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This page lists the etymologies of the names of the provinces and territories of Canada. ==Provinces== ; Alberta : Named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848–1939), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of the Governor General of Canada Lord Lorne in the late 19th century. ; British Columbia : Takes its name partly from Britain and partly from the ''Columbia'' whose crew first explored the area. It also references the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, which was the namesake of the pre–Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company. The adjective "British" was added to the name to distinguish it from Colombia and from what became the state of Washington in the United States, whose name was originally going to be Columbia, after the river. Columbia is a poetic name for the American continent discovered by Christopher Columbus. Columbia was often personified as a woman or goddess wearing a gown and Phrygian cap, which was meant to signify the spirit of freedom and the pursuit of liberty. ; Manitoba : Is most commonly believed to have come from the Cree word ''manitowapow'' or the Ojibwa word ''manitobau'', both meaning "the strait of the spirit". It is unclear why this name was chosen for the province, though it is generally thought to be named after straits in Lake Manitoba. ; New Brunswick : Named in honour of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the ancestral home of the British king George III. ; Newfoundland and Labrador :; Newfoundland :: (Latin: ''Terra Nova'') Was named by its European discoverers before 1500; possibly by the Portuguese explorer João Vaz Corte-Real in 1472, making it the oldest European name in North America. :; Labrador :: Probably named after João Fernandes Lavrador, a Portuguese navigator who visited the area in 1498, whose surname means "farmer".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= João Fernandes Lavrador, exploration dates ) (broken link)〕 ; Nova Scotia : Latin for "New Scotland". In the 1620s a group of Scots was sent by Charles I to set up a colony, and the Latin name is used in Sir William Alexander's 1621 land grant. Although this settlement was abandoned because of a treaty between Britain and France, the name remains. ; Ontario : Named after Lake Ontario, which got its name from a First Nations language, most likely from ''onitariio'', meaning "beautiful lake", or ''kanadario'', translated as "sparkling" or "beautiful", or possibly from Wyandot (Huron) ''ontare'' ("lake"). ; Prince Edward Island : Named in 1798 after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the son of George III and lieutenant-general in British army in Canada. The next year, he would become commander-in-chief of North America, before being transferred to Gilbraltar in 1802. ; Quebec : From the Míkmaq ''kepék'', "strait, narrows"〔Afable, Patricia O. and Madison S. Beeler (1996). "Place Names". In "Languages", ed. Ives Goddard. Vol. 17 of ''Handbook of North American Indians'', ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pg. 191〕 ; Saskatchewan : From the Saskatchewan River (Cree: ''kisiskāciwani-sīpiy'', "swift flowing river"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Canadian provincial and territorial name etymologies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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