What's in a Canadian Name?
The Origins and Meanings of Canadian Surnames
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company
- Initial publish date
- May 2000
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552781418
- Publish Date
- May 2000
- List Price
- $8.99
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Description
Someone said recently that the only true Canadian last names are thoser of our aboriginal peoples. Certainly Inuit, Cree and Ojibwa names were the first hear across that land that would become Canada. (Consider pop singer Shania Twain, who aboriginal name is Ojibwa for "on my way"). But surnames from all over the earth are Canadian too, brought here by immigrants speaking French, English, German, Italian, Gaelic, Ukranian, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Japanese and so on.In WHAT'S IN A CANADIAN NAME? you'll learn startling stories behind famous (and not so famous) Canadian names. Perhaps more importantly, Bill Casselman here gives you a bright and amusing introduction to how last names operate in many languages all over the world. For any reader interested in genealogy and surnames, this is a perfect introduction.
About the author
BILL CASSELMAN is the author of the best-sellers Canadian Sayings, Casselman’s Canadian Words, What’s In a Canadian Name? and the award-winning Canadian Food Words. He has been a writer, broadcaster, and performer for thirty-four years, including three years as a producer for CBC’s This Country in the Morning on radio. Casselman has written for The Toronto Star and The Montreal Gazette and for magazines such as Toronto Life, The Panic Button, and Canadian Geographic.
Other titles by Bill Casselman
Canadian Words & Sayings
As The Canoe Tips
Comic Scenes from Canadian Life
Canadian Sayings 3
1,000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians
Canadian Sayings 2
1,000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians
Canadian Sayings
1,200 Folk Saying Used by Canadians
Canadian Food Words
The Juicy Lore & Tasty Origins of Foods that Founded a Nation
Canadian Garden Words
Casselmania
More Wacky Canadian Words & Sayings
