Lake Ontario had its name longer than the US or Canada even existed

  • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    This is how a lot of historic locations got their names, funny enough. If you’re a hunter-gatherer tribe and you only have one river or whatever in travel distance, you’re probably just going to call it “the river” because it’s going to be obvious which one you’re talking about.