Apparently there were other proposed names before Canada was chosen by a name selection conference held in London. While the provinces’ delegates spent little time, if any, in settling on ‘Canada’ as the name for the new country, others proposed a variety of other names:

• Albion
• Anglia- To honour of the main religion of the protestant British
• Albionoria—”Albion of the north”
• Borealia – from ‘borealis’, the Latin word for ‘northern’; compare with Australia
• Cabotia – in honour of Italian explorer John Cabot, who explored the eastern coast of Canada for England
• Colonia
• Efisga—an acronym of “English, French, Irish, Scottish, German, Aboriginal”
• Hochelaga – an old name for Montreal
• Laurentia
• Mesopelagia—”land between the seas”
• Norland
• Superior
• Tuponia—derived from ‘The United Provinces of North America’
• Transatlantica
• Ursalia—”place of bears”
• Vesperia—”land of the evening star”
• Victorialand – in honour of Queen Victoria