Talk:Breadalbane, Prince Edward Island

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John Hopkins[edit]

I couldn't find in IMDb any Canadian filmmaker called John Hopkins, so I added the citation needed tag (besides the disambiguation needed tag). --PeterCantropus (talk) 01:59, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dam[edit]

When was the dam actually removed? Saying it was removed ´recently´ is going to go out of date pretty fast. CharlotteMR (talk) 01:33, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

History section is rather unclear:

The town was important as a local centre in the late 19th century. Several mills operated there, and until recently a dam was still extant in the heart of the village.

Does all this refer to the original Breadalbane in Scotland, or the subject village? If, as most people might assume, it refers to Breadalbane, Prince Edward Island, then how does the mention of the 19th century match with the 1991 incorporation date mentioned in the infobox? Was Breadalbane downgraded from 'town' to 'village' status in 1991? Centrepull (talk) 20:05, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To answer some of the questions above:

1) Many, if not most towns/villages/communities in Prince Edward Island are still not formally incorporated as such. Breadalbane, P.E.I. has been around a long time and its heyday as an important train stop and mill centre had been "over" for more than 50 years by the time the town was officially incorporated. Prior to 1991, it naturally had some sort of official status (possibly as a "community" or "municipality"). It is almost as if someone is suggesting that without its current official status the village's existence is not verifiable! Just to take a random example, "Coney Island" is just a name given to a peninsula in Brooklyn. Over time the name became semi-official, and eventually it may have even achieved some sort of official status. But probably Coney Island even today has even less formal definition as a place than Breadalbane PEI did in c. 1900! I agree that the entry as it stands gives the impression that the village was recently named after Breadalbane, Scotland. This is a writing issue and I agree, it needs to be changed. Also, the etymology of the word itself should probably be left out of this entry. It takes up way too much space in a short piece and belongs in the entry on Breadalbane, Scotland. Would a piece on New York contain the etymology of the word York? No. Rather it would have something about the circumstances of the city being named after York.

2) I happen to know that the dam was removed in the last decade, but I'm sure that's not going to fix the situation.

3) The distinction between town and village is rather fluid in plain English, although town usually means something bigger. Breadalbane happens to be officially a village now, but it is still often described alternately as a town, community, village, etc... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.208.181 (talk) 06:54, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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