[78-L] Albert Ketelby question

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> k'TEL-bee. On the other hand, the little town in Ontario IS pronounced
>>> kettle-bee.
>> And Oshawa is pronounced "Osh'-a-wah" if anyone cares...and "Dogs Nest" 
>> is,
>> I
>> assume, pronounced as spelled (dunno if ANYBODY lives there?!)
>> Steven C. Barr
> Funny, I always pronounced Oshawa "dog's nest" or worse in the 7 years I 
> worked
> in that Duckburg. Now they're getting a KISS concert. Go figure. It's 
> probably
> an old Indian (sorry, Native) word meaning "Nothing will ever grow here 
> again."
>
No...the truth is even stranger! Apparently, after the Canadian Post Office 
had, for
reasons unknown, rejected "Skae's Corners" as a name for a post office, 
Moody
Farewell asked his native friends what THEY called the place! At the time, 
they
were standing about where to-day's King Street crossed Oshawa Creek...so the
"Indians" replied "oshawa," which can be translated as "where we have to
get out (of our canoes) and walk!"

So...the HQ of GM Canada wound up in a village whose name translates as
"Where we get out and walk!!"

One never knows...?!

...stevenc