A bit far afield, perhaps, but there's the "saskatoon berry"
(_Amelanchier_ spp.), which however is not named for the city, rather the
other way around. The term is a corruption of the Cree (?) term for the
berry, aka, "servisberry/sarvisberry."

Gene.

On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Dick Cannings wrote:

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> On Thu, 19 Jan 1995, Alvaro Patricio Jaramillo wrote:
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> > There are many birds named after localities within the states, like
> > Seiurus noveboracensis, Pheucticus ludovicianus, Pipilo (e.) oreganus,
> > Larus philadelphia, Larus delawarensis, etc. etc. I wonder how many of
> > the states are represented in Latin binomials? Are any Canadian provinces
> > represented in Latin names?
> >
> I can't think of any Canadian provinces commemorated in Latin names,
> although one of the Say's Phoebe subspecies is yukonensis, but that may
> refer to the river rather than the territory. The fact is, when most of
> these birds were getting named, there were no provinces in Canada, it was
> just called Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec), although
> the Maritimes and Newfoundland were named as well. Most of western
> Canada was owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, so many of the birds
> collected by their expeditions and employees were given "hudsonius" or
> "hudsonicus" epithets.
>
> Richard J. Cannings cannings at bcu.ubc.ca
> Cowan Vertebrate Museum vertmus at bcu.ubc.ca
> Department of Zoology, (604)822-4665
> University of British Columbia (604)822-2416 (FAX)
> Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 CANADA
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