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Cartographers began using the name Arcadia to refer to areas progressively farther north until it referred to the French holdings in maritime Canada (particularly Nova Scotia). The -r- also began to disappear from the name on early maps, resulting in the current Acadia .
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Named in honor of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848-1939), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the wife of the Marquess of Lorne, Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. Lake Louise, the village of Caroline, and Mount Alberta are also named after her.
The name refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River. Queen Victoria specified that the area be called British Columbia to distinguish the British section of the District from that which belonged to the United States (which became the Oregon Territory). The river, in turn, took its name from the...
Believed to be derived from the Ojibwa manito-bah (sometimes written as manitobau) or Cree manito-wapow (also written as manitowapow), both of which translate to “the spirit straits” and probably refer to the straits of Lake Manitoba.
Refers to Brunswick, the English translation of Braunschweig, the city in northern Germany that was the ancestral home of King George III of Great Britain.
Newfoundland is derived from the English translation of its original Latin name, Terra Novaor “new land” and is the oldest European place name in North America. Labrador is likely named for João Fernandes Lavrador, a Portuguese navigator who explored the area in the late 1400s and whose honorific “lavrador” means “landholder.”
Named for its location in the northwest area of the country. There was talk of changing the name, possibly to a term from a native language. Among the popular proposals were “Denendeh,” an Athabaskan word meaning “our land,” and “Bob.”
Named after Lake Ontario. The word is thought to be derived from either the Wyandot ontarí:io (“great lake”) or Iroquoian skanadario(“beautiful water”).
Named after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, son of King George III and Commander-in-Chief of the British army in North America.
Derived from the Algonquin kébec, which has been translated as “where the river narrows,” “strait narrows” and “it narrows,” and refers to the area around Quebec City where the Saint Lawrence River narrows to a cliff-lined gap.
Named after the Saskatchewan River, which takes its name from the Cree word kisiskāciwani-sīpiyor “swift flowing river.”
Oct 3, 2019 · The name over time worked itself up the stream to the larger Colorado River. When the territory was organized in 1861, a number of names were suggested, including Colona, Jefferson, Osage, and Idaho, but Congress chose Colorado on the grounds that it contained the Colorado River’s source.
Sovereign countries named after people. Birú, a local ruler who lived near the Bay of San Miguel, Panama City, in the early 16th century. [1] Simón Bolívar (for the "Bolivarian Republic" part), the name Venezuela is derived from Venice. See: Venezuela#Etymology.
Mar 27, 2024 · Pioneering Days. The story of Scott County begins with its pioneer settlers, who arrived in the mid-19th century seeking new opportunities and a better way of life.
May 26, 2024 · The English language has many words, called eponyms, that are named after people or places. There's even one whose origin comes from an elephant. Some eponyms spring from brand names that become the word used to describe an entire category of things—Kleenex, Band-Aid, and Xerox.
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