Alternate Geographic Names, Take 2

hey, all. i WAS gonna bump my old thread for this but when i saw it'd been over a year since the last post i decided against it

so i need some help devising some alternate names again. once again, i've gone back to Canada with the writing and need to come up with a different name. this time, i'm trying to get an alternate name for Nova Scotia that isn't just some variation of "New Scotland" and, in fact, i'd prefer to avoid using the "New [place]" cliche this time partly because i've already got one closeby using that (New Brunswick as New Northumbria)
 
You have basically three options

~New [Old World region/country]
~[Ruler/Ruler's Consort]-Land, perhaps in a classicized way, like Carolina from Charles
~Native tribal or geographical name. Sometimes in a roundabout way, ie first a river is named after a tribe, then the colony is named for the river.
 
Here's a list I found on Wikipedia, the proposed names for Canada: :D

  • Anglia – the medieval Latin name for England
  • Albionoria – "Albion of the north"
  • Borealia – from 'borealis', the Latin word for 'northern'; compare with Australia
  • Cabotia – in honour of Italian explorer John Cabot, who explored the eastern coast of Canada for England
  • Colonia
  • Efisga – an acronym of "English, French, Irish, Scottish, German, Aboriginal"
  • Hochelaga – an old name for Montreal
  • Laurentia
  • Mesopelagia – "land between the seas"
  • New Albion
  • Norland
  • Superior
  • Tupona – derived from 'The United Provinces of North America'
  • Transatlantica
  • Ursalia – "place of bears"
  • Vesperia – "land of the evening star"
  • Victorialand – in honour of Queen Victoria
 
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