If you’ve ever done any amount of travelling outside of Canada, there’s a good chance you’ve stumbled across your share of …”questionable” city names.
From “Nowhere Else” in Australia, to “My Large Intestine” in Texas, and “Nasty” in England, there’s a seemingly endless number whacky locale names out there. But while it’s certainly fun to laugh at their expense, maybe we shouldn’t be pointing fingers so quickly. After all, Canada is the proud host of some of the weirdest sounding communities across the globe. Here are just a few:
1. Town of Mono, Ontario
Enter at your own risk, but make sure nobody coughs on you!
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2. Bacon Ridge, Manitoba
A.K.A. Best place to live on Earth
3. Robert’s Arm, Newfoundland
Are you sure Robert’s okay with this?
4. Sober Island, Nova Scotia
Well this certainly doesn’t sound as fun as Bacon Ridge.
5. Tisdale, Saskatchewan
It’s not the town’s name, but rather its slogan that this community’s famous for.
6. Mayo, Quebec
I’ve heard the sandwiches here are to die for!
7. Drinkwater, Saskatchewan
Hmm…close relative of Sober Ridge perchance?
8. Tiny, Ontario
I tried to visit once, but no matter how hard I looked I couldn’t find it!
9. Saint Louis Du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec
Are you laughing with me, or are you laughing AT me?
10. Champagne, Yukon
Cheers to a nation that’s proud to celebrate its culture, diversity, and downright weirdness!
These are awesome. I want to live in the Bacon town. I live in Oregon and we have a Boring Oregon. I like I will explore other funny sounding towns in Oregon.
Wow, those are some great names! Bacon Ridge sounds like the kind of place I want to visit
I used to live in Minnesota and they had some silly names as well. One is “Castle Danger, MN”. Another one is “Sleepy Eye, MN”. I wonder how all of these names originate!
Land of rape? Sounds scary!
Bacon Ridge? Sounds gluttony!
But, hey, these are really interesting names.
I would also love to celebrate New Year in Champagne! I wonder how their champagnes differ from others.
We have a Mono Lake here in California, and, famously, a town called Weed. We also have a ridiculously tiny but absolutely real town called ‘El Gordo by the Sea’… or maybe it was Los Gordos? No I’m pretty sure it was El Gordo. We went on a vacation to Jade Cove when I was a child and stayed in this silly little town with its silly name. It means ‘the fat one’. America in general has, I think, more than its fair share of ridiculous/funny place names. I can’t remember at the moment whether the town of Hell is in Michigan or Minnesota, but… either way, you know?
Bacon Ridge. I wonder if it’s too late for me to rearrange my retirement plan. This place sounds like heaven to me!
OMG, that’s hilarious! Why is the logo town of rape and honey? Is the town/ city council aware of this?
Some of these are funny, others not so. None of them beat Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Now that’s funny. Thanks for the laughs. Cheers.
So this guy from Mono is caught kissing people in Sober Island, they all get afraid that the water is tainted. When they get thirsty they head to Drink Water. Good thing they did not go to Bacon Ridge, all that sodium just makes you more thirsty.
Ok, what were people thinking when they sat down to choose a name. Sure name it after our largest export. Lard Ridge, Boring Island and the so forth. I am not likely to buy my first home there.
These are hysterical!! I want to live at bacon ridge. And some of their names suggest things that aren’t necessarily what they mean. For example, the home of rape and honey, I think is referring to rapeseeds, but it sure doesn’t sound that way!
That is quite an entertaining roundup of names, and the pictures are great, too.
One wonders what residents are thinking of when they come up with these names.
Mayo, Quebec would go great with Sandwich, Massachusetts! Bacon Ridge, Manitoba is perfect with Two Egg, Florida!
For me, one of the strangest of these is Saint Louis Du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec…complete with exclamation marks. Very odd!
Those are hilarious! I’d love to know the back-stories to naming some of those towns.
For the record, I’m TOTALLY craving a BLT now.
Tisdale: Land of Rape and Honey…rapeseed…think Canola oil…bright yellow fields…..
I love the Saint Louis Du-Ha!Ha!……
I was raised in Bacon Ridge, Manitoba it’s called that because every house had a pig pen at the time of naming it. It was a joke but everyone just left it at that