A Lesson From Across the Atlantic

A poutaine is a chip, cheese and gravy mash much loved by the Québecois. And Samuel de Champlain was the founder of a township at a place called Kebec - aboriginal for "where the river narrows" - an outpost on the Saint Lawrence River which the French called Quebec. When the natives urged explorer Jacques Cartier to visit their village - the Huron-Iroquois word for village is "kanata" - he thought they were describing the whole region. So - well, of course - he called it Canada.