Editing Acadia (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Kennebec River Map.png|thumb|The French claimed that the [[Kennebec River]] formed the border between Acadia and [[New England]], seen here on a map of Maine]]
Explorer [[Giovanni da Verrazzano]] is credited for originating the designation Acadia on his 16th-century map, where he applied the ancient Greek name "Arcadia" to the entire Atlantic coast north of [[Virginia]].<ref>{{cite DCB |title=Verrazzano, Giovanni da |first=William F. E. |last=Morley |volume=1 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/verrazzano_giovanni_da_1E.html}}</ref> "Arcadia" is derived from the [[Arcadia (region)|Arcadia region]] in Greece, which had the extended meanings of "refuge" or "idyllic place". [[Henry IV of France]] chartered a colony south of the [[St. Lawrence River]] between the 40th and 46th parallels in 1603, and he recognized it as ''La Cadie''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lescarbot|first=Marc|title=Nova Francia: A Description of Acadia, 1606|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pPrcG_1-PFYC&pg=PA1|year=1928|publisher=RoutledgeCurzon|isbn=978-0-415-34468-5|page=1}}</ref> [[Samuel de Champlain]] fixed its present orthography with the ''r'' omitted, and cartographer [[William Francis Ganong]] has shown its gradual progress northeastwards to its resting place in the Atlantic provinces of Canada.

As an alternative theory, some historians suggest that the name is derived from the [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|indigenous Canadian]] [[Miꞌkmaq language]], in which Cadie means "fertile land".<ref>Landry and Lang, p.9</ref>