Reaction To How Each Canadian Province & Territory Got Its Name
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Reaction To How Each Canadian Province & Territory Got Its Name
This is my reaction to How Each Canadian Province & Territory Got Its Name
In this video I react to Canadian history and Canadian geography by looking at how the Canadian provinces and territories got their names.
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Lovely video, but those pronunciations were killing me haha
'anglikised'.
AI is ok, but obviously has no personality.
@@Wishes890 it’s not Ai. He just has bad pronunciation
I have a copy of a letter from my maternal grandmother - who had emigrated from what is now part of Ukraine,
about being present in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1905 at the celebration of Saskatchewan becoming a province.
Canada advertised across Northern Europe for homesteaders to take up farming in cold climes. They didn't want people from the Mediterranean region.
I'm Albertan, and Princess Louise was quite the firecracker! The iconic Lake Louise was named for her as well. ❤
The way he pronounced Métis as meatus instead of may-tee... 😮
He also butchered the pronunciation of Louis Riel.
@@markwuahlbuargg4780AI, not a person I don't think
Prince Edward was the only member of the Royal Family to choose to reside in Canada, serving as a governor, living first in Quebec City and later in Halifax Nova Scotia. He returned to England when his older siblings' children all died, and he needed to produce an heir to the throne - Queen Victoria. He was a friendly sort and got on well with both the British and French residents. Kent Street in Ottawa is named after his title.
Yeah he messed up a lot of the names. For example: it's Louis, not Lewis, and it's Ree al, not real. He even got Quebec wrong
I was born in Quebec and lived there until I was twenty. The anglophones in Quebec pronounce it as kwuhbek. The francophones pronounce it as Kaybeck. The tourists pronounce it as Kweebeck.
@@iancanuckistan2244 I live in Ottawa and a few years ago OC Transpo started bilingual stop announcements on their buses. Some made sense, like "Highway 417/ Autoroute quatre cent dix-sept" but then we had "Spur/Spur" and I'd think "So glad he said it in French cuz I'd NEVER have understood the English".
Louis Riel is an interesting historical figure, if you don't know about him, it's an interesting bit of Canadian history, Metis and First Nations relations.
Regularly under revision, the history of riel is always going to be one sided and misunderstood by all sides
He was a traitor and suffered a traitors fate, despite modern efforts to glorify him.
His personal history is pretty interesting , read it before revisionists get at it. Or find a copy.od his book in which he claims divine abilities. @@michaelhamm6805
@@michaelhamm6805traitor for who? the foreigners? Louis Riel is a hero for any nation that want self determination hence why he is respected by first nation metís and Québec
Riel - pronounced ree-Al , is a legend in Canadian mythology, and history.
He was Metis( may-tee) a recognized people of indigenous and european (french fur traders) heritage. Criminal to some, Hero and martyr to many!
Huh, we've always said Ree-El, and we have a school named after him here lol
Great video. Being Canadian, I'm surprised and glad of this video. It's already saved. Thank you.
Not only can this dude not pronounce most Canadian names, he doesn't even know how to say anglicized. Amazing.
I always enjoy your videos, Mert. Thank you for this one. It was entertaining and enlightening, lol. My family has been Canadian since before confederation (1867), so I'm really enjoying watching people like yourself learn about my incredible country. It's a country created by the British and molded by many different people since but always the British backbone is there, underpinning the ebbs and flows of change.
You know what’s funny..I am Canadian, born raised. And I’ve learned more about my own country from your videos than school taught me.
Thanks for the video--I knew about Québec, which is the province where I live (I remember from my history classes, more than 40 years ago), but I learned a lot about the 9 other provinces.
American here. I’ve had the pleasure of visiting Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec.
I live outside Halifax which is across the harbour from Dartmouth in Nova Scotia but the little place I lived as a child was named Musquodoboit which is an Indigenous word meaning “ foaming to the sea” or suddenly widening out after a narrow entrance which was about the Musquodoboit River. There are a lot of places in Nova Scotia whose names originated from the UK but also in a different area there are French names as well. Both fought over the area and both influenced life in many ways.
France did not give up all its claim, it still holds an island south of Newfoundland
Two islands actually. St. Pierre and Miquelon. They are part of Metropolitan France.
Funny part about the Yukon, named for the river that starts in it, had absolutely nothing to do with the famed Yukon Gold Rush though. The river runs west through Alaska and the gold rush was on the river.
Alot of towns in new Brunswick have native names
Great video Mert! It was a good 'reminder' for this Ontarian - we did study this when I was a kid, but some of it has been forgotten.
Where I'm from, there's plenty of reminders on the settlers origins, or of the Indigenous in the area. Kitchener (originally Berlin) was from Lord Kitchener. London, Cambridge all, obviously, have British ties. Neighbouring city of Waterloo is named after the battle site (Waterloo, Belgium). Brantford, named after Joseph Brant, a Mohawk leader...etc.
Toronto as well is from the Mohawk (Tkaronto), meaning 'where there are trees in the water', referring to a channel of water where Lake Simcoe goes into another.
Our history is very interesting! Cheers for checking it!
I straight up shouted ITS LOO-EE REE-EL when he said that 😂😅
Lou-wee Ree-yell
When Saskatchewan was formed in 1905, there were three large towns or cities, Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert. Regina was chosen to be the capital as it was on the major trans canada rail, the second city, Prince Albert was given the choice of hosting the province's prison or the university. Prince Albert chose the prison because of guaranteed employment. Saskatoon had no choice but to take the university. Flashforward 120 years, Saskatoon has a population of 273k, Prince Albert 47 k.
That fellow whose video you watched about Nova Scotia, a while ago, just made a video about Canada's famous Highland Games. You should have a look at that. Compare the Canadian caber tossing techniques to the Scotts
I think we are all getting sent the same videos with the algorithm lmao
Prince Edward Island was Called L' Isle Saint Jean beforehand as it was a French colony from earlier times .
Newfoundland was originally Terra Nova, Latin for new land. I learned something new about Labrador's origin. La bras d'or is French for "the golden arm" which is what I thought was the original name. Thanks for teaching me something new today!
in french it would be "le bras d'or" .. i had never heard of it before. i thought it was name after the dog 😂
This really shows the importance of waterways in the early days of Canada
That was an enjoyable video, I know I learned it at school many many years ago but the only one I remembered is Ontario. Thanks for sharing
Two footnotes to this video:
1. Labrador was forcefully "given" to Newfoundland from Quebec by the Canadian Government in 1949 as a "Thank You for joining us Gift" when NL joined the Confederation. Before that, Newfoundland was it's own thing.
2. In the list of territories, the narrator forgot the other Northern Territory, constituted in 1986, called Nunavik. It iso located East of Nunavut and North of the 55th parallel, on the former northernmost Quebec territory known as New Quebec. The meaning of "Nunavut" is: Great Land, and the word itself originates from the dialect known as Nunavimmiutitut, a dialect derived from the official Northern language called Inuktitut. Source: Wikipedia.
I'm afraid you're incorrect about Labrador being a thank-you-for-joining-us gift to Newfoundland in 1949. Labrador became a part of Newfoundland in 1763, centuries before confederation with Canada!
"The division between Labrador and Quebec has changed over time. Labrador's coast has been recognized as part of Newfoundland since 1763 (except from 1774 to 1809), but the legal meaning of the word "coast" came to be disputed. A border dispute erupted in 1902 over the right to use natural resources in the Churchill River basin between the then dominions of Canada and Newfoundland. After lengthy delays, the case came before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, which in March 1927 delivered a win for Newfoundland and granted it the disputed land. The decision was further recognized by the governments of Canada and of Newfoundland when the latter joined Confederation in 1949 as the tenth province of Canada. The Privy Council described the line in general terms but it was never demarcated on the ground." Source: Wikipedia
You want to talk about names. Highlight a portion of South/Eastern Ontario. You'll find an Athens, Kingston, Cornwall, Alexandria, Perth even a New Dublin. Seems like every name we have is borrowed off of someone.
Don't forget London, Paris and Windsor
And Kitchener which used to be Berlin.
Very important to get the Canadian pronunciation correct.
Good video, but the cracking whip effect is too jarring. Would be okay if the volume of the effect was turned down.
Some of the pronunciations were quite funny, but otherwise a good video!
I was aware of the origins for many of the provinces but wasn't sure about Nunavut tbh.
One day they split and I just kinda accepted it without wondering much - it was a Massive territory before
The one about BC is completely wrong
I am a Canadian but did not know the origins of the names of provinces & territories. However, I was not surprised by which names were of Indigenous origins and which were of colonial origins.
BC wasn't named that way at all
@@lyndsikaya Oh. How was BC named? Have no idea myself.
nunavut where you can buy a box of cereal from walmart for like $12 dollars
New Brunswick was supposed to be called New Ireland monarch did not like the Irish and named it after a German family name up to this day. Queen Elizabeth is really related to the Brunswick of Germany and New Brunswick very few Germans, but even when it wanted to change its name, Queen Victoria would not allow it.
What's with that whipping noise this dude has in his video? 😂
we have many Scotish and British names
See if there's a 'Source' that itemizes 'dignitaries' whose Names are linked to geographic land-masses outside their places of residence ?
I love your quest for knowledge but that guy gets so much of the pronunciations wrong
That's not how BC got its name, really. It's British Columbia to denote it's the remaining portion of Columbia District, after having lost a portion of it to the Americans. So to differentiate it from American Columbia(now Washington State), and has nothing to do with Colombia in S. America.
If you know languages most placenames are so banal it's funny. Like ooh Nizhny Novgorod what does it mean? Little New Town.
I'm from Nova Scotia and have no idea why it's Latin (as in why not New Scotland). Unfortunately this video didn't answer it. Even more confusing is the French version (Nouvelle-Écosse) is French. So why isn't the English version in English?
Canada is your Scottish history. See Nova Scotia 😊
The narrator completely blew "Marquis or Lorne". It's Marquis OF Lorne, and is pronounced MAR-kwis because he's English, not French. A major thoroughfare in Calgary is named the Marquis Of Lorne Trail
Toronto is an I an indigenous name for york
Might be better to pick videos by people with native knowledge, his pronunciations are.... wild.
didn't know the origins - good info
That wasn't the way BC got it's name
@@lyndsikaya how did it get it's name then??
I cringed so hard at the "meetiss peoples" (métis - may-TEE) leader "Lewis Reel" (Louis Riel - Lou-ee REE-ell). En francais, s'il vous plait!
Lou-eeeee reeee-L
This video was narrated either by some guy with terrible pronunciation skills or a robot with an offbeat voice…
I was thinking almost the same thing. A robot with an English accent and a lisp 😁
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There was so much wrong in this we had to turn it off once he told the story about British Columbia's name and pronounced Metis the way he did. Get a Canadian to tell you, this video was awful. Btw Queen Victoria liked the word Columbia (note the U) and it had nothing to do with Colombia in South America. The Columbia River was named afterwards.
And the Colombia ship was named after Christopher Columbus.
When people from Quebec ask me why they don't see of hear much French in my province, I always respond in the same way... BRITISH Columbia, BRITISH Columbia, BRITISH! 😁
Buddy no one from Quebec is asking that. We know very well which areas of Canada have francophone communities.
@@Mac-er6yk First of all I'm not your buddy. Second of all you're right people from Quebec don't ask me because they can't speak English. But every once in a while we get tourists here on the west coast who speak French and they wonder why we can't? The only people who insist on French being spoken are those who think that only white people speak French.
If your video is about names, learn how to bloody pronounce them! I detect an Australian accent (vs. the usual Chat GPT narrator).
WTF are algongkin
He screwed up all of the indigenous names except ‘Cree.’
If you want to know more about Canadian geography it's an American country just like Mexico all North America in South America is All-American countries so why is it that the United States is only known as America when we have every other American country in both North and South America
Because it's the United States of America. There is no other convenient shortening then America. They're the ones that chose the vague name.
Don't worry, none of us mind not being called Americans. Especially these days.
I generally just call them the States. As in "Are you from the States?"
@@nevarmaor then what do you call someone from the states? Hey that guys is a "the states"?
@@Mac-er6yk LOL you really don;t want to know