What is the name of Canada? Or What is Canada the land of?

Answer 1

Canada is a country in North America; it is technically a kingdom, with Queen Elizabeth II as our constitutional monarch. The official name is "The Dominion of Canada"

Canada has been used to describe this area of North America since the 16th century. Some (most people) believe that it is derived from a mispronunciation of an Iroquoian word "kanata" meaning village or gathering of huts.

It is possible that it actual comes from the Spanish or Portugues "ca nada", meaning "nothing here" (i.e., no gold, silver or spices).

Answer 2

The name of Canada is Canada. Canada is the land of Canada.

Answer 3

Origin of the name comes from the native word for village which sounds more like Kanata.
Canada is the land of hockey, donut shops, bingo and full nudity strip clubs.

Answer 4

Rofl british colombia is IN canada you retard. The name of Canada IS CANADA. What exactly are you asking?

Answer 5

Canada's name
The name Canada has been in use since the earliest European settlement in Canada and most likely originates from a First Nations word kanata for "settlement", "village", or "land". Today, Canada is pronounced /ˈkænədə/ in English and /kanada/ in French.

The French colony of Canada, New France, was set up along the Saint Lawrence River and the northern shores of the Great Lakes. Later, as British colonies, they were called Upper Canada and Lower Canada until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name Canada was officially adopted for the new dominion, which was commonly referred to as the Dominion of Canada until after World War II.

Name origin
A map of North America ca. 1566, one of the first to include the name "Canada" (top right).
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A map of North America ca. 1566, one of the first to include the name "Canada" (top right).

The name Canada is believed to have originated around 1535 from a Wendat (Huron-Iroquoian) word, kanata, meaning "village", "settlement", or "collection of huts"[1], referring to Stadacona, a settlement on the site of present-day Quebec City; another contemporary translation was "land"[2]. By 1547, maps made by early European explorers show that the name rivière de Canada was given to the nearby St. Lawrence River; the river was called Kaniatarowanenneh ("big waterway") in Mohawk, coincidentally and reinforcingly similar to kanata. A plausible hypothesis is that the river was named for the village on its banks and the surrounding land for the river used to explore it.

An unsubstantiated but occasionally heard explanation of the name's origin is that Spanish cartographers, not having explored the northern part of the continent, wrote acá nada ("nothing here") on that part of their maps. A similar tale credits Portuguese explorers who, upon seeing the eastern coastline, declared a similar sentiment (cá nada há).

After the conquest of New France:
After the British conquest of New France (including ceding of the French colony, Canada) in 1763, the colony was renamed Province of Quebec. Following the American Revolution and the influx of Loyalists, the colony was split on 26 December 1791 into Upper and Lower Canada, sometime being collectively known as "The Canadas", the first time that the name "Canada" was used as the name of a colony. While Jacques Cartier used canadien to refer to the Iroquois residents of the colony, the term later came to be applied to French subjects born in Canada, and then to inhabitants of both colonies.

Upper and Lower Canada were merged into the colony of Canada in 1841, based on the recommendations of the Durham Report, and a single legislature established with equal representation from Canada East and Canada West. Underpopulated Canada West opposed demands by Canada East for representation by population, but the roles reversed as Canada West's population surpassed the east's. The single colony remained governed in this way until 1 July 1867, often with coalition governments. A new capital city was being built at Ottawa, chosen in 1857 by Queen Victoria, but Ottawa became a national capital.

Selection of the name Canada:
At the conferences held in London to determine the form of confederation that would unite the Province of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec), the Province of New Brunswick and the Province of Nova Scotia, a delegate from either Nova Scotia or New Brunswick proposed the name Canada in February 1867, and it was unanimously accepted by the other delegates. There appears to have been little discussion[3], though other names were suggested.

Answer 6

canada (wich is its own country) means small village... we are part of north america and technically part of the british (we have our own government but the Queen is also our Queen)

Answer 7

derived from canata meaning village or settelement

Answer 8

isn't it something like British Columbia?

Answer 9

small village

Answer 10

The name is also C.A.N.A.D.A