Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee of the Canadian Government

Government of Canada

The Government of Canada, formally Her Majesty's Government, is the system whereby the federation of Canada is administered by a common authority; in Canadian English, the term can mean either the collective set of institutions or specifically the Queen-in-Council...

 Department of Natural Resources

Natural Resources Canada

The Department of Natural Resources , operating under the FIP applied title Natural Resources Canada , is the ministry of the government of Canada responsible for natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests, earth sciences, mapping and remote sensing...

 which authorizes the names used on official federal government maps of Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 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

Antarctic

The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...

 through the Antarctic Treaty.

History

The Geographic Board of Canada was founded in 1897. In 1948, the board was succeeded by the Canadian Board on Geographic Names, which was reorganized in 1961 as the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN). In March 2000, it became the Geographical Names Board of Canada.

See also

• Natural Resources Canada
  Natural Resources Canada
  The Department of Natural Resources , operating under the FIP applied title Natural Resources Canada , is the ministry of the government of Canada responsible for natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests, earth sciences, mapping and remote sensing...
  
  
• GPS·C
  GPS·C
  GPS·C, short for GPS Correction, is a Differential GPS data source for most of Canada maintained by the Canadian Active Control System, part of Natural Resources Canada...
  
  
• FIPS code
  Federal Information Processing Standard
  A Federal Information Processing Standard is a publicly announced standardization developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by all non-military government agencies and by government contractors, when properly invoked and tailored on a contract...
  
  
• GNIS
  Geographic Names Information System
  The Geographic Names Information System is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories. It is a type of gazetteer...