[Sca-cooks] [Fwd: [Fwd: Yeah so?]]

[Bonne of Traquair]

> > >
> > > Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
> > >
> > Actually it is a miss understanding by the French Explorer Champlain,
>who
> > asked what is this place called,
> > the Indian said Canata, that is name of the village, He thought the
>whole
> > area was called Canada. Stupid Europeans!

Deespite those claims...

I've been wondering ever since I got to Southern California, what is the
meaning of the Spanish: La Canada (with a tilde over some letter in the
middle, and pronounced La Can-yada).  There is a town here named that and I
wondered of any connection with our northern neighbors, or is Canada named
from some related French word, or through lingual misplacement, like that
which gives America the mangled name of an Italian mapmaker who never set
foot here.

For the record, there is also an Ontario here in Southern California, I'd
like to know the origins of both the snow covered and sunny-sky versions.

Bonne
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