Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter has helped me again with “Placed in Canada”, helping all of us researching online maps of towns and communities in Canada find them.
Have you looked for online maps of towns or other named places in Canada? You may have found that the most popular Canadian mapping site, “Geographical Names of Canada,” has very detailed place names but only has low resolution maps when compared to today’s other online mapping services. Of course, you can look at the maps on the other services, but they are not as good at finding place names, especially of the smaller villages. Now a free online service combines the best of both worlds: data from the “Geographical Names of Canada” plus much better maps from Google Maps, Live Local, MapQuest, and Yahoo! Maps.
He highlights a great resource which includes all these resources by John Cardinal called “Places in Canada”. Wonderful!
Article Information
Finding Geographical Place Names in Canada is Issue Number 267 published December 8, 2006, by Lorelle VanFossen. This is just one of many articles found in the Genealogy Resources, Genealogy Techniques categories. Lorelle VanFossen writes for a variety of blogs, websites, ezines, and print publications. She also teaches and does a lot of public speaking internationally on photography, writing, blogging, web page design and development, and more. She and her husband and cat(s) travel full-time across North American and the rest of the world by RV, planes, trains, automobiles, and foot, writing and photographing their travels and nature, when they can find it. Lorelle VanFossen has written 231 articles for our our family history blog.
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January 9th, 2007 at 9:03 am
I don’t know if this is the proper place for this, but I’ve tried all kinds of places. What I’m looking for is a place, I found the name when I was looking up my ancestors. I found the name on line, the book they sited was “Americas First Families.” The Town is Qunatte Canada. If you have heard of it I would really appreciate a reply. Thank You Ruth
January 9th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Try Quinatte, Canada instead for a better spelling. That might be the place. Good luck.