Commission de toponymie du Québec

The Commission de toponymie du Québec (English: Toponymy Commission of Québec) is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according to the province's toponymy rules. It also provides recommendations to the government with regards to toponymic changes.

Its mandate covers the namings of:

• natural geographical features (lakes, rivers, mountains, etc.)
• constructed features (dams, embankments, bridges, etc.)
• administrative units (wildlife sanctuaries, administrative regions, parks, etc.)
• inhabited areas (villages, towns, Indian reserves, etc.)
• roadways (streets, roads, boulevards, etc.)

A child agency of the Office québécois de la langue française, it was created in 1977 trough jurisdiction defined in the Charter of the French Language to replace the Commission of Geography, created in 1912.^[1]

See also

• Toponymy
• Office québécois de la langue française

References

1. ^ Commission de toponymie of Québec. "Commission de toponymie". Government of Québec. http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/english.html. Retrieved 23 December 2010. 

External links

• Comission de toponymie of Québec
• Office québécois de la langue française

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