Use this geographic search to find places-of-worship based on the community name, or the province. The site default is Fatima in the Magdalen Islands ( French: les Îles de la Madeleine) which is quite central to the four provinces we have been working on (Newfoundland&Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward.island)
Change Location
The Change Location menu option will allow you to go into the search starting with your location of choice. There is a drop down feature as follows:
- start typing the name of the community and then left click in the typing location: a selection of places that match that string will come up and if any match you can select the location of interest
- enter the two characters province code (PE, NB, NL, or NS) and left click in the typing box: the province should be shown withing the selection being shown;
after making your selection the geographic searching tool should launch based on the selection you just made .
On the search page one can search for a string”search for” box, or in the “Near” box.
Do a Geographic Search
There are two methods on the search page:
- a string search, which will look in the Title and description of the places of worship for a match.; and
- a geographic name search which works the same way as the Change Location option above
Search results have the following features
- results show as pins on the map ;
- results also show as a grid with thumbnails attached to a description of the place of worship;
- the grid can be changed by clicking on the 9-dot symbol;
- hovering on a listing on the grid will be reflected by the pin on the map becoming “agitated”;
- hovering on a pin on the map will display the place of worship title
- clicking on a listing will narrow don the map to that location only;
- use the browser back arrow to return to the whole search results.
What are these code letters in the title?
There is a combination of characters used for a Place and Photo ID, allow us to uniquely identify a particular place and a particular image in our records:
- 2-letter province code (NB NL NS or PE)
- 3 numbers for PEI places or 4 numbers for other provinces
- sometimes a letter such as a, b, or c
- one can see the same coding on watermark on the bottom left of the images
- if you have correspondence with us regarding any of our images or descriptions please refer to the coding