[APTA-2048]

A person from Toronto is known as a Torontonian, but there are some other other places that I wonder what their citizens are known as. What do you call someone from: Pickering, Vaughan, Markham, Belleville, Windsor, Welland, Coboug, Tecumseh

 

[urbandreamer]

Waterlooian. A Milvertonian. A Newtonian. Cambridgite. A Hammerman.

I'm from county.

 

[jn_12]

People from Welland are Wellanders.

 

[MetroMan]

I've recently wondered the same about people from Vancouver? Vancouveran? Vanourverite?

 

[CDL.TO]

For many large cities, the Wikipedia article includes the Demonym for that city in the info box at the top-right of the page. According to it, someone from Vancouver is a Vancouverite.

 

[golodhendil]

Waterlooian. A Milvertonian. A Newtonian. Cambridgite. A Hammerman.

I'm from county.

Shouldn't someone from Cambridge be a Cantabrigian?

 

[whatever]

Belleville

Bellevillain?

How about the -boroughs (Peter and Scar)? I regularly use "Scarberian", and it seems to be accepted, but I'm not sure if it's a correct form or just something people say

 

[urbandreamer]

Not an Ontario city here, but just a funny thought.

Someone from Hell? Hellish.

 

[adma]

How about the -boroughs (Peter and Scar)? I regularly use "Scarberian", and it seems to be accepted, but I'm not sure if it's a correct form or just something people say

It's actually more a derivative of the derogative term "Scarberia". (Maybe "Scarboroughan", or something, might be more proper--don't know what people from the Yorkshire namesake call themselves.)

 

[andomano]

^Scarlem has always been a favourite of mine, but I'm from Scarborough, and I term myself a Scarberian.

Someone from Pickering is a "Pickeringite" and that's straight from the mayor's mouth. A relative of mine moved out there and e-mailed the mayor to find out and that was his response.

 

[golodhendil]

How about the -boroughs (Peter and Scar)? I regularly use "Scarberian", and it seems to be accepted, but I'm not sure if it's a correct form or just something people say

The demonym of a -borough would be a -borian, eg, Peterborian, Scarborian.

 

[JasonParis]

Someone from Pickering is a "Pickeringite" and that's straight from the mayor's mouth. A relative of mine moved out there and e-mailed the mayor to find out and that was his response.

They should change that to Pickeringer. It just sounds...funny.

 

[jn_12]

i think Niagara might have some of the hardest to define simply because there are some awkward city names plus a bunch of multi-word cities.
St Catharines = St Kittsman
Niagara-on-the-lake = Niagara-on-the-laker?
Port Colborne = Port Colborner
Fort Erie = Fort Erian? (awfully close to being pronounced Fort Aryan...)
Niagara Falls = ?

 

[adma]

Though generic "Niagaran" works (even if it looks a little too much like "Nigerian")

 

[afransen]

There's the small town of Wainfleet, and I've only ever heard Fleeter as a demonym.