How did Canada find itself with some of the most “colourful” place names in the world?

Names like Blue Heaven Lake in Ontario, the Yellowhead Trail in Alberta, Orange Juice Creek in BC, Green Canyon in Saskatchewan.

Here's your guide to the nation's most colourfully-named towns, rivers, lakes, islands, mountains and streets.

For more than a decade, Christopher MacKinnon has published articles and books on some of Canada’s most compelling and unusual place names.

In this volume, he brings together a unique mashup of on-point geography with wonderful descriptions, entries and lists for hundreds of colourful locations.

A delightful addition to the library of anyone who has marvelled at the rainbow of vivid and often strange names that abound in Canada.