Re: Historic Quebec Placenames?

On 21 Aug 2008 in soc.genealogy.french, Mark Roy wrote:

> Does anyone know of an online reference for historic placenames for 
> Quebec? I mean names of places that have since been renamed or 
> eliminated due to consolidation.

The Canadian Government geographic names site has some historic names:

http://gnss.nrcan.gc.ca/gnss-srt/advancedSearch.jsp

I was going to give English and French language links to the page, but
it apparently uses cookies and scripting to change languages.  Try
this for French:

http://gnss.nrcan.gc.ca/gnss-srt/changeLanguage.jsp?language=fr&target=advancedSearch.jsp

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