I had a dream last night that Meryl Streep came over for dinner, but I didn’t have any clean NICE wine glasses, so I had to pour her a drink in one of my backup wine glasses, and she said it was O.K. but I could TELL she wasn’t stoked and I woke up in a cold sweat.
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.
Every June I Google “Ottawa Ice Cream Truck Live Location Tracker” and inevitably my disappointment is renewed in this city’s lack of serious tech innovation.