Proposed names for Canada


	Proposed names for Canada
mattc005
7-1-2008 7:05 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f5009b15-c26d-480b-af2c-371652984c91/3CCE6ED4-C29D-4277-92D2-08BEAFDEA2A8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><SPAN class="mw-headline">Other proposed names</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><P><A title="Walter Bagehot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bagehot">Walter Bagehot</A> of <I><A title="The Economist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist">The Economist</A></I> newspaper in London argued that the new nation should be called 'Northland' or 'Anglia' instead of Canada.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-bagehot_41-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-bagehot-41">[42]</A></SUP> On these names, the statesman <A title="D'Arcy McGee" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_McGee">Thomas D'Arcy McGee</A> commented, "Now I would ask any honourable member of the House how he would feel if he woke up some fine morning and found himself, instead of a Canadian, a Tuponian or a Hochelegander?"</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Victorialand – in honour of <A title="Victoria of the United Kingdom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom">Queen Victoria</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Ursalia—"place of bears"</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Vesperia—"land of the evening star"</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Transatlantica</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Tuponia—derived from 'The United Provinces of North America'</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Norland</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Superior</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Mesopelagia—"land between the seas"</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Laurentia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentia">Laurentia</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Hochelaga (village)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochelaga_%28village%29">Hochelaga</A> – an old name for <A title="Montreal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal">Montreal</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Colonia</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Efisga—an acronym of "English, French, Irish, Scottish, German, Aboriginal"</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Cabotia – in honour of Italian explorer <A title="John Cabot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cabot">John Cabot</A>, who explored the eastern coast of Canada for England</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Borealia – from 'borealis', the Latin word for 'northern'; compare with <A title="Australia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia">Australia</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Albion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion">Albion</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Name_of_Canada&oldid=222691437"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Albionoria—"Albion of the north"</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; 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