Windows on the history and culture of the region, the toponyms of Atlantic Canada have attracted attention and interest for centuries. Almost a millennium has passed since the Norse first landed in Vinland, but even earlier the Amer-Indian and Inuit people bestowed their own place names on Atlantic Canada. Information about the evolution of place names is never static: new archaeological, historical, and linguistic sources are always being discovered. In Place Name of Atlantic Canada, William B. Hamilton provides a wide-ranging overview of the origin and meaning of hundreds of regional place names to reveal the colourful history of the area.