Subject: oops its Kannata
Date: Oct 4 08:53:20 1994
From: TRACEE at kaf.iphc.washington.edu - TRACEE at kaf.iphc.washington.edu
sorry a correction:
In 1535 Jacques Cartier on his second voyage from France visited the Indian
village of Stadacona (Quebec City) and gave Canada its name when he mistook
the Indian word kannata, meaning a collection of huts, for the name of the
country.
source: QUICK (not quite quick enough) CANADIAN FACTS- The Canadian Pocket
Encyclopedia 1964-65 edition.