Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee of Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used on official federal government maps of Canada created since 1897. The board consists of 27 members including one from each of the provinces and territories. The board also is involved with names of areas in the Antarctic through the Antarctic Treaty.
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“While you are divided from us by geographical lines, which are imaginary, and by a language which is not the same, you have not come to an alien people or land. In the realm of the heart, in the domain of the mind, there are no geographical lines dividing the nations.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
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