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Provinces and territories whose official names are aboriginal in origin are Yukon, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nunavut. Manitoba : Either derived from the Cree word manito-wapâw meaning "the strait of the spirit or manitobau" or the Assiniboine words mini and tobow meaning "Lake of the Prairie", referring to Lake Manitoba .
The -r-also began to disappear from the name on early maps, resulting in the current Acadia. [20] Possibly derived from the Míkmaq word akatik, pronounced roughly "agadik", meaning "place", which French-speakers spelled as -cadie in place names such as Shubenacadie and Tracadie, possibly coincidentally. [21]
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
List of census subdivisions in Ontario - counties, districts and regional municipalities; List of cities in Ontario - places which are incorporated as cities; List of francophone communities in Ontario - places which are designated as French language service areas due to having a significant minority or majority Franco-Ontarian population
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.
Location of Ontario in Canada Municipalities account for 17% of Ontario's total land area. Unincorporated areas encompass the remaining 83%. Unincorporated areas encompass the remaining 83%. Ontario is the most populous province in Canada with 14,223,942 residents as of 2021 and is third-largest in land area [ a ] at 892,412 km 2 (344,562 sq mi ...
Prior to 2003, Ontario had minimum population thresholds of 15,000 and 25,000 for city status. Minimum population thresholds are no longer necessary for a municipality to brand itself as a city. Ontario has 52 cities, [ 1 ] which together had in 2016 a cumulative population of 9,900,179 and average population of 190,388. [ 2 ]
Te Wairoa – "The Buried Village", a Maori village buried by volcanic eruption in 1886; Wairau Bar – rivermouth site of pre-European Maori settlement; Huriawa Peninsula - Te Pa a Te Wera, Reserve, and archeological sites; Motutapu Island - Site of many settlements and early Maori manufacturing