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
Rarities
And
still older, in Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan," published
in 1637, it is said, on page 97, "From this Lake [Erocoise]
Northwards is derived the famous River Canada, so named, of Monsier de
Cane, a French Lord, who first planted a Colony of French in
America."
