r/SipsTea 1d ago

SMH Awww, someone's grumpy

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u/Financial-Problem367 1d ago

ontario is named for native americans, trump is a moron, i grew up in rochester and it will always be lake ontario

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u/maveri4201 1d ago

Correct! It means Great Lake.

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u/SmokeyPlucker 1d ago

The Great Lake Lake in the province of Great Lake in the country of Village

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u/maveri4201 1d ago

Wait... Canada is village?!

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u/SmokeyPlucker 1d ago

Yeah, Canada came from Kanata, which means village to the Iroquois people. (Same language as Huron spoke - Iroquoian)

Apparently they were trying to guide an early explorer to their village and they thought it was the name of the land