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Canadian Place Names

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There are a fair share of weird & unusual Canadian place names
... try these ones on, eh!

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR	Bacon Cove Bareneed Berry's Head Blow Me Down Come By Chance Conception Bay Cow Head Cupids Deadman's Bay/Cove Fogo Foxtrap Goobies Happy Adventure Heart's Content Heart's Delight Heart's Desire Herring Neck Hooping Harbour Jerry's Nose Joe Batt's Arm Lawn Little Heart's Ease Little Paradise Little Seldom Luke's Arm Mosquito Nameless Cove Nippers Harbour Noggin Cove Paradise Red Head Cove River of Ponds Robert's Arm Snooks Arm Spanish Room Sweet Bay Tickle Cove Toogood Arm Witless Bay
NOVA SCOTIA	Bucklaw Concession Cow Bay Crows Nest Ecum Secum (EEE-kum-SEE-kum) Egypt Eureka Garden of Eden Lower Economy Malignant Cove Meat Cove Mushaboom Paradise Pleasantville Roachvale St. Margret's Head Shag Harbour Sissiboo Falls Sober Island Two Sheds Wildcat Yankeetown
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND	Crapaud Flat River Point Prim Savage Harbour
NEW BRUNSWICK	Beaver Dam Burnt Church Chance Harbour Marigold Mechanic Mount Pleasant Plaster Rock Poodiac Pokemouche Ripples Sunny Corner Wood Point
QUEBEC	Asbestos Cadillac Chapeau (hat) Crabtree Drapeau (flag) Mayo Poisson (fish) Rivière-Trois-Pistoles (3 Pistols River) Saint-Loius-du-Ha-Ha!
ONTARIO	Azilda Bent River Big Chute Bright Bummers Roost Buzwah Cape Croker Carrying Place Cheapside Eden Ethel Fruitland Hoards New Credit Ochiichagwebabigoining Oil Springs Pain Court Pickle Lake Porcupine Precious Corners Pronto Proton Station Punkeydoodles Corner Scugog Shining Tree Silver Dollar Snowball Snug Harbour Sour Spring Swastika Swords Tiny Uphill Wawa Whitedog Wild Goose Wiseman's Corners
MANITOBA	Bacon Ridge Bird Birdtail Camper Cranberry Portage Dropmore Finger Flin Flon Gods Lake Jackhead Moosehorn Seven Sisters Falls Snowflake Starbuck Vivian White Mud Falls Windygates
SASKATCHEWAN	Adanac (Canada spelled backwards) Big Beaver Biggar (than other towns?) Cadillac Carrot River Climax (the ending) Cut Knife Drinkwater Elbow Eyebrow Fairy Glen Fertile Grandmother's Bay Green Acres Grizzly Bear's Head Holdfast Key Little Black Bear Moose Jaw Nut Mountain Old Wives Old Arrow Poor Man Porcupine Plain Primate Ruthilda Saltcoats Sanctuary Sceptre Smuts Spy Hill Star Blanket Success Sucker River Thunderchild Tramping Lake Unity Uranium City Yellow Grass
ALBERTA	Bearberry Beaver Crossing Big Stone Buffalo Head Prarie Carrot Creek Czar Entrance Flyingshot Lake Goodfish Lake Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (National historical site) High Level John D Keg River Legal Little Smokey Meander River Medicine Hat Meeting Creek Milk River Mirror Nojack Onefour Paddle Prarie Pelican Purple Springs Rocky Mountain House Rosebud Seven Persons Stand Off Tiger Lily Tomahawk Two Hills Valhalla Centre Veteran Viking Vulcan Wandering River Westward Ho Whiskey Gap Wild Horse Wood Buffalo
BRITISH COLUMBIA	Alice Arm Baldy Hughes Beaverdell Big Bar Creek Bella Bella Blind Bay Blind Channel Bliss Landing Blubber Bay Buckinghorse River Burnt Flat Chase Clo-oose Dog Creek False Bay Fireside Flathead Gang Ranch Horsefly Hydraulic Kamloops Mission Moose Heights Osoyoos Penny Pouce Coupe (french for "cut thumb") Salmon Arm Skookumchuck Soda Creek Spuzzum Squamish Stoner Ta ta Creek Woodfibre Yahk Yellowhead Ymir
YUKON TERRITORIES	Brooks Brook Champagne Sixtymile Snag Whitehorse
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES & NUNAVUT	Enterprise Fort Providence Fort Resolution Snare Lake Yellowknife

And what is Canada's Longest Community Name ...? Try ....
Cape St. George-Petit Jardin-Grand Jardin-De Grau-Marches Point-Loretto
(a small community in Newfoundland)

Canada's Longest Place Name is either L'Annonciation de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie de Nazareth (which is a geographical area in Quebec and when translated from French to English is: The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Nazareth). - or - Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik (which is a lake in Manitoba and Nunavut).

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(NOTE: - this page was 'obtained' from Durty Dan's Canadian Corner , slightly edited, added to, and used with his blanket permission)
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