Their combinations of words in the manner they utter them, frequently convey such an effect. The name Canada comes from the word meaning "village" or "settlement" in the Saint-Lawrence Iroquoian[1] language spoken by the inhabitants of Stadacona and the neighbouring region near present-day Quebec City in the 16th century. See also Geographical Names Board of Canada; Mineral Naming. In 1535, Jacques Cartier noted that Donnacona, an Iroquoian leader, called an area centered on the present site of Québec City kanata, meaning “a cluster of dwellings.” The name clearly impressed Cartier, for "Canada" appears in the Saguenay and Gaspé regions on the various maps compiled shortly after his historic voyages. Inuvik, "place of man," was assigned in 1958 to the new town set up to replace Aklavik. The tribes derive their appellations from the places they inhabit. So rarely was a personal name applied that such names in the official records, for example, Muskoka and Donnacona, are probably company titles or designations given by European settlers. Many of the same reasons for using royal names (e.g.
G.P.V. "Place Names". Religious naming extends to Île Jésus, and Maniwaki, or "place of Mary", (Québec), Trinity Bay and Conception Bay (Newfoundland) and Bay of Gods Mercy (Northwest Territories). Signing up enhances your TCE experience with the ability to save items to your personal reading list, and access the interactive map. Akrigg, 1001 British Columbia Place Names (1973); Commission de toponymie du Québec, Noms et lieux du Québec (1994); R. Coutts, Yukon Places and Names (1980); P. Ham, Place Names of Manitoba (1980); W.B. Edition statement of responsibility. Minaik: Cree (also Nakoda) "Minahik" for evergreen (pine or tamarack). Some names like Toronto and Calgary seem to allow for more than one suitable pronunciation.
Beaver Hills (includes today's Elk Island Park) translation of Cree, Blackfoot and Nakoda place names for the feature. Queen Victoria's son-in-law, the marquess of Lorne, suggested Alberta in 1882 for a district of the then North-West Territories in honour of his wife, Princess Louise Caroline Alberta. Similarly, from 1763-91 the British adopted "Province of Quebec" as the name of British lands or territories in present-day Ontario and Québec. Song lines were a chain of place names.After invasion many places were named reflecting a story of possession, sharing the tale of territorial conquest, not of the importance of the landscape. Among British political leaders, the duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), the earl of Chatham (William Pitt), the earl of Halifax (George Montagu Dunk) and the earl of Beaconsfield (Benjamin Disraeli), have been honoured several times. Seary, Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland (1971); J.T. Montréal is generally accepted to be a variant of Jacques Cartier's "Mont Roiall," or Mount Royal, for that city's most distinctive feature. mountains). For a number of years the name Québec ("narrow passage" in the Algonquian languages) was assigned to the French territory from the Gulf of St Lawrence to the Ohio River.
Lachine, Québec, dates from 1688 when Cavelier de La Salle failed to reach China. Reference code. Canada's relations with Spain date back several centuries to the voyages of the Basque fishermen to the Atlantic coast and to Spanish exploration of the Pacific coast. Kelowna means "grizzly bear," Aklavik, "place of bear" and Tuktoyaktuk, "reindeer that looks like caribou." It will provide you with a name's meaning and a break-down of the different parts of the name (its 'elements') and the language(s) of those elements. One often sees Temiskaming, but this is not one of the three official forms of the name; the regional county in Québec is Témiscamingue, the town in Québec is Témiscaming, the district in Ontario is Timiskaming. The names that are, on the whole, truly unique to Canada are those used by the Aboriginal people of Canada, who spoke a multitude of tongues, including Cree and Mi’kmaq in the east, Blackfoot and Haida in the west and Chipewyan and Inuktitut in the north. For example, Sir Felix Booth, a London distiller, in the name Boothia Peninsula, and Axel Heiberg and Amund and Ellef Ringnes, patrons of Otto Sverdrup's expedition at the turn of this century, in the names of islands adjacent to Ellesmere Island.
The last major island in the Canadian Arctic was discovered in 1948, and named for the newly born Prince Charles. The best-known example was the change of Castle Mountain to Mount Eisenhower in 1946. The personal names of settlers and early postmasters from European countries provide a fascinating array of community names from languages other than English and French, but few of them are widely known beyond their own immediate regions. Forenames as well as surnames have been used for place names, for example, Peterborough (Peter Robinson), Belleville (Arabella Wentworth Gore) and Orangeville (Orange Lawrence) in Ontario, Melville (Charles Melville Hays) in Saskatchewan, Raymond (Raymond Knight) in Alberta and Rossland (Ross Thompson) in British Columbia. Several of Canada's names reflect classical origins, for example, Acadia, given by Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524, suggests a land of rustic peace; Avalon Peninsula, assigned by Sir George Calvert in the early 1600s; Sarnia, given by Sir John Colborne in 1839 for the Roman name of Guernsey; and Athens, named in 1888 to replace the prosaic Farmersville. In New Brunswick, when land grants laid out across a lake in 1784 were considered as impossible to attain as the perfection ascribed to Utopia, the lake was appropriately named Lake Utopia. Piikani 147 Indian reserve (on which Brocket is located) owned by Piikani Nation (formerly the Peigan Nation), Pekisko from Blackfoot place name translates as "rough ridge" or "rolling hills", Pipestone River translation of Cree and possibly Nakoda place name, derived from it being source of stone to make pipes, Poundmaker Trail named after Cree chief Poundmaker, Prairie Creek translation of Cree and Nakoda place name, Pretty Hill translation of Cree place name, Princess Lake translation of Cree place name, Rabbit Hill (Edmonton) translation of Cree place name, Red River colour of water in river (red from its high iron content), Redearth Creek soil on its shores used by Natives as body paint, Redearth Pass soil in pass used by Natives as body paint, Redwater (river and town) translation of Cree name "red water", Redwillow Creek form of translation of Cree place name literally "Red Feathers/bristles small river", Sakaw (neighbourhood in southside Edmonton), Skyrattler (neighbourhood in southside Edmonton), Tipaskan (neighbourhood in southside Edmonton). The numerous Spanish explorations on the Pacific coast between 1542 and 1792 are recalled in names such as Alberni, Laredo Strait, Carmelo Strait, Mazaredo Sound, Galiano Island, Juan de Fuca Strait, Tofino, Mount Bodega, Quadra Rocks and Narvaez Bay. and H.B. Bruce G. Trigger and James F. Pendergast. National and international literary figures have been commemorated in a number of place names, from Shakespeare and Haliburton in Ontario to Carlyle and Lampman in Saskatchewan. Self care and ideas to help you live a healthier, happier life. During the following 30 years, several efforts were made to reverse this decision. From the W. H. Pugsley Collection of Early Canadian Maps at McGill University. Walbran, British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: Their Origin and History (1909, repr 1977). Prominent Canadian political leaders, statesmen, industrialists and scientists have often been honoured. By 1791, the name Canada was restored to the area of present southern Québec (Lower Canada) and southern Ontario (Upper Canada); from 1841 to 1867, these territories, united as the Province of Canada, were known as Canada East and Canada West, although Lower Canada and Upper Canada retained extensive usage.
Marie Lake poor translation of the Cree word for the place methai, pronounced merai, which translates as a fish. Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut. Basque expeditions are recalled in names such as Channel-Port aux Basques and Île aux Basques. This list of place names in Canada of Indigenous origin contains Canadian places whose names originate from the words of the First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, collectively referred to as indigenous peoples. Search, watch, and cook every single Tasty recipe and video ever - all in one place! Fredericton was named for their son in 1785. This name is used in English for Mount Cheam (, Chonat Bay: "where coho salmon are found" in, Cape Edensaw: Edenshaw, in its modern spelling, remains an important name in modern Haida society, known mostly nowadays for the dynasty of famous carvers of that name, all descendants of the early 19th century chief of this name, one of the powerful chiefs of, This page was last edited on 24 September 2020, at 09:51. Valley of Ten Peaks includes these four peaks named after the numerals of the Stoney language: Wabamun: (lake and town west of Edmonton) is a Cree word for "mirror" or "looking glass, Cheam: Halqemeylem for "(place to) always get strawberries".
Great military leaders, for example, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and James Wolfe, had their names applied to a number of places; Robert Monckton was honoured in the name Moncton (efforts to respell it in the 1920s were sharply rejected); Jeffery Amherst, the victor at Louisbourg, in Amherst (Nova Scotia), and Amherstburg (Ontario); Isaac Brock, the hero of the War of 1812, in Brockville; Garnet Wolseley, leader of the Red River Expedition in 1870, in Wolseley (Saskatchewan); and Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, after whose death at sea in 1916 Berlin (the centre of German immigration in southwestern Ontario) was renamed Kitchener.