional English ballad "Skewball", but with a different rhythmic meter, subsequent modulations and a wholly new and different chorus countermelody. The verses of the song are closest in structure to the 1963 rendition (titled "Stewball") by Peter, Paul and Mary.

Release
Apple Records released "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" and "Listen, the Snow Is Falling" in America on 1 December 1971 (Apple 1842). Issued in 7" single format on transparent green vinyl with a card-stock picture sleeve, the pressing bore two label variations, one of which displayed a sequence of five images that showed Lennon's face transforming into Ono's. This sequence was originally featured on the reverse cover of the exhibition catalogue for Ono's career retrospective This Is Not Here, presented in October 1971 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.

A dispute between music publisher Northern Songs and Lennon over publishing rights delayed the release of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" in the UK until 24 November 1972 (Apple R 5870). The initial British run was issued in 7" single format on opaque green vinyl with the picture sleeve and variant label, but it sold out quickly and had to be repressed on standard black vinyl.

The song's first album appearance was on Shaved Fish, the only compilation of Lennon's solo recordings released during his lifetime. "Happy Xmas" was coupled there with part of a live version of "Give Peace a Chance", performed as the finale of Lennon and Ono's One to One benefit concert on 30 August 1972. Designed by Roy Kohara, the album cover is composed of illustrations by Michael Bryan representing each song on the album; for "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", the image shows an aeroplane dropping a Christmas ornament instead of a bomb.

Over the years, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has been reissued in a number of single formats by Capitol, Geffen and Parlophone, sometimes in conjunction with the release of albums collecting Lennon's work. It has also appeared on compilations of Christmas songs, notably those from the Now That's What I Call Music! series.

A rough mix produced during the first recording session on 28 October 1971 was released in 1998 on the John Lennon Anthology.

Music videos
A music video for "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" appeared on The John Lennon Video Collection, released on VHS in 1992, corresponding to the 1989 reissue of The John Lennon Collection. It consisted of images from Lennon and Ono's 1969 "War is Over!" billboard campaign and candid photographs of the couple and their son Sean from the late 1970s, interspersed with a boys' choral ensemble singing along with the original Harlem Community Choir vocals.

In 2003, a new video was created for the remastered 5.1 version of the song for the DVD Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon. This version has over 22 million views on YouTube.

Reception
On its US single debut in 1971, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" did not meet with much success. This was due to the single's late release, which resulted in limited airplay before Christmas, and a lack of promotion. The single peaked at number 36 on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles and number 28 on the Record World Singles Chart, and number 3 on the Billboard Christmas Singles chart. The single subsequently re-appeared on the Billboard Christmas charts in 1972, 1983, 1984, and 1985. The song appeared at number 32 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart for the week ending 6 January 1996. The song's most recent chart entry, and highest position, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was in 2022, where it peaked at #38 for the week ending 31 December 2022.

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" enjoyed immediate success in Britain when issued there in November 1972. The song peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 10 on the listings compiled by Melody Maker. Since then, it has re-entered the UK Singles Chart nine more times. The most notable of these instances occurred immediately following Lennon's death on 8 December 1980. The single peaked at number 2 – behind another reissued Lennon single, "Imagine" – and remained on the chart for nine weeks.

Between December 1972 and February 1973, the song entered the top ten in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Singapore.

Ultimate Classic Rock critic Nick DeRiso rated it as Lennon's 5th greatest solo political song, noting that "Lennon took the opportunity to encourage Yuletide revelers toward a broader sense of pacifism."

Other versions
In 1985, Australian group the Incredible Penguins released a version of the song, which peaked at number 10 on the Australian singles chart in December 1985.

In later decades, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has gained a higher profile in the cultural mainstream due to an increasing proliferation of recordings by other musical artists, most having been recorded during the last twenty years. Among these, two have entered the Billboard charts, both of them in the same year. The first was released on 17 October 2006 by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan along with her album Wintersong, which was the best-selling Christmas album of the year and a Grammy nominee. It features backing vocals from the Children's and Youth Choirs of the Music Outreach Program at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music in Vancouver, British Columbia. Entering the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart at number 22 on the week ending 9 December 2006, it climbed to a peak position of number 5, four weeks later. The second was released on 12 December 2006 by American rock band The Fray as a digital download. It debuted at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 41 on the Pop 100 in the week ending 31 December 2006, but stayed on the respective charts for only one more week.

Some of the earliest of the other versions of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" appear on holiday albums released by major pop singers, such as I Still Believe in Santa Claus (1990) by Andy Williams, The Christmas Album (1992) by Neil Diamond, A Very Special Season (1994) by Diana Ross, and These Are Special Times (1998) by Celine Dion.

Other notable recordings of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" include a 1991 version on the album Standards by The Alarm, a 1994 in-concert performance by Melissa Etheridge, a 1995 Brazilian version by Simone, the 2002 version by South African band Toxic Shame, the 2002 Maybe This Christmas version from Sense Field. American pop rock band Maroon 5 released a cover in 2005, in support of Amnesty International's Make Some Noise campaign. Australian singer Delta Goodrem recorded this song as a b-side on her 5th single Predictable. A 2009 version by mash-up band Beatallica on the album Winter Plunderband. On 13 December 2012, Sean Lennon performed the song with gospel singer Mavis Staples, Jeff Tweedy of the band Wilco, and the Harlem Gospel Choir on the Comedy Central program The Colbert Report. This version was made available for purchase on the music download site iTunes, and proceeds were donated to Hurricane Sandy disaster relief. During John Lennon’s 75th Birthday Concert, Sheryl Crow, Aloe Blacc, and Peter Frampton performed the song with a children's chorus from The Stuttering Association for the Youth.

On 14 December 2018, Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson recorded a version of the song featuring Lennon's son, Sean Ono Lennon. The three of them performed their cover on 15 December 2018 episode of Saturday Night Live, where Ronson and Cyrus were booked as the episode's musical guests. In November 2019, John Legend released a new version of the song, including string arrangements by Matt Jones which featured an improvised solo by violinist Scott Tixier. It reached number nine in the UK Singles Chart. The song was also covered in late 2019 by two VTubers Hime Tanaka and Hina Suzuki.

A French version was recorded by René Simard and his little sister Nathalie entitled "Noël Des Enfants" from René's album 18 ans déjà.

Personnel

 * John Lennon – vocals, guitar, producer
 * Yoko Ono – vocals, producer
 * The Harlem Community Choir – backing vocals, Children's Choir
 * May Pang – backing vocals
 * Nicky Hopkins – piano, chimes, glockenspiel
 * Teddy Irwin – guitar
 * Jim Keltner – drums, sleigh bells
 * Hugh McCracken – guitar
 * Chris Osbourne – guitar
 * Stuart Scharf – guitar
 * Roy Cicala – recording engineer
 * Phil Spector – producer

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User:Lostchicken

Hey, I'm Thomas. I'm originally from Dallas, and am an alum of St. Mark's School of Texas. I currently reside in Claremont, CA and am an undergrad at Harvey Mudd College. I've been editing on Wikipedia for quite a while now, but just recently started working non-anonymously. I typically work on articles regarding aerospace and computing topics.

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Bias
In lieu of actually changing the article, I call attention to this stub's blatant bias. 67.112.111.178 05:42, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Bartonism
I'm not sure whether this is vanity or just extremely minor videogame fan trivia. Google reports 18 hits, of which perhaps two or three relate to this. Cdc 05:43, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge into Ultima Online. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:51, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

An interesting term, and one can see how this could be important to UO players. It is at least notable as a fad, and interesting from a sociological standpoint of how these things develop in virtual societies. Deletion is probably not necessary, but merging with Ultima Online as an example of how mature MMORPG societies develop their own quirks (this is much like the Macarena dance) may be appropriate if it won't be kept.
 * Keep
 * Merge with Ultima Online. P Ingerson 18:54, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge as above. JesseW 21:18, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge into DELETE. [[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 21:55, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep Also a reference to a British religious movement, the page is useful for both entries and we can wait for an update. Timcotten 17:23, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, fancruft. Make room for the British religious movement. JFW | T@lk  11:26, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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David Tsubouchi

David Hiroshi Tsubouchi (坪内 デビト) (born August 20, 1951) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. He was the first Japanese Canadian elected to a provincial legislature.

Background
Tsubouchi was born in Toronto, and grew up in Scarborough in the Agincourt area. His parents were Japanese Canadians, originally from British Columbia, who were interned during World War II. After their release they moved to Toronto. He graduated from Agincourt Collegiate Institute in 1968 and attended York University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972, and a law degree from Osgoode Hall in 1975. He was the senior partner in the firm of Tsubouchi & Nichols (formerly Tsubouchi & Parker) following his graduation. Tsubouchi was also an Associate Director of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, and was a frequent contributor to the Law Gazette. He received an Air Canada Heart of Gold award in 1988, and was granted a coat-of-arms from the Canadian Governor-General's office in 1993. Tsubouchi has a younger brother and sister. His father was killed in a hit and run accident in 2005.

Tsubouchi worked briefly as an actor. He had a minor role as a Japanese salesman in David Cronenberg's Videodrome in 1983, and episodes of John Byner's Bizarre and SCTV.

Municipal councillor
Tsubouchi was elected as a city councillor in ward 5 in Markham and served from 1988 to 1994.

Provincial politics
In the provincial election of 1995, he ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the provincial riding of Markham, defeating his nearest opponent by 26,544 votes. The Tories won a majority government in the election and Tsubouchi was appointed as Minister of Community and Social Services in the government of Mike Harris on June 26, 1995.

In this portfolio, Tsubouchi was responsible for presiding over drastic cuts in the province's welfare system. He also made a number of controversial actions early in his ministry, including suggesting that welfare recipients who had their funding reduced should consider haggling down the price of dented cans of tuna to 69 cents each. He also claimed that single mothers on welfare had ample time to find jobs, after having given a three-month warning for a 22% cut in benefits.

Later, he prepared a sample menu which listed affordable food purchases for those whose welfare rates had been reduced. His list was found to have less nutritional value than the diet served to prisoners in Ontario jails. There were several calls for his resignation in the wake of these comments; even the right-leaning Toronto Sun newspaper suggested that he should be removed. He remained with the portfolio until August 16, 1996, when he was named Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations.

Notwithstanding his handling of the Social Services portfolio, Tsubouchi was regarded in some circles as one of the more progressively-minded ministers in the Harris government. He supported the centre-right Progressive Conservative Party of Canada rather than the right-wing Reform Party at the federal level, and in 2000 was the only member of the Progressive Conservative caucus to openly support Joe Clark for the federal party's leadership. He was also credited by some for at least making an effort to cushion the blow of his government's welfare cuts. Nonetheless, the legacy of his department's cutbacks would follow Tsubouchi for the rest of his career, and make him a frequent target of social activists opposed to the Harris government.

Tsubouchi's tenure as Consumer and Commercial Relations Minister was comparatively uneventful. He was easily re-elected in the provincial election of 1999, defeating Liberal Steven Kirsch by just over 13,000 votes.

On June 17, 1999, he was appointed as the province's Solicitor-General. He held this position until a cabinet shuffle on February 8, 2001, when he was named Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet.

Tsubouchi supported Ernie Eves's successful bid to replace Mike Harris as party leader in 2002. Eves retained him as chair of the Management Board, and also named him as Ontario's Minister of Culture on April 15, 2002.

In the provincial election of 2003, Tsubouchi was upset by Liberal candidate Tony Wong, losing by about 6,000 votes. In 2004, he supported John Tory's successful bid to replace Eves as party leader.

After politics
He worked as associate counsel at the law firm Miller Thomson LLP, and is currently the founder and chairman of Deduce International Markets Inc In 2007 he was invested as a Knight in The Equestrian, Secular and Chapterial Order of Saint Joachim in Toronto.

In recent years, Tsubouchi has worked as a partner at the law firm Fogler, Rubinoff LLP, and has been appointed to head Ontario College of Trades starting on September 9, 2013. In 2013 he published Gambatte, a memoir of his career.

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Introduction
In the anarchic world of open source software (OSS) projects, most decisions are made by a general consensus. However, there are some decision points where there is no clear consensus about which way to go. This is where the Benevolent Dictator for Life steps in. In these rare cases, the BDfL makes the call. If one or more of the participants in the project don't like the path the BDfL has taken, they have the right to fork and take the path not taken. This, however, is used only as a last resort.

Wikis, like the Wikipedia, have their roots in the open source programming culture. However, they differ from normal open source software projects in some ways. One way they differ is that wikis are larger than most OSS projects, both in terms of participants and of content. The average OSS project has one or two coders and is measured in thousands of lines of code. The average community wiki has dozens to hundreds of contributors and has thousands of articles. (The Wikipedia is much larger than this - almost half a million articles in the English section alone, with a community of contributors that I would estimate is in the hundreds of thousands - at least.)

Because of the size of wikis in general, and the Wikipedia in particular, there are many decisions where this unlikely to be a clear consensus, but are too minor for the BDfL to spend time on. For example: should an article be deleted? should a contributor be banned? should a contributor be given sysop privleges?

To handle these issues, the BDfL of the Wikipedia, Jimbo, has delegeted some authority to several classes of contributors, and the privleges needed to use that authority. Administrators have the privlege of deleting articles, banning contributors, and protecting pages. Bureaucrats have the privlege of elevating other contributors to Administrator status.

In theory, the sole check on the misuse of these powers is that these privleged actions can be undone by other members of the same class. But in practice, these privleged contributors are careful to poll for the opinion of other contributors before taking action.

Composition of the Legislature
Before setting up our own representative democracy, we should look at prior art. The most common form of a representative democratic legislature, at least here in the USA, is a bicameral one. Here's some results I got from looking at List of state legislatures of the United States:

Higher House Highest: 67 Lowest: 20 Mean: 38.7 Median: 38

Lower House Highest: 400 Lowest: 40 Mean: 108.3 Median: 100

''It should be noted that the second largest body, Pennsylvania's lower house, has only 203 members. Note the difference between the mean and median figures on the Lower House table.''

Based on these results, I recommend that we form a Senate, with 38 seats, and an Assembly, with 100 seats.

Setting up the Districts
To form districts, we first need a list of the active citizens of the Wikipedia. To get this list, take a list of logins, strike off any known bots, banned accounts, and accounts that haven't had any activity for the last 30 days. (It might also be a good idea to strike off any contributor with less than 25 edits. Firstly, anything less than 25 edits is a pretty small sample. Secondly, it gives a new contributor a chance to get adjusted before they can be called upon to vote in an election.) Sort this list by number of contributions.

Next, use the contributors with the highest number of contributions to seed their own proto-district. (For Senate districts you have 38 districts, therefore 38 seed contributors. For Assembly districts, 100. Each district will be numbered, 1 - 38 or 1 - 100.) Starting at the bottom of the list (to slow down how “wide” the district grows), compare each contributor's history of edits to each district. Here is one method of doing this: For each page a contributor has edited, divided the number of district members who have also edited that page by the total number of district members. This will give you a number from 0.0 to 1.0 for each page the contributor has edited. Add up these numbers, and the highest rated district wins. In case of a tie, the smallest district wins. If there is still a tie, random chance.

Main namespace articles, userpages, and their related talk pages should be used for this purpose. Certain “commons” pages – such as the Village Pump, the Main Page, and probably the entire Wikipedia namespace – should not. Otherwise, it is likely that all the Administrators would be stuffed into a single district!

After the entire list has been dealt out, it is highly probable that there will be large variations in the size of the districts. To cure this, split the largest district. Use the Senator/Representative and the Alternate (which will be explained later), or, in this case, the two highest contributing people, as seeds for the two daughter districts. The district with the senior seed member will retain the original district number, the junior one will be temporarily assigned a number of either 39 or 101. Divvy up the other members according to the method used above.

Now disband the smallest district, and distribute its members among the other districts. Assuming that it wasn't the one disbanded, district 39 or 101 will be given the disbanded district's number.

Repeat this process until the largest district is no more than twice the average in population.

Maintaining the Districts
Once every 24 hours, presumably during off-peak hours, the following actions should be taken:

 * Remove contributors who have not shown activity for the last 30 days from the district rolls.
 * Assign new contributors who have passed the initial 25 edit mark to their first district.
 * Re-evaluate the district membership of "junior" contributors, who are below the 100 edit mark, at 5 edit intervals.
 * Re-evaluate the district membership of "senior" contributors, who are above the 100 edit mark, at 25 edit intervals.
 * Assign contributors who have previously gone inactive, but have now returned, to a district.
 * Split any district that is more than twice as large than average, as explained in "Setting Up the Districts".

Senators, Representatives and Alternates should not have their district membership re-evaluated during their tenure in office. They should, however, be re-evaluated just before an election cycle starts.

Elected Officials
In order to be a Senator or a Representative, you should have at least 100 edits under your belt. If a current Representative gets elected a Senator, then they'll have to abandon their Representative post - you can't be a Senator and a Representative at the same time, in other words.

IMO, 3 months on the Internet is like a full year in the real world. So Representatives should have a maximum term of 6 months; Senators, 18.

In addition to the normal ending of a term, an election should be held if:

 * The district has been split.
 * 1/3 of the current members of the district were not active members when the last election was held.
 * If the Representative gets elected to Senator.

Because of the need for Wikivacations, and other things that might temporarily keep an elected official from their duties, each district should also have an Alternate, who steps in if an elected official either takes a leave of absence or goes inactive. I'm not sure how this Alternate should be elected - both having the runner up serve and having a separate election have their downsides.

If an Alternate becomes the acting Senator or Representative, there should be a special election held to determine who shall be the Acting Alternate. If the real Senator or Representative returns and they took a leave of absence, they get their old job back. Otherwise, they don't, since they were taken of the rolls of the district. They'll just have to wait until the next election.

Before the election process starts, the incumbents should have their district membership re-evaluated. If they are assigned to a different district, they will continue to be a member of their current district until the new guy can take over. However, they are out of the running.

I would personally prefer that voting be of the instant runoff style. However, I'd go along with a simple plurality vote also. Otherwise, I think the other mechanics of elections were worked out with the ArbCom elections.

Implementation
This program is exactly the type which is hard to get done in the present climate. It is large, disruptive, and requires technical implementation. Unless somebody has a better idea, here's what I plan on doing: Firstly, I will have the idea "flogged around the fleet", by posting it to the Proposal, Policy, and Technical forums in turn. If nobody has given any objections that, IMO, are show-stoppers, I'll try to convince a coder to do the actual implementation for District setup. That, I believe, is simple enough not to require a more formal means of consensus-gathering. Before the Legislature can be setup, there will have to be a formal referendum of some sort, and we will have to get Jimbo's approval.

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South Melbourne FC

South Melbourne Football Club is an Australian semi-professional soccer club based in suburb of Albert Park, in Melbourne, Victoria. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, with matches played at Lakeside Stadium.

The club was founded in 1959 by Greek migrants following World War II as South Melbourne hellas  (Νότια Μελβούρνη Ελλάς), with a basis in the Greek community.

The club has won four Australian national championships, a string of Victorian State League titles, numerous Dockerty Cups and represented Oceania in the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. Along with the Marconi Stallions, they were one of two clubs to compete in every season of the National Soccer League.

The club was chosen by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics as the Oceania Club of the Century for the 20th century.

Formation
South Melbourne was formed in 1959 with the amalgamation of three struggling Melbourne soccer clubs—South Melbourne United, the oldest of the three clubs with a history dating back to the early 1900s—the Greek-backed Yarra Park Aias (Ajax), and Hellenic. Theo Marmaras, initiator of the merger proposal and president of Hellenic, became the first president of the new club. In recognition of the large Greek Australian support base of Hellenic and Yarra Park, which were also the best-supported of the three clubs, the new club was named South Melbourne Hellas, the name by which it was to be known for the majority of its 50 years. The first emblem reflected the colour scheme of the Greek national flag. The first uniform consisted of jersey of white with a red 'V' around the collar, the was also that of South Melbourne United, as well as blue shorts and blue and white hooped socks. Later on they would adopt predominantly blue and white strips, with various designs throughout the seasons, with the most common being a predominantly royal blue strip.

1960–1969
South Melbourne won the Victorian First Division (North) championship of 1960, the club's inaugural year of competition. The club was promoted to the Victorian State League First Division the following year, where it finished fifth in its first year. With a number of astute signings—Scottish journeyman Tommy Anderson (George Cross), Ernie Ackerley (Manchester United), Leo Damianakos (Kalamata), Jim Pyrgolios (Panathinaikos) and Andreas Roussis, formerly of Panathinaikos and Apollon Athens —the club won the division championship in 1962, 1964, and 1965. In 1965, South Melbourne secured the services of 35-year-old former AEK Athens star, Kostas Nestoridis as player-coach. The result was a significant increase in crowd attendances and a fourth league title in 1966. Eager to repeat its success, the club recruited a number of Greek and local footballers, but they failed to make any impact. By 1969, the import experiment was considered a failure and most of the Greek players returned to their homeland.

1970–77
In 1970, the club focused its attention on recruiting local soccer players. It soon signed two players that would become South Melbourne Men's greatest players, Steve Walker and striker Jim Armstrong. South Melbourne missed out on the title by a point in the 1971 season, edged out by Footscray JUST, but with Armstrong scoring goals aplenty, South Melbourne went on to win the championship in 1972. The season also saw coach Bill Curran consolidate the first team's strength by signing midfielder Peter Bourne (Burnley) and promoting highly skilled youngsters Giovanni Barticciotto, Fethon Ileris and Bill Hasapis. The club continued its successful run with the 1974 title, second place in 1975, and with star recruits Jimmy Mackay, Peter Ollerton and Duncan Cummings, capped off its final year in the Victorian State League by winning the 1976 championship.

National Soccer League
South Melbourne joined Mooroolbark, Heidelberg United and Footscray JUST, as Melbourne's participants in the newly formed National Soccer League (NSL) in 1977, which was Australia's first sporting national competition. A mass exodus of its best players (Armstrong, Bourne, Mackay, Walker), saw the team slump to eleventh place in its inaugural year, but a recruiting drive by coach Dave Maclaren gave the club a respectable third in 1978. It was not to last as South Melbourne finished at the bottom of the league table in 1979.

1978–89
The recruitment of Alan Davidson, George Campbell (Aberdeen), Steve Blair, Branko Buljevic, Alun Evans (Liverpool), and Charlie Egan, helped South Melbourne climb the NSL ladder in the early part of the decade, with South becoming runners up in the NSL in 1981, which was their best ever NSL placing at the time. They also won the Ampol Cup in 1982. Some solid player signings such as (Oscar Crino, Doug Brown, Bobby Russell and John Yzendoorn) gave the club some respectability, but a combination of committee problems and a string of coaches, never allowed the team to settle and gain consistency. South Melbourne finished first on the league ladder in 1984, but in a newly restructured NSL competition, it also had to win the finals series to win the title. The club powered past local rivals Heidelberg United in the Southern Division play-offs, and edged out Sydney Olympic in the Grand Final to win the 1984 national championship.

After the departure of George Campbell to rivals Preston Makedonia in 1983/84, Branko Buljevic to Footscray Just in 1985 and others, South Melbourne could not repeat the success of the previous year. Despite finishing in first place, it was knocked out of the finals series by local rivals Brunswick Juventus and Preston. A major overhaul by coach Brian Garvey saw a number of new signings being made, including youngsters Paul Trimboli, David Healy, Kimon Taliadoros and Harry Micheil. The young team put in some memorable performances as the decade came to a close, finishing in the top half of the league table, but failed to win another championship. The club appointed Footballing icon Ferenc Puskás as coach for the 1989/90 season, helping South win the NSL Cup tournament for that season, as well backing up their 1988 Dockerty Cup win with victory in the 1989 tournament.

On 28 November 1981, South Melbourne Hellas and Melbourne Hakoah announced that they had merged to form a second team for South Melbourne which would compete in the Victorian State League and act as a feeder club to the South Melbourne senior team.

The price paid for 54 years of Hakoah history was $35,000. The merger had been an ongoing discussion between the two co-tenants of Middle Park from the middle of the 1981 season.

The two clubs had shared Middle Park from 1961 until 1981. Melbourne Hakoah cited financial strains and lack of crowd support as the two prime reasons why the club was forced to accept the offer from South Melbourne.

1990–95
The club's change of fortune continued next season, with the club winning its second national championship, beating rivals Melbourne Croatia on penalties after a tense 1–1 score line in normal time with many describing it as one of Australian footballs best matches. With Croatia dominating most of the proceedings, striker Joe Palatsides was put through on goal by Paul Trimboli who equalised with the last kick of the game.

The team boasted some of the finest Australian football talent in Paul Fernandes, Michael Petersen, Paul Wade, Mehmet Durakovic, Paul Trimboli and Con Boutsianis. The feat could not be repeated the next year as the club was eliminated by eventual premiers Adelaide City in a Preliminary Final.

Former player Jim Pyrgolios replaced Puskás for the 1992/93 season which saw the club finish first on the points table during the regular season. South Melbourne was again eliminated during the finals series by Adelaide City and Marconi-Fairfield, the latter inflicting a 7–0 thrashing. In 1993/94, the club finished second, but failed yet again to progress to the Grand Final, courtesy of Melbourne Croatia and their nemesis, Adelaide City. For the 1994/95 season, the club hired former Socceroos coach Frank Arok to replace Pyrgolios. The round one game from that season was the club's last at its Middle Park home before moving temporarily to Olympic Park while they awaited the completion of their new home, the 14,000-capacity Lakeside Stadium, on the site of the former Lake Oval. The club finished sixth on the ladder, but was eliminated again in the Preliminary Final by the Melbourne Knights in a 3-2 thriller in the rain with a hattrick to Mark Viduka. Arok left the club after a disappointing 1995/96 season, which saw South miss the finals for the first time since 1989.

Name and emblem change
In 1996, the club was required by Soccer Australia, along with clubs all over the country, to change its emblem and name in an attempt to move soccer into the Australian mainstream and away from direct club-level association with its migrant roots. As a consequence, South Melbourne Hellas reappeared as South Melbourne Lakers. Its new name and emblem was not well received by many of its Greek supporters. The name change also drew attention from American NBA team, the L.A. Lakers, who threatened legal action.

Under new coach and former captain Ange Postecoglou, the club bounced back in season 1996/97, finishing third on the table and eventually being eliminated by Sydney United in the Preliminary Final. The club capped off the end of the decade with impressive performances, becoming Australian champions in 1998 and 1999, thanks to performances by Paul Trimboli, Vaughan Coveny, Con Blatsis and former PAOK star John Anastasiadis.

In the 1998 Grand Final, South Melbourne defeated league newcomer Carlton 2–1 with a controversial late chip by Boutsianis, sending the crowd into pandemonium. That win was followed up in 1999 with a come-from-behind 3–2 win against Sydney United in the Grand Final, which was the first time the club had gone back-to-back since the glory days of the 1960s. This win would be Hellas' fourth and final national championship. By now, South Melbourne had dropped the Lakers moniker and become South Melbourne Soccer Club, and sported a new emblem—the current blue and white shield with stars (each star representing a national championship). They followed up their fourth domestic title with the 1999 Oceania Club Championship, a win that qualified them for the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship in Brazil.

2000–04 Taking on the World
Grouped with Vasco Da Gama, Necaxa, and the treble-winning Manchester United in the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship, South Melbourne lost all three games. Despite the losses and being the only non-professional club at the tournament, the club gained some respectability amongst its peers with its performance, as well as some much needed exposure on the world stage, something that had been severely lacking for Australian soccer clubs at the time. On its return from Brazil, South Melbourne failed to make the finals in the 1999/2000 season, finishing well outside the top six finals spots. Before the new season started, Postecoglou left South Melbourne in order to take up the position of Australian youth coach, and was replaced by former South player and teammate Mike Petersen. At the end of the 2000/01 home and away season, South Melbourne had finished a comfortable eight points clear of Wollongong, but lost both legs of its major semi-final against the Wolves 2–1, meaning South Melbourne would have to win the preliminary final in order to earn a rematch. They duly did so, with a 2–0 victory over Sydney Olympic, but put in a lacklustre performance in the Grand Final, with a late revival not being enough once more losing 2–1.

Prior to the start of the 2001/2002 season, South Melbourne suffered a major blow as Petersen, along with several players including Boutsianis and Andy Vlahos left to join the Football Kingz. A young squad under the management of Eddie Krncevic struggled, occupying the bottom rungs of the table halfway through the season, before the return in controversial circumstances of Boutsianis sparked a major revival, which saw the club finish fifth in the standings, eventually being eliminated by eventual champions Olympic Sharks in the finals.

Krnčević was replaced by former player Danny Wright for the 2002/03 season, but the club failed to reach the finals by a point. Stuart Munro took over as coach for the 2003/04 season, with the club finishing fifth, eventually being eliminated by a penalty deep into extra time against Adelaide United in what turned out to be South's final game in the NSL.

With the combined factors of the demise of the NSL, and poor financial management, South Melbourne fell into voluntary administration and lost most of its squad. With Melbourne being allocated just one licence for an A-League team, which was widely expected to go to a new franchise, and with the club in extreme financial difficulty, South Melbourne chose not to lodge an application to join the new competition.

Return to Victorian competition
Entering the Victorian Premier League in 2005 as South Melbourne Football Club, and with a new team under former player and new coach John Anastasiadis, the club reached the Preliminary Final of the VPL, going down to their old rivals Heidelberg United. The season was highlighted by fluctuating crowd attendances at home games, national media attention paid to crowd trouble with fans of Preston Lions, but also by good performances by a young and talented side, which before the season had been a relegation favourite.

In 2006, South Melbourne finished third in the table, courtesy of a strong home record, including a record 7–0 thrashing of old foe Melbourne Knights. They eventually progressed to the final, by defeating Green Gully and Altona Magic in successive weeks. In the final itself, once more against Altona Magic, a second half goal by Gianni De Nittis was enough to see South Melbourne win the game 1–0, and win their eighth Victorian championship, their first in 30 years, and first since returning to the competition in 2005.

In 2007, South Melbourne had a poor year, finishing in seventh place, missing the finals; after a poor start in 2008, Anastasiadis resigned. With another former player Michael Michalakopoulos taking charge, the team moved away from the relegation zone, but still missed the finals.

The club celebrated its 50th anniversary year during the 2009 season, with several heritage strips and a logo reminiscent of the pre-1990s logo used to mark the occasion. The club secured the services of Vaughan Coveny, recently retired from A-League football, who went on to score his 100th goal for the club, with Ramazan Tavsancioglu and Fernando de Moraes also marking personal milestones by playing their 100th games. Michalakopoulos departed, after the club bowed out early in the finals series, to be replaced as coach by Vaughan Coveny.

The 2010 season saw drastic changes to the club with the re-development of Bob Jane Stadium commencing several rounds in the season. This forced the club to relocate the remainder of its 2010 home fixtures, and all of its 2011 home matches, to John Cain Memorial Park in a sharing arrangement with Northcote City. The arrival of high-profile players including Carl Recchia, Peter Zois and Joe Keenan among others brought a renewed hope of on-field success to the supporters. Despite some good on-field performances and individual brilliance, with Fernando de Moraes winning the VPL Player of the Year and Peter Zois taking out the Goalkeeper of the Year award, the promised success did not eventuate with the club narrowly missing out on a finals berth.

Meanwhile, the club gained much international recognition with the award of being the Oceania Club of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics at a lavish gala ceremony at the Hurlingham Club in Fulham, London in May 2010 and entry into the 2010 Singapore Cup. South Melbourne miraculously won its first-round match against Gombak United 2–1, and returned to Singapore in October for a two-legged playoff against Bangkok Glass at the Jalan Besar Stadium, but were knocked out by the eventual champions 6–4 on aggregate. Coveny was replaced as coach after the end of the VPL season for the Singapore Cup tie by Eddie Krncevic, who returned to the club after a stint as coach in the 2001/2002 NSL season. The club travelled to Singapore again for the 2011 Singapore Cup, but were bundled out in the first round by Albirex Niigata.

Under Krncevic, the club rallied late in the 2011 VPL season to finish fourth, but had their season ended in a penalty shootout in the semi-final by Oakleigh Cannons. Krncevic was replaced in 2012 by former player Peter Tsolakis, who moved across from Northcote City with several players. 2012 saw the return of South Melbourne to their home ground, now known as Lakeside Stadium, with vastly improved amenities, a second grandstand and an international-standard athletics track, which was opened in December 2011 with a friendly against old foes Sydney Olympic. However, the club could not capitalise on its own turf, with terrible home form condemning the club to finish outside the top five, and miss out on finals once again.

In July 2013, Tsolakis resigned from his post after the board sacked five senior squad members without his consultation and the club appointed former Sunshine George Cross, Melbourne Knights and Dandenong Thunder manager Chris Taylor on a two-year deal. South Melbourne finished the season in fourth place.

National Premier League era
In 2014, the club entered the National Premier Leagues Victoria competition, which replaced the old Victorian Premier League. South had a fantastic season, taking out their first league title since their 2000–01 NSL title. In the NPL National Finals Series, South Melbourne beat South Hobart 1–0 at the South Hobart Ground, but lost to North Eastern MetroStars in the semi-final 2–1.

In 2015, the club retained the NPL Victoria premiership, but lost to rivals Bentleigh Greens in the Grand Final. South Melbourne also won the Dockerty Cup, but lost to Palm Beach in the 2015 FFA Cup Round of 32.

South Melbourne then recruited the likes of Matthew Foschini, Matt Millar and Marcus Schroen for the following season. South got season 2016 off on a bad note, losing the FFV Community Shield 3–0 to Bentleigh, but opened the NPL Victoria season on an emphatic note, beating traditional rivals Heidelberg United 6–0 in front of over 3,000 fans at Lakeside. On 30 March 2016, South Melbourne announced that it had secured a 40-year lease of Lakeside Stadium, with the club now "able to commence building its new administrational offices, museum, futsal court and bistro / social room in its exclusive areas." South Melbourne bowed out of the 2016 FFA Cup qualifying rounds at the final qualifying round, losing 4–0 to rivals Bentleigh Greens. The club finished in third place in the league, but went on to win the Championship through the finals series, beating Hume City 3-0 and then Oakleigh Cannons 3–2 in the grand final. South Melbourne began construction on its exclusive areas at Lakeside Stadium in October 2016, with the development including the building of a new social club, futsal court and club offices.

In 2017, South Melbourne finished runners-up in the league behind traditional rivals Heidelberg United. In the finals series, Hellas lost to eventual champions Bentleigh Greens in a penalty shoot-out in the semi-final. After reaching the 2017 FFA Cup national stages, South Melbourne defeated Edgeworth, Sorrento and Gold Coast City to reach the semi-finals where they hosted Sydney at Lakeside Stadium, eventually going down 5–1 to the reigning A-League champions in front of almost 6,000 people.

On the eve of the 2018 season, manager Chris Taylor and the club parted ways after four and a half seasons. He was replaced by South Melbourne Men's U-20 manager Saša Kolman.

In the off-season, the club announced that Con Tangalakis had been appointed as the senior head coach on a permanent basis, after guiding them to survival while on an interim basis the season prior. The club then farewelled three-time NPL Golden Boot and five-time club Golden Boot winner Milos Lujic after five years of service to the club. After a start to the season, which saw the club manage two wins, a draw and four losses, leaving South Melbourne in eleventh place, senior coach Con Tangalakis offered his resignation, and senior assistant coach Estaban Quintas was appointed in a caretaker role to see out the 2019 season.

Stadium
From its formation in 1959, Hellas played its home game at Middle Park Stadium. The ground with an 18,000 seat capacity was a fully enclosed venue by 1960, and a grandstand built by South Melbourne Hellas and Melbourne Hakoah, partly with funds lent to it by the Albert Park management authority was opened in the May 1961. The stadium saw many sellout crowds as South Melbourne made the jump to state league club to National league in 1977.

In 1993, the Victorian Government made a successful bid to bring the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix to Melbourne with the agreement that the running track would be in Albert Park. South Melbourne were forced to move from their home ground due to the installation of the track. On October 23, 1994, the final match at Middle Park was played as South Melbourne hosted traditional rivals Heidelberg Alexander beating them 4–1 in front of a sold-out crowd.

South Melbourne moved to Lakeside Stadium in 1995. The stadium was built with a capacity of 14,000 people. A grandstand with an approximate capacity of 3,000 people was situated on one side, with a social club, reception centre and administrative facilities built in, while the other three sides of the ground consisted of open terraces with wooden seats. At one stage, a second two tiered stand for the outer side was proposed, but only preliminary plans were produced.

As well as being the home of South Melbourne, the venue also hosted games by the Socceroos, Young Socceroos, Australia's national women's team the Matildas, and grand finals and finals matches of the Victorian Premier League (now National Premier Leagues Victoria). It has also been a training base for the Greece national football team, France national football team and the Brazilian football national team.

In May 2008, the state government announced that Lakeside Stadium would undergo a major redevelopment, in order to accommodate an athletics track, as part of moving Athletics Victoria from Olympic Park. The Victorian Institute of Sport, Athletics Victoria and South Melbourne FC would share tenancy of the venue. Major Projects Victoria committed $60 million to the project. South Melbourne played its final match under the old Lakeside Stadium's in April 2010, and construction work on the remodelled venue began in June 2010. Under the remodelling, the old grandstand stand was refurbished to house the VIS and included a state of the art gym, swimming pool and clubrooms. A blue running track in reference to the home colour of the club was also constructed for the Athletics division.

Today, Lakeside Stadium is one of Australia's premiere stadiums.

Rivals
Being one of the top placed sides since their inception, South Melbourne 1821 have numerous rivalries stemming from their participation in the State Leagues, National Soccer League and VPL/NPL.
 * Melbourne Knights
 * Heidelberg United
 * Preston Lions
 * Sydney Olympic
 * Sydney Olympic
 * Sydney Olympic

Supporters
South Melbourne have traditionally been one of the most well supported Football clubs in Australia, with fans across many countries and states. Their supporters have been noted for their vocal support and their dedication shown through banners and flags.

Currently, the main supporter faction is known as the Clarendon Corner, which has been present since the last few years of the NSL and place themselves in the corner of the stadium. Prior to that, the 'Hellas fans' would traditionally place themselves behind the goal South Melbourne was shooting at in large numbers.

A-League aspirations
Since dropping out of the national competition at the demise of the NSL, the club has held aspirations to return to the top competition for football clubs in Australia. On 14 February 2007, South Melbourne announced their interest in becoming the second Victorian club in the A-League. In June 2008, South Melbourne sent a letter of interest to join the league and lodged an application for the second Melbourne licence as part of the Southern Cross consortium, but on 26 September 2008 the Football Federation Australia announced it was commencing exclusive negotiations with the rival Melbourne Heart bid, which went on to join the competition for the 2010-11 A-League season.

In March 2013, it was revealed that the club was in negotiations to take a stake in the cash-strapped Central Coast Mariners, but talks cooled off when the Mariners ownership structure was consolidated under Mike Charlesworth. In April 2013, the club was revealed to have made several offers to take a 100 per cent stake in Melbourne Heart; however, these offers were rejected. Melbourne Heart management subsequently accepted an offer from Manchester City.

In November 2016, it was reported that South Melbourne intended to submit a bid for an A-League licence, with the club intending to continue playing home games at Lakeside Stadium, if the bid is successful. Following this news, the club provisionally appointed Brazil and Real Madrid legend Roberto Carlos as the team's head coach should they be granted an expansion slot.

South Melbourne submitted a bid to join the expanded A-League in September 2018; however, were unsuccessful once again when, in December 2018, new consortium Western Melbourne was selected instead.

Competition timeline
South Melbourne won eight premierships, two Dockerty Cups, and two Ampol Cups before their entrance into the National Soccer League (NSL) in 1977. In the 1984 season, they won their first NSL premiership and their first championship, defeating Sydney Olympic 4–2 over a 2-legged Grand Final. They won another four premierships and three championships, only in the 1997–98 season winning the double again, before the NSL folded in 2004. The club didn't enter the newly formed national competition, the A-League, due to the bidding process and one team for one state rule, and returned to playing at state level, entering the Victorian Premier League. Since then, they have won two premierships and two championships, with the most recent being in 2016.

Club
National
 * National Soccer League
 * Champions (4): 1984, 1990–91, 1997–98, 1998–99
 * Premiers (3): 1992–93, 1997–98, 2000–01
 * Conference Winners (2): 1984, 1985
 * National Soccer League Cup
 * Winners (2): 1989–90, 1995–96
 * Australian Club of the Decade (1): 1990s

State
 * FFV Community Shield
 * Champions (1): 2015
 * Runners-up (2): 2016, 2017
 * National Premier Leagues/Victorian Premier League
 * Champions (10): 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1974, 1976, 2006, 2014, 2016
 * Premiers (2): 2015, 2022
 * Runners-up (5): 1971, 1975, 2015, 2022, 2023
 * Victorian State League Division 1
 * Champions (1): 1960
 * Dockerty Cup
 * Winners (8): 1974, 1975, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2015
 * Victorian Ampol Night Soccer Cup
 * Winners (4): 1969, 1970, 1976, 1982
 * Buffalo Cup
 * Winners (1) 1988
 * Hellenic Cup
 * Winners (4) 1984, 2007, 2009, 2011

Continental
 * OFC Champions League
 * Winners (1): 1999
 * Oceania Confederation Club of the Century

Worldwide
 * FIFA Club World Cup
 * Eighth place (1): 2000

Youth
 * National Youth League
 * Champions (3): 1984, 1991, 1994

'Women's
 * National Premier Leagues Victoria Women
 * Champions (5): 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2023
 * Premiers (4): 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018

Individual
Johnny Warren Medal/Player of the Year
 * 1986 – Bobby Russell
 * 1988 – Paul Wade
 * 1992/93 – Paul Trimboli
 * 1997/98 – Paul Trimboli

Joe Marston Medal
 * 1997/98 – Fausto De Amicis
 * 1998/99 – Goran Lozanovski

Leading Goalscorer
 * 1983 – Doug Brown
 * 1984 – Doug Brown
 * 1985 – Charlie Egan
 * 1991/92 – Kimon Taliadoros
 * 1992/93 – Francis Awaritefe

Sam Papasavas Award (Under 21 NSL player of the year)
 * 1983 – Oscar Crino
 * 1988 – Paul Trimboli
 * 1989 – Paul Trimboli

NSL Goalkeeper of the Year
 * 1998/99 – Michael Petkovic
 * 2000/01 – Michael Petkovic
 * 2001/02 – Michael Petkovic

NSL Coach of the Year
 * 1980 – John Margaritis
 * 1988 – Brian Garvey
 * 1992/93 – Jim Pyrgolios
 * 1997/98 – Ange Postecoglou
 * 2000/01 – Mike Petersen

Bill Fleming Award
 * 1971 – Jim Pyrgolios
 * 1974 – Jimmy Armstrong

Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Award
 * 1966 – Kostas Nestoridis
 * 1972 – Jimmy Armstrong
 * 1974 – Jimmy Armstrong
 * 1975 – Fethon Ileris

Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year
 * 1975 – Reno Lia
 * 2005 – Dean Anastasiadis
 * 2006 – Dean Anastasiadis
 * 2010 – Peter Zois
 * 2013 – Peter Gavalas

Jimmy Rooney Medal
 * 2006 – Fernando de Moraes

Victorian Premier League player of the year
 * 2010 – Fernando de Moraes
 * 2014 – Milos Lujic

Managers

 * Christos Georgoussis (1960–1961)
 * 🇦🇺 Len Young (1961)
 * 🇪🇬/🇦🇺 Manny Poulakakis (1961–1964)
 * 🇦🇺 Ron Sawecki (1965–1966)
 * Kostas Nestoridis (1966)
 * /🇦🇺 John Anderson (1967)
 * Kostas Nestoridis (1967–1968)
 * Ljubiša Broćić (1968)
 * 🇦🇺 Ron Sawecki (1968–1969)
 * 🇪🇬/🇦🇺 Manny Poulakakis (1969)
 * Ljubiša Broćić (1970–1971)
 * 🇦🇺 Bill Curran (1972)
 * 🇪🇬/🇦🇺 Manny Poulakakis (1972–1973)
 * 🇦🇺 Jim Pyrgolios (1974)
 * 🇦🇺 John Margaritis (1975)
 * 🏴 Brian Edgley (1976)
 * 🇪🇬/🇦🇺 Manny Poulakakis (1976)
 * 🇦🇺 John Margaritis (1977)
 * Dave MacLaren (1977–1979)
 * Duncan MacKay (1979)
 * 🇦🇺 John Margaritis (1979–1981)
 * Tommy Docherty (1982–1983)
 * 🇦🇺 Mick Watson (1983)
 * Rale Rasic (1983)
 * 🇦🇺 Len McKendry (1983–1985)
 * 🇦🇺 John Margaritis (1986)
 * 🏴 Brian Garvey (1987–1989)
 * /🇪🇸 Ferenc Puskás (1989–1992)
 * 🇦🇺 Jim Pyrgolios (1992–1994)
 * /🇦🇺 Frank Arok (1994–1996)
 * /🇦🇺 Ange Postecoglou (1996–2000)
 * 🇦🇺 Mike Petersen (2000–2001)
 * 🇦🇺 Eddie Krncevic (2001–2002)
 * 🇦🇺 Danny Wright (2002–2003)
 * Stuart Munro (2003–2004)
 * 🇦🇺 John Anastasiadis (2005–2008)
 * 🇦🇺 Michael Michalakopoulos (2008–2009)
 * 🇳🇿 Vaughan Coveny (2010–2011)
 * 🇦🇺 Eddie Krncevic (2011–2012)
 * 🇦🇺 Peter Tsolakis (2012–2013)
 * 🏴/🇦🇺 Chris Taylor (2013–2018)
 * Saša Kolman (2018)
 * 🇦🇺 Con Tangalakis (2018–2019)
 * 🇦🇷 Estaban Quintas (2019–present)

Records

 * Best Result in the NSL: 7–0 vs Newcastle Rosebud at Middle Park 22 July 1984
 * Best Result in the VPL: 10–1 vs Moonee Ponds at Middle Park 30 April 1960
 * Worst Result in the NSL: 0–7 vs Marconi-Fairfield at Parramatta Stadium 2 May 1993
 * Worst Result in the VPL: 0–5 vs Maribyrnong Polonia at Olympic Park 14 June 1964
 * Best Regular Season NSL Crowd: 17,228 vs Marconi-Fairfield at Middle Park 23 April 1978
 * Best Regular Season VPL Crowd: 23,000 vs George Cross at Olympic Park 5 August 1962
 * Best Finals Series NSL Crowd: 23,318 vs Melbourne Croatia (1990/91 Grand Final) at Olympic Park
 * Best Finals Series VPL Crowd: 8,000 vs Heidelberg United (2005 Preliminary Final) at Olympic Village 11 September 2005
 * Best FFA Cup Crowd: 5,745 vs Sydney FC (2017 Semi-Final) at Lakeside Stadium 11 October 2017
 * Most Games Coached: 127 – Ange Postecoglou
 * Most Games Played: 430 – Paul Trimboli
 * Most Goals Scored: 115 – Paul Trimboli
 * Most Goals in Season: 22 – Doug Brown (1984), Jimmy Armstrong (1974)
 * Best Games to Goal Ratio: 0.56 – Doug Brown, 48 goals in 86 games
 * Most Clean Sheets: 105 – Dean Anastasiadis, 158 games
 * Biggest Winning Streak: 9 games – 30 September 1984 to 24 March 1985
 * Biggest Losing Streak: 6 games – 27 October 1995 to 2 December 1995
 * Biggest Unbeaten Streak: 21 games – 12 August 1984 to 28 April 1985

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Talk:Abbotsford, British Columbia

City Flag
I think the City of Abbotsford flag should be displayed in the article the way it is in the Vancouver City article.

High crime rate
Should it not be mentioned that Abbotsford has the 2nd highest crime rate of any CMA in Canada. Here it is on Statcan's website. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/090421/t090421b3-eng.htm

Cityscape image
The old photo was mostly a photo of nearby mission therefore it is not an accurate depiction of the abbotsford cityscape. Koopertrooper (talk) 21:10, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
 * You replaced it with this low-quality image of a lake. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:52, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

A lake which is the focal point of the city centre and not a picture of a neighbouring city Koopertrooper (talk) 21:59, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Please update this with the 2021 census data that was released on 10/26/2022.
Please update this with the 2021 census data that was released on 10/26/2022. 209.104.249.26 (talk) 18:04, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Contemporary period
I don’t think it’s appropriate to discus manuregate and crime in this section. These items could be mentioned in other sections, but maybe better topics in Contemporary Period could include a description of the annual Agrifair and the Canada Day parade and the Abbotsford Airshow, or how Abbotsford has the country’s highest charitable giving per capita, or that it’s the Raspberry Capital of Canada, or mention some of large private employers like Cascade Aerospace and that Abbotsford is the home of world renowned Conair Aviation, or list some high achieving athletes that come from Abbotsford

let’s highlight things that contribute to civic pride instead of shame, you know? 24.51.238.76 (talk) 02:39, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

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Royal British Columbia Museum

The Royal British Columbia Museum (or Royal BC Museum), founded in 1886, is a history museum in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The "Royal" title was approved by Queen Elizabeth II and bestowed by Prince Philip in 1987, to coincide with a royal tour of that year. The museum merged with the British Columbia Provincial Archives in 2003.

The Royal BC Museum includes three permanent galleries: Natural History, Becoming BC, and the First Peoples Gallery. The museum's collections comprise approximately 7 million objects, including natural history specimens, artifacts, and archival records. The natural history collections have 750,000 records of specimens almost exclusively from BC and neighbouring states, provinces, or territories. The collections are divided into eight disciplines: Entomology, Botany, Palaeontology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Zoology, Herpetology, Mammalogy, and Ornithology. The museum also hosts touring exhibitions. Previous exhibitions have included artifacts related to the RMS Titanic, Leonardo da Vinci, Egyptian artifacts, the Vikings, the British Columbia gold rushes and Genghis Khan. The Royal BC Museum partners with and houses the IMAX Victoria theater, which shows educational films as well as commercial entertainment.

The museum is beside Victoria's Inner Harbour, between the Empress Hotel and the Legislature Buildings. The museum anchors the Royal BC Museum Cultural Precinct, a surrounding area with historical sites and monuments, including Thunderbird Park. The museum also operates traveling exhibitions which tour the province of BC, as well as international exhibits Guangzhou, China.

On March 26, 2012, Jack Lohman was appointed CEO of the Royal BC Museum. Various groups assist with the development, success, and maintenance of the Royal BC Museum. These include volunteers, who number over 500 and outnumber the Royal BC Museum staff 4 to 1; the Royal BC Museum Foundation (formerly Friends of the Royal BC Museum Foundation), a non-profit organization created in 1970 to support the Royal BC Museum financially and to assist its work by forming links within the community; Security Services, responsible for risk management, emergency response, security services, and business continuity expertise; and Property Management and Operations, who focus on sustainability, recycling, and environment control within the museum.

History
The BC Government founded the British Columbia Provincial Museum in 1886 in response to a petition from prominent citizens who were concerned about the loss of British Columbian natural products and native artifacts. Judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, Charles Semlin, William Fraser Tolmie, and former Premier George A. Walkem were amongst those who wanted to stop European and American museums from appropriating BC artifacts. Notably, the petitioners argued that the export of First Nations artifacts was particularly troubling, under the premise that “their loss [was] frequently irreparable.”

On October 25, 1886, the 15-by-20-foot Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology opened in the Birdcages (the former BC Legislative buildings). The first curator was naturalist John Fannin, who donated his own large collection of preserved birds and animals to the museum. After its inception, the Royal BC Museum continually expanded. In 1896, the museum was given space in the east wing of the new Legislative buildings. The museum's mandate was updated by the BC government in 1913, and the collection of natural history specimens and anthropological material became official parts of the museum's operations, as well as the dissemination of knowledge to the people of British Columbia. In 1921, the basement of the east annex of the Legislature was excavated to provide the museum with additional room. As part of the 1967 Canadian centenary celebrations, BC Premier W. A. C. Bennett committed to building a new home for the Royal BC Museum. It opened on August 16, 1968, with a final construction budget of $9.5 million. The museum remains housed in this building.

One of the most prized displays is John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce. It was purchased by Vancouver billionaire Jim Pattison and donated to the museum.

Cultural precinct
The museum is situated in the cultural precinct, an area comprising various significant historical buildings near the Inner Harbour. The cultural precinct occupies the space between Douglas Street, Belleville Street, and Government Street. Included in the cultural precinct is the BC Archives, Helmcken House, St. Ann's Schoolhouse (built in 1844), the Netherlands Centennial Carillon, Thunderbird Park, and Mungo Martin House, Wawadit'la, a traditional big house built by Mungo Martin and his family.

Permanent galleries
The Royal BC Museum hosts 3 permanent galleries (Becoming BC, Natural History, and First Peoples galleries) focused on BC history and heritage.

First Peoples gallery
The First Peoples gallery on the third floor contains a large collection of First Nations artifacts, and many of the artifacts in the gallery are from the Haida people. Artifacts in the First Peoples Gallery include a village model, as well as indigenous totem poles, garb, and masks (including Kwakwaka'wakw ceremonial masks made by Chief Nakap'ankam (Mungo Martin)). Notably, the gallery maintains the long house of Chief Kwakwabalasami (Jonathan Hunt), a Kwakwaka'wakw chief from Tsaxis (Fort Rupert). The house and surrounding carvings were created by his son, Henry Hunt, and his grandsons, Tony Hunt and Richard Hunt. An exhibit of artist Bill Reid's argillite carvings are also available for viewing.

The gallery has been criticized by indigenous scholars for its portrayal of First Nations people, and its use of controversial images and film from Edward Curtis. In 2010, many of the museum's Nisga'a artifacts were returned to the Nisga'a people and now reside in the Nisga'a Museum in northwestern British Columbia.

In early 2023 a totem pole belonging to Nuxalk First Nations was returned after it was sold to the museum in 1915.

Becoming BC galleries
The Becoming BC galleries on the third floor (12,524 sq. ft.) begins with "Century Hall," a collection of artifacts and replicas of BC's history over the last 200 years. Visitors pass into "Old Town," a life-sized model of Victoria in the 1870s–1920s. Old Town was designed and constructed between 1969 and 1972, and presents twenty separate building displays of various scales, including a replica of a cobblestone streetscape of early twentieth-century Victoria (with a silent movie theatre, a hotel, a train station, old automobiles, and Chinatown). The display shifts to a tour of early forestry, fishing, and mining industries (including a mine shaft and Cornish water wheel).

Also within the Becoming BC galleries is an exploration narrative containing models of the original Fort Victoria, a Port Moody train station, the 1902 Tremblay Homestead (from Peace River District), and a large-scale replica of Captain George Vancouver's ship HMS Discovery.

Natural history gallery
The natural history gallery on the second floor (12,387 sq./ft.) contains information, artifacts, and life-sized displays of the diverse geography of the province from prehistoric time to present day (including the Fraser River delta and the popular woolly mammoth). There is a range of fossils and taxidermic specimens, and a tide pool that contains live crabs, limpids, and starfish, among constructed specimens.

More recently, a section on climate was added to the Natural History gallery, including information on the effects of modern climate change. Visitors may also view the Ocean Station in this gallery, a mock Victorian-era submarine that houses a 360-litre aquarium.

Collections
The Royal BC Museum's collection policy states that the museum's collection must pertain to the natural or human history of BC. The collection is divided into specific categories of "significant objects," "representative objects," and "comparative objects." The Museum Act authorizes the Royal BC Museum to enable the preservation and management of the collection by securing, receiving, providing access to, and maintaining artifacts that adroitly illustrate the natural or human history of British Columbia.

Human history
The human history department aims to represent the cultural, social, and economic history of the peoples of BC. Collecting anthropological artifacts has been a practice of the Royal BC Museum since its founding in 1886. Currently, a significant number of artifacts from the human history department are being repatriated to First Nations groups. The Human History department is responsible for representing the material cultural history of BC.

Archaeology
This division of the Human History department houses over 192 000 artifacts. The Royal BC Museum holds the largest collection of First Nations archaeological material from BC.

Ethnology
The ethnology collection at the Royal BC Museum contains over 14 000 indigenous artifacts. These artifacts include both ceremonial and utilitarian objects and were collected from various First Nations groups around BC.

Modern history
The Modern History department is aimed at portraying BC's history through material culture. There are 165 000 artifacts in the collection ranging from silverware to textiles to furniture to items related to canneries, mines, and breweries. Notably, the collection includes a lion's head from the 1970s Vancouver Chinese Freemasons Athletic Club that exemplifies the traditional Hoshan style, as well as the Man Yuk Tong collection that preserves the authentic herbs, prescriptions, and miscellaneous implements used in the original Chinese Herbalist Shop.

Natural history
The Natural History department has been a part of the Royal BC Museum since 1886. The department includes curators, collection managers, and a mammal and bird preparator. The Natural History collections are divided into eight disciplines: Entomology, Botany, Mammalogy, Ornithology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Zoology, Palaeontology, and Herpetology. This department develops the records representing the province's biodiversity by collecting or accepting donations each year; processing them into the collections; and making the specimens and records available to the general public, as well as to scientific and educational communities.

Palaeontology
The fossil collection at the Royal BC Museum boasts approximately 55 000 specimens. The collection integrates specimens from all over BC ranging from 600 million years old to 20 000 years old. The palaeontology discipline also includes rock specimens from various mines around BC.

Botany
The botany discipline centres on the various plants of BC and the collection includes over 200 000 specimens. Notably, the Royal BC Museum houses one of the oldest native plant gardens in western Canada (begun in 1967), where approximately 400 native species grow.

Invertebrate zoology
The invertebrate collection is largely focused on marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrate species from BC (insects, arachnids, and their relatives are represented in the entomology discipline). The collection consists of approximately 65 000 lots of marine and freshwater invertebrates, including marine molluscs, echinoderms, crustaceans, and polychaetes. This discipline also hosts a smaller global collection of dried gastropods, chitons, and bivalves. Notable specimens include more than 250 “type” specimens, each one used in the original description of a particular species.

Entomology
The entomology discipline focuses on specimens of insects, arachnids, and their relatives. As of 2010, the entomology collection included approximately 245 000 accessioned specimens and another 150 000 specimens not yet accessioned. The majority of the specimens are collected from BC, although some specimens have been culled from international areas. This collection provides basic information for assessing the status of BC insects and other terrestrial arthropods. It is also used to construct species range maps, supply useful information on species life histories and habitat requirements, and identify unknown specimens.

Ichthyology
The ichthyology discipline is primarily dedicated to studying the fish of BC. The collection consists of approximately 14 000 specimens of marine and freshwater fish.

Herpetology
This discipline is concerned with amphibians and reptiles of BC. The herpetology collection consists of approximately 5000 lots from BC.

Ornithology
This discipline mainly consists of bird specimens from BC, with a distinct focus on common seabirds, waterfowl, raptors, grouse, common shorebirds, alcids, gulls, woodpeckers, and common passerines. The ornithology collection contains 19 335 study skins, 3027 skeletons, 2713 clutches of eggs, 375 nests and 43 fluid-preserved specimens.

Mammalogy
This discipline focuses on a collection of mammals, the majority of which are from BC. The collection includes 18 000 specimens, largely made up of skeletons.

Conservation
The Conservation Services Department of the Royal BC Museum preserves the museum's artifacts, documents, and specimens. Conservators speak to interested groups, lecture, consult, advise, and work with students and interns from conservation programmes around the world. The department was established in 1966 and was the first conservation lab in western Canada, and one of the first facilities for artifact conservation in Canada. In the 1970s and 1980s, conservators and conservation scientists worked with the Haida people on the preservation of the poles at Ninstints. Since the discovery of the remains of Kwäday Dän Ts’inchi in 1999, conservators have been involved with the Champagne and Aishihik people in recovery, analysis, treatment and publication projects.

Learning and education
The Learning and Visitor Experience initiative at the Royal BC Museum runs public programs, workshops, lectures, guided tours, and special events—all geared toward educating and engaging visitors. Roughly fifty school, family, and adult programs are scheduled per year. There are also annual events, including Remembrance Day commemorations, the Heritage Fair, and a Carol Along with the Carillon and other Christmas activities at Helmcken House.

Living landscapes
By 2002 the RBCM had initiated a successful and innovative province-wide research and public education program that explored human and natural influences on regional environments combining cultural heritage with natural heritage. The museum maintained a Living Landscapes website.

Living Landscapes was an award-winning, successful "regional outreach program involving intensive cooperation with other museums, First Nations, educators, naturalists, and other agencies." Its goal was "to encourage and facilitate the exploration and appreciation of the human and natural history of British Columbia from regional perspectives," and it focused on "particular regions of B.C. and integrating stories and research locally generated with both research knowledge and descriptive information from the collections and curatorial staff at the Royal British Columbia Museum."

In 2000 the focus of Living Landscapes was on the Upper Fraser Basin, a "vast area extending across most of south-central British Columbia including the Fraser River valley upstream from Big Bar Creek, as well as it is tributary drainages such as the Chilcotin, Quesnel, and Nechako Rivers." During 2001-2002 RBCM hosted five Upper Fraser Basin communities including, Valemount, British Columbia, Burns Lake, Williams Lake, Quesnel and Prince George attended by approximately 4,500 people. Visitors met and interacted with local Living Landscapes researchers and Victoria-based RBCM curators. The events featured exhibits from the RBCM's permanent collections as well as "illustrated talks and demonstrations on a variety of topics by local and museum experts."

Initially, Living Landscapes focused on "in-field programming has been the northern, central and southern interior of British Columbia." In March 2006, when they had successfully completed the Northwest region, they discontinued the in-field programming.

Exhibition arts
The Exhibition Arts department began in the early 1970s, and now construct all of the Royal BC Museum exhibits in-house. The department is responsible for maintaining the permanent galleries and constructing the exhibitions, as well as setting them up and taking them down. The Exhibition Arts department is made up of specialists with a variety of skill sets, including carpenters, blacksmiths, metal workers, welders, and people who specialize in casting, finishing, jewellery, multimedia, lighting, large format printing, and software and hardware computation.

Affiliations
The museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

Publishing and publications
The RBCM began publishing in 1891, when then-curator John Fannin published a Check List of British Columbia Birds. The museum has produced thousands of books, papers, pamphlets and other documents about its collections, research and activities since that time. Beginning in 1993, the RBCM distributes through major Canadian distributors, including the University of British Columbia Press and Heritage Distributors. The museum publishes around four titles per year and has more than forty books in print.

Recent titles include: Arima, Eugene and Alan Hoover. The Whaling People of the West Coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery . Victoria: RBCM, November 2011. Austin, William C, and Philip Lambert. Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins and Feather Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound. Victoria: RBCM, 2007. Beal, Alison M, David F. Hatler, and David W. Nagorsen. Carnivores of British Columbia. Victoria: RBCM, October 2008. Black, Martha. Out of the Mist: Treasures of the Nuu-chah-nulth Chiefs. Victoria: RBCM, 1999. Bridge, Kathryn. New Perspectives on the Gold Rush. Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2015. Brayshaw, T. Christopher. Catkin-Bearing Plants of British Columbia. Victoria: RBCM, 1996. Brayshaw, T. Christopher. Plant Collecting for the Amateur. Victoria: RBCM, 1996. Brayshaw, T. Christopher. Pondweeds and Bur-reeds and Their Relatives of British Columbia Aquatic Families of Monocotyledons. Victoria: RBCM, 2000. Brayshaw, T. Christopher. Trees and Shrubs of British Columbia. Victoria: RBCM, 1996. Cannings, Robert A. Introducing the Dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon. Victoria: RBCM, 2002. Cannings, Robert A. The Systematics of Lasiopogon (Diptera: Asilidae). Victoria: RBCM, 2002. Carr, Emily. Sister and I from Victoria to London. Victoria: RBCM, April 2011. Carr, Emily. Wild Flowers. Victoria: RBCM, 2006. Copley, Claudia and Ann Nightingale, Eds. Nature Guide to the Victoria Region . Victoria: RBCM and the Victoria Natural History Society, October 2012. Corley-Smith, Peter. The Ring of Time: The Story of the British Columbia Provincial Museum. Victoria: RBCM, 1985. Corley-Smith, Peter. White Bears and Other Curiosities: The First 100 Years of the Royal British Columbia Museum. Victoria: RBCM, 1989. Print. Duff, Wilson, ed. Histories, Territories and Laws of the Kitwancool. Victoria: RBCM, 1959. Duff, Wilson. The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the White Man. Victoria: RBCM, 1997. Ford, John K. B. Marine Mammals of British Columbia. Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2014. Forsyth, Robert G. Land Snails of British Columbia. Victoria: RBCM, 2004. Graham-Bell, Margaret. Preventive Conservation: A Manual. Victoria: BCMA, 1983. (2nd ed. 1986) Green, David M, Patrick T. Gregory, and Brent M. Matsuda. Amphibians and Reptiles of British Columbia. Victoria: RBCM, 2006. Griffin, Robert and Nancy Oke. Feeding the Family: 100 Years of Food and Drink in Victoria. Victoria: RBCM, May 2011. Guppy, Crispin S and Jon H. Shepard. Butterflies of British Columbia. Victoria: RBCM, 2001. Hebda, Richard J. and Nancy J. Turner. Saanich Ethnobotany : Culturally Important Plants of the WSÁNEC People. Victoria: RBCM, October 2012. Hoover, Alan L, Peter L. Macnair, and Kevin Neary. The Legacy Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art. Victoria: RBCM, 2007. Hoover, Alan L. Nuu-chah-nulth Voices, Histories, Objects & Journeys. Victoria: RBCM, 2000. Hoover, Alan L and Peter L. Macnair. The Magic Leaves: A History of Haida Argillite Carving. Victoria: RBCM, 2002. Johnstone, Bill. Coal Dust In My Blood: The Autobiography of a Coal Miner. Victoria: RBCM, 2002. Keddie, Grant. Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as Seen by Outsiders (1790–1912). Victoria: RBCM, 2003. Lambert, Philip. Sea Cucumbers of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound. Victoria: RBCM, 1997. Lambert, Philip. Sea Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound. Victoria: RBCM, 2000. Lohman, Jack. ''Museums at the Crossroads? Essays on Cultural Institutions in a Time of Change''. Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2013. Lohman, Jack. Treasures of the Royal BC Museum and Archives. Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2015. Marc, Jacques. Pacific Coast Ship China. Victoria: RBCM, 2009. Nagorsen, David W. Opossums, Shrews and Moles of British Columbia. Victoria: RBCM, 1996. Nagorsen, David W. Rodents & Lagomorphs of British Columbia. Victoria: RBCM, 2005. Rajala, Richard A. Up-Coast Forests and Industry on British Columbia’s North Coast, 1870-2005. Victoria: RBCM, 2006. Savard, Dan. Images from the Likeness House. Victoria: RBCM, May 2010. Sherwood, Jay. Furrows in the Sky : The Adventures of Gerry Andrews . Victoria: RBCM, April 2012. Sherwood, Jay. Return to Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1929-39. Victoria: RBCM, September 2010. Sherwood, Jay. Surveying Central British Columbia A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1920 - 28. Victoria: RBCM, 2007. Truscott, Gerald. Free Spirit Stories of You, Me and BC. Victoria: RBCM, 2008. Turner, Nancy J. Food Plants of Coastal First People. Victoria: RBCM, 1995. Turner, Nancy J. Food Plants of Interior First Peoples. Victoria: RBCM, 1997. Turner, Nancy J. Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia. Victoria: RBCM, 1998. Van Tol, Alex. Aliens Among Us: Invasive Animals and Plants in British Columbia. Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2015. Ward, Phillip R. Keeping the Past Alive. Victoria: Friends of the BCPM, 1974. Ward, Phillip R. Getting the Bugs Out. Victoria, Friends of the BCPM, 1976. Ward, Philip R. In Support of Difficult Shapes. Victoria: Friends of the BCPM, 1978. White, Bob. Bannock and Beans: A Cowboy's Account of the Bedaux Expedition. Victoria: RBCM, 2009. Wilson, Colleen. Tales From the Attic: Practical Advice on Preserving Heirlooms and Collectibles. Victoria: RBCM, 2002.

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