Talk:Algoma District

Confusion between territorial districts and DSSAB districts

The article claims the district's website is the site of the Algoma District Services Administration Board. In my opinion, there is no district seat and no website of the District of Algoma.

On Wikipedia, I see that the ten districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Manitoulin, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Rainy River, Sudbury, Thunder Bay and Timiskaming - which are presumably territorial districts - have been confused with the ten districts each defined in a schedule of O. Reg. 278/98.

O. Reg. 278/98 defines one district for each of the ten district social services administration boards. Within the District of Algoma, there are two of such districts defined: the district for the Algoma District Services Administration Board and the district for the District of Sault Ste. Marie Social Services Administration Board. In my opinion, the website of either district social services administration board shouldn't be considered the website of the (Territorial) District of Algoma.

--2607:FEA8:7A1F:F41F:5D18:AB8C:E3F2:58E7 (talk) 21:56, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

The website link could be removed from the infobox. Alternatively, a link to the website of the District of Sault Ste. Marie Social Services Administration Board could be made present in addition to the existing link. I presume the link to the Algoma District Services Administration Board is present in the infobox because its name includes "Algoma".

DSSAB districts are comparable to school districts. A school district could be coextensive with a county or municipality. For a county or municipality, a link to the county or municipal government website but not a link to a school corporation or board would be contained in the infobox.

By comparing O. Reg. 278/98 and 180/03, it appears that only these three of the ten DSSAB districts are not coextensive with one of the eleven territorial districts:

1. Algoma District Services Administration Board
2. Manitoulin-Sudbury District Services Board
3. District of Sault Ste. Marie Social Services Administration Board

The District Municipality of Muskoka and the City of Greater Sudbury are within the combined area of the eleven territorial districts but excluded from the combined area of the ten DSSAB districts.

--2607:FEA8:7A1F:F41F:6CC8:CE2E:E6F2:5C62 (talk) 01:59, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Each of the eleven territorial districts were once coextensive with a provisional judicial district. --2607:FEA8:7A1F:F41F:6CC8:CE2E:E6F2:5C62 (talk) 02:16, 10 January 2019 (UTC)