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English place names in Canada is a list of Canadian place names which are named after places in England, carried over by English emigrants and explorers from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The names can also be derived from places founded by people with English surnames.
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
Lists of cities and towns list notable cities and towns in each country, and are organized by geographic area. See Lists of cities and Lists of towns for additional lists organized in different ways, such as by size.,
First Peoples In Canada (3rd ed.). Douglas & McIntyre. ISBN 1-55365-053-0. Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1967). "Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia/with an introd. by Charles Bruce Fergusson". Halifax. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013; Shaw, S. Bernard (1998).
This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived. Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia , Chile and New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.
This list of place names in Canada of Indigenous origin contains Canadian places whose names originate from the words of the First Nations, Métis, or Inuit, collectively referred to as Indigenous Peoples. When possible, the original word or phrase used by Indigenous Peoples is included, along with its generally believed meaning.
For Nova Scotian names in Scottish Gaelic (not necessarily the same as the English versions) see: Canadian communities with Scottish Gaelic speakers Scottish Gaelic placenames in Canada. A notable example of this phenomenon is Beinn Bhreagh, former home of Alexander Graham Bell. Ontario Eglinton; Fergus; Glencoe; Hamilton; Port Elgin; Tobermory
The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization of 250 cities in which sites of the UNESCO World Heritage list are located. It was founded in 1993 in Fez, Morocco , during the second International Symposium of World Heritage Cities. [ 1 ]