Gozit

+1, +1, and +1.
Didnt know you were here too? I am in st thomas.

Oakvillian

Oakville is one of the least imaginatively-named places on the planet. You can guess the proceedings in the committee meeting: "Look, it's nearly lunchtime, let's just see off this next agenda item before we adjourn. There are some oak trees; there's a village; is there any need for further debate? No? Right, that's settled. Trebles all round?"

Until surprisingly recently, the town was more or less the personal fiefdom of the Chisholm family, who bought the Crown land at the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek (another imaginative name: its mouth on Lake Ontario is that number of miles from an arbitrary survey origin in the township of Dundas) when it was appropriated from the Mississauga Nation. Several streets in the downtown area are named after various offshoots of the family; their former home is now the town's museum.

bats

Ahem. The Enigma machine was the one that made the code. Polish code breakers in Warsaw worked out how to break the cipher and Alan Turing and colleagues in Bletchley Park used to information to build the code breaking Bombe machines.

Dashie

I know you are We're not too far away.

neilcumming

Winnipeg is the Cree name for muddy waters.Very apt as the rivers are very muddy.You can fish them but the locals tell you not eat the fish!
Winnipeg the Bear was the inspiration for the Winnie the Pooh stories.An army vet on route to France in 1915 left the bear (who was the regimental mascot) at London zoo ,England and it was A.A. Milne son who came up with the name Winnie the Pooh

Gozit

Yeah its a small world We've probably passed eachother without even knowing it.

beckiwoo

Ok if you are going to be like that about it I'm from Bletchley - home of bletchley park and where the new film about Alan turning is based - better!?

Jeez!!!!

caretaker

Thanks for watching Canadian television! I've been catfishing at Lockport a couple of times and it's great.

bats

I just like things to be right, your post was wrong that's all. No big deal is it?

neilcumming

Dont understand your quote about Canadian TV as I dont watch it.I fished at Lockport and never caught a thing!

bats

Rice Lake is called Rice Lake as wild rice used to grow there. Still does in a few places but the water levels rose when the Trent canal system was built so the marshes are fewer.

caretaker

Too bad.

scrubbedexpat091

We have a few towns in BC with unoriginal names like that. I think they stem from the early day's of railroads and roads or trail markings, not sure where they originated from but with names like 100 mile house, they must have served as some stopping off point for something in the early days.

Simon Legree

Many moons ago when the British were laying out plans for various towns in Ontario they managed to mix up those for Guelph and Goderich. Those that were originally intended for Guelph, and which radiate like spokes of a wheel were laid out in Goderich and don't make much sense because of the lake. Those for Goderich, which began at the lake shore they made fit to the Speed river in Guelph instead of the lake shore.

jamesmc

Somerset from the clark family who came from duh Somerset England. well actualy 2 families that came...clark and Lachance in 1880 bought 40acres for $1 to build a town ,for the Nothern pacific railroad in 1889 the railroad built a line through the the town.
the railroad brought many families west from quebec and of course Belgium,holland & Scotland.
james