WHY CANARY ISLANDS
The name of the Canary Islands has nothing to do with the little yellow songbirds. In Spanish they are called Las Canarias. They were named by the Romans; Pliny mentions “Canaria, so called from the many dogs (canes) of great size.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21156, 1 October 1938, Page 31 (Supplement)
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44WHY CANARY ISLANDS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21156, 1 October 1938, Page 31 (Supplement)
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