Ontario agencies restore Lake Ontario to their websites after Google Maps updated it to Lake America in the U.S.

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Hydro One said in an email to National Post that its outage map showed an incorrect label for Lake Ontario for “a brief period” Sunday because of an issue with a third-party mapping service. The problem was identified and corrected Sunday evening, the utility wrote. It apologized for the error in an earlier statement to Global News.

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TD said in an email to National Post that it was “working with Google Canada to update” its branch locator. The bank wrote about an hour later that the problem had been resolved.

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Loblaw said in an email to National Post that the map on its store locator was showing an incorrect label for Lake Ontario, that the information comes from a third-party mapping service and that it was working to correct it.

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The LCBO did not respond to a request for comment. Google did not provide a statement. Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada acknowledged the request and said it would respond. It had not by deadline.

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Stephen Crawford, Ontario’s minister of public and business service delivery and procurement, wrote on X that some agency websites pull map data directly from Google Maps and that the province is reviewing them.

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Google said Saturday that Maps users in the United States would see Lake America, users in Canada would see Lake Ontario and users elsewhere would see both names.

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U.S. President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14420, “Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America,” on Aug. 27. A secretary’s order directed the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change its database the same day. The record lists Lake Ontario as a variant name alongside the Mohawk Kaniatarí:io, translated as nice lake.

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The order says the United States lays claim to most of the lake’s “volume” and is mostly responsible for its security, economic activity and environmental stewardship, Global News reported.

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The renaming followed the collapse of trade talks between the two countries this month. Canada and the United States have since announced matching tariffs of up to 50 per cent on some goods, TIME reported.

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MapQuest wrote on X that it would not change the name and pointed users to a tool for renaming the lake themselves. Apple had not changed Apple Maps as of Sunday, TIME reported.