Espanola

Espanola is a town in Northern Ontario, Canada, in the Sudbury District. It is arranged on the Spanish River, roughly 70 kilometers west of downtown Sudbury, and only south of the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 17. The name "Espanola" has been ascribed to a story which goes back to the mid eighteenth century. The story goes that a First Nations Ojibwa clan of the territory sent an assaulting party a long separation toward the south and carried back with them a white lady who communicated in Spanish.

The Spanish lady wedded a nearby Annishnabeg First Nations of a family living close to the mouth of the stream and showed her youngsters to communicate in Spanish. Afterward, when the French voyageurs and coureurs des bois happened upon the settlement and heard parts of Spanish talked by the nearby locals, they commented "Espagnole", which had been later anglicized to "Espanola", and the waterway was named the Spanish River.