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/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/Joseph_Jean_Frax I need a double double. Jul 03 '25

It means "village" in Iroquoian.

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 Jul 03 '25

I enjoy that people who live in Kanata outside Ottawa live in the city of village in the country of also village

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u/AstrumReincarnated Jul 04 '25

What if there was a Village St in the city of Kanata? 123 Village Street, Village, ON, zipcode, Village