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The name change failed to assuage outside suspicion of the city and its German population, propelled partly by opponents unsuccessfully petitioning the Ontario Government to stop the change from proceeding as well as the election of an anti-conscription candidate in Waterloo North in the 1917 federal election.
"The Left Coast" – a name shared with the West Coast of the United States, referring to the region notably leaning politically left. [6]"British California" – a play on the initials of the province, referring to its similarities with California in terms of culture, geography (particularly in the Lower Mainland), politics, and demographics.
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada. Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases , slogans , sobriquets , and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
Ontario ARC is undergoing a rebranding, with current plans to remove the acronym and rearrange the wording to reflect a broader change at the state level. But that doesn't mean the organization is ...
World War I: the Ontario city of Berlin was renamed Kitchener [12] and the Saskatchewan town of Strassburg was renamed Strasbourg. [13] Cold War: the Ontario Stalin Township was renamed by Ontario legislature in 1986 to Hansen Township. [13] [14] United States: World War I: The German Spitz was renamed the American Eskimo Dog.
Ontario [a] is the southernmost province of Canada. [9] [b] Located in Central Canada, [10] Ontario is the country's most populous province.As of the 2021 Canadian census, it is home to 38.5 per cent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec).
The lengthy process involved in the change — districts have known since November 2022 that they must move on from Native American nicknames and imagery — was a thoughtful one, everyone was ...
A petition is calling for a Pac-12 school to change its nickname. Arizona State’s mascot, Sparky, was recently included on a list of the “creepiest” and most “offensive” nicknames in the ...