Another name for Canada ?

Since Canada was described as a term for the Francophone Québecois in the early days, what are other terms to name the country to include the Anglophonic community ?
 
Since Canada was described as a term for the Francophone Québecois in the early days, what are other terms to name the country to include the Anglophonic community ?

"Laurentia" would work for a smaller Canada, I'd think; after all, the St. Lawrence *is* one of the most prominent features of eastern Canada.....:cool:
 
Confederate States of America, in a timeline that sees a unilateral declaration of independence, a US-style government established, but whose leaders oppose any merger into the USA.

Alternately, South Detroit.
 
If you're referring to Quebec, the first place to bear the name 'Canada', Kébec, (Algonquin for 'where the river narrows') would work. If the idea is that the English settle the area first, well, anyone from New England can tell you, the English had no aversion to naming settlements and areas with native words ('Connecticut', 'Massachusetts', 'Narragansett', etc...), so that's a distinct possibility.

Labrador works too, if it's an English settlement after the acquisition of a patent by João Fernandes Lavrador.

Of course, then there's the two colony approach; Labrador is the Labrador Peninsula while the second colony- Kebec -is set up in the St. Lawrence River Valley and land south of the peninsula.

Those are the two I always favored for TL concepts for earlier English colonization in the New World. (England begins colonial activities in earnest after the Cabot voyages.)

Now that I think of it, Cabotland (from 'Cabot's Land') has potential too, so...
 
One proposal was to name it Victorialand in honor of Queen Victoria, and another was Ursalia (literally "Place of Bears"). Canada comes from the Iroqiuan word Kanata, which means "village" or "town." So maybe Canata?
 
While there are many different names, IOTL the below were the names that were actually proposed (aside from Canada itself);

Anglia
Albionoria
Borealia
Cabotia
Colonia
Efisga (acronym name based on primary ethnic groups)
Hochelaga
Laurentia
Mesopelagia
New Albion
Norland
Superior
Tupona (acronym name for The United Provinces of North America)
Transatlantica
Ursalia
Vesperia
Victorialand
 
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