Its a lovely idea, naming such a beautiful place after the adorable little songbirds that live there.
Yes, it would be if it was true. As you may have gathered is the point of this article, what you think is true is absolutely not. The Canary Islands, a delightful Spanish archipelago just off Morocco, are named after dogs. The origin of the name is a little unclear the historian Pliny The Elder claims that an ancient king named the islands after the vast numbers of massive dogs that used to live on them, while others speculate that the beaches of the islands had been home to a species of monk seal that are now no longer present there, seals having been called canis marinus, or sea dogs in Latin. Then theres the theory that says that the aboriginal first inhabitants of the islands may have actually worshipped dogs, treating them as holy symbols and mummifying and stuffing them when they died. Certain Roman writings speak of tribes of dog-headed people living far to the west at any rate, those adorable little songbirds? Named after massive, snorting, slobbering animals. Curiously enough, the fact that Londons Isle Of Dogs is home to Canary Wharf is apparently a complete coincidence.