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There is a road in a densely populated area on the island of Montreal (QC) that is still called today Queen Mary Road (chemin de la Reine Marie) that should be included on this site.

It's a misconception that the QCI and associated placenames were named for Queen Charlotte; the islands were named for a ship named for her. See Queen Charlotte Islands and Queen Charlotte (merchant ship); the mountain range and Queen Charlotte City were named for the islands.Skookum1 (talk) 14:19, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's a Royal Group in the Rockies which could use an article (search BCGINS) and various other royal-associated peaks there; but NB summits named Mount King Albert and Mount Queen Elizabeth were named c. for the then-Belgian royals, not for British royals; see their BCGNIS links on List of peaks on the British Columbia-Alberta border.Skookum1 (talk) 14:19, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In the same general area as Mount Queen Bess there is also Oriana Peak; also many placenames in that area have Elizabethan associations, though are not of royalty per se, e.g. Galleon Peak, Armada Peak, Mounts Raleigh, Monmouth, Grenville and so on see Homathko Icefield.Skookum1 (talk) 14:19, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How is "Oriana" related to Elizabeth I? --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 06:09, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You've never heard that? It's another poetic name for her, like Gloriana; occurs in tributes, madrigals, poetry - see Oriana although the mention there is brief and uncited; see also Oriana (disambiguation). Another epithet was "the silver swan", I think, and there's a Silver Swan Mountain around there too (I think). Unlike the Royal Group in the Rockies there's no official name for the cluster of Elizabethan tributes around Queen Bess, but they're there....btw the Brittannia Range in the North Shore Mountains - Brunswick, Windsor and others, are royal tributes.Skookum1 (talk) 14:24, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fort George was named for George III, and renamed for a later Prince George (1910 or so?). And what about the Strait of Georgia, it's named for George III.....Skookum1 (talk) 14:19, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

further to my inline comment and edit comment about this, the following is from the BCGNIS entry for the City of Prince George:

The construction of the railway led to a prolonged and complicated struggle among three competing townsites. However, the GRP's own townsite, Prince George, soon drew people away from rival Central Fort George and South Fort George. When the first civic elections were held in 1915, the name Prince George was chosen over Fort George by a vote of 153 to 15.

Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; British Columbia Place Names; Sono Nis Press, Victoria 1986 /or University of British Columbia Press 1997

Agricultural settlement around Fort George began about 1906 when it was realized that the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (later CN Rail) would pass near the fur post. The railway arrived in 1914 and construction of the railway townsite commenced. In 1915, the City of Prince George was incorporated. The City?s name honours a former Duke of Kent, born in 1902 and killed in an air crash during the Second World War. (City of Prince George website, September 1999. Link through www.civicnet.gov.bc.ca/members/ )

Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office

....from "Prince George (city)". BC Geographical Names..Skookum1 (talk) 15:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also note Connaught Hill, which is right in the city: "Connaught Hill". BC Geographical Names..Skookum1 (talk) 15:58, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The original bridge was named for Princess Alexandra, the name was carried over to the modern highway bridge..Skookum1 (talk) 14:23, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

by using "royalty" in the title I suppose it means only-noble names aren't counted in; lots of peaks and such around named for hte British peerage, but it's also worth noting that along the Alaska border are peaks named for Russian noblemen - Nesselrode, Poletica etc. There might be a couple of royal/imperial Russian names in Alaska, I'm not sure there are any in BC, might be but I haven't noticed any. However Fort San Miguel at Nootka Sound was named/derived from Miguel III, then King of Spain.....Skookum1 (talk) 14:23, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think, given the size of thie article already, any eponymous features named for non-royal nobility/peers should probably be covered elsewhere. --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 16:13, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Named for Frederick III, German Emperor, but no section for him currently (?).Skookum1 (talk) 16:14, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This raises the question of whether or not this article should move beyond the scope of British/French/Canadian royalty. I wonder if it would be confusing to do so. --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 16:15, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, 'cause there aren't many such entries; there's ones for the Belgian King and Queen as note4d elsewhere....I've wracked my brains trying to think of Russian or Spanish royal eponyms, but other than Fort San Miguel echoing the name of the then-Spanish king I can't think of any.....Skookum1 (talk) 02:49, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]