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POSTED BY: Kibehr on Feb 25, 2008
UNUSUAL AND UNIQUE)
Canadian Place Names
There are a fair share of weird & unusual Canadian place names
... try these ones on, eh!

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

* Bacon Cove
* Bareneed
* Berry's Head
* Blow Me Down
* Come By Chance
* Conception Bay
* Cow Head
* Cupids
* Deadman's Bay/Cove
* Fogo
* Foxtrap
* Goobies
* Happy Adventure
* Heart's Content
* Heart's Delight
* Heart's Desire
* Herring Neck
* Hooping Harbour
* Jerry's Nose
* Joe Batt's Arm
* Lawn
* Little Heart's Ease
* Little Paradise
* Little Seldom
* Luke's Arm
* Mosquito
* Nameless Cove
* Nippers Harbour
* Noggin Cove
* Paradise
* Red Head Cove
* River of Ponds
* Robert's Arm
* Snooks Arm
* Spanish Room
* Sweet Bay
* Tickle Cove
* Toogood Arm
* Witless Bay

NOVA SCOTIA

* Bucklaw
* Concession
* Cow Bay
* Crows Nest
* Ecum Secum (EEE-kum-SEE-kum)
* Egypt
* Eureka
* Garden of Eden
* Lower Economy
* Malignant Cove
* Meat Cove
* Mushaboom
* Paradise
* Pleasantville
* Roachvale
* St. Margret's Head
* Shag Harbour
* Sissiboo Falls
* Sober Island
* Two Sheds
* Wildcat
* Yankeetown

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

* Crapaud
* Flat River
* Point Prim
* Savage Harbour

NEW BRUNSWICK

* Beaver Dam
* Burnt Church
* Chance Harbour
* Marigold
* Mechanic
* Mount Pleasant
* Plaster Rock
* Poodiac
* Pokemouche
* Ripples
* Sunny Corner
* Wood Point

QUEBEC

* Asbestos
* Cadillac
* Chapeau (hat)
* Crabtree
* Drapeau (flag)
* Mayo
* Poissant (fish)
* Rivière-Trois-Pistoles (3 Pistols River)
* Saint-Loius-du-Ha-Ha!

ONTARIO

* Azilda
* Bent River
* Big Chute
* Bright
* Bummers Roost
* Buzwah
* Cape Croker
* Carrying Place
* Cheapside
* Eden
* Ethel
* Fruitland
* Hoards
* New Credit
* Ochiichagwebabigoining (if anybody can pronounce this one, let me know)
* Oil Springs
* Pain Court
* Pickle Lake
* Porcupine
* Precious Corners
* Pronto
* Proton Station
* Scugog
* Shining Tree
* Silver Dollar
* Snowball
* Snug Harbour
* Sour Spring
* Swastika
* Swords
* Tiny
* Uphill
* Wawa
* Whitedog
* Wild Goose
* Wiseman's Corners

MANITOBA

* Bacon Ridge
* Bird
* Birdtail
* Camper
* Cranberry Portage
* Dropmore
* Finger
* Flin Flon
* Gods Lake
* Jackhead
* Moosehorn
* Seven Sisters Falls
* Snowflake
* Starbuck
* Vivian
* White Mud Falls
* Windygates

SASKATCHEWAN

* Adanac (Canada spelled backwards)
* Big Beaver
* Bigger (than other towns?)
* Cadillac
* Carrot River
* Climax (the ending)
* Cut Knife
* Drinkwater
* Elbow
* Eyebrow
* Fairy Glen
* Fertile
* Grandmother's Bay
* Green Acres
* Grizzly Bear's Head
* Holdfast
* Key
* Little Black Bear
* Moose Jaw
* Nut Mountain
* Old Wives
* Old Arrow
* Poor Man
* Porcupine Plain
* Primate
* Ruthilda
* Saltcoats
* Sanctuary
* Sceptre
* Smuts
* Spy Hill
* Star Blanket
* Success
* Sucker River
* Thunderchild
* Tramping Lake
* Unity
* Uranium City
* Yellow Grass

ALBERTA

* Bearberry
* Beaver Crossing
* Big Stone
* Buffalo Head Prarie
* Carrot Creek
* Czar
* Entrance
* Flyingshot Lake
* Goodfish Lake
* Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (National historical site)
* High Level
* John D
* Keg River
* Legal
* Little Smokey
* Meander River
* Medicine Hat
* Meeting Creek
* Milk River
* Mirror
* Nojack
* Onefour
* Paddle Prarie
* Pelican
* Purple Springs
* Rocky Mountain House
* Rosebud
* Seven Persons
* Stand Off
* Tiger Lily
* Tomahawk
* Two Hills
* Valhalla Centre
* Veteran
* Viking
* Vulcan
* Wandering River
* Westward Ho
* Whiskey Gap
* Wild Horse
* Wood Buffalo

BRITISH COLUMBIA

* Alice Arm
* Baldy Hughes
* Beaverdell
* Big Bar Creek
* Bella Bella
* Blind Bay
* Blind Channel
* Bliss Landing
* Blubber Bay
* Buckinghorse River
* Burnt Flat
* Chase
* Clo-oose
* Dog Creek
* False Bay
* Fireside
* Flathead
* Gang Ranch
* Horsefly
* Hydraulic
* Kamloops
* Mission
* Moose Heights
* Osoyoos
* Penny
* Pouce Coupe (french for "cut thumb")
* Salmon Arm
* Skookumchuck
* Soda Creek
* Spuzzum
* Squamish
* Stoner
* Ta ta Creek
* Woodfibre
* Yaak
* Yellowhead
* Ymir

YUKON TERRITORIES

* Brooks Brook
* Champagne
* Sixtymile
* Snag
* Whitehorse

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES & NUNAVUT

* Enterprise
* Fort Providence
* Fort Resolution
* Snare Lake
* Yellowknife

And what is Canada's Longest Place Name ...? Try ....
Cape St. George-Petit Jardin-Grand Jardin-De Grau-Marches Point-Loretto
(a small community in Newfoundland)

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