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The 'OG' online map platform, MapQuest, says it won't change the name of Lake Ontario
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2026
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For official matters, yes.
What official matters? There is undoubtedly now be some official documentation with this name on it. There will be lots that isn't.
Let me ask you then. Personally in your view what is the name of that lake
You should ask a kid that when they grow up with Gulf of America and Lake America or wherever we’re at now after being on their phones for their entire lives, not people that have grown up with the entirely different name and old name.
Despite the miseducation of American youth. The name would still be lake ontario