i just thought of it
i think yes
Full Version: Canada?
Canada is one of the least confusing.
Think of the Netherlands (Netherlandians? Netherlandans?), or Switzerland (Swiss? what?) and Poland (Poles?), and then there are all the -ese (Chinese, Japanese, etc.).
Personally, I think it should be Canadia.
Think of the Netherlands (Netherlandians? Netherlandans?), or Switzerland (Swiss? what?) and Poland (Poles?), and then there are all the -ese (Chinese, Japanese, etc.).
Personally, I think it should be Canadia.
I think you're silly 
wow it was easier to get a canadian to agree with me
i don't understand the logic....
i just think its weird that they added an i
and then they hate it when you call their country Canadia
and then they hate it when you call their country Canadia
that's just plain silly.
fascinating.... *pondering*...
I think they should be called Canadiaks
im just saying if they dont like their country being called Canadia then they shouldnt call themselves canadians
You forgot to add "Canadese" on your poll list.
because thats not what the poll is about
have ya ever wondered how Canada got its name?
have ya ever wondered how Canada got its name?
canadians sounds better.
QUOTE(heavenseeker @ Jun 22 2006, 06:39 PM) [snapback]1010647[/snapback]
because thats not what the poll is about
have ya ever wondered how Canada got its name?
makes as much sense as what you've got up
and everyone knows how they got their name....two trappers took turns picking letters
C, eh?
N, eh?
D, eh?
QUOTE
The Origin of the Name Canada
The origin of the name "Canada" comes from the expedition of explorer Jacques Cartier up the St. Lawrence River in 1535. The Iroquois pointing out the route to the village of Stadacona, the future site of Quebec City, used the word "kanata," the Huron-Iroquois word for village. Jacques Cartier used the word Canada to refer to both the settlement of Stadacona and the land surrounding it subject to Chief Donnacona.
By 1547, maps were showing the name Canada applied to everything north of the St. Lawrence River. The St. Lawrence River was called the "rivière du Canada" by Cartier, and the name stuck until the 1600s.
In the 1600s, the name Canada was often used loosely to refer to New France, and as land opened up to the west and south in the 1700s, the name Canada was applied to what is now the American midwest and as far south as present day Louisiana.
But it was not official.
In 1791, the Constitutional Act or Canada Act divided the Province of Quebec into two - the colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. In 1841, the two colonies were united again, this time as the Province of Canada.
At Confederation in 1867, the British North America Act officially joined the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario) with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to become "one Dominion under the name of Canada."
Canada wasn't the only name considered for the new dominion though. Other names suggested at the time of Confederation were
Victorialand
Borealia
Cabotia
Tuponia (The United Provinces of North America)
Superior
Norland
Hochelaga
The origin of the name "Canada" comes from the expedition of explorer Jacques Cartier up the St. Lawrence River in 1535. The Iroquois pointing out the route to the village of Stadacona, the future site of Quebec City, used the word "kanata," the Huron-Iroquois word for village. Jacques Cartier used the word Canada to refer to both the settlement of Stadacona and the land surrounding it subject to Chief Donnacona.
By 1547, maps were showing the name Canada applied to everything north of the St. Lawrence River. The St. Lawrence River was called the "rivière du Canada" by Cartier, and the name stuck until the 1600s.
In the 1600s, the name Canada was often used loosely to refer to New France, and as land opened up to the west and south in the 1700s, the name Canada was applied to what is now the American midwest and as far south as present day Louisiana.
But it was not official.
In 1791, the Constitutional Act or Canada Act divided the Province of Quebec into two - the colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. In 1841, the two colonies were united again, this time as the Province of Canada.
At Confederation in 1867, the British North America Act officially joined the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario) with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to become "one Dominion under the name of Canada."
Canada wasn't the only name considered for the new dominion though. Other names suggested at the time of Confederation were
Victorialand
Borealia
Cabotia
Tuponia (The United Provinces of North America)
Superior
Norland
Hochelaga
QUOTE(Tindomiel @ Jun 22 2006, 06:59 PM) [snapback]1010701[/snapback]
I wish they would have gone with Hochelaga.
I like being called a Canuck personally....
QUOTE(Cow of Shame @ Jun 22 2006, 07:47 PM) [snapback]1010699[/snapback]
makes as much sense as what you've got up
and everyone knows how they got their name....two trappers took turns picking letters
C, eh?
N, eh?
D, eh?
we have a winner you got to the joke first
Yeah, so actually, New Brunswickers are really Nova Scotians. 
Hahahaha.
Hahahaha.
What about candidates?haha
QUOTE(goldbug16 @ Jun 22 2006, 09:03 PM) [snapback]1010688[/snapback]
canadians sounds better.
I agree.
because it is, dagnabbit!
I don't really mind either way. I'm not very patriotic at all anymore. Since Canada won the bronze medal in the moron's olympics by giving homosexuals the right to marry you can call us pretty much anything (Californian?) and it wouldn't insult me anymore.
how did you make a poll in the lame board?
QUOTE (Lisieux Flower @ Nov 20 2008, 01:44 PM) 
how did you make a poll in the lame board?
you have to do a mod's laundry for a month.
Yeah, or make them pies.
Or make a thread before in 2007.
Mine was the last of the lame polls... or it was T-Bone's... cause he abused it epically.
Or make a thread before in 2007.
Mine was the last of the lame polls... or it was T-Bone's... cause he abused it epically.
They should be called Canadians, but they should change the name of the country to "Canadia"...
Canadians should come from Canadia, and Canadans should come from Canada.
QUOTE (Apotheoun @ Nov 24 2008, 04:33 AM)
Canadians should come from Canadia, and Canadans should come from Canada.
So is the land named after the people, or the people after the land?
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