Naming Canada
Subtitle: stories about Canadian place names
By: Alan Rayburn.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Names, Geographical -- Canada -- Miscellanea.; Noms géographiques -- Canada -- Miscellanées.; Canada -- History, Local -- Miscellanea.
Genres: Miscellanea.
Description: "This wonderful collection of seventy-six essays explores the fascinating origin and meaning of the names of some of the towns, villages, cities, islands, mountains, and rivers that make up one of the world's largest countries. This new edition includes fifteen more essays, and updates the previous essays to include changes, corrections, and new names to the year 2000."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.