So apparently the country named Canada doesn't work at all.

Mustang1 Mustang1:

Perhaps you practise what you preach and read a book and save us the hassle of correcting each of your historical missteps.

How many books talk about a Canada where Montreal was the capital? I know I didn't learn it in school.

Hoser,
To tell people you know for a fact that Canada did not exist before the coming of the british means that you have proof or that you were there. I know for a simple fact that you were not there therefore show us the proof.

I am not a separatist but I am a quebecois and canadian at the same time. I can tell you for a fact that the Utrech treaty was giving to british control 4 out of 5 colonies of la Nouvelle-France: la Baie d'Hudson, Terre-Neuve, l'Acadie et le Canada. Where the word Canada came from is still uncertain. I know that the little "vignette" on TV was telling that it was because Cartier did not know what he was talking about. They tended to put it nice for people to see what a nice and comfy place this country called "village" is. It is true it give a good feeling about staying in a place where everybody is a neighbour. Nothing wrong with that but do not always beleive what is on TV

To let you know too there is no real explanation for the word Québec. History is even more shaddy on that......

Tourlou!

Maudit quickcall,
arrête de poigner les nerfs comme ça,
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Tes cartes sont très souvent des gravures ou dessins qui furent produites plus tard que tu le dis. Tu as raison de dire que Canada était utilisé avant l'arrivée des Anglais. Mais le fait est que Canada s'écrivait avec un K et non un C (le C n'était pas très utilisé en France et lorsqu'il était utilisé il se prononçait comme le S c'est une base linguistique et non politique).
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Calme toi un peuet.....Tourlou!

Well my point was that as a Country, Canada was never French,

and that as a country it only came to be just over a hundred years ago.

Even if a land named Kanada existed here previous, it was never a French country.

Nor was it ever a French land.

QuickCall QuickCall:

(massive map and something written in French which is probably a repetition of what you've already said ten times over in English)

Dude, please stop. Posting your maps again and again doesn't prove anything if you don't use any other kind of sources to back them up.

Now for those living in Ontario that are going to say 'well that's were the population is' I say look further west because that is where all the resources are.

I think you need to back up your map with other sources. Showing us a bunch of not particularly clear maps doesn't prove much of anything, except that someone drew a map.

When Jacques Cartier arrived in the lower St. Lawrence in 1536, he asked local Iroquois hunters what lay up river. "Canada" ["kanata"], they replied, meaning, "Our Town". From the repetition of the word, Cartier thought at first they were referring to the entire country.

The first time we see the name "Canada" used on a map is on two beautiful charts drawn in Dieppe, France, in 1546 and 1547.

The first chart, by Pierre Descelliers, shows the name Canada over the north shore of the St. Lawrence. I believe the name was added later. The second, by Nicholas Vallard, is quite precise. It shows the name "Canada" applied to the Iroquois town at the mouth of the St. Charles River by Quebec. The "Kanata" that Jacques Cartier saw was a true Iroquois village. It had corn fields and cleared land called deer yards that the people used to lure wild game. I believe it stretched from the St. Charles valley up to the fresh water spring at what the French came to call Charlesbourg.