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Current Toponymic Research Projects

In Canoma Vol. 5, No. 2 (December 1979) we printed a list of current toponymic research projects, with brief comments on the subject matter of each. Subsequently, in December issues of Canoma this information has been updated by listing additions, amendments and completions, grouped on a regional basis. As we are attempting annually to update this inventory, we now include information supplied to us by researchers in 2001. Should you have news of toponymic projects, the GNBC Secretariat would be glad to receive your comments. Anyone wishing to have addresses of particular researchers should also contact the Secretariat.

Atlantic Provinces
Quebec
Ontario
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory and Nunavut
Canada - General

ATLANTIC PROVINCES

RESEARCHER	LOCATION OF RESEARCHER	PROJECT	APPROXIMATE TIME FRAME
Brice-Bennett, Carol	Happy Valley	Inuit Toponymy	continuing
Fletcher, Christopher	Halifax	Seafloor feature names around the Aspotogan Peninsula, south shore, Nova Scotia	continuing
Fry, Garry Handcock, Gordon	St. John's	Toponyms of Newfoundland and Labrador beaver trappers	continuing
Fry, Garry Handcock, Gordon Hawkins, Randy	St. John's	Newfoundland toponymy - "Great Northern Peninsula"	continuing
Fry, Garry Handcock, Gordon Hawkins, Randy	St. John's	Toponymy of the Central Newfoundland area from the records of the pulp and paper industry of Grand Falls (Price Nfld. Co.)	continuing
Fry, Garry Hawkins, Randy	St. John's	Key word indexing of board meetings of Newfoundland Geographic Names Board, 1977-1981	continuing
Hamilton, W.B.	Sackville, N.B.	Place name "reform" in Atlantic Canada	continuing
Hamilton, W.B.	Sackville, N.B.	Field research on place names of South Eastern New Brunswick	2002-2004
Handcock, Gordon	St. John's	Bibliography of Newfoundland toponymy	continuing
		Influences of explorers and surveyors on Newfoundland toponymy	continuing
		Labrador: toponymic field work	continuing
		Newfoundland: toponymic field work	continuing
Hewson, John	St. John's	Micmac place names	continuing
Hollett, R.	St. John's	Names of Trinity Bay and the South Coast	continuing
Hollett, R. Kirwin, W.J.	St. John's	Place names in Placentia Bay with emphasis on pronunciation	continuing
Knierim, Gus Murray, Doug	Thornbury, Ont. Charlottetown, PEI	Newfoundland post office names, 1949 to present	continuing
La Brie, Léo	Hull	Équivalents français des toponymes de la côte Est	continuing
MacKenzie, Marguerite	St. John's	Linguistic analysis of East Cree and Innu place names	continuing
MacNaughton, Neil	St. John's	Development and implementation of a data base application to manage Newfoundland and Labrador toponymic data	continuing
Mailhot, J.	Montréal	Labrador: Montagnais-Naskapi toponymy	continuing
Murray, Doug	Charlottetown, PEI	New Brunswick post office names 1998 to present	continuing
Penney, Gerald	St. John's	Micmac place names in Central and Southern Newfoundland	continuing
Pocius, Gerald	St. John's	Cognitive mapping through place naming in Newfoundland (Southern Shore and Bonavista Bay)	continuing
Thomas, Gerald	St. John's	Denominational toponyms: churches and schools in Newfoundland	continuing
		Microtoponyms in rural Newfoundland communities	continuing
		Noms de lieux et de lieux-dits associés aux Franco-Terreneuviens de la presqu'île de Port-au-Port	continuing
		Toponyms in rural Newfoundland communities	continuing

QUEBEC

RESEARCHER	LOCATION OF RESEARCHER	PROJECT	APPROXIMATE TIME FRAME
Browning, Geoffrey R.	Ottawa	Origin and history of place names of Stanstead County, Quebec	continuing
Charland, Philippe	Sainte-Julie	La toponymie des Abénaquis	2001-2004
Commission de toponymie	Québec
		Codification référentielle des toponymes officiels du Québec	continuing
		Codification sémantique des toponymes officiels du Québec	continuing
		Désignation des infrastructures d'Hydro-Québec	continuing
		Désignation des sites et monuments historiques	continuing
		La langue de la toponymie québécoise	continuing
		La toponymie des Cris	2003
		Les toponymes montagnais de la rivière Moisie	2002
		Recherche terminologique sur le mot parc et ses formes composés	continuing
Commission franco-québecoise sur les lieux de mémoire communs	Paris	Désignations toponymiques commémoratives à partir de thèmes communs à la France et au Québec	continuing
Denton, David	Val-d'Or	Toponyms of Whapmagoostui	continuing
Dorion, Henri	Québec	Les surnoms de lieux	2001
		Toponymie et éponymie	continuing
		Toponymie récréative (ouvrage)	2001
Dorion, Henri Poirer, Jean	Québec	Les noms de lieux étrangers	2002
Dubois, Jean-Marie M.	Sherbrooke	Évolution spatiale et temporelle de l'odonymie de la ville de Sherbrooke	continuing
Dubois, Jean-Marie M. Côté, Gérard	Sherbrooke	Historique de l'odonymie de la ville de Sherbrooke	continuing
Dubois, Jean-Marie M. Côté, Gérard	Sherbrooke	Guide de toponymie de la ville de Sherbrooke	2000-2003
Dugas, Jean-Yves	Québec	Dérivés de noms de personnes	continuing
		Jumelage de lieux et toponymie	continuing
		Les gentilés anglais du Québec	continuing
Fourcaudot, Marcel	Québec	Terminologie employée dans la normalisation des noms géographiques	continuing
Fortin, Jacques	Québec	Banques des noms	continuing
Fortin, Jacques	Québec	Désignations toponymiques commémoratives	continuing
Gagné, Michel	Boucherville	Étude toponymique des noms de bureaux de poste du Québec	continuing
Grenier, Fernand	Québec	La toponymie de la Beauce	continuing
Hamelin, Louis-Edmond	Sillery	Laurentides	2002
		Vocabulaire géo-culturelle du Québec : études notionelles et apports	continuing
		Nord et hiver	2001
Hamelin, Pierre	Sainte-Foy	La toponymie dans les monographies	continuing
La Brie, Léo	Hull	Les systèmes thématiques de l'odonymie hulloise	continuing
La Brie, Léo	Hull	L'influence de l'anglais dans les génériques implantés au Québec	continuing
Macdonald, Craig K.	Kipawa-Dumoine, Québec	Native toponyms of Kipawa-Dumoine	continuing
Morin, Jacques Carl	Charlesbourg	Les noms de rues de Charlesbourg	continuing
Poirier, Jean	Québec	Bibliographie onomastique du Canada	continuing
Richard, Marc	Québec	La relation entre le nom et le lieu à travers l'acte de dénomination	continuing
Thériault, Marie	La Salle	Micro-toponymie de Kamouraska et de l'île d'Orléans	2002

ONTARIO

RESEARCHER	LOCATION OF RESEARCHER	PROJECT	APPROXIMATE TIME FRAME
Addington, Charles	London	Revision of Campbell's Canada Post Offices, 1755-1895	continuing
Ball, Jeff	Peterborough	Design and implementation of an automated data base for Ontario toponymic records	continuing
Kraemer, James E.	Ottawa	A postal history of the settlements in Bruce County	continuing
Kraemer, James E.	Ottawa	A postal history of the settlements in Grey County	continuing
Lapierre, André	Ottawa	Toponymie historique de la partie occidentalle de la Nouvelle-France (Ontario)	continuing
Macdonald, Craig K.	Whitney, Ont.	Native toponyms of "Bisco" - Chapleau - Sudbury	continuing
		Native toponyms of Lake Nipissing and French River	continuing
		Native toponyms of Pic - Michipicoten	continuing
Manchee, Eric B.	Ottawa	Mapping of post offices opened in Upper Canada, Canada West and Ontario up to 1986, with name changes	continuing
Morley, William F.E.	Kingston	Kingston street names	continuing
O'Brien, Kathleen	Orleans	Geographical names in Cumberland Township	continuing
O'Brien, Kathleen	Orleans	Street names in Ottawa-Carleton	continuing
Pitblado, Roger	Sudbury	Geographies of Ontario's northern lakes as reflected in their geographical names	continuing
Pitblado, Roger	Sudbury	Integrating WWW geographical names sources into teaching and research programs in Northeastern Ontario	continuing
Rayburn, Alan	Nepean	The origin of township names in Ontario	continuing
Rayburn, Alan	Nepean	Ontario's regional divisions	2001-2002
Smith, Robert C.	Ottawa	Postal histories of the Ontario counties of Elgin	continuing
Smith, Robert C.	Ottawa	Postal histories of the Ontario counties of Norfolk	continuing

PRAIRIE PROVINCES

RESEARCHER	LOCATION OF RESEARCHER	PROJECT	APPROXIMATE TIME FRAME
Aubrey, Merrily K.	Edmonton	Concise place names of Alberta; highlighting 2000-3000 of the more prominent cultural and geographical features in the province	continuing
		Toponymic tour brochure of the Icefields Parkway	continuing
		2005 for 2005-The best of Alberta's place names for Alberta's Centenary	2005
Barry, William	Regina	Historical names and locally-used names of Saskatchewan	continuing
City of Edmonton Heritage Sites Committee	Edmonton	Guide to street, park, road, etc. names in the City of Edmonton	1996-2004
Fauchon, André	Winnipeg	La toponymie française au Manitoba	continuing
Holm, Gerald	Winnipeg	Place names of Manitoba	continuing
Holm, Gerald Kappel, D. Buchner, T. Stevenson, D.	Winnipeg	A Place Name of Honour – Manitoba's war dead commemorated in its geography	2002
Johansen, J.G.	Camrose, Alberta	Naming of locales in Camrose and area	continuing
Kyba, Daniel A.	Edmonton	Rocky Mountain and "Front Ranges toponymy"	continuing
Léonard, Carol	Regina	Toponymie d'origine et d'influence française en Saskatchewan de 1751 à nos jours - en révision / revision	2002
		Les toponymes Coles et Lacolle en Saskatchewan	continuing
		La toponymie française chez Alexander Mackenzie, Daniel Harmon et Alexander Henry (the Younger)	2003
Scrimgeour, Gray	Victoria	Postal history, post offices, postmarks, and postal routes to 1905	continuing
Thompson, Dr. Donald W. Wagner, Dr. Norman E.	Calgary	A postal history of the territory of Assiniboia, 1882-1905	2002
Tingley, Ken	Edmonton	"A" is Alberta	continuing
Tingley, Ken	Edmonton	All These Were Honoured in Their Generations	continuing

BRITISH COLUMBIA

RESEARCHER	LOCATION OF RESEARCHER	PROJECT	APPROXIMATE TIME FRAME
Campbell, Kenneth	Prince Rupert	Toponymy of British Columbia's north and central coast	continuing
Lean, L.P.	Merritt	Origins of past and present names of physical features and places within the watershed of the Nicola River or Nicola basin; includes Native names	continuing
McIntyre, Jack	Victoria	Historical study of the toponymy of the Saanich Peninsula and lower Gulf Islands	continuing
Rozen, David	Vancouver	Place names of the Central Coast Salish First Nations people of British Columbia (Halkomelem, Strait Salish, and Squamish languages)	continuing
Quesnel Genealogy Club	Quesnel	Quesnel and area place names	continuing
Scrimgeour, Gray	Victoria	Postal history, post offices, postmarks and postal routes to 1905	continuing
Steele, Grace	Quesnel	History of Quesnel and area - pre-historic to gold rush	continuing
Swanson, James L.	Banff	Place names in the Canadian Rockies	continuing
Topping, W.E.	Vancouver	British Columbia Post Offices, location and dates of operation (revision)	2001
Woodsworth, Glenn	Vancouver	Geographical names and history of the Coast Mountains	continuing

NUNAVUT, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AND YUKON TERRITORY

RESEARCHER	LOCATION OF RESEARCHER	PROJECT	APPROXIMATE TIME FRAME
Alfred, Jerry	Pelly, Yukon	Selkirk First Nations Place Names Collection	continuing
Andrews, Thomas	Yellowknife	Documenting Dogrib traditional sites (including toponyms) on the Camsell River trail linking the community of Rae Lakes with Great Bear Lake	continuing
Bergquist, Kathleen Mannik, Hattie	Winnipeg Baker Lake	Traditional use of Thelon, Back, and Kazan rivers by Caribou Inuit	continuing
Freeman, Randolf	Yellowknife	Place names of the north Great Slave Lake region	continuing
Freeman, Randolf	Yellowknife	Northern people and places research for CBC North Radio	continuing
Goehring, Brian	Vancouver	Inuit place names: Kitikmeot region of Nunavut	continuing
Goldring, Philip	Ottawa/Hull	Whaling history and post-contact human history of Baffin Island	continuing
Haggman, Bertil	Helsingborg, Sweden	Scandanavian Geographical Names in Arctic Canada (Nunavut)	continuing
Hamelin, Louis-Edmond	Sillery	Toponymes nordiques chez Mercator, 1595	continuing
Hutton, Melody	Mayo, Yukon	Nacho Nyak Dun First Nations Place Names Collection	continuing
Immaruittuq, Emile	Igloolik	Inuit place names of the Igloolik area	continuing
Jackson, Susan	Sechelt, B.C.	Origins of place names in the Yellowknife mining area	continuing
Jackson, Susan	Sechelt, B.C.	Yellowknife street names, past and present, family history	continuing
Jenness, Stuart	Ottawa	Locations noted by Diamond Jenness, in the Victoria Island area	continuing
Kerfoot, Helen	Ottawa	Geographical names of Northern Canada: miscellaneous	continuing
Kerfoot, Helen	Ottawa	Poster on naming in Northern Canada for UN 2002	2002
Kwanlin Dun First Nation	Whitehorse	Research and documentation of place names in the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation	continuing
MacDonald, Agnes B. Workman, Margaret (Yukon Native Language Centre)	Whitehorse	Athapaskan place names of Aishihik, Kloo Lake and Kluane regions	continuing
MacDonald, John	Igloolik, Nunavut	Names used by explorers in the northern Foxe Basin area	continuing
MacDonald, John Tapardjuk, Louis Otak, Leah	Igloolik, Nunavut	Igloolik Oral History Project - collection and translation of Igloolik-area toponymy	continuing
Metis Heritage Association	Yellowknife	Metis place names of the Northwest Territories	continuing
Peplinski, Lynn	Iqaluit, NT	Inuit place names for South Baffin	continuing
Scrimgeour, Gray	Victoria	Postal History, post offices, postmarks, and postal routes to 1905: historic N.W.T.; Yukon and modern N.W.T.	continuing
Suluk, Luke Arviat Historical Society	Arviat	Traditional place names of the Keewatin	continuing
White River First Nation T'chawshamon Society	White River area	First Nations place names in the Snag region	continuing
Yukon Geographical Names Board Loucheux people Yukon Renewable Resources Department	Whitehorse	Place names of Native historical interest in the Dempster Corridor	continuing

CANADA - GENERAL

RESEARCHER	LOCATION OF RESEARCHER	PROJECT	APPROXIMATE TIME FRAME
Ahrens, Wolfgang	Toronto	Toponymy in German-Canadian settlements	continuing
Barr, Elinor	Thunder Bay	Canadian toponyms of Swedish origin	continuing
Bonnelly, Christian	Québec	Établissement d'une liste d'exonymes des Amériques	continuing
Commission de toponymie	Québec	Exonymes français sur le Web	2002
Drummond, R. Norman	Montréal	Place names commemorating geographers from McGill University	continuing
Drummond, R. Norman	Montréal	Place names commemorating McGill University and its graduates	continuing
Dugas, Jean-Yves	Québec	Bibliographie commentée relative aux gentilés du Québec et du Canada	continuing
Freile, Luis	Lancaster, Pennsylvania	Numerous map projects about Canada, its provinces individually, and its cities and regions	continuing
GNBC Secretariat	Ottawa	Compilation of bibliographic material on Aboriginal toponymy of Canada	continuing
Kalmakoff, Jonathan	Regina	Origin and meaning of Doukhobor place names in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia	continuing
Kerfoot, Helen	Ottawa	Canada and United Nations standardization of geographical names	continuing
		Mapping distributions of features with particular types of names	continuing
		Naming of sites for oil and gas drilling	2003
La Brie, Léo	Hull	Problèmes de correspondance entre les génériques de l'anglais et du français	continuing
Lapierre, André	Ottawa	French geographical names in Canada	continuing
		French place names in North America	continuing
		Language contact in North American place names	continuing
		Language policy and geographical naming in Canada	continuing
		Toponymie française en Amérique	continuing
		Writing systems for Aboriginal toponyms	continuing
Léonard, Carol	Regina	Génèse des noms de lieux. Survol des modes dénominatifs	2003
MacDonald, Terry	Calgary	Geographical features named for Canadian Victoria Cross and George Cross winners	continuing
Morin, Carl	Charlesbourg, Québec	Le nom de famille Morin dans les toponymes et les odonymes	continuing
O'Brien, Kathleen	Orleans	Artists and art in geographical names	continuing
		Canadian VC winners and geographical name commemorations	continuing
		Geographical names commemorating members of the Geographic Board of Canada and its successors	continuing
		Geographical names reflecting authors, fictitious characters, and places	continuing
O'Brien, Vern	Howard Springs, NT, Australia	Former presidents of the Royal Geographical Society - place names in Australia and Canada	continuing
Okulitch, Andrew V.	Vancouver	Nomenclature and definition of major physiographic features of Canada in conjunction with compilation of 1:1M scale Geological Atlas of Canada	continuing
O'Reilly, Kevin	N.W.T., Yukon, and Labrador	Place names, post offices, and postal history	continuing
Rayburn, Alan	Nepean	Who was who in North American name study	2001-2002
Rayburn, Alan	Nepean	Who is who in North American name study	2002
Reichwein, Pearl Ann	Edmonton	Alpine Club of Canada	continuing
Richard, Marc	Québec	Les procédés de création de noms géographiques	continuing
Romanko, Jennifer	Wetaskiwin, AB	Determining all features named after men and women included in Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame	continuing
Taylor, Nancy Taylor, Iain	Dartmouth	Gazetteer of British and Irish names and places with Canadian connections	continuing
Taylor, Nancy Taylor, Iain	Dartmouth	Gazetteer of Canadian names and places with British and Irish connections	continuing
Terminology Translation Bureau / Terminologie Bureau de la traduction	National Capital Region / Région de la capitale nationale	Canadian toponyms in the other official language / Toponymes canadiens dans l'autre langue officielle	continuing

2005-10-05

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