Show Wide Choice Offered as to Canadas Name At least lensi live Jhc derivations for the word Canada 1111 Irate lia e been front from the lie Algonquin word Hord Cun iota tata welcome supposed to have e been heen used hy by the Indians a when they first saw salt Cartier whom they received with demons rations of Joy JOr Second from tIe the OIs won Cantata inclining II a i of huts hilts and being I the Hie he word wil wore the IIII lie quins quilts Iulus applied to 10 their chief town lOII Thir d fruin frum ruin 11 II word won Acau Acan sida Acan ada meaning there Is I nothing there Indicating the LIlt SIW saw t saw aw no signs of gold old as they skirted the coast COlst of if the Gulf of St St Lawrence Fourth 1 front from II i i Portuguese uese word Coo Cne ada narrow passage and ii that lint the Portuguese long h he lie fore fore Cartler's CartIer's line line sailed up lip the lie 51 Lawrence mill and gave the th name came Can II iida ado to the country through which the the comparatively c narrow niter 11 er namely that above nho Quebec bee I l sas sa's says the word is Basque fur canal which would convey omy tle he saute same Idea ilea as strait trail or ur narrow The fhe first lirt 1 Ittu seem tile the most mist derivations The name Canada was J used ue d l hy by l y the thc early French explorers and settlers |