| Show CANADA HOW IT OBTAIN OBTAINED EDITS ITS NAME the origin of 0 the word 11 canada is curious enough the spaniards visited that country previous to the french and i i made partial searches for silver and eold gold and finding none they often said among themselves jl A ca middy nada there is nothing here the indians who watched closely learned the sentence and ito it meaning after the departure of the spaniards th the efrench french arrived and the indians who wanted none of their conr conn pany and supposed they were also spaniards come on the same errand were anxious to inform them that their labor was lost by tarrying in jn that country and arid incessantly repeated to them the spanish sentence 4 ca nada the french who knew as little of the spanish as the indians supposed this incessantly recurring sound was the name of the country a and dd gave it the name which it has born ever since |
