Alternate Names of American States and Canadian Provinces

I've been looking around all over for an alternate list of American states and Canadian provinces, but all I can find are origins and etymologies of the actual names. Can anyone help me locate a list of this? Thank you.
 
For Canadian provinces, do you already have knowledge of the names of the Districts the Northwest Territories was divided into before the Western provinces were carved out? They could easily have become province names...

District of Assiniboia
District of Saskatchewan
District of Alberta (this one could easily have had any name had Queen Victoria married someone else)
District of Keewatin
District of Ungava

etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_the_Northwest_Territories
 
New Brunswick was nearly named New Ireland.

telynk said:
District of Alberta (this one could easily have had any name had Queen Victoria married someone else)

Alberta wasn't named for Prince Albert. It was named for Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria.
 
In colonial times, the name Vandalia was proposed for a new colony in OTL WVa and Kt.
The same period, the name Charlotina (or Charlotiana) was proposed for a colony northwest of the Lower Ohio, Wabash and Maaumee rivers.

Note that these names make only sense in a TL where Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz is queen consort of George III, since one is (obviously) based on her name while the other is an complicated allusion to the Wends as early inhabitants of Mecklenburg. Yes, they were not the Vandals, but the 18th chose to ignore that.
 
But she wouldn't have had the name or existed if Victoria wasn't married to Albert.

...

Suppose I should have thought that through. He did imply the province was named for the Prince Consort, though, which is what I was correcting.
 
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