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Provincial Capital
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Definition-Description How did they get its name?
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Meanings
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Motto
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569
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M2
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569
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Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto, meaning "place where trees stand in the water".
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The province takes its name from Lake Ontario, which is thought to be derived from ontarí:io, a Huron word meaning "great lake", or possibly skanadario which means "beautiful water" in Iroquoian
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Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains)
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570
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M2
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570
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The capital city of
Alberta is
Edmonton
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Motto: Fortis et liber (Latin: Strong and free)
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571
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M2
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571
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1954
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Regina , Latin word for queen. Regina , the Italian word for queen, derived directly from the Latin.
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The name "
Saskatchewan " comes from the Cree language. It means swift - flowing river.
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Motto: Multis E Gentibus Vires (Latin: "From many peoples strength")
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572
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M2
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572
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The province is often referred to by its initials, "B.C."
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Greater Victoria (also known as the Greater Victoria Region)
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Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment)
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573
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M2
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573
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The word
Quebec came from the Algonquian Indian word Kebec (the place where the river narrows). Indians use this word for a place on the
St. Lawrence River is one of the most important waterways in
North America .
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The name "
Quebec ", which comes from an Algonquin word meaning "strait" or "narrowing"
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591
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M2A
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591
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The name Winnipeg is a transcription of a western Cree word meaning "muddy waters".
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One is the
Assiniboine words "Mini" and "tobow" meaning "
Lake of the Prairie". This noise is linked "manitou" (or Spirit) beating a drum to create the noise.
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Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Latin: Glorious and free)
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592
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M2A
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592
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The very name
Nova Scotia resounds with early Scottish colonial; in Jacobean Latin it meant New Scotland.
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The Latin words
Nova Scotia mean New Scotland.
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Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland"
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Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers)
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"Nova Scotia" means "New Scotland" in Latin.
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593
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M2A
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593
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New Brunswick, after King George III's German Duchy of Brunswick-Lunenburg, its capital was established at Saint Anne's, up the Saint John River, which was renamed Fredericton.
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The main rivers are the Miramichi, Nepisguit, Restigouche, and
Saint John . Known as oa-lus-tuk or "beautiful river" to the Indians, the
Saint John River .
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MOTTO: Spem reduxit (Hope was restored).
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594
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M2B
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594
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Prince Edward Island 1958
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Prince Edward Island was originally inhabited by the people.
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They named the island Abegweit, meaning Land Cradled on the Waves.
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Motto: Parva Sub Ingenti
(The Small Protected By The Great)
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595
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M2B
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595
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While the name "
Newfoundland " is derived from English Portuguese explorer Joao Fernandes Lavrador.
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Newfoundland (originally called Terra Nova)
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Motto: Quaerite Prime Regnum Dei
(Latin: Seek ye first the
kingdom of
God )
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626
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M2C
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626
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Named after
Mount Royal , a hill at its center, it was founded by the French as Villa Marie de Montreal in 1642. Montreal Mount Royal, which most Montrealers call "the mountain," rises west of this area.
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Originally called Ville-Marie, the source of its modern nickname "City of Mary," the city came to be known as Montreal (derived from the French Mont Royal, "Royal Mountain") by the 18th century.
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Nickname: "City of
Mary (Ville-Marie)" Motto:
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627
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M2C
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627
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Vancouver is a city in British Columbia, Canada.
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The city is named after Captain George Vancouver, an English explorer.
City in
British Columbia , north of the Canadian-United States of America border.
Vancouver is called a "Vancouverite".
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Incidentally, the city of Coevorden may have indirectly given its name to the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, which is named after the 18th-century British explorer George Vancouver. The explorer's ancestors (and family name) may have originally come to England
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Motto: "By Sea Land and Air We Prosper"
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"from Coevorden" (van Coevorden > Vancoevorden > Vancouver).
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628
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M2D
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628
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Kankesanthurai 1966
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Northern Line
Kankesanthurai (KKS) in the
Jaffna
Peninsula .
Northern Province (Jaffna District) the end of the railway lines.
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Jambukola now identified as Sambalthurai, in Kankesanthurai (
Jaffna
Peninsula ) functioned as the port to
North India
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Kankesanthurai is a town with a harbour in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna
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629
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M2D
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629
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(pronounced as one syllable, rhyming with "
Gaul " in English, in Sinhalese,
Galle , to the South of the island. ()
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Galle was known as... with "
Gaul " in English
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