Native People
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Places - Origin of Names
- QUEBEC
"Narrow passage in a river"
(Algonquin, Cree & Mi'kmaq)
- Chicoutimi:
"End of the deep water" (Montagnais)
- Gaspé:
"End of extremity" (Mi'kmaq)
- Kahnawake:
"By the rapids" or "at the rapids", referring to the once-formidable Lachine Rapids on the St. Lawrence River near Montreal (Mohawk)
- Kenogami:
Anything to do with water or a lake. Keno means "long"; Ami means to "do with water" (Algonquian)
- Maniwaki:
"Mary's Land." Mani means Mary; aki means "land" or the "whole world" (Algonquian)
- Matagami:
"Moving water or water with a current" (but not waves). Originally this word was mamatagami (Algonquian)
- Temagami:
"Deep waters" from the word timiigama (Anishinabe)
- Oshawa:
"Crossing of a stream". (Seneca)
- Ottawa:
From the word adawe. (Algonquian)
- Toronto:
"Meeting place" It may also mean "Where the trees have fallen into the water" (Oneida)
- Wawa:
The word waawaa for "Canada goose" (Anishinabe)
- Caraquet:
"Junction of two rivers" (Mi'kmaq)
- Shippagan:
"Duck's passage" (Mi'kmaq)
- Saskatoon:
Comes from misaskwatomin, name of the Saskatoon berry (Cree)
- Medicine Hat:
"The headdress of a medicine man." This name possibly comes from the translation of saamis (Siksiksa)
- Red Deer:
This is a translation of was-ka-sioo which means "elk river" (Cree)
- Kamloops:
"Meeting of waters" from the word cumcloups (Shuswap)
- Penticton:
"Place to stay forever" (Salish)
- Kelowna:
"Grizzly bear" (Salish)
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