Wikipedia:WikiProject Ontario/Kawartha Lakes

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Welcome to the Kawartha Lakes task force of WikiProject Canada, WikiProject Ontario, and WikiProject Canadian communities.

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Kawartha Lakes is a city within the south-central portion of the Canadian province of Ontario. It was known as Victoria County prior to municipal restructuring in 2001. The scope of this project includes everything within the geographical borders of the city, including its lakes, numbered roads, villages, ghost towns/abandoned post offices, geographical features, etc.

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Floydian (talk · contribs)
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Todo items for members of Kawartha Lakes task force edit

Tag related articles.
Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
Identify articles for creation
Identify articles for improvement
Review importance and quality of existing articles
Interlink the specific articles with the wide-scoped articles (Especially Kawartha Lakes and Victoria County, Ontario)
Remove Redirects from Communities within City of Kawartha Lakes that are redirected to Townships and City of Kawartha Lakes, as this is causing havoc in other parts of the internet which are basing their platforms on Wikipedia. i.e. Businesses and organizations in Cameron, Ontario cannot list their accurate addresses on Facebook.

Todo items for anyone edit

Tag related articles.
Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
Interlink the specific articles with the wide-scoped articles (Especially Kawartha Lakes and Victoria County, Ontario)

Guidelines edit

Tagging and assessment edit

Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Canada. You may also find {{WikiProjectBanners}} useful. To each of these banners, you should add Kawartha-Lakes = yes as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories., such as Category:Kawartha Lakes articles.

Importance is simple for these articles.

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Every article should eventually include (At the bottom), and be added into the {{City of Kawartha Lakes}} template.

Kawartha Lakes Articles edit

{{WikiProject Canada|kawartha-lakes=yes |class= |importance= }} - to be included in talk pages of articles related to the Kawartha Lakes. Articles (talk pages) will be included in Category:Kawartha Lakes articles.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian communities/Outreach/User Kawartha Lakes task force

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{{Infobox settlement}} (Settlements, villages, ghost towns, cities, townships and anything that is a geographical region of population)
{{Infobox lake}} (Lakes)
{{infobox river}} (Rivers, canals and waterways)

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Resources edit

Kirkconnell, Watson (1967) [1921], County of Victoria, Centennial History, Victoria County Council
Young, James T. (1999), A Respectable Ditch - History of the Trent-Severn Waterway, McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN 0-7735-1821-5
Canadian Genealogy records for Victoria County (Includes a detailed history, including the original 1921 publication of Watson Kirkconnell's History of Victoria County)
Ontario Genealogy for Victoria County (Includes history, family names, newspaper articles, survey maps from 1881, and much much more)
Government of Canada Post offices and Postmasters of Victoria County (Every post office listed has a history in the county and a reason for its existence.)