Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Canadian Surnames Maps

The well-known website provides the mapping of Canadian surnames

http://www.dynastree.ca/



The charting is very rough, by vast Canadian areas, no smaller clustering is possible...


This is a relative dispersion of the surname AHRENS, it's the family name of the actual president of the Canadian Society of the Study of Names:
 http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/about/organization/related-organizations/canadian-society-for-the-study-of-names/5684


This is the ditribution of the last name LEBLANC (in honour of the Benoît Leblanc - redactor of the journal "Onomastica Canadiana"), which demonstrates the French Canadian origin and repartition.

I am sure that Canada deserves a much more flexible, reliable and scientific surnames mapping based on the works of  the great Canadian onomastician - Louis Duchesne: http://www.lesprenoms.net/ .  

Well, so far for today!!!

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