Commission de toponymie du Québec explained

The Commission de toponymie du Québec (pronounced as /fr/, Toponymy Commission of Québec) is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicizing Québec's place names and their origins according to the province's toponymy rules. It also provides recommendations to the government with regard 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 through jurisdiction defined in the Charter of the French Language to replace the Commission of Geography, created in 1912.^[1]

See also

• Toponymy
• Toponym'elles
• Office québécois de la langue française
• Toponymy of the Kerguelen Islands

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Commission de toponymie . Commission de toponymie of Québec . Government of Québec . 23 December 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101123002654/http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/english.html . 23 November 2010 . dead .