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List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Provinces and territories

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Provinces and territories: Encyclopedia II - List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Provinces and territories

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Alberta. Amisk: "Beaver" in Cree. Athabasca River, Lake Athabasca, Athabasca Falls, Mount Athabasca, Athabasca: "Where there are reeds" in Cree. Chinook: See Chinook. Medicine Hat: Translation of the Blackfoot word saamis, meaning "headdress of a medicine man". Wetaskiwin: "Place of peace" or "hill of peace" in Cree. List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - British Columbi ...

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin: Encyclopedia II - List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Provinces and territories

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Provinces and territories

Saskatchewan: Derived from the Cree name for the Saskatchewan River, Kisiskatchewani Sipi, meaning "swift flowing river".
Manitoba: Either derived from the Cree word maniot-wapow meaning "the straight of the spirit or manitobau" or the Assiniboine words mini and tobow meaning "Lake of the Prairie", referring to Lake Manitoba.
Nunavut: "Our land" in Inuktitut.
Ontario: Derived from the Huron word onitariio meaning "beautiful lake", or kanadario meaning "sparkling" or "beautiful" water.
Quebec: Derived from the Algonquin word kebek which means "narrow passage" or "strait".
Yukon: "Great river" from the word LoYu-kun-ah of the Gwich'in.

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Alberta

Amisk: "Beaver" in Cree.
Athabasca River, Lake Athabasca, Athabasca Falls, Mount Athabasca, Athabasca: "Where there are reeds" in Cree.
Chinook: See Chinook.
Medicine Hat: Translation of the Blackfoot word saamis, meaning "headdress of a medicine man".
Wetaskiwin: "Place of peace" or "hill of peace" in Cree.

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - British Columbia

Bella Coola: The town is named after an old ethnography term for the Nuxálk people native to the area.
Bella Bella: The town is named after an old ethnography|ethnographic]] term for the Owekeeno people native to the area.
Chemainus: Named after the native shaman and prophet Tsa-meeun-is ("Broken Chest").
Chilliwack: "Going back up" in Halqemeylem.
Comox: from the Chinook Jargon for "dog" (kamuks)
Coquitlam: "Small red salmon" in Salish. Derived from the Salish tribal name Kawayquitlam.
Cowichan:
Esquimalt: Salish for "the place of gradually shoaling water". Derived from their word Es-whoy-malth.
Kamloops: English translation of Shuswap word Tk'emlups, meaning "where the rivers meet".
Kelowna: "Grizzly bear" in Salish.
Keremeos
Kootenay: derived from the proper name of the Kootenay people, Ktunaxa
Lillooet: adapted from the proper name for the Lower St'at'imc people, the Lil'wat of Mt. Currie.
Masset
Matsqui:
Metchosin: English translation of Smets-Schosen, meaning "place of stinking fish".
Nakusp
Nanaimo: Named after the Snuneymuxw people.
Okanagan:
Osoyoos: "Narrowing of the waters".
Penticton: "Place to stay forever" in Salish.
Qualicum: "Where the dog salmon run" in Coast Salish.
Quilchena:
Saanich:
Sechelt: the town is named after the First Nations people who live in the area, the Shishalh
Shalalth: "the lake" in the St'at'imcets language of the Lillooet people
Skaha Lake: from an interior Salish word for "dog" (sqexe)
Skidegate
Skookumchuck: "strong current" in Chinook jargon.
Similkameen:
Sooke: named after the T'Souke First Nation people who live in the area
Spuzzum, from the local variant of the Chinook Jargon spatsum, a reed used in basketry
Squamish: The town is named after the First Nations people who live in the area
Tofino:
Tulameen:
Tsawwassen: "Looking toward the sea" in Coast Salish
Tsilhqot'in or Chilcotin:
Ucluelet: "Safe harbour" in the language of the Nuu-chah-nulth.

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Manitoba

Grand Rapids: Translation of Cree word misepawistik, meaning "rushing rapids".
Winnipeg: "Dirty water" or "murky water" from the word win-nipi of the Cree.

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - New Brunswick

Kouchibouguac National Park (and River): Kouchibouguac means "river of the long tides" in Mi'kmaq.

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Newfoundland and Labrador

Aguathuna: possibly derives from the Beothuk aguathoonet or aquathoont, "grindstone", imposed perhaps in the mistaken belief that it meant "white rock" for the limestone abundant in the area[4]
Kaipokok Bay: from Inuktitut, meaning "frothy water"[5]
Makkovik: Vik is the Inuktitut word for "place". Makko- may have one of the following origins:

it may be a corruption of the name Maarcoux, after Pierre Marcoux, a French trader in Labrador in the late 1700's[6]; or
from the Inuktitut maggok, "two"; thus Makkovik would mean "two places". Around Makkovik are two inlets, Makkovik Bay and Makkovik harbour, and two main brooks floating into the two inlets. "Two Buchten Machovik", meaning "two bays Makkovik", is mentioned in a 1775 writing by the German Moravian missionary Johann Ludwig Beck.[7]

Nunatsiavut: from Inuktitut, meaning "our beautiful land"[8]
Shannoc Brook: Joseph Beete Jukes, the Geological Surveyor of Newfoundland in 1839-1840, believed that Shannoc Brook, a tributary of the Exploits River, was given the Beothuk name for the Mi'kmaq[9].
Sheshatshiu: from Inuktitut, meaning "a narrow place in the river".[10]
Torngat Mountains: from the Inuktitut name for the region, turngait, meaning "spirits"; Inuit legends hold that here the spirit and physical worlds overlap.[11]
Wabana — from the Abanaki wabunaki, "east land" from wabun "dawn"; so named in 1895 by Colonel Thomas Cantley, president of the Nova Scotia Steel Company[12]
Wabush — from Innu wabush, "rabbit ground"[13]

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Nova Scotia

Antigonish: Derivied from the Mi'kmaq word nalegitkoonechk, meaning "where branches are torn off".
Cobequid
Malagash
Merigomish
Musquodoboit
Pugwash: Derivied from the Mi'kmaq word pagweak, meaning "shallow water".
Shubenacadie
Stewiacke
Tatamagouche: Dervivied from the Mi'kmaq word takumegooch, meaning "meeting of the waters".
Tracadie
Whycocomagh

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Northwest Territories

Inuvik: "The place of man" in Inuktitut.

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Nunavut

Iqaluit: "fish" in Inuktitut.

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Ontario

Algonquin Provincial Park: Named after the Algonquin (Anishinabek) people of Ontario.
Brantford: Named after Joseph Brant, a Mohawk leader.
Etobicoke: "The place where the alders grow" from the word wadoopikaang in Ojibway.
Kanata
Manitoulin Island: Manitoulin means "spirit island" in the Ojibwe language.
Mattawa
M'Chigan
Mississauga, Ontario: Named after the Indian tribe of Mississauga
Mississippi River (between Ottawa and Mattawa)
Nipissing
Oshawa: "Crossing of a stream" in Seneca.
Ottawa: "To buy" from the word adaawe in Algonquin and Ojibwe; adapted as the name of the Odawa people.
Petawawa
Temagami: "Deep waters" from the word dimiigami of the Anishinabe.
Toronto: "Place of meeting" from the word toronton in Huron (most probable).
Wawa
Wikwemikong

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Quebec

Abitibi Region
Aguanish
Akpatok Island
Amqui
Arthabaska (and County)
Réservoir Cabonga
Caniapiscau, and (River, Lake, Regional county municipality)
Candiac
Causapscal
Chicoutimi (and County): "End of the deep water" in Montagnais.
Coaticook: Derived from the Abenaki language, meaning "river near the pines".
Donnacona: Named after Chief Donnacona, 16th Century Iroquois Chief of Stadacona.
Lac Etchemin (and town)
Gaspé (also County, Peninsula, and Cape): "land's end" in Mi'kmaq.
Inukjuak
Kahnawake
Kamouraska County: Derived from the Abenaki language, meaning "birch bark here".
Kangiqsualujjuaq
Kanesatate
Lac Kénogami: Kenogami means "long water" in the Cree language.
Kuujjuaq
Malartic
Lac Manitou: Derived from the Algonquian name Gitchi Manitou, which in their culture describes their Creator (the Great Spirit).
Maniwaki
Maskinongé (and County)
Matane
Matane County
Matapédia County
Réservoir and Rivière Matawin
Magog: Derived from "Memphremagog", see Lake Memphremagog below.
Réservoir Manicouagan
Mascouche
Mégantic County (also Lake): Abenaki for "lake trout place".
Lac Memphremagog: Meaning "beautiful waters" or "vast expanse of water" in Abenaki.
Missisquoi County: Missisquoi is an Abenaki tribal name.
Nastapoka Islands
Oka
Pohenegamook
Pontiac County: Name of the famous 18th-century Ottawa Chief Pontiac.
Quebec City (and County): The "narrowing of the river" refers to the point where the St. Lawrence River passes Quebec City.
Rimouski (and County)
Saguenay (and Region, River)
Salluit
Sayabec
Shawinigan: "Portage at the crest" in Algonquian.
Squatec
Tadoussac
Temiscamingue County
Témiscouata County: Abenaki for "bottomless" or "extremely deep all around".
Torngat Mountains
Yamachiche
Yamaska County

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Saskatchewan

Saskatoon: Derived from the Cree word misāskwatōmin, meaning Saskatoon berry - a fruit native to the area.

List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin - Yukon

Aishihik Lake: meaning "tail hanging down" in Southern Tutchone
Klondike and Klondike River: Derived from the Han language word for hammer stones used to fix salmon nets (Tr'ondëk).
Kluane Lake and Kluane National Park and Reserve: from Łù'àn meaning big fish in Southern Tutchone
Tagish Lake and Tagish, Yukon: from the name of the language and people (Tagish Kwan)
Teslin Lake, Teslin River and Teslin, Yukon: from the Tlingit Deisleen, long narrow water

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