Been eyeing this book for a little while since @julieczerneda.bsky.social is a local author and I love me some #space #ScienceFiction, especially those written by actual scientists. I found this signed edition at the #Indigo bookstore in #Kanata and had to get it!
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Trust the Force in #Canada (there is a Disturbance in The Force in the United States of Ignorance). 
There is an urban legend that a man named John Canada was the taxidermist who first identified and classified the Canada Goose from the North. He decided to name the bird after himself, hence the name Canada Goose.
To begin with, a "taxidermist" mounts the skins of animals. If the man was a biologist who classified new animal species, he would be a "taxonomist".
However, no record of a #JohnCanada exists in either profession.
The first recorded use of the name, '#CanadaGoose' appeared in 1772 in Carl Linnaeus' 8th-century work, Systema Naturae.
James Audubon called it the Canada goose in 1836.
The name Canada comes from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word #Kanata, meaning "village" or "settlement". In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day #QuebecCity region used the word to direct French explorer #JacquesCartier to the village of Stadacona. By 1545, some European books and maps had begun referring to this region as Canada.
Note: There is a #JohnnyCanuck - he fought #AmericanExpansionism in the 1869 and the #Nazis in WWII. 
Birdful · Why is it called a Canada goose? - BirdfulThe Canada goose (Branta canadensis) is a large wild goose species with a distinctive black head and neck and white cheeks. It is native to North America and
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@cdarwin Sadly the opposite is happening with a former golf course in #Kanata #Ontario (now part of #Ottawa). Even though the owners had a legal agreement with #Kanata that the course would always be #GreenSpace, they've weaseled out of it and are planning a new housing development. Needless to say, their neighbours aren't too happy.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/clublink-clears-another-legal-hurdle-to-contentious-housing-development-1.7000521
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CBCClubLink clears another legal hurdle to contentious housing development | CBC NewsClubLink is now one step closer to replacing the Kanata Golf and Country Club with 1,480 housing units — a proposal that prompted a maelstrom of local opposition and a failed attempt by the City of Ottawa to argue its case at the Supreme Court.