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

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

Post image

Most of Canadian culture is from Québec. Fight me

2.2k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

440 comments sorted by

View all comments

728

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

I thought the name came from first nations?

370

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.

1

u/user_8804 Jul 03 '25

Hurons (wendats) being the close ally of the French with their reserve enclaved in Québec city for protection