If you were renaming the provinces/territories of canada, what would their new names be?

Question

If you could rename the provinces/territories of canada to anything (legal) what would you name them?

Answer 1

There should be some fun answers to this one:

British Columbia - God's country

Alberta -Oilberta

Saskatchewan - farmatchewan

Manitoba - frigidoba

Ontario - Who cares?

Quebec - whine country

New Brunswick - Irvingsbrunswick

Nova Scotia - Bluenose escotia

Prince Edward Island - Lobster Island

Newfoundland - Friendlyland

Answer 2

I'm not sure I would make too many changes, as the names are pretty good right now. I think the only ones I would change would be:

Newfoundland and Labrador

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It was found a long time ago, so it is not New anymore. I would consider just changing it to Labrador, and have Labrador Mainland and Labrador Island.

(If you look at Nova Scotia, at least they used latin to cover up the name "New Scotland"!)

New Brunswick

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Just drop the "new" part. Call it Brunswick. Or because Brunswick is from a German word meaning "of the village", switch this to latin too and call it Nova Vicus.

British Columbia

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It is not a British territory, and Columbia reminds me of South America which it is not. If I were to change it, I'd pick "Okanaga".

Northwest Territories

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I like the fact that part of NWT became Nunavut, but when they broke it in two, I would have selected a more appropriate name for the remaining area. For that, I would revert back to the historic name of Rupertsland, or since it sits to the south of the Gulf of Amundsen, just call it Amundsia.

Answer 3

Alberta  - new name:  Montana's hat

British Columbia  - new name: Columbia

Manitoba  - new name: Hudson

New Brunswick  - new name: Maritime

Newfoundland and Labrador - new name: Terra Nova

Nova Scotia  - new name: Acadia

Ontario  - new name: Huron

Prince Edward Island  - new name: John's Island

Quebec  - new name: Francewannabe

Saskatchewan  - new name:  Wheatland

Territories

Northwest Territories  - new name: Not-The-Furthest-North-Or-West Territory

Nunavut  - new enough name, no change

Yukon  - new name: Prospect

Answer 4

I'd like to go back to Upper Canada for Ontario