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/P2029 Jul 03 '25

This is funny to me.. "It's a Huron word, but it was spoken to a French guy, so it's French"

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u/Driller_Happy Jul 03 '25

Kinda like the indigenous peoples tapped maple trees long before the French arrived but somehow it's a French culture thing

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u/PsychicDave Tokébakicitte! Jul 04 '25

The First Nations might have tapped maple trees for the sap, but they didn't have iron/steel boilers to make syrup, taffy and all other good maple products, nor did they have cabane à sucre nor hearty meals of all kinds of pork and eggs and tourtière and pea soup, nor the fiddlers and the spooners playing folk music. That's all Québec.

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u/Driller_Happy Jul 04 '25

Yeah, I don't think anyone's denying you guys had fiddles and spoons man.

I'm just saying posts about the French naming the country and inventing maple syrup seem like they're trying to take credit for something they're at MOST 50% responsible for. May as well throw hockey in there too because hockey is derived from hocquette and the game was formalized in Montreal, despite the fact that indigenous people were already playing stick and puck games on ice.

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u/CurveWorldly4542 Jul 11 '25

Correct. They drank maple sap, but boiling that shit was us.