This is a list of placenames in Scotland that have been applied to parts of Canada by Scottish emigrants or explorers.
For Nova Scotian names in Scottish Gaelic (not necessarily the same as the English versions) see Canadian communities with Scottish Gaelic speakers and Scottish Gaelic placenames in Canada
Note that, unless otherwise stated, province names are not Scottish.
Alberta
Airdrie Alness Alyth Ardmore Ardrossan Banff - named after town in northeast Scotland Bankhead (ghost town) Barrhead Blairmore Bon Accord (Bon Accord is the motto of Aberdeen) Bonnie Doon Bonnie Lake Broxburn Butedale Falls Caldwell (ghost town) Calgary - Calgary, Mull Canmore (named for King Malcolm Canmore) Carstairs Chisholm Clyde Colinton Coutts Craigmillar Craigmyle Cromdale Dalmuir Dunmore Dunvegan - named after town on Isle of Skye Eaglesham Erskine Ferintosh Fort Macleod Fort McMurray Gartly Halkirk (Halkirk) Hazeldean Holyrood (Holyrood) Innisfail Inverness River Irvine Islay Kilsyth Kirkcaldy Kirriemuir Lenzie Lomond (Loch Lomond) Mackenzie County Mallaig Mintlaw (ghost town) Mount Hector (after James Hector) Mount Lady Macdonald (after wife of John A. Macdonald) New Stirling (Maybutt) Pitlochrie Scotfield Stirling Strathcona County Strathcona
British Columbia
Abbotsford (location of Sir Walter Scott's house). Suburbs include Aberdeen and Glen Mountain. Balfour (also known as "Balfour Bay") Butedale (ghost town) Cameron Bar 13 Cape Scott Provincial Park Craigellachie Coldstream Cunningham Lake Davidson, a settlement west of Prince Rupert, British Columbia Duncan Dundarave (West Vancouver) Fintry Delta Invermere (inbhir + mere) Logan Lake Montrose Mount Brown (named after the Scottish botanist Robert Brown) Mount Lyell (named by James Hector in 1858 for the Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell) Mount Macdonald (after John A. Macdonald) Stewart Yarrow (River in Scottish Borders)
Manitoba Angusville Argyle Carberry (named for Carberry Tower) East Kildonan Elgin Elphinstone Gretna MacGregor North Kildonan Old Kildonan Reston Rossburn Selkirk and East Selkirk St Andrews West Kildonan
Rural municipalities: Argyle Armstrong Cameron Clanwilliam Glenwood Grahamdale Lorne Macdonald Minto Morton Rossburn St Andrews Strathcona Strathclair Stuartburn
New Brunswick
Glenlevit Glencoe Dundee Aberdeen Atholville (Atholl) Balmoral Campbellton Dalhousie Drummond Dumbarton Parish Dumfries Dundas Parish Dundee Elgin Lower Kintore and Upper Kintore (Kintore) Melrose Minto New Scotland Perth-Andover Port Elgin (Elgin) Rothesay St Andrews Caledonia Mountain, New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Anderson's Cove Buchans and Lake Buchans Campbell's Creek Campbellton Hamilton River Highlands Holyrood (Holyrood is the site of the current Scottish Parliament) Iona Loch Leven Loch Lomond Lomond McKay's Melrose St. Andrew's
Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories also contain three places with Scottish surnames: Fort Simpson, Fort McPherson and Rae (Although now collectively known with Edzo as Behchoko).
Cameron River Volcanic Belt District of Mackenzie Ferguson Lake (Kitikmeot Region) Finlayson Islands Fort McPherson (Murdoch McPherson) Fort Simpson (George Simpson) Mackenzie Highway Mackenzie Mountains and Mackenzie River Macmillan Pass Melville Island (named for Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville)
Nova Scotia
"Nova Scotia" is Latin for New Scotland. Nova Scotia's Gaelic name is Alba Nuadh, which also literally means "New Scotland".
Aberdeen Argyle Arisaig Ben Eoin (from the Scottish Gaelic for "mountain of the birds") Beinn Bhreagh Beinn Scalpie Berwick Boisdale Broughton (ghost town) Caledonia Campbell Clydesdale Dundee Dunvegan Glencoe Glendale Granton Inverness Inverness County Iona Knoydart Lismore Lochaber Loch Broom Morar Loch Lomond New Edinburgh New Gairlock New Glasgow New Ross Portree Scotch Village Tantallon and Upper Tantallon
Nunavut
Baillie-Hamilton Island Cameron Island Clyde Inlet and Clyde River Craig Harbour (on Ellesmere Island) Dundas Harbour Edinburgh Island (PIN-DA) Eglinton Island Graham Island Houston Stewart Island Kuugaarjuk Migratory Bird Sanctuary (formerly the McConnell River Migratory Bird Sanctuary) and McConnell River Mackar Inlet (CAM-5) Mackenzie hotspot and Mackenzie dike swarm Melville Island (named for Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville) Dundas Peninsula (part of Melville Island) Melville Peninsula Rankin Inlet Simpson Lake (CAM-D)
Ontario
Aberdeen, Grey County Aberdeen, Prescott and Russell County Aberfeldy Aberfoyle Achray Ailsa Craig Alloa Angus Angus Glen Ardbeg Ardoch Armadale Armstrong, Thunder Bay District Armstrong Township, Armstrong Corners and Armstrong Mills Arnprior Arranvale (Isle of Arran) Athol, Prince Edward County Athol, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties Avonmore Ayr Ayton Badenoch Bainsville Bairds Ballantrae Ballinafad Bannockburn Baxter Bell Ewart Berriedale (Berriedale, Sutherland) Berwick Bisset Creek Bothwell Boyds (Surname, derived from Bute) Brechin Bruce Mines Bruce Peninsula Bruce Station Cairngorm Caledon Caledon East Caledonia Caledonia Springs Callander Campbellcroft Campbellford Campbellville Cargill Clachan Cockburn Island Coldstream Colgan Craigleith Craigmont Crieff Cromarty Crombie Cruikshank Dalhousie Lake Dalhousie Mills Dalkeith Dalmeny Dalrymple Doon Drummond Dundas Dundonald Dunedin (Dunedin, poetic name for Edinburgh/Dun Eideann) Dunkeld Dunvegan Dysart et al. (Dysart) East Tay Point (Tay) Elgin Elgin County, Ontario Farquhar Fergus Ferguslea Ferguson Corners, Ferguson Falls and Fergusons Beach Forfar Galbraith Gillies Hill Gilmour Glasgow Glen Glen Buell Glenburn Glenburnie Glen Cross Glenfield Glen Huron Glencairn Glencoe Glenelg Centre Glen Major Glen Nevis Glenora Glen Robertson Glenview Glenville Glen Williams Gorrie Greenock Haliburton Hamilton Hampden Henderson Innerkip Inverary Inverhuron (inbhir, meaning river mouth + Huron) Invermay Iona and Iona Station Jura, Ontario Katrine (Loch Katrine) Kilsyth Kinburn Kincardine Kinghorn Kinmount Kintail Kirkfield Laggan Laird Lake Dalrymple (Dalrymple) Lamlash Lammermoor Lanark Leith Lochalsh, Algoma District Lochalsh, Huron County Lochwinnoch Lowther McAlpine Corners Macdiarmid MacDonald Bay MacDonald's Grove MacDuff MacGillivrays Bridge Mackenzie MacKenzie Point MacLarens Landing MacLean Park MacTier Maitland, Huron County Maitland, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville Malcolm Maxwell, Grey County Maxwell, Hastings County Maxwells Minto Moffat Monteith Moray Morven Nairn, Middlesex County Nairn Centre Napier New Dundee New Edinburgh New Glasgow New Scotland, Chatham-Kent New Scotland, Regional Municipality of York Paisley Perth Perth Road Village Port Elgin Raith Rankin, Nipissing District Rankin, Renfrew County Rannoch Ratho Renfew, named for Renfrewshire Renfrew Junction Rutherford Rutherglen Scone Scotch Bush, Hastings County and Scotch Bush, Renfrew County Scotch Corners Scotia Selkirk Speyside - Early settlers believed a local creek resembled the River Spey. St. Andrews Staffa, Perth County Strathroy, near London Stirling Tarbert Tartan Tay Tobermory, Ontario Tweed Wallaceburg, Chatham-Kent (William Wallace) West Elgin (Elgin) West Lorne (Lorne) Wick
Prince Edward Island
Breadalbane Glenfinnan Island (Prince Edward Island) and Glenfinnan River Greenmount-Montrose Inverness Mount Stewart Lennox Island MacDonalds River Montrose River Murray River New Glasgow St Andrews Uigg, Prince Edward Island
Quebec Abercorn Campbell's Bay Denholm Drummondville and Drummond RCM Duncan Lake (Quebec) Dundee East Angus Elgin Hampden Inverness Lennoxville Lochaber Lochaber-Partie-Ouest MacMasterville MacNider Napierville and Les Jardins de Napierville Scotstown Stornoway Thurso Tingwick
Saskatchewan
Aberdeen and Aberdeen No. 373 Abernethy and Abernethy No. 186 Ancrum Argyle No. 1 Arran Balcarres Balgonie Biggar Birsay Calder Calderbank Carmichael No. 109 Carnduff Clansman Colonsay and Colonsay No. 342 Crichton Cupar Dalmeny Davidson Dysart Fairy Glen Fife Lake Girvin Glen Ewen Glenavon Glenside Govan Inchkeith Innes Invergordon No. 430 Invermay Isbister's Settlement (former name of Prince Albert) Jedburgh Kyle Kylemore Laird Lomond No. 37 Lumsden and Lumsden No. 189 Markinch Melville Mortlach Neidpath Oban Orkney and Orkney No. 244 Peebles Ravenscrag Saltcoats Scotsguard Simpson St. Boswells Tiree
The town of Coronach was originally named after a horse; however, the original meaning of coronach is a Gaelic lament.
Yukon
Bell River Dawson City Fort Selkirk Mackenzie Mountains Mount Logan Houston's Peak Mount Lorne Mount Macaulay Macmillan River Ogilvie Mountains Ogilvie River Robert Campbell Highway Ross River Stewart River
See also List of Spanish place names in Canada Locations in Canada with an English name
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