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Etymology edit

From Ojibwe [Term?].

Proper noun edit

Mattawa

  1. A river in central Ontario, Canada.
  2. A town in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
    • 2018 November 30, Isabelle Bourgeault-Tassé, “How a family recipe taught me what’s at stake when Franco-Ontarians lose their roots”, in The Globe and Mail[1]:
      My own grandfather, Eugene Bourgeault, a young man in grade eight, was threatened with a beating by Mattawa’s village priest for refusing to learn the Lord’s Prayer in English. The episode spelled the end of his education.