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EDITORIAL – Much to be thankful for on Canada Day, including our name

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ‘I READ IN ONE NEWSPAPER not less than a dozen attempts to derive a new name,” Thomas Darcy McGee, one of the fathers of confederation, noted in a speech in 1865. “Now I ask any honorable member of this House how he would feel if he woke up some fine morning and found himself instead of a Canadian, a Tuponian or a Hochelagander.” If you don’t know what a Tuponian is, it would have been a citizen of Tuponia, an acronym for The United Provinces of North America. It was seriously considered for the name of our country. So were Hochelaga, Norland (and of the North), Colonia (wouldn’t go down well these days), Norland, Britannia, Victorialand and, get this — Efisga. Short for England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Aboriginal lands. Two years after McGee’s speech, the British North America Act (now the Constitution Act) was signed, and we became a nation, with the name supported by McGee: Canada. As most Canadians know, legend has it that Canada is derived from the Iroquois word Kanata for a village that in 1535 was located near present-day Quebec City. I’m not aware that anyone made an impassioned speech [...]

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