Note 252 — Chapter II

[There have been various theories regarding the origin of the name Canada, for which see Faillon, Histoire de la Colonie Française, i. 14; Warburton’s Conquest of Canada (New York edition), i. 54; Historical Magazine, i. 153, 188, 217, 315, 349, and ii. 23; B. Davis in Canadian Naturalist, 1861; Magazine of American History, 1883, p. 161; and Canniff’s Upper Canada, p. 3. There seems to have been a belief in New England, at a later day, that “Canada” was derived from William and Emery de Caen (Cane, as the English spelled it), who were in New France in 1621, and later. Cf. Morton’s New English Canaan, Adams’s edition, p. 235, and Josselyn’s Rarities, p. 5; also, J. Reade in his history of geographical names in Canada, printed in New Dominion Monthly, xi. 344.—Ed.]