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Named in 1821, one of several Spanish names given by General Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lt. Governor of Upper Canada (1818-28) and Lt. Governor of Nova Scotia (1828-34). He developed a fondness for Spanish during the Peninsula Campaign and gave Spanish names to several Canadian places. See also Mariposa, Orillia, Oro, Sombra, and Zorra.
Canadian people of Spanish descent (2 C, 38 P) Spanish-Canadian culture (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Spanish diaspora in Canada" ... List of Spanish place names in ...
Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
List of biblical place names in North America; C. Name of Canada; Places named after the Channel Islands; ... List of Spanish place names in Canada; U.
List of Spanish place names in Canada; T. Timiskaming; Toponym'elles; Name of Toronto; U. List of Canadian place names of Ukrainian origin This page was last edited ...
There are a number of places named after famous people. For more on the general etymology of place names see toponymy. ... Prime Minister of Canada [2]: ...
This is a list of Hispanos, both settlers and their descendants (either fully or partially of such origin), who were born or settled, between the early 16th century and 1850, in what is now the southwestern United States (including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, southwestern Colorado, Utah and Nevada), as well as Florida, Louisiana (1763–1800) and other Spanish colonies in what is ...
List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.