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Douglas Todd, writing in the Vancouver Sun, suggests that the Canadian province of British Columbia should change its name because they're "so far from being culturally beholden to our "British"ness that it's not funny". Bizarrely he suggests changing the name to 'Caledonia', which to me suggests nothing but Scottishness, and a romanticised version of Scottishness at that.

The "British" in Columbia is misleading because:

The people of the Canadian West Coast tend to be innovative, anti-establishment, future-looking, nature-revering do-it-yourselfers....But we poor sods on the Pacific Coast of Canada are stuck with a name that makes us sound like a 19th-century colony of Britain, where we still drink too much tea and eat too many crumpets and Yorkshire pudding.

Personally I like British Columbia, but "Pacific Coast" might bring in a few more tourists.

Douglas defends himself here.


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