- Canada basically got its name by mistake. When Jaques Cartier, a French explorer, came to the new world, he met with local Natives who invited them to their ‘kanata’ (the word for ‘village’. The party mistakenly thought the name of the country was “Kanata” or Canada.
From the website http://www.1stcontact.com/blog/social/funstuff-social/20-interesting-facts-canada/
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