I have always been really curious to why the Three Sisters Mountains were called the Three Sisters, they looked nothing like girls. It was Albert Rogers, who named the three peaks He recalled, "There had been quite a heavy snowstorm in the night, and when we got up in the morning and looked out of the tent I noticed each of the three peaks had a heavy veil of snow on the north side and I said to the boys, 'Look at the Three Nuns.' They were called the Three Nuns for quite a while but later were called the 'Three Sisters. The name "Three Sisters" first appeared on Dr. George Dawson's map of 1886 and it is quite likely that he thought that the name Three Sisters would be more appropriate.

Hanna. Hanna, Alberta was named after the Canadian National Railways president, then, Mr. David Hanna. Hanna has been home to many famous and important people such as:Kevin Warwick and Lanny McDonald, Marjorie Willison, author and radio personality, a Rhodes Scholar, an engineer, Zach Weich, who worked on both the Avro Arrow and for NASA, and the rock band Nickelback.

The name Saskatoon comes from the Saskatoon berry. The berry is a sweet violet color and the Saskatoon area is the only place that it grows. That is why the area is called Saskatoon.

Red deer was called Red Deer because elk used to graze by the Red Deer River and the British Settlers did not know that these animals were elk and thought that they were red deer. So they chose to name the area Red Deer. The First Nations people in that area must have known that they were elk and I wonder if they laughed at the settlers for not recognizing the animals as elk.

Medicine Hat is really different because it is translated literally. When translated in Blackfoot it means the headdress of a medicine man. So Medicine Hat was probably a place where herbs or other healing ingredients grew

Did you know that Athabasca River, Lake Athabasca, Athabasca, Athabasca Falls and Mount Athabasca all mean where there are reeds in Cree. That makes sense because they are all either bodies of water of places near bodies of water.

Did you know that Canada means village or settlement in Saint Lawrence Iroquoian? I kind of found that weird because you don’t think of Canada actually meaning something, you think it refers to a country. So I found that interesting.