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Kitsilano
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English
Etymology
Named by Charles Hill-Trout, from an anglicisation of the en squ X̱atsʼalanexw, a personal name, after August Jack Khatsahlano.Matthews James Skitt https://archive.org/details/EarlyVancouverVolume1_14 Narrative of Pioneers of Vancouver, BC Collected During 1931-1932: Early Vancouver 2011 1 Vancouver 21-22 J. S. MatthewsJesse Donaldson, "How Land Grabs Pushed the Original Inhabitants of Kits Beach Off Their Land", Montecristo Magazine, 7 August 2020Angela Sterritt, "The little-known history of Squamish Nation land in Vancouver", CBC News, 21 April 2019
Proper noun
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en neighbourhood city/Vancouver province/British Columbia c/Canada.
en Kits informal
References
en eponyms