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Originally Posted by ssiguy
The name of St.Thomas Ontario always struck me as very odd.
It was named after one of the founding people and administrators of Elgin county........Thomas Talbot. Very odd however that the city was named after his first name and not his last. How many cities can you think of that have that?
Also he was not a Saint {either literally or figuratively} so why SAINT Thomas?
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I suspect there are many in francophone Canada.
Two that I know of:
St-Lambert, a south shore suburb of Montreal, is named for Lambert Closse, a governor of Montreal during the French régime. There is a Saint Lambert that actually exists (I think he was Belgian) but the Quebec town is not named for him.
One of my parents is from a small Acadian town in the Maritimes that is "Saint-Something" and the given name is that of the town's founder. I don't even think there is a real saint by that name.