CountriesCanadaRank 7 of 9822 words15 placesCanada22 English words in this atlas point back to Canada, spread across 15 places.ShareWordThe placeRelationshipConfidenceLabradorThe dog is named for a northern coast.LabradorFrom the placeWell attestedalbertosaurThe dinosaur is named for a Canadian province.AlbertaFrom the placeWell attestedThousand Island dressingThe dressing is named for an archipelago on the St Lawrence.Thousand IslandsFrom the placeWell attestedAlberta clipperOne weather term, two borrowings: a Canadian province and a racing sailing ship.AlbertaFrom the placeWell attestedAppalachian dulcimerIt is not a dulcimer: real dulcimers are struck, and this one is plucked.Appalachian MountainsFrom the placeWell attestedCanada gooseIt is the Canada goose, never the Canadian goose, and many never see Canada.CanadaFrom the placeWell attestedCanadian baconIn Canada it is just back bacon; the country in the name is an American addition.CanadaFrom its peopleWell attestedgo to HalifaxA polite way to say hell that points at a real town instead.HalifaxFrom the placeDisputedLogan breadBaked for an attempt on Canada's highest mountain, then kept by hikers.Mount LoganFrom the placeProbableManitoba mapleThe only North American maple with compound leaves; it grows far beyond Manitoba.ManitobaFrom the placeWell attestedMontreal procedurePatients stayed awake and described their own memories as the surgeon probed.MontrealFrom the placeWell attestedMontreal ProtocolThe treaty named for a Canadian city was the first every country ratified.MontrealFrom the placeWell attestedNanaimo barThe bar's earliest printed recipes may not come from Nanaimo at all.NanaimoFrom the placeProbableRocky Mountain spotted feverThe disease named for the Rockies is now mostly a problem far from them.Rocky MountainsFrom the placeWell attestedcanolaA country's name is hiding inside a supermarket cooking oil.CanadaIndirectWell attestedmontroyaliteThe mineral is named for the hill that gave Montreal its name, and was found in a quarry across the same city.Mount RoyalFrom the placeWell attestedmordeniteA crumb of Nova Scotian basalt now underwrites a chunk of the world's petrochemical industry.MordenFrom the placeWell attestedNewfoundland speed bumpMoose are not native to Newfoundland; the island's herd descends from a handful released a century ago.NewfoundlandFrom the placeWell attestedRocky Mountain canaryThe bray of a pack donkey in a mining camp was nobody's idea of birdsong.Rocky MountainsFrom the placeWell attestedRocky Mountain Kool-AidFor decades it could not legally be sold east of the Mississippi, which is what made it worth smuggling.Rocky MountainsFrom the placeWell attestedRocky Mountain oysterNothing about it comes from the sea, and that is the entire joke.Rocky MountainsFrom the placeWell attestedHongcouverTwo Pacific port cities, one name, and an argument about who counts as a local.VancouverFrom the placeWell attestedElsewhere in the atlasUnited States153United Kingdom108Italy63France57Germany29Greece29Turkey22People's Republic of China21Spain20Japan18India16Mexico13Belgium12Australia11All 98 countries →