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New England is by some affirmed to be an island, bounded on the north with the River Canada (so called from Monsieur Cane). / Josselyn's Rareties
And still older, in Thomas Morton's New English Canaan, published in 1632, it is said, on page 97, "From this Lake [Erocoise] Northwards is derived the famous River of Canada, so named, of Monsier de Cane, a French Lord, who first planted a Colony of French in America."