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Maps and Gazetteers

Online Resources

• British Columbia, GeoBC. Official search for BC place names. Results include information on Feature Types (example, locality, mountain) Status, Relative Location, Latitude-Longitude, a map with name marked and additional detail. Also information on name origin where available. Search also by Soundlike Search, or search for names near a point or inside an area, or geographic names with recent decisions.
  
• Cartographic collection description and guides, British Columbia Archives. Digitized maps include British Admiralty maps1848-1955, a selection of government maps 1911-1991, pre-emptors series 1911-1969, topographic series 1917-1952, mineral maps, etc.
  
• Early BC Maps from the National Archives of England, 1846-1876 (approximately 258 digitized maps), University of Victoria, British Columbia.
  
• Early BC maps from the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives at the Archives of Manitoba, 1840-1866, University of Victoria, British Columbia.
  
• Victoria's Early History including several maps 1855 on, University of Victoria, British Columbia.
• Victoria, British Columbia, Fire Insurance maps, 1885-1916. University of Victoria.
• viHistory:viMaps Assorted Maps of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, including Nanaimo and Victoria,1883-2003; Includes fire insurance maps of Victoria,1885.

Maps - additional resources

• Canadian Geographical Names Database
• British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas by Derek Hayes (Douglas & McIntyre, 2012)
  ISBN-10: 1926812573 ISBN-13: 978-1926812571
  
• Historical atlas of Vancouver and the lower Fraser Valley by Derek Hayes (Douglas & McIntyre, 2005).
  
• Historical Map Society of British Columbia, database with descriptions of known maps of British Columbia before 1871.

Gazetteers and Place Names

• British Columbia Place Names by G. P. V. Akrigg and Helen B. Akrigg (UBC Press, 1997).
  
• The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names by Andrew Scott (Harbour Publishing, 2009).
  
• British Columbia Coast Names by Captain John T. Walbran (Douglas & McIntyre. Originally published 1909; reprint edition, 1971).
  
• Place Names of the Canadian Alps by William L. Putnam, Glen W. Boles, Roger W. Laurilla (Footprint, 1990).
• Place Names of the Pacific Northwest Coast by Lynn Middleton (Elldee Publishing Co., 1969).