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The Palliser Expedition's Influence on Toponmy

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Listen as historian Merrily Aubrey explains how the Palliser expedition and its' participants are responsible for many different place names in the Canadian west. The men on the expedition named mountains, creeks, waterfalls, and other features after themselves.


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