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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
Sainte (Ste.) Catherines (Famous Montreal Street).
Saint Catharines (Ontario).
Confusing? Nah. But hard to remember the correct spelling for the latter.
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Is this your way of saying Saint John and St. John's
is confusing? Or do you only bring up things related to Quebec and Montreal?
oh, and sorry, Lloydminster, SK/AB ... which isn't really that confusing at all, it's a single municipality on two sides of a provincial border.
St. John's and Saint John would be more like if there was a Fort McMurray, AB and a Ft. McMurray's, MB which were both notable for their oil and gas industries, and all the "newfies" from Saint John, New Brunswick moving there for jobs in the oil patch.
keeping the parade of digressions, I'm surprised no one has brought up
Love City yet, Saint John, the smallest island of the US Virgin Islands.
Pretty good example of how two places with the exact same name cannot be easily mistaken or confused with each other, while two places with incredibly similar names and similar general locations often can be.
No one is confusing Portland ME and Portland, Oregon. No one is confusing Sydney, Nova Scotia and Sydney, Australia. But Canadians are absolutely still confusing Saint John, NB and St. John's, NL.
If Saint John had instead went a step further and named it "Saint Jean" after Champlain's 1604 discovery, instead of the "giant leap" from St. John->Saint John, perhaps there wouldn't remain so much written communications confusion between the two SJ's, outside of Atlantic Canada.
I don't think many people would be confusing Saint Jean, NB with Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, PQ, as they're just not as similar places as Saint John, NB, and St. John's, NL are, despite the closer distance between Quebec and New Brunswick.
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