Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:
> In the analogous database for Canada at http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca,
> Quebec is the only example.
The province was named for the city. The city name has been in use
since 1608, the province name 1763-1791 and 1867-present.
> If you look at counties, [...] I don't think there are any
> examples in Canada, but I can't confirm that right now because
> the database is down.
There used to be an Ontario County in Ontario, but it was
abolished in a restructuring of municipal governments in
the early 1970s. I think the county name (1840s?) predates
the province name (1867), but I'm not entirely sure when
the county was created. I believe both were named after
Lake Ontario, not one for the other.
I think there used to be a Quebec County that contained the
City of Quebec and was contained in the Province of Quebec,
but that province completely changed its system of counties
quite a while ago. The county was probably created at a
time when the province was called Lower Canada, and was named
for the city.
> Places whose names match *other* states are quite common when you
> look at small enough places, although in Canada there is only one
> place whose name is another province: Saskatchewan, Manitoba.
If you accept soft matches, there's Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.
It's named for the Saskatchewan River, not for the province. I'm
not sure of the origin of Saskatchewan, MB.
If we consider Canada-U.S. cases, New Brunswick, New Jersey;
Ontario, California; and Wyoming, Ontario come to mind. There are
likely other examples.
Tom Box or
Toronto, ON, Canada
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