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Related to Geographical Names (Toponymy)

Canada

• Alberta's Geographical Names - Alberta Culture and Community Spirit
• Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta Society
• Manitoba's Geographical Names - Manitoba Natural Resources
• Nova Scotia's Geographical Names - Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
• NWT Geographic Names - names search by NWT Geographic Names Program
• British Columbia's Geographical Names - GeoBC
• Commission de toponymie du Québec (French only)
• Yukon Geographical Place Names Board
• Yukon's geographical names - Tourism and Culture
• Prince Edward Island's Place Finder
• Geographical Names of PEI - cross index
• Ontario Geographic Names
• Saskatchewan Geographic Names
• Newfoundland and Labrador Geographical Names
• INAC's First Nation Profiles - Reserves

United States

• GNIS - USGS National Mapping Program
  
  Geographic Names Information System
• National Imagery and Mapping Agency - GEOnet Names Server
• Council of Geographic Names Authorities (COGNA) - U.S. geographic names authorities organization

Around the World

• United Nations - standardization of geographical names
• Ordnance Survey - OS Gazetteer - place names in the UK
• Topo/Hydro Information Services Group - Land Information New Zealand
• Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia
• Tour du monde en français Names of countries and capitals in French (French only)
• Place Names Board of Estonia, Tallinn
• Place Names Database of Estonia
• Doukhobor Placenames Database
• Ghana Place Names research project

Genealogy (Canada)

• Canadian Genealogy Centre
• Library and Archives Canada
• Canada GenWeb Project
• Library Documents Unit - Queen's University
• British Columbia Archives - includes a geographical names search which uses OUR GeoNames query tool (under Maps)

Names Studies

• Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN)
• American Name Society (ANS)
• International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS)

Miscellaneous Web Sites

• Natural Resources Canada
• Toporama – Canadian NTS topographic maps online
• Purchasing Topographic Maps
• Atlas of Canada
• Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
• Parks Canada
• The Canadian Hydrographic Service
• Stats Canada – source of Canadian census information
• Le Québec géographique – Information from the Quebec government (French only)
• Government of NWT
• Government of Nunavut