Place Name Policy of Canada | CEMVC

Contents: The Collection | The CEMVC | Contributors

The Collection

This site is a catalogue of Canadian places and their geographical naming policies. The content has been compiled through ongoing research by Dr. Lauren Beck, the Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture at Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB), and researchers from around Canada.

The CEMVC

The Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture offers research collections focused primarily on illustrations, engravings, and maps published between 1400 and 1900. Our researchers examine critical questions about visuality and textuality from this period, questions that continue to impact how we see the world around us today. These inquiries revolve around gender, race, class, and place of origin in the settler-colonial milieu, as well as how images and text become powerfully technologized in the present era. Scholars of the digital humanities, history, art history, and literature will find these collections particularly useful for their research.

Contributors

Principal Investigator
Dr. Lauren Beck
Director, Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture, Mount Allison University

Co-investigators
Victoria Macbeath
Research; data collection and analysis.
PhD Student, Art History, Concordia University

Amy Black-Walker
Research; data collection and analysis.
MA Student, Indigenous and Inter-Religious Studies, Vancouver School of Theology

Justin Yoston
Development of Place Name Policy repository; data analysis.
Lab Supervisor, Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture, Mount Allison University