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It started with a misunderstanding between two First Nation boys and Jacques Cartier. They told him that they were leading him to their "kanata" which was their word for village. However, he mistook it as that "kanata" or Canada, as he made it out to be, was a full-fledged country.

It was named in 1535. :)

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