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Canada's Regional Treasures

Identify the most remarkable geographical features and the most fascinating place names to use in creating a travel brochure or guidebook to promote a specific region by highlighting the region's geographical treasures.


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Title: Alberta's Francophone Heritage: French Placenames all over
Host: Heritage Community Foundation (Now archived by the University of Alberta)
Description: This website contains information about French place names in Alberta.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to access complete text.
URL: http://www.abheritage.ca/francophone/audio/french_placenames.html

 

Title: Origins of Canada's Geographical Names
Host: Natural Resources Canada
Description: This website contains information about the names of provinces, territories, capital cities, major centres and Aboriginal community names. It also provides articles on interesting place names across the country.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down and click on highlighted text or click on a topic in the left-hand-side menu to access information.
URL: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/place-names/education-resources/9222

 

Title: Origins of Canada's Geographical Names
Host: Natural Resources Canada
Description: This website contains information about names of Canada’s provinces, territories, capital cities, major centres and Aboriginal communities. It also provides a variety of articles on interesting and curious names across the country.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down and click on the highlighted terms or search by clicking on a selection under GeoNames Query on the left-hand side of the screen.
URL: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/place-names/origins-geographical-names/9222

 

Title: Knight's Canadian Info Collection Presents (Unusual and Unique) Canadian Place Names
Host: Knight's Canadian Info Collection
Description: This website contains a list of unusual Canadian place names, grouped by province and territory.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to view the names. Click on Click Hereto access information about how Canada's provinces and territories got their names. Click on the Click box at the bottom of the screen to access other parts of the website.
URL: http://www.knightsinfo.ca/

 

Title:

The Atlas of Canada

Host:

Natural Resources Canada
Description:

This website contains a maps of the physiographical regions of Canada, a map of the regions, relief maps,  and ecozone maps
Navigation Tips:

Click on the list of maps of the left hand side of the page for the maps and more information.

URL:

http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

 

Title:

Images Canada

Host:

Library and Archives Canada
Description:

This website is a database of images.
Navigation Tips:

Click on Image Trails, Photo Essays or Education Resources to access images and information, or type in keyword(s), such as First nations in Alberta, and click Go to bring up images. Note: Use other keywords to bring up different results
URL:

http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html

Last updated: March 1, 2016 | (Revision History)
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