Welcome to Olscamps ...
Although we found mention of Olscamps during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Given the context of how Olscamps was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
We've added Olscamps to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Olscamps, please Contact Us.
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Olscamps might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time. The time zone in French: EST- Heure Normale de l'Est (HNE), EDT- Heure Avancée de l'Est (HAE).
Communities near Olscamps ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Olscamps.
- Trois Rives
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Saint Roch de Mekinac
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Riviere Matawin
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Riviere aux Rats
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Riviere Mekinac
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Saint Joseph de Mekinac
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Lac Chat
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lac Chat
- Brochet
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brochet
- Saint Roch de Mekinac
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Lac a Beauce
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Olscamps and then turned east". While Olscamps could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Olscamps as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Olscamps could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |