Greenland
yes
A Norse settlement.
The first European settlement in the lands now part of the Canadian Confederation would be the Viking settlement at what is now called L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The exact name used for the settlement by the Vikings is not known but it is part of the area they called Vinland. The Vikings also appeared to have settled on Baffin Island, an area they called Helluland.
Labrador
The first European settlement in the lands now part of the Canadian Confederation would be the Viking settlement at what is now called L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. The exact name used for the settlement by the Vikings is not known but it is part of the area they called Vinland. The Vikings also appeared to have settled on Baffin Island, an area they called Helluland.
The name of the first European settlement in North America was the Vikings. They lived in Scandinavia, the north part of Europe that is Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and Denmark's territory Greenland!!!
Canada derives from the Huron word "kanata," meaning "village" or "settlement." It was first applied to Quebec, but was later used to describe the whole region.
The Iroquois name for 'settlement' is Kanata. That was cause to adopt a variation in 1867
Who was the explorer that had the first French settlement in South Carolina and what was the name of the settlement?
The name 'Canada' originated from the Huron and Iroquois word 'Kanata', meaning community, village, or settlement.
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Huron Indian word for 'village' is 'kanata'. Misunderstood by the first explorers, the name for 'village' became commonly used for 'country'. so that is how Canada got its nameCanada got its name by the ''kanata'' meaning village or settlement.