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  title info:
    title: Canada's place names and how to change them
  name:
    name part: Beck, Lauren
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Case studies.
  genre: History.
  genre: Local history.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First English edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 251 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  abstract: "The first book to demonstrate how inadequately place names and visual emblems represent the presence of women, people of colour, and people living with disabilities, Canada's Place Names and How to Change Them provides an illuminating overview of where these names came from and what they reflect. This book disentangles the distinct cultural, religious, and historical naming practices and visual emblems in Canada's First Nations, provinces, territories, municipalities, and federal lands. Starting with a discussion of Indigenous place knowledge and naming practices from several Indigenous and Inuit groups spanning the country, it foregrounds the breadth of possible ways to name places. Lauren Beck then illustrates the naming practices introduced by Europeans and how they misunderstood, mis-rendered, and appropriated Indigenous place names, while scrutinizing the histories of Columbian names, missionary names, and the secular and commemorative names of the last two centuries. She studies key symbols and emblems such as maps, flags, and coats of arms as visual equivalents of place names to show whose identities powerfully inform Canada's place nomenclature. This book also documents the policies and authorities that have traditionally governed the creation and modification of names and examines case studies of institutions and communities who have changed their names to demonstrate pathways to change."--
  table of contents: Knowing in Place -- A Brief History of Settler-Colonial Naming Practices in Canada -- Gender and Canada's Place Names -- Indigenous Names in a Settler-Colonial Context -- Marginalized Groups and Canada's Place Names -- How to Discuss and Change Names.
  note: Lauren Beck.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    topic: Names, Geographical
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Names, Geographical
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Names, Geographical
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Emblems
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    geographic: Canada
    topic: History, Local
  subject:
    topic: Noms géographiques
    geographic: Canada
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Noms géographiques
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    topic: Noms géographiques
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Emblèmes
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: Canada
  subject:
    geographic: Canada
    topic: Histoire locale
  subject:
    topic: Names, Geographical
  subject:
    topic: Names, Geographical
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: Canada
  classification: F1004 .B43 2022
  classification: 910/.0140971
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Canada's place names and how to change them
    name:
      name part: Beck, Lauren.
    origin info:
      publisher: Montreal, Quebec : Concordia University Press, 2022
    identifier: (OCoLC)1338040228
  identifier: 9781988111391
  identifier: 1988111390
  identifier: 9781988111407
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 220411
    record change date: 20250318215323.5
    record identifier: in00004729703
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng