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Public body responsible for managing place names. Background, policies and placename search. French and English.
In Canada, since 1897, geographical names have been authorized through a national committee.
Database plus articles on the origins of geographic names, research projects, and information about restoring and preserving Indigenous place names.
Promoting the study of names and naming in Canada, A resource for onomatologists, toponymists and scholars in the related fields of literary onomastics and linguistic aspects of names.
Listing of place names, official and unofficial.
YGPNB meets at least twice a year to decide upon proposed names.
Database and information about the Board available.
An index by Alan Rayburn for Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names.
From the Northern Heritage Centre, in Yellowknife.
Offers a search for any community or geographic name in the province. A map is available.
Government site lists geographical naming principles and policy, links to history related sites, and to toponymy sites.
Information on how to propose new names or changing existing names.
Information about the program and history, including publications and links.