The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
Albertan separatists are even funnier when you realize they are complaining that Canada is too difficult to live in. Canada is too difficult. Canada. If you can’t make it in Canada, I’ve got bad news for you, the US isn’t for you either.