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POINT PELEE [3 records]

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Record 1 2008-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Historical Names
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
OBS

Point Pelee National Park of Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations historiques
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
OBS

Parc national du Canada de la Pointe Pelée. Une aventure nocturne stimulante à la découverte de l'hibou mystérieux.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Toponymy
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

Land area jutting into a water feature; also used for a convex change in direction of a shoreline.

CONT

Point Pelee, Ont.

CONT

Bear Corner, N.W.T.

CONT

Lands End, N.B.

CONT

Queen Elizabeth Foreland, N.W.T.

CONT

Handle of the Sug, Nfld.

CONT

Strathdang Kwun, B.C.

OBS

point: Widely used. Applied to an extremity of land or more broadly to the land mass itself. The generic may precede or follow the specific. By extension, "point" may be applied to features such as Icefall Point, B.C. (92 N/6), a point of land at a change in direction of a glacier.

OBS

corner: rare; generic used in N.S. and N.W.T.

OBS

end: generic used in the Atlantic Provinces and N.W.T.

OBS

foreland: rare; generic used in N.W.T.

OBS

handle: rare; generic used in Nfld.

OBS

kwun: Haida Indian term. Rare; generic used in B.C.

OBS

point; corner; end; foreland; handle; kwun: terms and definition validated by the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) (formerly named the Canadian Permanent Committee n Geographical Names -- CPCGN) within the scope of its glossary (BT-176) which is the first authoritative publication on generics in use in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Saillie de terre allongée, généralement peu élevée, qui s'avance dans une étendue d'eau.

CONT

Pointe du Bout de l'Île, Qué.

OBS

La pointe marque très souvent un changement d'orientation du rivage et est habituellement moins étendue que le cap. Générique attesté à travers le pays.

OBS

pointe : terme et définition uniformisés par la Commission de toponymie du Canada (CTC) (anciennement appelée le Comité permanent canadien des noms géographiques -- CPCNG) dans le cadre du glossaire (BT-176) faisant autorité sur la question des génériques en usage au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 3 1989-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses

Spanish

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