Talk:Fogo Island (Newfoundland and Labrador)

Fogo Process

For outsiders to the island, Fogo Island is mostly known due to the Fogo process being such an important tool in participatory community development. The term and story is not anywhere in Wikipedia. Wondering whether to enter it here or create a new page about the Fogo process and just wikilink in between. 70.24.136.10 (talk) 15:02, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Population

Over the time since this article was created the population has been changed from 5,000 to 3,500 to 5,000 and then to 3,000. If anyone has any credible source of information so that this can be settled, please cite it here. Thank you.--Methegreat 18:12, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Etymology

What does the name mean in Portuguese? Badagnani (talk) 21:19, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Fire. There is a portuguese map of 1504 already showing the name Fogo, I think it's Reinel's.Câmara (talk) 12:14, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Trasnportation

Are there any roads connecting the villages in the island, or are they all accessible by sea only? --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 20:55, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

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Tilting Heritage District question

There is also an entry for the Tilting district under the community article - should these be combined?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador#Tilting_Registered_Heritage_District HeritageNL (talk) 00:16, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Merge proposal

I do not see a reason why there are two separate pages: Fogo Island (Newfoundland and Labrador) and Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. Fogo Island is an island, and that island is also a town. They are one and the same. In my opinion, this is like having a separate article about the Azores archipelago and the Azores region, or about the Island of Nauru and the Country of Nauru. Those don't exist because they are both exactly the same thing.

Now we have one page where the reader finds information about the history, toponymy and tourism of Fogo Island, and a wholly separate page where the reader finds information about the population, government, climate and culture of Fogo Island. It is just logical that someone who wants to read about Fogo Island finds it all in one place instead of having to put pieces of a puzzle together like this.

That's why I would like to propose to merge both into one single page. Ycleymans (talk) 10:44, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

The island and the town do indeed appear to occupy the same geography. Magnolia677 (talk) 16:24, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

If there is a merge, we should merge into Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador instead of the other way around. Hwy43 (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Could you please give your reasoning? Thank you. Ycleymans (talk) 18:49, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

WP:CANPLACE. Hwy43 (talk) 02:26, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

As of today, some 40 days after the original proposal, I would say the general proposal has one person being against and three being in favor and/or having no general objection.

Concerning Hwy43's point of changing the direction in which the merge would go: it's fine by me to merge into Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador (other way around). So I will change the proposal's 'merging direction' if no one comments any remarks against this in the coming days. Ycleymans (talk) 15:51, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose – The above comparisons to the Azores and Nauru would only make sense if the Town of Fogo Island encompassed the entirety of Fogo Island, which it does not. For example, Stag Harbour is a designated place on Fogo Island, but it is not part of the Town of Fogo Island. Yue🌙 (talk) 03:22, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

  Stag Harbour is part of the town of Fogo Island, even though it is a DPL. Statistics Canada sometimes lets places amalgamated into municipalities retain their DPL status, in order to ensure statistical continuity with past censuses.

  Here you can find the law which officialy created the Town of Fogo Island. Under Article 5 of said law, it is stipulated that the "boundaries of the Town of Fogo Island are inclusive of the island of Fogo", meaning the town equals the entire island.

  See here as well on page 20, section 8N. All communities on the island have their census data still separately gathered, even though they all fall under the town. Ycleymans (talk) 15:30, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

  Ycleymans is correct. Designated places are sub-municipal areas. They are not municipalities. Hwy43 (talk) 04:01, 6 February 2026 (UTC)