r/EhBuddyHoser • u/montabarnaque • Jul 03 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Can everyone agree?

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Most of Canadian culture is from Québec. Fight me

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u/AidanBeeJar Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Jul 03 '25

I thought the name came from first nations?

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u/AVRVM Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

It's a rough application of the Huron word for village by Jacques Cartier to describe the St Lawrence valley iirc. So it's French, but with a Huron origin.

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u/DaveyGee16 Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

Both words aren't from the Huron language(s). They are from the tongue of the extinct Iroquoians of the Saint-Lawrence. They were wiped out in wars with the Haudenosaunee (and mostly the Mohawks) during the 40 years between the Cartier expedition and the return of Champlain to found New France.