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.”
