[Johnny-Canuck]

Who legitamantly named Canada? I understand Jacques Cartier missunderstood the native tribes when they told him he was in Kanata (Where the Sens play). But who decided to name it that?

[BobCarrick]

He was not in Kanata, Kanata means village. He thought it was the country name not the village. I think anyway.

[RoyalHighlander]

Yup thats just about how it happened folks

[Johnny-Canuck]

It was like that cool commercial.

"Pardon me sir, but I think he was talking about those houses down there."

But its kind of an embarassment, our country got it's name by a misspronounciation!

[Regina]

Okay..... Broken Rubber.

[Koopsta]

The Globe (now including Mail) ran a contest to name the new country that was going to be formed at confederation. But it all came down to queen Victoria who named us in our constitution.

The Dominion of Canada from sea to shining sea or something like that eh.

[Johnny-Canuck]

UnitedStates, dont you have American pride sites that you should be visiting right now?

[RoyalHighlander]

Johnny-Canuck wrote:

UnitedStates, dont you have American pride sites that you should be visiting right now?

LMAO read his post again buddy

[Johnny-Canuck]

RH, don't you be editing peoples posts on me so I can look like a fool!

[thefactremains]

Canada,,means CLEAN...in saultaux and ojibwa and cree languge

[GreatBriton]

The name Canada is believed to come from the Huron-Iroquois word kanata, which means "village" or "settlement". In 1535, locals used the word to tell Jacques Cartier the way to the village of Stadacona, [1] site of present-day Quebec City. Cartier used Canada to refer not only to Stadacona, but also to the entire area subject to Donnacona, Chief at Stadacona; by 1547, maps began referring to this and the surrounding area as Canada.

The French colony of Canada, New France, was set up along the Saint Lawrence River and the northern shores of the Great Lakes. Later it was split into two British colonies, called Upper Canada and Lower Canada until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name Canada was officially adopted for the new dominion, which was commonly referred to as the Dominion of Canada until the 1950s. As Canada increasingly acquired political authority and autonomy from Britain, the federal government increasingly began using simply Canada on state documents and treaties. The Canada Act 1982 refers only to Canada and, as such, is currently the only legal, as well as bilingual, name. This was also reflected later in 1982 with the renaming of the national holiday from Dominion Day to Canada Day.

wikipedia.org

[BigChuck]

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[Virgil]

BobCarrick wrote:

He was not in Kanata, Kanata means village. He thought it was the country name not the village. I think anyway.

You got her. My best bet is that Cartier said something like where are we, the Indian, who vaguely understood said, Kanata, the Algonkin word for village.