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Old Posted Feb 11, 2018, 7:39 PM
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Rimouski is believed to come from a Micmac word meaning ''Terre à l'orignal'' or “land of the moose''.
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Rimouski is believed to come from a Micmac word meaning ''Terre à l'orignal'' or “land of the moose''.
That explains it - Ri-moose-ki
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Origin of the name[edit]
The town's name is taken from the lead character in a paperback novel, The Sunless City by J. E. Preston Muddock. Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin piloted a submarine through a bottomless lake where he passed into a strange underground world through a hole lined with gold. A copy of the book was allegedly found and read by prospector Tom Creighton.

When Tom Creighton discovered a high-grade exposure of copper, he thought of the book and called it Flin Flon's mine, and the town that developed around the mine adopted the name. Flin Flon shares with Tarzana, California, the distinction of being named after a character in a science fiction novel.

The character of "Flinty", as he is locally known, is of such importance to the identity of the city that the local Chamber of Commerce commissioned the minting of a $3.00 coin which was considered legal tender amongst locally participating retailers during the year following its issue. A statue representing Flinty was designed by cartoonist Al Capp and is one of the points of interest of the city. In 1978, the National Film Board of Canada produced the short documentary Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon about the origin of the city's name.[4]

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Old Posted Feb 11, 2018, 9:33 PM
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That explains it - Ri-moose-ki
That's good, never thought of that !

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Cobourg...

The Town was originally a group of smaller villages such as Amherst and Hardscrabble, which were later named Hamilton. In 1808 it became the district town for the Newcastle District. It was renamed Cobourg in 1818, in recognition of the marriage of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (later Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who would later become King of Belgium).
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The city of Asbestos in Quebec's Eastern Townships will be holding a public consultation on a new name in mid-October.

The four proposed names are:

Apalone - the name of an endangered turtle that is native to the area
Phénix
Trois-Lacs
Jeffrey - the surname of the dude who opened the first absestos mines there

All city residents aged 14 and older are eligible to vote.
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Good things happen in three's so gotta go with Trois-Lacs.

1.Trois-Rivières
2. Trois-Lacs
3. TBA: trois-étangune (mare aux canards)
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Apparently one of the rivers in Deux-Rivère, ON is actually on the Québec side.
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Kenora, Ont., is from local districts KEewatin, NOrman, RAt Portage, while Canora, Sask., is a contraction of CAnadian NOrthern RAilway. Arvida, Que., is a contraction of ARthur VIning DAvis, the name of the Alcoa chairman who created the town.

Alsask, Sask., is on the border of Alberta and seems to have inspired the nearby Mantario, Sask.
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Ontario has a whole plethora of places named after European capitols.............Warsaw, Moscow, Vienna, Paris, and of course, London.

The naming of London however was not in honour of the original but rather a political move. When Lord Simcoe arrived at the fork of the Thames, he decided he immediately wanted it to become the new capitol of Upper Canada. He choose the name London because he thought it would help his cause.

Remember also that Kitchener was called Berlin until WW11.
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It has always been assumed that Montreal was simply a bastardization of Mont Royal but that is not universally accepted.

There have been several possible people it could have been named after but the most plausible originated in 1535. Claude du Pontibrand {of Chateau du Montreal in France} accompanied Cartier on his first voyage up the St.Lawrence to the current Island of Montreal. At the time it was common to name a new settlements after a property owned by someone rather than their actual last name. This is similar to many last names being the original names of an occupation ie Gold/Silver/Smith or for once slaves, Freeman. Slaves also after being freed, as they didn't want to keep the last name of their masters, took the name of Presidents which is why there are so many African Americans with the last names Washington, Cleveland, and Lincoln.

For Montreal we may never know.

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The city of Asbestos in Quebec's Eastern Townships will be holding a public consultation on a new name in mid-October.

The four proposed names are:

Apalone - the name of an endangered turtle that is native to the area
Phénix
Trois-Lacs
Jeffrey - the surname of the dude who opened the first absestos mines there

All city residents aged 14 and older are eligible to vote.
Easiest option, "East Danville". Would get my vote
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Thunder Bay got its name because it's a bay and there was apparently a thunderstorm when they first arrived here, or a distant thunderstorm echoed through it or something like that. The French named it originally. In Ojibwe it's called Anemki Wekwedong (Thunderbird Bay) or just Wekwedong (Bay). Exact spelling and pronunciation varies depending on dialect. The local CBC building has the name in Cree Syllabics on the sign:


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thund...acts-1.5306477

They're Cree syllabics and not Ojibwe ones, which is obvious because the finals (little superscript syllabics at the end of Wekwedong) are wrong. They use the shape for D/T sounds to represent final N, and final K is just a random symbol that doesn't have a full size equivalent (k is the b/p/d/q syllabic and in Ojibwe its final is a b shape). Inuktitut uses ᖕ for final ng but for some reason that can't leave Nunavut?? Why have unified symbols if they're not going to be unified?? White people, you invented this shit. Fix it!
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They're Cree syllabics and not Ojibwe ones, which is obvious because the finals (little superscript syllabics at the end of Wekwedong) are wrong. They use the shape for D/T sounds to represent final N, and final K is just a random symbol that doesn't have a full size equivalent (k is the b/p/d/q syllabic and in Ojibwe its final is a b shape). Inuktitut uses ᖕ for final ng but for some reason that can't leave Nunavut?? Why have unified symbols if they're not going to be unified?? White people, you invented this shit. Fix it!

I'm sure lots here will get furious at you for daring to point that out!
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Ontario has a whole plethora of places named after European capitols.............Warsaw, Moscow, Vienna, Paris, and of course, London.
Paris, Ont., has that name because there were gypsum deposits in the area that were used to manufacture plaster of Paris. Although I am sure the name of the city in France might have influenced the choice of "Paris" as the name, rather than "Plaster".

It's sort of like the Seine River in Winnipeg, which is named for the seine nets that the indigenous people used when they fished, rather than specifically after the river in Paris.
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I'm sure lots here will get furious at you for daring to point that out!
Certainly, it's the most controversial hot take I've posted this week!
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The best place name will always be St. Louis du Ha!Ha!

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Read the whole thing, its quite a tale. I dislike the name but its just how it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin...er_name_change
In the list posted on the wiki page for the Kitchener name change, I personally would have liked Uranus. People would have a lot of fun with that one, especially on this forum.

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Good things happen in three's so gotta go with Trois-Lacs.

1.Trois-Rivières
2. Trois-Lacs
3. TBA: trois-étangune (mare aux canards)
None of the four proposed names turn my crank, but I'd probably go with Trois-Lacs even if it's pretty banal.

We also have Trois-Pistoles.
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Ontario has a whole plethora of places named after European capitols.............Warsaw, Moscow, Vienna, Paris, and of course, London.

The naming of London however was not in honour of the original but rather a political move. When Lord Simcoe arrived at the fork of the Thames, he decided he immediately wanted it to become the new capitol of Upper Canada. He choose the name London because he thought it would help his cause.

Remember also that Kitchener was called Berlin until WW11.
Holy Shit! There were 11 world wars??

Joking I know that you meant.
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