Same as how Upper and Lower Canada came to be in its founding era, based on the Laurentien river, or however it's spelled it's been years since I needed to know any world history.
Right which is precisely coordinated with elevation. There's also nothing magic about maps facing North. Egypt is old enough they could have been making maps before that was standardized.
You were a lot closer than I was. I had to look it up, lol. And I'm Canadian.
I never remember learning about the watershed origins of the name. In school, I only remember them teaching that Upper and Lower Canada names are the opposite of the way they appear on a map and that's how you remember them.
AFAIK, there's no major "Laurentian" river in the area. There are Laurentian mountains, a Laurentian University and Quebec elites like Trudeau are referred to as Laurentian elites somehow.
Elevation?
River source.
Same as how Upper and Lower Canada came to be in its founding era, based on the Laurentien river, or however it's spelled it's been years since I needed to know any world history.
Right which is precisely coordinated with elevation. There's also nothing magic about maps facing North. Egypt is old enough they could have been making maps before that was standardized.
I never realized where Upper and Lower Canada got their names from.
Looking it up, I think you meant the Saint Lawrence river, which connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
Yeah, that name sounds right, now that you say it. I was... Kinda-sorta close? Okay, not really, geography+history not my best subjects.
You were a lot closer than I was. I had to look it up, lol. And I'm Canadian.
I never remember learning about the watershed origins of the name. In school, I only remember them teaching that Upper and Lower Canada names are the opposite of the way they appear on a map and that's how you remember them.
AFAIK, there's no major "Laurentian" river in the area. There are Laurentian mountains, a Laurentian University and Quebec elites like Trudeau are referred to as Laurentian elites somehow.