Elgin

Meaning

1. A placename:
2. A rural community and parish in Albert County, New Brunswick.
3. A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
4. A surname.
5. A town in Moray council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, the original place from which the others were named.
6. A number of places in Canada:
7. A large valley southeast of Cape Town, South Africa.
8. An unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Grassland, Manitoba.

Etymology / origin

* As a Scottish surname, derived from the place in Morayshire, from Scottish Gaelic Eilginn, possibly meaning little Ireland, from Èirinn. * As a Turkish surname, from the obsolete noun elgin (“stranger”); see el. * The village in New Brunswick is probably named in honour of colonial administrator James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863). The civil parish is named after the village.

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