Pile of Bones

In 1882, the site of the future city of Regina, capital of the North-West Territories and of the province of Saskatchewan, was selected. The chosen site was the point where the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway crossed a creek variously called Pile o’ Bones, Tas d’Os, Manybones, and Bone Creek. The creek finally became known as Wascana from the Cree term for bones, Oscana. A few miles downstream, where its valley is more pronounced and numerous cutbanks occur, was the “Old Crossing”, a ford on the historic cart trail from Fort Qu’Appelle to Wood Mountain and Cypress Hills. In that vicinity the buffalo bones had accumulated.

The pile of bones from the Cree Indian hunts was quite a sight to the early settlers. The bones resulting from the slaughter were carefully assembled into cylindrical piles about six feet high and about 40 feet in diameter at the base, with the shin and other long bones radiating from the centre to make stable and artistic piles. During the second half of the 19th century, the Métis also slaughtered large numbers of buffalo in this area, and the creek was littered with countless bones.

Sources:
Saskatchewan History Vol. XIX.
Riddell, William A. Regina from Pile O’Bones to queen city of the plains, an illustrated history.
Burlington: Windsor Publications, 1981.

AFAIK, there was no buffalo jump near Regina.

There was a major buffalo jump there, the name was descriptive.

Beijing has been known by many names. Peking is just a variant Romanization of Beijing, not really a different name. Another historical name is Peiping. And it was called Cambaluc by Marco Polo.

And of course, the small fortified Swedish settlement Nöteborg was enlarged to become Petersburg 🙂

Chemnitz -> Karl-Marx-Stadt -> Chemnitz

and

Tsaritsyn -> Stalingrad -> Volgograd.

And, a rather obscure one:

Rome -> Colonia Commodiana -> Rome (very short-lived)