Canadian City Etymologies

Given the original language and meaning, try to name the Canadian city

It helps to know the general location of the First Nations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canada_city_name_etymologies

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Original Language	Meaning	Answer
French	Royal Mountain	Montreal
Latin	Queen	Regina
Shuswap	Meeting of the waters	Kamloops
Algonquin	Where the river narrows	Quebec (City)
French	Rapids of St. Mary's River	Sault Ste. Marie
Algonquin	To trade, place where trade occurs	Ottawa
Mohawk	Where there are trees standing in the water	Toronto
Cree	Fruit of the tree of many branches (berries)	Saskatoon
Dutch	From the city where the cow crosses	Vancouver
Anishinaabe	[Those at the] Great River-mouth	Mississauga
Scottish / Gaelic	Beach of the meadow (pasture)	Calgary
Okanagan	Female grizzly bear	Kelowna
Cree	Muddy waters	Winnipeg
Inuktitut	Many fish	Iqaluit
Old English	Area of coarse grass in the nook of land	Halifax

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