{"title":"How Did Kenow Mountain Get its Name?","authors":"Rhys M. G. Stevens","doi":"10.15353/ACMLA.N161.409","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This brief article identifies the federal and provincial organizations in Canada responsible for authorizing official place names (toponyms). Included are suggested resources relevant for locating both official and historical Canadian place names. A search for Kenow Mountain, British Columbia is used to illustrate the challenges encountered when attempting to determine naming origins.","PeriodicalId":35718,"journal":{"name":"Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives Bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15353/ACMLA.N161.409","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Earth and Planetary Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This brief article identifies the federal and provincial organizations in Canada responsible for authorizing official place names (toponyms). Included are suggested resources relevant for locating both official and historical Canadian place names. A search for Kenow Mountain, British Columbia is used to illustrate the challenges encountered when attempting to determine naming origins.
期刊介绍:
This is an index to the ACML Proceedings for conferences held 1967 - 1976, and to the Bulletin (originally Newsletter) from 1968 to the present. The include articles, reports, minutes, news items, and reviews of books, atlases, maps, microforms and software. ACMLA publishes facsimiles of maps of Canadian interest, a number of which have been reproduced on Bulletin covers, and are therefore included in the index.