意译国名-加拿大 - 爱吱声

老实农民发表于 2022-6-15 17:58
渥太华西面的区就叫Kanata，是加拿大IT业集中的地方，已倒闭的北方电讯总部也在这里。渥太华到多伦多之间 ...

皇家骑警总监发表于 2022-6-15 22:00
你说的北方电讯总部，如果是指现在国防部那块地方的话，那是Nepean, 不是Kanata。当时被称为BNR Carling ...

无言发表于 2022-6-16 00:12
康老对自己家门口还是很熟悉的嘛

chnle 发表于 2022-6-15 23:08
中文应该已经有三个国家作为法定语言了吧。除了中国，新加坡还有一个苏里南吧。【订正一下，是我记错了。 ...

Origin of the name "Canada"

Today, it seems impossible to imagine Canada by any other name. However, there were a number of other interesting suggestions and events leading up to the formal christening of our nation in 1867.

Aboriginal roots
The naming of a nation

Aboriginal roots

The name “Canada” likely comes from the Huron-Iroquois word “kanata,” meaning “village” or “settlement.” In 1535, two Aboriginal youths told French explorer Jacques Cartier about the route to kanata; they were actually referring to the village of Stadacona, the site of the present-day City of Québec. For lack of another name, Cartier used the word “Canada” to describe not only the village, but the entire area controlled by its chief, Donnacona.

The name was soon applied to a much larger area; maps in 1547 designated everything north of the St. Lawrence River as Canada. Cartier also called the St. Lawrence River the “rivière du Canada,” a name used until the early 1600s. By 1616, although the entire region was known as New France, the area along the great river of Canada and the Gulf of St. Lawrence was still called Canada.

Soon explorers and fur traders opened up territory to the west and to the south, and the area known as Canada grew. In the early 1700s, the name referred to all French lands in what is now the American Midwest and as far south as present-day Louisiana.

The first use of Canada as an official name came in 1791, when the Province of Quebec was divided into the colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. In 1841, the two colonies were united under one name, the Province of Canada.
Two Aboriginal youths telling Jacques Cartier about the route to the village of Stadacona, site of the present day City of Québec.
The naming of a nation

Leading up to the proposed confederation, a number of names were suggested for the northern half of the continent of North America, including: Albertsland, Albionora, Borealia, Britannia, Cabotia, Colonia, EfisgaFootnote 1, Hochelaga, Norland, Superior, Transatlantia, TuponiaFootnote 2, and Victorialand.

The debate was placed in perspective by Thomas D’Arcy McGee, who declared on February 9, 1865:

“I read in one newspaper not less than a dozen attempts to derive a new name. One individual chooses Tuponia and another Hochelaga as a suitable name for the new nationality. Now I ask any honourable 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.”

Fortunately for posterity, McGee’s wit and reasoning – along with common sense – prevailed, and on July 1, 1867, the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick became “one Dominion under the name of Canada.”
Footnotes

Footnote 1

A combination of the first letters of England, France, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Aboriginal lands.

Return to footnote 1 referrer
Footnote 2

An acrostic for the United Provinces of North America. An acrostic is a composition in verse of an arrangement of words in which the first, last, or certain other letters in each line taken in order, spell a word or a phrase.

小木发表于 2022-6-16 21:22
咦，不是出自日语，指（太平洋的）另一边？

皇家骑警总监发表于 2022-6-15 09:00
你说的北方电讯总部，如果是指现在国防部那块地方的话，那是Nepean, 不是Kanata。当时被称为BNR Carling ...

可梦之发表于 2022-6-16 01:17
之前不是荷兰殖民地吗，华人很多吗？