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  • [Place]: Placentia
    [Province/territory]: Newfoundland and Labrador
    [English translation]:
    [Notes]: Named for either Soraluze-Placencia de las Armas, Spain or Plentzia, Spain

  • [Place]: Mariposa
    [Province/territory]: Ontario
    [English translation]: "butterfly"
    [Notes]: A former township, now part of the City of Kawartha Lakes, and a community within that former township. Named by Peregrine Maitland in 1820.

  • [Place]: Corunna
    [Province/territory]: Ontario
    [English translation]:
    [Notes]: Named after the Battle of Corunna

  • [Place]: Zayas Island
    [Province/territory]: British Columbia
    [English translation]: N/A
    [Notes]: Named after the second pilot of Jacinto Caamaño, Juan Zayas, during the 1792 expedition.

  • [Place]: Murillo
    [Province/territory]: Ontario
    [English translation]:
    [Notes]: Named for Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, a Spanish artist.

  • [Place]: Alameda
    [Province/territory]: Saskatchewan
    [English translation]: "street lined with trees"
    [Notes]:

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Canada was originally the name of one of the many Indian villages that became the country’s name. Some experts speculate that the name may be Spanish for Canada, but historically there is no direct history of domination or occupation between Spain and Canada. But there are many Spanish etymologies for place names like this in Canada, and 32 of them are recorded in the random tool.

Even now many experts still don’t understand why place names in Canada are in Spanish. But they speculated on several reasons: 1) there was a Spanish executive who ruled the region and used the Spanish word for place names; 2) there was a time when part of the Spanish population moved to Canada, and in the preparation of the name of the time to give advice, gave the Spanish vocabulary; 3, it is possible to name the people do not know this is the Spanish vocabulary, but simply feel moving and easy to remember. However, the detailed names of the corresponding Spanish and specific address, or people need to be carefully identified from the generator.

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