Betty One more point of interest in the history of CANADA.... Before it was Upper & Lower Canada, it was called Canada East & Canada West.. Carol MacLean in Vancouver, BC, Canada ***************************************** >Hi again, > >Here is a page describing the history of the "Dominion of Canada," and I >just read something I didn't know: > >The name Canada comes from a St. Lawrence Iroquoian word, kanata, meaning >"village" or "settlement". In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the >present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer >Jacques Cartier towards the village of Stadacona. Cartier later used >the word Canada to refer not only to that particular village, but also the >entire area subject to Donnacona (the chief at Stadacona); by 1545, European >books and maps had begun referring to this region as Canada. > >>From the early 17th century onwards, that part of New France that lay along >the Saint Lawrence River and the northern shores of the Great Lakes was >named Canada, an area that was later split into two British colonies, Upper >Canada and Lower Canada, until their re-unification as the Province of >Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name Canada was adopted as >the legal name for the new country,[13] and Dominion was conferred as the >country's title;[14] combined, the term Dominion of Canada was in common >usage until the 1950s > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada > >This page doesn't really concentrate on what was going on in Nova Scotia >during the 1700's. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia > >This page mentions "the Planters" during the 1700's: > >http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/heritage/FSCNS/Scots_NS/About_Clans/HtySctNS.html > >.. That's all I can offer this morning. > >Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) > >List Administrator > >FYI: > >In this search, I came across this Google/Book. I don't know who the >gentleman was, but maybe someone is interested in the story: > >http://books.google.com/books?id=IeBxAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Nova+Scotia+history%22&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=oXKvSticHdPslAfWp_25Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11#v=onepage&q=&f=false > > > > > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, >I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to >include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please >make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > >To search the archives: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION >The information page is: >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message