Stadacona, 16th-century Iroquoian village near present-day Quebec City; origin of the name "Canada"

Stadacona was a St. Lawrence Iroquoian village of about 500 inhabitants, who lived in longhouses and grew corn, squash and beans. No archaeological trace of it has been found, so its exact site is unknown; it is assumed to have stood near the mouth of the Saint-Charles River, in what is now Quebec City's Vieux-Limoilou district. Jacques Cartier anchored nearby in September 1535 and built a palisade fort on the spot of today's Cartier-Brébeuf national historic site.

Jacques Cartier reached Stadacona in July 1534 and returned in 1535–1536, when chief Donnacona's sons Taignoagny and Domagaya travelled with him. Cartier seized Donnacona and nine others, most of whom died in France. In 1543 he found the village abandoned and destroyed; no archaeological trace of it has ever been found.

The name Canada comes from the Iroquoian word kanata, meaning "town", which Cartier heard at Stadacona and applied to the surrounding country and the Saint Lawrence River. The village chief Donnacona showed Cartier five scalps taken in a war with the Toudaman, likely the Mi'kmaq.

No archaeological trace of the village has ever been found, so there is no excavated site to walk through; its location is only assumed to lie near the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Saint-Charles rivers in Vieux-Limoilou. Visitors instead go to Cartier-Brébeuf national historic site in Limoilou, where Cartier had a palisade fort built in September 1535 beside the village.

No archaeological trace of Stadacona has ever been found, so its exact location remains unknown; it is only assumed to have stood near the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Saint-Charles rivers, in what is now the Vieux-Limoilou district. The word the inhabitants used for their town, kanata, gave French its name for the country.