Whether you live atop the delicious sounding Molasses Hill or along the shores of the much more pessimistic sounding Disappointment Lake, one thing all New Brunswickers agree with is the province is teeming with weird and unusual place names.
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· Posted: Sep 07, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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You might be a New Brunswicker if…you can correctly pronounce these place names. (CBC)
Whether you live atop the delicious sounding Molasses Hill, or along the shores of the much more pessimistic sounding Disappointment Lake, one thing all New Brunswickers agree with is the province is teeming with weird and unusual place names.
“Don’t think this is just a, you know, a one-stop-shop kind of a thing,” said CBC’s roadside history columnist James Upham.
“We happen to live in a province that is blessed with such place names as Vinegar Hill and Raggedy Ass Falls.”
While not all place names are as colourful, the province’s unique linguistics history means even the more pedestrian names often have interesting stories.
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