Scots place names in Canadae

This is a leet o placenames in Scotland that hae subsequently been applee'd tae pairts o Canadae bi Scots emigrants or splorers.

For Nova Scotian names in Scots Gaelic (no necessarily the same as the Inglis versions) see Canadian communities with Scottish Gaelic speakers an Scottish Gaelic placenames in Canada.

Note that, unless otherwise stated, province names isna Scottish.


Alberta

Airdrie
Ardmore
Ardrossan
Banff - named efter toun in north east Scotland
Bankhead (ghaist toun)
Barrhead
Blairmore
Bon Accord (Bon Accord is the motto of Aberdeen)
Bonnie Doon (Edmonton)
Bonnie Lake (Alberta)
 Butedale Falls
Caldwell (ghaist toun)
Calgary - named efter place in Mull
Canmore (named for Keeng Malcolm Canmore)
Carstairs
Chisholm
Clyde
Coutts
Craigmyle
Cromdale (Edmonton)
Dunmore
Erskine
Ferintosh
Fort Macleod
Fort McMurray
Halkirk (Halkirk)
Hazeldean (Edmonton)
Holyrood (Edmonton) (Holyrood)
Innisfail
Irvine
Lomond (Loch Lomond)
Mackenzie County
Mallaig
Mintlaw (ghaist toun)
Mount Hector (efter James Hector)
Mount Lady Macdonald (efter wife of John A. Macdonald)
New Stirling (Maybutt)
Scotfield
Stirling
Strathcona County
Strathcona

British Columbie

Abbotsford (location of Sir Walter Scott's hoose). Suburbs include Aberdeen and Glen Moontain.
Balfour (kent as "Balfour Bay" an aw)
Butedale (ghaist toun)
Cameron Bar 13
Cape Scott Provincial Park
Craigellachie
Coldstream
Cunningham Lake
Davidson, a dounset wast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Duncan
Fintry Delta
Invermere (inbhir + mere)
Logan Lake
Montrose
Mount Brown (named efter the Scottish botanist Robert Brown)
Mount Lyell (named bi James Hector in 1858 for the Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell)
Mount Macdonald (efter John A. Macdonald)
Stewart
Yarrow (River in Scottish Borders)

Manitoba
Angusville
Carberry (named for Carberry Touer)
East Kildonan
Elgin
Elphinstone
Gretna
MacGregor
Old Kildonan
Rossburn
Selkirk and  East Selkirk
St Andrews

Rural municipalities -
Argyle
Armstrong
Cameron
Clanwilliam
Glenwood
Grahamdale
Lorne
Macdonald
Minto
Morton
Rossburn
St Andrews
Strathcona
Strathclair
Stuartburn

New Brunswick

Glenlevit
Glencoe
Dundee
Aberdeen
Atholville (Atholl)
Balmoral
Campbellton
Dalhousie
Drummond
Dundas Parish
Elgin
Lower Kintore and Upper Kintore, New Brunswick (Kintore)
Minto
New Scotland
Perth-Andover
Port Elgin (Elgin)
Rothesay
St Andrews

Newfoundland an Labrador

Anderson's Cove
Buchans and Lake Buchans
Campbell's Creek
Campbellton
Hamilton River
Highlands
Holyrood (Holyrood is the site o the current Scottish Parliament)
Iona
Loch Leven
Loch Lomond
Lomond
McKay's
Melrose
St. Andrew's

Nova Scotia

"Nova Scotia" is the Laitin for New Scotland.

Argyle
Arisaig
Ben Eoin (frae the Scottish Gaelic for "mountain of the birds")
Beinn Bhreagh
Beinn Scalpie
Berwick
Broughton (ghaist toun)
Caledonia
Clydesdale
Dunvegan
Inverness County
Glendale
Inverness
Glencoe
Knoydart
Lismore
Lochaber
Loch Broom
Loch Lomond
New Glasgow
New Ross
Scotch Village
Iona

Northwast Territories
The Northwast Territories awso contain three places wi Scots surnames: Fort Simpson, Fort McPherson an Rae (awtho the nou collectively kent wi Edzo as Behchoko).

 Cameron River Volcanic Belt
 District of Mackenzie
 Ferguson Lake (Kitikmeot Region)
 Finlayson Islands
 Fort McPherson (Murdoch McPherson)
 Fort Simpson (George Simpson)]
 Mackenzie Highway
 Mackenzie Mountains and Mackenzie River
 Macmillan Pass
 Melville Island (named for Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville

Nunavut

 Baillie-Hamilton Island
 Cameron Island
 Clyde Inlet an Clyde River
 Craig Harbour (on Ellesmere Island)
 Dundas Harbour
 Edinburgh Island (PIN-DA)
 Eglinton Island
 Graham Island
 Houston Stewart Island
 McConnell River Migratory Bird Sanctuary an McConnell River
 Mackar Inlet (CAM-5)
 Mackenzie hotspot an Mackenzie dike swarm
 Melville Island (named for Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville)
 Dundas Peninsula (pairt of Melville Island)
 Melville Peninsula
 Rankin Inlet
 Simpson Lake (CAM-D)

Ontario
400px|thumb|right|The Walker House, auldest hoose in Kincardine, Ontario

Aberdeen, Grey County
Aberdeen, Prescott and Russell County
Aberfeldy
Aberfoyle
Achray
Ailsa Craig
Alloa
Angus
Angus Glen
Ardbeg
Ardoch
Armadale
Armstrong, Thunder Bay District
Armstrong Township, Armstrong Corners and Armstrong Mills
Arnprior
Arranvale (Isle of Arran)
Athol, Prince Edward County
Athol, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties
Avonmore
Ayr
Ayton
Badenoch
Bainsville
Bairds
Ballantrae
Ballinafad
Bannockburn
Baxter
Bell Ewart
Berriedale (Berriedale, Sutherland)
Berwick
Bisset Creek
Bothwell
Boyds (Surname, derived frae Bute)
Brechin
Brucedale
Bruce Mines
Bruce Peninsula
Bruce Station
Cairngorm
Caledon
Caledon East
Caledonia
Caledonia Springs
Callander
Campbellcroft
Campbellford
Campbellville
Cargill
Cockburn Island
Coldstream
Colgan
Craigleith
Craigmont
Cromarty
Crombie
Cruikshank
Dalhousie Lake
Dalhousie Mills
Dalkeith
Dalmeny
Dalrymple
Drummond
Dundas
Dundonald
Dunedin (Dunedin, poetic name for Edinburgh/Dun Eideann)
Dunkeld
Dunvegan
Dysart et al. (Dysart)
East Tay Point (Tay)
Elgin
Elgin County, Ontario
Farquhar
Fergus
Ferguslea
Ferguson Corners, Ferguson Falls and Fergusons Beach
Galbraith
Gillies Hill
Gilmour
Glasgow
Glen
Glen Buell
Glenburn
Glenburnie
Glen Cross
Glenfield
Glen Huron
Glencairn
Glencoe
Glenelg Centre
Glen Major
Glen Nevis
Glenora
Glen Robertson
Glenview
Glenville
Glen Williams
Gorrie
Greenock
Haliburton
Hamilton
Hampden
Henderson
Innerkip
Inverary
Inverhuron (inbhir, meanin river mooth + Huron)
Invermay
Iona and Iona Station
Jura, Ontario
Katrine (Loch Katrine)
Kilsyth
Kinburn
Kincardine
Kinghorn
Kinmount
Kintail
Kirkfield
Laggan
Laird
Lake Dalrymple (Dalrymple)
Lamlash
Lammermoor
Lanark
Leith
Lochalsh, Algoma District
Lochalsh, Huron County
Lochwinnoch
Logan
Lowther
McAlpine Corners
Macdiarmid
MacDonald Bay
MacDonald's Grove
MacDuff
MacGillivrays Bridge
Mackenzie
MacKenzie Point
MacLarens Landing
MacLean Park
MacTier
Maitland, Huron County
Maitland, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville
Malcolm
Maxwell, Grey County
Maxwell, Hastings County
Maxwells
Minto
Moffat
Monteith
Moray
Morven
Nairn, Middlesex County
Nairn Centre
Napier
New Dundee
New Glasgow
New Scotland, Chatham-Kent
New Scotland, Regional Municipality of York
Paisley
Perth
Perth Road Village
Port Elgin
Raith
Rankin, Nipissing District
Rankin, Renfrew County
Rannoch
Ratho
Renfew
Renfrew Junction
Rutherford
Rutherglen
Scone
Scotch Block
Scotch Bush, Hastings County and Scotch Bush, Renfrew County
Scotch Corners
Scotia
Selkirk
Speyside
St. Andrews
Staffa, Perth County
Stirling
Tarbert
Tartan
Tay
Tweed
West Elgin (Elgin)
West Lorne (Lorne)
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Prince Edward Island

Breadalbane
Glenfinnan Island (Prince Edward Island) and Glenfinnan River
 Greenmount-Montrose
 Inverness
 Mount Stewart
 Lennox Island
 MacDonalds River
 Montrose River
 Murray River
 New Glasgow
 St Andrews

Quebec
Abercorn
Campbell's Bay
Drummondville an Drummond RCM
Duncan Lake (Quebec)
Dundee
East Angus
Elgin
Hampden
Inverness
Lennoxville
Lochaber
Lochaber-Partie-Ouest
MacMasterville
MacNider
Napierville an Les Jardins de Napierville
Scotstown
Stornoway
Thurso
Tingwick

Saskatchewan

Aberdeen
Aberdeen No. 373
Abernethy No. 186 an Abernethy
Argyle No. 1
Arran
Balcarres
Balgonie
Biggar
Birsay
Calder
Calderbank
Carmichael No. 109
Carnduff
Clansman
Colonsay an Colonsay No. 342
Crichton (ghaist toun)
Cupar
Dalmeny
Davidson
Fairy Glen
Fife Lake
Girvin
Glen Ewen
Glenavon
Glenside
Inchkeith
Innes (ghaist toun)
Invergordon No. 430
Invermay
Lomond No. 37
Lumsden No. 189
Isbister's Settlement (umwhile name of Prince Albert dounset)
Jedburgh
Kyle
Kylemore
Laird
Lumsden
Markinch
Mortlach
Neidpath (ghaist toun)
Orkney
Orkney No. 244
Saltcoats
Ravenscrag (ghaist toun)
Scotsguard (ghaist toun)
Simpson
St. Boswells (ghaist toun)
Tiree

The toun o Coronach wis oreeginally named efter a horse; houiver, the oreeginal meanin o coronach is a Gaelic lament.

Yukon

 Fort Selkirk
 Mackenzie Mountains
 Mount Logan an Houston's Peak
 Mount Lorne (Lorne)
 Ross River (Ross)

Canada
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