Indigenous Place Names

in Canada Their
Meanings &
YELLOWKNIFE
Named after the YELLOWKNIVES, a DENE Band who
lived on the East end of Great Slave Lake

RESTIGOUCHE
Mi’kmaq
Fine River

GASPE
Mi’kmaq
END PLACE

Mississauga
Anishinaabe
Large Outlet
 NEPISIGUIT
Mi’kmaq
ROUGH WATERS

NIPISSING
Algonquin
LITTLE BODY OF WATER (compared to the Great Lakes)

TIMISKAMING
Algonquin
DEEP WATER

SAGUENAY
Innu
WATER FLOWS OUT

CHICOUTIMI
Montagnais
END OF DEEP WATER
 CAUGHNAWAGA
Mohawk
RAPIDS

KAMLOOPS
Salish
MEETING OF THE WATERS

ATHABASCA
Cree
WHERE THERE ARE REEDS

MINNEDOSA
Sioux
SWIFT WATER

KEEWATIN
Cree/Ojibwe
NORTH WIND
 OTTAWA
Algonquin
TRADERS

WINNIPEG
Cree
MURKY WATER

KITIMAT
Tsimshian
PEOPLE OF THE SNOW

TORONTO
Mohawk
TREES STANDING IN WATER

KOOTENAY LAKE
Ktunaxa (Kootenay)
WATER PEOPLE
 ASSINIBOINE RIVER
Assiniboine
COOK BY PLACING HOT STONES IN WATER

PENTICTON
Okanagan
ALWAYS PLACE (permanently settled)

NANAIMO
Salish
BIG STRONG PEOPLE

AKLAVIK
Inuvialuit
PLACE OF BEAR

KELOWNA
Okanagan
GRIZZLY BEAR
 TUKTOYAKTUK
Inuktitut
REINDEER THAT LOOKS LIKE CARIBOU

INUVIK
Inuktitut
PLACE OF MAN

SASKATOON
CREE
FOR A WILD BERRY FOUND IN THE AREA

MEDICINE HAT
A reference to the SIKSIKA (Blackfoot) word
SAAMIS – a medicine man’s hat.

MOOSE JAW
Cree
WARM BREEZES

THUNDER BAY
A reference to the THUNDERBIRD from
OJIBWE Folklore
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