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Canada's place names and how to change them

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2022

Author: Beck, Lauren

Publisher: Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press

Call Number: 02.1 B39c

Author: Beck, Lauren

Publisher: Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: ix, 251 pages ; 21 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Geography; Names, Geographical; Place names; Colonialism; Canada

Abstract: The first book to demonstrate how inadequately place names and visual emblems represent the presence of women, people of colour, and people living with disabilities, Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them provides an illuminating overview of where these names came from and what they reflect. This book disentangles the distinct cultural, religious, and historical naming practices and visual emblems in Canada’s First Nations, provinces, territories, municipalities, and federal lands. Starting with a discussion of Indigenous place knowledge and naming practices from several Indigenous and Inuit groups spanning the country, it foregrounds the breadth of possible ways to name places. Lauren Beck then illustrates the naming practices introduced by Europeans and how they misunderstood, mis-rendered, and appropriated Indigenous place names, while scrutinizing the histories of Columbian names, missionary names, and the secular and commemorative names of the last two centuries. She studies key symbols and emblems such as maps, flags, and coats of arms as visual equivalents of place names to show whose identities powerfully inform Canada’s place nomenclature. This book also documents the policies and authorities that have traditionally governed the creation and modification of names and examines case studies of institutions and communities who have changed their names to demonstrate pathways to change.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Knowing in Place -- A Brief History of Settler-Colonial Naming Practices in Canada -- Gender and Canada’s Place Names -- Indigenous Names in a Settler-Colonial Context -- Marginalized Groups and Canada’s Place Names -- How to Discuss and Change Names.

ISBN: 9781988111391

Accession Number: P2023.01

Call Number: 02.1 B39c

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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Canadian literary landmarks

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: c1984

Author: Colombo, John Robert

Publisher: Willowdale (Ont.) : Hounslow Press

Call Number: R 05 C71

Author: Colombo, John Robert

Publisher: Willowdale (Ont.) : Hounslow Press

Published Date: c1984

Physical Description: 318p : ill., facsim

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Argyll, John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell 9th Duke of; Authors; Birney, Earle; Names, Geographical; Place names; Songs

ISBN: 0888820739

Accession Number: 17500

Call Number: R 05 C71

Collection: Archives Library

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Westworld Alberta

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2003

Publisher: Edmonton : AMA

Call Number: 02.6 W52n Pam

Publisher: Edmonton : AMA

Published Date: 2003

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Vol. 29, No. 5

Subjects: Jasper; Lampard, Robert; Paley; Place names; Ski mountaineering; Snowboarding

Notes: Partial contents: Putting Mount Davidson on the map / Lisa Ricciotti. -- p.10-11:ill; Mid-life shakedown / Anthony B. Davis. - p.18-21 : ill; The spearhead's col of the wild / Kevin Brooker, photography by Chris Joseph. -- p.38-45 : ill

Call Number: 02.6 W52n Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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The genesis of an ecomusee : The Frank Slide Interpretive Centre

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: 02.6 F85t Pam Oversize

Responsibility: by William A. Tracy and Patricia Myers

Physical Description: p.11,25 : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Crowsnest Pass; Place names

Notes: In Newest review, vol.11, no.10 (Summer 1986); Periodical also includes article: Alberta's political landscaping, 1985-style: Kananaskis becomes Lougheed / Donald B. Smith, p.10

Call Number: 02.6 F85t Pam Oversize

Collection: Archives Library

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Christie - the man!

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1933

Author: Pringle, George

Call Number: 02.7 C46w Pam oversize

Author: Pringle, George

Published Date: 1933

Physical Description: p.1, 10 : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Place names; World War I

Notes: In The Vancouver Province : Sunday Magazine, Saturday June 17, 1933; Article pertains to Jim Christie, a warden at Banff National Park, 1929-1932, and Jasper National Park, 1920-1921

Call Number: 02.7 C46w Pam oversize

Collection: Archives Library

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Dead Man Flats: what's in a name?

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Aubrey, Merrily K

Call Number: P

Author: Aubrey, Merrily K

Physical Description: p.13

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Place names

Notes: In Connections, vol.10, no.1 (Winter 2004)

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Mount Robson madness

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Tanod, Lynn

Call Number: 01.4 R57t Pam

Author: Tanod, Lynn

Physical Description: p.12-19 : ill., map

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alpine Club of Canada; Kain, Conrad; Kinney, George; Place names; Phillips, Curly (Donald)

Notes: In British Columbia magazine, vol.45, no.3 (Fall 2003); Partial contents of magazine also includes: Letter to the editor by Alan Kane pertaining to artwork by artist Edward Roper; Hiking the Berg Lake trail / Lynn Tanod