Kanada = 'back East'; nothing = 'it'

[Alan H. Hartley]

> I thought this would be a nice mini-lesson because it shows how the BC 
> people thought of Canada as 'somewhere else'.

For along time, of course, it *was* somewhere else. Well into the 19th 
century, 'Canada' meant only parts of what are now Quebec and Ontario 
(and later New Brunswick and Nova Scotia).

Alan

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