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Québec Place Name Reorganization [24 October 2008]
This is my basic plan for reorganizing the Place pages for the Province of Québec.
For genealogical purposes, it is most useful to use the years 1895-1911 as a general guideline when titling the Place pages for Québec. There are a number of excellent resources (listed below) that I will utilize to determine the specific location of a village, parish, or county.
- Historically, Québec was divided into counties. This system of organization was abolished in the 1980-1990's. In its place, a system of Regional County Municipalities or Municipalité Régionale de Comté (MRC) was established.
- I intend to title pages using the format: village, parish, historical county, Québec, Canada.
Comté (County) Pages
- See Place:Laprairie, Quebec, Canada as an example
- Ensure there are pages for each of the historical counties.
- Make sure the coordinates field for county pages is approximately near the center of the county (keep the coordinates approximate)
- Add links to the county's census page for the following years:
- Consider adding source pages to take the place of the above-mentioned census links.
- Add Maps and Gazetteers links for:
Canton (Township) Pages
- Some of the counties in Québec, especially those situated South of the Saint-Lawrence River, contained cantons (townships). These counties were surveyed by the British after 1763. These municipalities will be titled using the format village, canton, historical county, Québec, Canada.
Village/Parish Pages
Each bullet below will be addressed in stages
- Address the obvious duplicate place pages. Some pages reference only Getty, while others reference only FHLC. When these locations are determined to be the same, I will redirect appropriately.
- Add basic information to the page see Place:Abercorn, Brome, Quebec, Canada for an example.
- Add Drouin church links from ancestry.com
- Add church photo & contact information link from http://www.leseglisesdemonquartier.com
- Add the Also-located-in information to each page
- Check the pages' Alternate Names field. Many times, these alternate names are actually other towns that were absorbed. Make new place pages as appropriate.
- Add links to the town's official websites
- Add location specific resources discovered by searching Repository:Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Resources
Historical Place Names and Locations
Current Place Names and Locations
Language Helps
- To translate websites that are in French, cut and paste the page's URL into the Google search field and press Google Search. When the search is complete - click on the Translate this page link.
--JBS66 19:31, 16 October 2008 (EDT)
Last Edit Date: 26 November 2008 (EDT)
This is terrific! People will find this incredibly useful. I'd like to feature this project next week to see if we can get some others to help.
The only thing I'd suggest is to keep the coordinates for counties as very approximately near the center of the county. This allows events, where the place of the event is just the county, to appear on pedigree-maps and on little maps I'm planning to add to each person and family page.
You're probably already aware of http://www.werelate.org/placelist/Canada.html and http://www.werelate.org/placealpha/Canada.html . They might be useful to you. These pages are re-generated each day. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help you.--Dallan 11:17, 19 October 2008 (EDT)
