Canada's Evolving Geographical Names

This dataset is a collaborative project by Natural Resources Canada and the federal, provincial and territorial members of the Geographical Names Board of Canada, illustrating a curated selection of official geographical names in Canada that have changed over time. The selection comes from the Canadian Geographical Names Database, displaying additional information including the previous name(s) of each feature, the year and the reason why the names changed along with a short history of each name change.

Simple

Date ( RI_367 )
2025-08-01
Date ( RI_366 )
2025-06-23
RI_410
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector/Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation - ( )
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Toponymy
  • Geographic data
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Location
Begin date
1897-01-01
End date
2025-06-30
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 /
Distribution format
  • ESRI REST ( 10.8.0 )

  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Federal Geospatial Platform - ( )
Sherbrooke , Canada
1-800-661-2638
OnLine resource
Canada's Evolving Geographical Names ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Canada's Evolving Geographical Names ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Canada's Evolving Geographical Names ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Canada's Evolving Geographical Names ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

File identifier
f6c03e72-2a20-4b41-812d-1dfc327cb287 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-08-01T10:33:34
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_410
  Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector/Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation - ( )
 
 

Overviews

overview
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overview
Evolving-Names2025-06-24.jpg

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