1981
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Cahiers de géographie du Québec ; vol. 25 no. 66 (1981)
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Camille Laverdière et al., « De l’origine du néorégionyme Jamésie », Cahiers de géographie du Québec, ID : 10.7202/021532ar
Among the development of a new country, the adoption of choronyms is essential in designating these recently occupied regions. Well-known and accepted regionyms (names of regions) like Charlevoix, Gaspésie or Mauricie and the recent use of Hudsonia, Minganie and Estrie with the newly named Sagamie (from Saguenay and Piecouagami, or Lac Saint-Jean region) are already well-established but nevertheless other regions, like the land bording James Bay, remain nameless. Therefore, might we propose the regionym Jamesia (Jamésie) and its derived adjective jamesian (jamésien, ne) to designate this land. In 1967, the term Radissonia (Radissonie) suggested by R. Lejeune was accepted for all James Bay and its islands, together with the coast line and the interior land on both sides, from central New Québec to Manitoba. Jamesia would consequently be included in this vast territory. The Québec Jamesia for its part consists mainly of the eastern part of James Bay including its islands and the lowlands recently emerged from the transgression waters of the postglacial Tyrrell Sea. This territory spreads from Abitibi and joins to the North the Louis-XIV Point (lately Cape Jones) which is the southem limit of Hudsonia, and extends eastward to the long Boyd-Sakami Reservoir; this limit runs parallely inland along the Matagami-LG 2 road.