{"id":4828,"date":"2017-09-11T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2017-09-11T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T00:00:11","slug":"le-jardin-au-bout-du-monde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/09\/le-jardin-au-bout-du-monde\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Jardin au Bout du Monde"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple of weeks ago\u00a0Atlas Obscura<\/a><\/em> had a fascinating story<\/a> about toponomy\u2014the naming of places\u2014and my adopted home province of Quebec.\u00a0In 1997, the Quebec government decided to mark the 20th anniversary of the Charter of the French Language<\/a> (known popularly around here as Bill 101) by naming 101 islands in the Caniapiscau Reservoir<\/a> in northern Quebec after significant works of Quebec literature\u2014the names of novels, short stories, poems and plays, as well as expressions taken from those works.\u00a0Quebec’s Commission de toponymie called the archipelago\u00a0le Jardin au Bout du Monde<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(the Garden at the Top of the World).\u00a0Controversy ensued, as it tends to do in this province: as you might expect from a project commemorating Bill 101, the names came from exclusively francophone works; works by Quebec anglophones were ignored. And the indigenous communities pointed out that the islands were mountains before the reservoir was flooded in the early 1980s, and those mountains had indigenous names. See\u00a0Atlas Obscura<\/em> for the full story<\/a>. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago\u00a0Atlas Obscura had a fascinating story about toponomy\u2014the naming of places\u2014and my adopted home province of Quebec.\u00a0In 1997, the Quebec government decided to mark the 20th anniversary of the Charter of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[701],"class_list":["post-4828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-toponyms","tag-quebec","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1842906,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/06\/quebec-flood-maps-will-get-a-new-framework-next-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":4828,"position":0},"title":"Quebec Flood Maps Will Get a New Framework Next Year","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 June 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec It seems as though the Quebec government has been in the process of updating its flood maps for the better part of the past decade (previously: Quebec\u2019s Updated Flood Maps Prove Controversial; Quebec Flood Maps). 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