EVERY CLAIM, A CITATION
Sources.
Every numeric claim, dollar figure, quote, and date used anywhere on this site traces back to one of the sources below. We update this page when claims are added, corrected, or retired. If you spot something wrong, send us a correction.
Population & demographic data
- Statistics Canada — 2021 Census Profile, Denman Island Trust AreaPrimary source for the 1,391 figure.
- Statistics Canada — 2016 Census Profile, Denman Island Trust AreaSource for the 1,165 figure.
- Islands Trust — 2021 Census Profile, Denman Island LTA
- Islands Trust — Trend Monitoring page
- Gulf Islands Driftwood — “Big Growth Spurt Measured on Gulf Islands” (Feb 2022)
Property tax & local finance
- CVRD 2024 Property Taxes — Electoral Area APrimary source for every line in the tax breakdown.
- CVRD Property Taxes — main page
- BC Assessment — Vancouver Island Region
Islands Trust — budget, governance, history
- Islands Trust — Budget & Accountability page
- Coast Reporter — “Island Trust passes $10.98 million budget” (Mar 2024)
- Bowen Island Undercurrent — “Islands Trust 2023/24 budget comes in just under $10 million” (Mar 2023)
- My Cowichan Valley Now — “Islands Trust approves $11.8 million budget for 2026/27” (Mar 2026)
- Islands Trust — “Islands Trust Requests Provincial Review of Islands Trust Act” (Oct 2024)
- Islands Trust — Governance overview
- Islands Trust — About Us / Overview
- Islands Trust — Timeline
- Country Life in BC — “Islands Trust turns 50” (Jul 2024)
- Gulf Islands Driftwood — “Islands Trust wrestles with bylaw enforcement policies” (Sept 2024)
- Islands Trust — State of the Islands Indicator Project Report (PDF, 2020)
Bowen Island incorporation precedent
- BC Geographical Names — Bowen Island recordPrimary source for incorporation date.
- Bowen Island Municipality — Document Center
- Islands Trust — Bowen Island Municipality overview
- Bowen Island Municipality — Islands Trust relationship page
- Gulf Islands Driftwood — “Bowen Islanders reflect on municipal life” (Sept 2017)
- History of Bowen Island
- Bowen Island Municipality — 2022 Community Opinion Poll on Trust Tax Requisition
Salt Spring Island referenda (2002 & 2017)
- BC Government News — “Salt Spring Island incorporation vote set” (Mar 2017)Primary source for the $255,000 provincial study funding.
- CBC News — “Salt Spring Islanders vote no to incorporation” (Sept 2017)
- Times Colonist — “Salt Spring voters reject bid to incorporate as municipality” (Sept 2017)
- CBC News — “Salt Spring Island to vote on becoming municipality” (Mar 2017)
- Gulf Islands Driftwood — “Elected Officials’ Statements on Referendum Result” (Sept 2017)
- Times Colonist — “Salt Spring looks to heal after rejecting incorporation” (Sept 2017)
Okanagan Falls incorporation (2025)
- BC Government News — “Update on Okanagan Falls and the incorporation of a new municipality” (Aug 2025)
- CBC News — “B.C. to get 1st new municipality in 15 years…” (Mar 2025)
- govTogetherBC — Municipal Incorporation Process for Okanagan Falls
- RDOS Regional Connections — Okanagan Falls Incorporation Referendum
BC restructure & incorporation legislation
- BC Local Government Act, RSBC 2015, c.1Section 6 mandates island-municipality classification.
- BC Islands Trust Act, RSBC 1996, c.239Section 7 (double-direct) and section 38 (OCP approval).
- Province of BC — Local Government Structure: Managing Changes (PDF)
- Province of BC — Restructure Planning Grant program
Cable ferry (Baynes Sound Connector)
- CBC News — “New Denman Island cable ferry stranded by hydraulic failure” (May 2016)
- CBC News — “2nd Denman Island cable ferry breakdown prompts call for backup” (July 2016)
- Times Colonist — “Buckley Bay cable ferry back in service…” (May 2016)
- CHEK News — “Frustrations mount as Buckley Bay ferry breakdown leads to several hour delay” (July 2022)
- The Discourse / Capital Daily — “Denman Island resident calls for investigation into BC Ferries cable ferry” (June 2024)
- Global News — “‘One disaster after another’: Denman Islanders steamed over cable ferry outage” (May 2024)Source for Ricia Hollinger quote.
- CHEK News — “Denman Island resident calls for investigation into BC Ferries cable ferry”
- Comox Valley Record — “LETTER: Denman Islander calls for the decommissioning of Baynes Sound Connector” (Oct 2023)
- BC Ferries — Baynes Sound Connector official page
Denman governance bodies
- Denman Island Residents Association — About DIRA
- DIRA — Committees & Services
- DIRA — Public Meeting minutes (June 2025)
- DenmanWORKS! — Government and admin
- DICES — Denman Island Community Education Society
- Denman Island Museum & Archives — Organizations page
- HIRRA — Hornby Island Residents and Ratepayers Association
- Islands Trust — Denman LTC page
- Islands Trust — Denman bylaws (incl. LUB 186 and Bylaw 232)
- Denman Island Land Use Bylaw No. 186 (consolidated July 2024)
- Islands Trust — Bylaw Enforcement Notice & Dispute Adjudication system
- Comox Valley Schools — Denman Island Community School
Historical context — ALR & Barrett era
- BC NDP Heritage Committee — “Protecting farmland… The story of BC’s Agricultural Land Reserve”
- Wikipedia — Agricultural Land Reserve
- Provincial Agricultural Land Commission — Home
- Provincial Agricultural Land Commission — Role of the ALC
- Country Life in BC — “ALC gets an earful” (Nov 2019)
- Wikipedia — Dave Barrett
- CBC News — Dave Barrett obituary (Feb 2018)
- The Tyee — “Dave Barrett: The Man Who Changed a Province” (Feb 2018)
- Globe and Mail — “Fifty years later, B.C.’s farms and cities reap the benefits…” (Apr 2023)
Denman Island history
Conservancies and land trusts on Denman
- Denman Conservancy Association — About page
- Denman Conservancy Association — DCA History
- Denman Conservancy Association — Our Work
- Denman Conservancy Association — Lands
- Islands Trust — 35th Anniversary Story: Denman Conservancy Association (Patti Willis, 2025)
- Islands Trust — Non-Profit Conservancies in the Trust Area
Fisheries, aquaculture, and Baynes Sound
- Wikipedia — Baynes SoundSource for the 39% / 55% production figures.