NAMING OF CANADA
• Many attempts have been made _by the leading Dominion historians to find the correct derivation of the word “ Canada.” Haying examined all the i data they have new established the fact that the word “ Kanata,” originating, and Still in use, from the Iroquois language and meaning a collection of dwellings or settlement, is the root of the Dominion’s name. Cartier, in one of his vocabularies of the Iroquois speech, says of it, “ they call a town Canada.” Its evolution into the placename Canada can be.fully followed in the narrative of Cartier, where it appears first in his account of his second voyage in 1535. The two Iroquois Indians whom he had seized at Gaspe and taken to France the preceding year informed him on entering the Great Hiver (now the St. Lawrence) thattheir home:was in Canaday-proved later to be an alternative name for the village of Stadacona, on the site of Quebec City.
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Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 7
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156NAMING OF CANADA Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 7
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