Re: Historic Quebec Placenames?

Joe Makowiec wrote:
> 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 think this site only lets you search for current-day place names. 
Although, IIRC, an earlier version of this site _did_ allow you to 
search for historic names.

> 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
>