 Cartier wrote, ""[I]lz (sic) appellent une ville Canada" (they call a village 'Canada')".Cartier applied the word to both the region near "Stadacona" and the St. Lawrence River that flows nearby.Both the "Canadian Encyclopedia" (1985) and various publications of the Government of Canada, such as "The Origin of the Name Canada" published by the Department of Canadian Heritage, suggest instead the former theory that the word "Canada" stems from a Huron-Iroquois word, "kanata", that also meant "village" or settlement.