Hallo,
aber klar doch!
Here they come...
B.C.: Beautiful British Columbia (Nummernschild)
Saskatchewan: Canada's Breadbasket (wegen der Weizenfelder) und Land of Living Skies (auf dem Nummernschild)
Manitoba: The Keystone Province (weil so mittenmang) und Friendly Manitoba (Nummernschild)
Ontario: Heartland Province und Yours to Discover (Nummernschild)
Novia Scotia: Canada's Ocean Playground und Land of Evangeline (from the poem "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which tells the story of the expulsion of the French-speaking Acadians from eastern Canada in 1755) und Bluenoser Province (This nickname is thought to have been given to the crew of the ships which carried the blue-skinned Nova Scotia potatoes to Boston in the late eighteenth century. A famous racing schooner called the Bluenose was built in Nova Scotia in 1921. This boat held the International Fisherman's Trophy Cup for two decades. A picture of the Bluenose appears on the back of the Canadian dime coin and on a Canadian postage stamp)
Alberta: Sunny Alberta und Wild Rose Country (Nummernschild)
Quebec: The Storied Province und Je me souviens ("Ich erinnere mich" auf
dem Nummernschild)
New Brunswick: The Loyalist Province und New/Nouveau Brunswick auf dem Nummernschild
Soweit ich weiß, haben die anderen Provinzen keine Beinamen.
Viele Grüße,
Jane
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