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Record 1 2024-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
OBS

Coordinates: 49° 38' 0" N, 125° 42' 0" W.

OBS

One of the toponyms of pan-Canadian significance with an officially approved form in both official languages. The list, established and adopted by the Treasury Board and the Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC), has been promulgated as a schedule of the TB Directive 1983-58 of November 23, 1983.

OBS

Usage on federal maps: Pan-Canadian names should be written in both official languages on bilingual maps and in the corresponding language on French and English versions of a map and in narrative form.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
OBS

Coordonnées : 49° 38' 0" N, 125° 42' 0" O.

OBS

Un des toponymes d'intérêt pancanadien ayant une forme distincte reconnue dans les deux langues officielles. La liste, établie et adoptée par le Conseil du Trésor (CT) et la Commission de toponymie du Canada (CTC), a été diffusée en annexe à la Directive 1983-58 du CT du 23 novembre 1983.

OBS

Usage sur les cartes fédérales : Les noms d'intérêt pancanadien doivent être inscrits dans les deux langues officielles sur les cartes bilingues, et dans la langue appropriée sur les versions anglaise et française d'une carte et d'un texte suivi.

OBS

Usage de la majuscule : Dans une liste, sur une carte géographique, ou sur un panneau de signalisation, le générique porte la majuscule. Dans un texte suivi en français, le générique porte la minuscule.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (Canadá)
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Record 2 2019-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Provincial Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
DEF

[A party] dedicated to secure the independence of Vancouver Island from the province of British Columbia …

OBS

[The Vancouver Island Party's mission is] to benefit more fully … economically, socially, environmentally and culturally[, as a region of British Columbia, and] to establish Vancouver Island as a province …

Key term(s)
  • Island Party of Vancouver

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
Key term(s)
  • Island Party of Vancouver

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités de los gobiernos provinciales canadienses
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
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