Re: ISO 3166 (country codes) Maintenance Agency Web pages move

From: Alain LaBonté  (alb@iquebec.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 22:01:15 EST


A 14:59 2002-02-25 -0500, John Cowan a écrit :
>In Brantford, Ont. there is a tourist attraction called
>"Kanata Iroquois Village", showing that the word is surely
>Iroquoian in origin.

[Alain] According to
http://www.autochtones.com/fr/culture/toponymie.html#canada,
a page done by the Amerindians, apparently, the word "Canada" is not only
iroquoian, it is an Iroquois word.

    So seems that you were right, it is not Algonquian like the word Québec is.

Alain LaBonté
Québec



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