Completar frases Lesson 30Versión en línea Gap filling por Thelma Michalopoulou 1 century banks settlers whole national mother located symbol amount refer official tongues natives towards Several capital introduced directions The name Canada comes from a native word , Kanata , which means village . In 1535 , some used this word to give a French explorer a village . He started using it to to the area . By the 1550s , everyone had got used to calling the country Canada . English and French are Canada ? s languages and are spoken by a large of the population . other languages are also spoken there , such as Chinese , Italian etc . which are the of over five million Canadians . The maple leaf is the of Canada . In the 18th , the maple tree was popular with French , who used to describe it as " king of the forest " . Its leaf was in the Canadian flag in 1965 . Although Ottawa is the of Canada , it is only the country ? s fourth largest city . It is on the of the Ottawa River .