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The explorer Jacques Cartier named Canada. The Native Americans that he met, whom were either the Iroquois or the Huron, no one knows for sure, called their village "Kanata." Cartier heard this and misunderstood, thinking that that was the word for the entire area, and he named it Canada.

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