Place-Names of Nova Scotia

A WORD lN JUS TIFICATION .

t own s HE , villages , capes , coves , hills , valleys , rivers , lakes our sea and harbors of this , glorious province by the , have

many strange and beautiful names . Many of them were m na ed by the original Indian tribes ; others , by the brave Spanish ,

French , Norse and English adventurers of the early times ; and still r others by the Scotch , I ish and English emigrants who at a later

date luckily made this province their adopted home .

Often have we heard the stranger within our gates exclaim : ” “ " “ What an odd "or pretty"name " What does it mean And "" why was it so named k f x This little boo is intended to urnish , to a limited e tent , the

answers to these questions .

The material has been gleaned from many sources ; it would obviously have added considerably to the work to have credited the many authorities from which the information has been so ruth P lessly plundered . The Author ( ) will , however , frankly admit

that so far as he is concerned , there is very little of the contents o riginal matter .

The manuscript has been placed in the hands of the printer o i m with the full knowledge f t s i perfections , but with the hope that it may some day be of assistance to a more competent crafts

man .

ff of As a Peace O ering , it is dedicated to the memory Nova ’ Scotia s past and present historians .

Rock Eyrie ,

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N m o i T d a es of places form an i mport ant part of ur h story . hey stan as

memori als of m n a n e ents n the a t The throw li ht on the scenes a n d e d v i p s . y g movements of former a es a n d therefore cannot be ne lected i n our stud of the g , g y

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AME OF CAN AD TH E I N D IAN N S A .

of The memory the Red Man , ca n How it pass away, While their names of music linger On each mount and stream and bay ; ' ’ While Musquodoboi t s waters Roll sparkling to the main ; While falls the laughing sunbeam ’ On Chegoggi n s ﬁelds of grain ;

’ While ﬂoats our country s banner ' ’ Chebuct o s O er glorious wave , And frowning cliff s of S ca t ari e The trampling surges brave ; While breezy Aspot oga n

Lifts high its summit blue , And sparkles on its winding way The gentle S i ssi bou ;

’ While Eska son i s fountains Pour down their crystal tide ; ’ While I n gon i sh s mountains Lift high their forms of pride ; ’ Or while on Ma bou s river

The boatman plies his oar , Or the billows burst in thunder ’ On Chi ckaben s rock- girt shore

of The memory the Red Man , It lingers like a spell m- l On many a stor swept head and , On many a leafy dell ; ’ Where Tusket s thousand islets Like emeralds stud the deep ; Blomi don Where , a sentry grim ,

His endless watch doth keep .

’ Ca t a lon e s It dwells round blue lake ,

Mid leafy forests hid , Round fair Descouse and the rushing tides Of the turbid P i si qui d ; a And it lends , Chebogue , a touching gr ce To r thy softly ﬂowing iver , As we sadly think of the gentle race

That has passed away forever . Written by

Mr . Richard Huntington , Y 1 armouth , 8 8 3 . AMERICA .

m 1499 The na e ﬁrst appears in , and is called after Amerigo

. Vespucci , an Italian Astronomer and Explorer The name as applied t o the New World had its origin in Germany . m t o Am so Columbia , the na e sometimes applied erica , is called

who i 1492 . from Columbus , d scovered America in

CAN ADA .

1 540 m The name ﬁrst appears in , and is derived fro the Indian ” “ ” Ka n n at a or Ka n n a t ha word which means a settlement , or

o of ca bi n s. be c llection , It is said to of Iroquois Indian derivation , and was supposed t o have been applied to the Indian encampment at Montreal , but was unwittingly applied by Cartier to the whole country .

MARI TIME P RO N VI CES .

The Maritime Provinces were known by the Indians as Mega "

. of m . or age i e home the Micmacs , the true man . — N ate. 1 . The names in this book are in alphabetical or di ction mm ar . edi at el y order I y after the name appears the initial letter . or of letters the County in which the place is located .

N — ote 2 . S o far as t o this date the - P la ce N a mes of N ova S cotia .

P — so ABERCROMBIE ( . ) This place was likely named after G General James Abercrombie , a British eneral , who was connected with the 42 n d or the ﬁrst battalion of Royal Highlanders . H e ‘ wa s made several campaigns in Canada , and killed at Bunker Hill in 1 775 .

- ABERDEEN , C . B . See New Aberdeen . — ABUP TI C BO D VE Y. HAR R AN RI R ( ) See Argyle River , — C I . or Ka dd A AD A Acadia , sometimes Cadie y , is the Micmac of or Indian equivalent region , ﬁeld , ground , land place , the place of ; and when joined to an adjective , it denotes that the place referred to is the appropriate or special place of the object expressed

- by the noun or noun adjective . In the Micmac Indian language “ ” “ adjectives of this kind are formed by suﬂi xi n g a or wa to t he noun .

As an example : S egubbun is the Micmac Indian f or ground

bbu a o r . . S e u n f o S e ubbun nut g , relating to ground nuts g a

Ka dd or of . y , is the place region ground nuts This gives us the “ Dla ce name of Shubenacadie .

The Ma li ci t e Indians used the word quoddy f or Ka ddy “ as it occurs in the place name Passamaquoddy .

of Acadia included the greater part Maine , Nova Scotia and “ Du ’ ” New Brunswick , and was known as the ke s territory and later “ ’ ” “ as the King s territory , it was also sometimes called the provi nce ” of S a ga da hock .

C — A ADIA COLLEGE See Wolfville . — ACADI AVI LLE R . m ( ) For erly Little Arichat , changed by of o Act Parliament t its present name in 1 8 6 6 .

ADDINGTON FORKS (An t - Likely so named in honor of the Addington who was the British Prime Minister in the years ' of w -i - f o that Edward , the Duke Kent , as Commander n Chie f Nova - 1 1 . Scotia , 796 8 00

I — AINS LIE ( . ) The Township of Ainslie on e of the four sub of - of divisions the north western part Cape Breton Island , was formed in the year 1 8 28 and was named after Lake Ain slie which O 8 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S C TIA

- in turn had been named after Lt . Governor Ainslie , who was the - 1 8 1 6 1 8 2 0. - Governor of Cape Breton Island Lt .

(See Lake Ainslie) .

AL A I —This place formerly kno n as Boom was given . B ( ) w . its present name by Act of Parliament m 1 8 93 . It is the Latin name for white ” and the name is applicable owing to the large quantities of white plaster rocks to be found in the neighborhood .

D — B . ALBERT BRI GE (G. ) The Bridge and place was no n m doubt named in honor of the Prince Co sort , who arried Queen

Victoria in 18 40.

D — A AL ERNEY (R . ) place on Isle Madame , named after the i s n Channel Island Alderney , which name a corruption of the Fre ch “ r Auri gn y . A number of Alderney ﬁshe men frequented this port of Cape Breton .

‘ — n ow i ven ALLEN RIVER OR CREEK (A. ) This is the name g “ ’ L E s ui lla the smaller Annapolis River , once known as q from the “ ” “ ” ui lle ﬁsh ; German Eq , meaning a sea needle or little French “ “ ’ L E ui lle a n meaning splinter . This name q is now given to Di ervi lle 1 708 D other river in this county . Called by in , u Moulin “

. River , the French for Mill River

P —S o e ALMA ( . ) named in commemoration of the place wher a great victory was won by the Allies over the Russians in the

Crimean War in the year 1 8 54 .

- i s AMAGUADUS POND (C . B This place said to be named “ ” from a Micmac Indi an word meaning plenty . It was ﬁrst settled by Europeans in the year 1 8 05 . At the request of the inhabitants 1 the name was changed to Castle Bay (see) in the year 8 96 .

— o AMETHYS T COVE (K. ) S named owing to then umber of

fh n et h st . Agate , Jasper , and y specimens found there — AMET IS LAND (Col . ) The original name of this island is “ ’ ” “ ’ supposed to have been Isle L Ormet or L Ormet and the name “ ” I si i pposed to be suggested by its resemblance to an Armet or

Ee1t rl et . — AMHERS T (C . ) This place was named after Lord Jeff rey m 17 17- 1797 co- A herst ( ) who , in operation with Admiral Boscawen ,

- captured Louisburg in 1 758 . He was appointed Commander i n i f 1 1 Ch e and Governor General in America in 76 . Previous to “ ” 1 759 I wa s , t called by the French Les Planches . The Micmac ” “ ” ia m was N ema loos Kudaa un emcheboo w Ind n na e g and N g ek, PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 9

the latter meaning going up rising ground . One of the three of township divisions Cumberland County is called Amherst . — AMIRAULT HILL (Y . ) Jacques Ami ra u (corruption from

Amirault , sometimes Amero) settled lands on the Tusket River in

Y 1 76 6 . m armouth County in The Hill retains his na e.

— ANDERS ON LAKE (H . ) Given this name after an early set ’

i s . tler . This lake sometimes known as Gough s Lake

P — ANDERS ON MOUNTAIN ( . ) Named after Andrew Ander

on . s , who received a grant of lands there He was the ﬁrst settler . — S P O N T G. B . ANDER ON I ( ) Near Sydney , named after a

Mr . James Anderson , who did a general mercantile business there about 1 8 40. — ANNAPOLIS (A. ) I t is said that Champlain was ﬁlled with admiration with the security and spaciousness of this place and gave “ ”

. D 1 it the name Port Royal It was founded by e Monts in 6 04 . “ ” old u In some doc ments this name appears as Royal Haven . “ f or The Micmac Indian name Annapolis River was Ta oop skek . “ ” out meaning ﬂowing between rocks . The River was for a sho rt “ D “ time called by the French the auphin , meaning the eldest son of royalty . It received its present name from the English in

1 7 1 0 in honor of Queen Anne of England . The name was formed by connecting the name of Queen Anne with the Greek word ” polis meaning city . It was one of the ﬁve earliest counties of the

Province which were formed in the year 1 759 . The settlement was destroyed by Sir Samuel Argyle in the year 1 6 18 in the name of

Great Britain . Wa s f 1 7 1 0 1 74 Annapolis the capital o Nova Scotia from to 9 , when Halifax became the capital . 13 o — Annapolis County divided int four townships Annapolis ,

Granville , Wilmot and Clements .

Annapolis County is the smallest county in the Province . It 2 contains 55 square . ' miles 1 6 54 Annapolis was cap tured by the English in , restored to the 1 6 6 8 1 6 90 1 6 7 French in , again captured in and again restored in 9 ;

1 1 0 . ﬁnally captured by Nicholson in 7 , when it was renamed 1 6 2 0- 1 6 3 0 an ephemeral Scottish Colony was located at Annap olis . In 1 6 2 6 it was captured by Sir David Kirk with an English R i ll 4 . Fleet . In 1 6 3 it was granted to Claude de ag y

— so ANS E DE LA CHOUX (R . ) Nea r St . Esprit ; named by F the rench owing to a wild celery found there , excellent for salads or x and soups . Anse is the French for cove creek and Chou is the 10 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

D —Le 1 6 9 ANS E LE BLANC ( . ) Blanc Cove , settled in 7 and bem . g named after Charles Le Blanc , an early settler Anse the o French for cove and Blanc the French for wh1t e ; the English named the place White Cove .

’ — A on ANTHONY S NOS E (COL . ) point the Shubenacadie ff h1 h rem1n ded River where the coral and shell cli , nearly ﬁfty feet g , ’ some early settlers of a man s nose and two robust cheeks . They ’ — ’ n ow . called it St . Anthony s Nose Anthony s Nose

—T m n of ANTIG ONIS H (AN T. ) he Mic ac India spelling this ” “ mea n m D . word is N a legelkoon eech . r Rand says the Micmac g of the word is : the place where branches are torn Off the trees by 13 bears getting beech nuts . Several writers say the name from an “ ” ’ d ri va t 1on D . e Indian word meaning River of ﬁsh , but r Rand s is likely the correct one . — Antigonish County is divided mt o four Townships Antigo

r . nish , Tracadie , St . And ews , and Arisaig ’ ’ On Nicholas Deny s map of 1 6 7 2 he calls it River d An t i con ” ’ 16 8 5 on umeau s n a chi e. In the name appears Father J map as h 1 73 3 An t i on i c . 1 744 Art i gon i eche . In it appears as g In Bellin 1 755 h . i i spells it An t i gon i c e In it first appears as Ant gon sh , the s ellm of An t I o present form . Father Pacific gives a Micmac p g g ” “ ” nish as Ali t gon i eljg and says the meaning is broken branches ’ which partly agrees with Dr . Rand s interpretation . French set 1 2 ofii r t lers were in Antigonish as early as 76 . An English ce i r ih 1 Timothy H e l y was in the country in 775 . He and eighty others received a very large grant of land in 1 78 4 . “ t o The name Antigonish as applied the County , replacing “ ” of 18 6 3 ts former county name Sydney, first appears in , when it of was changed by an Act Parliament . The Antigonish town of today was on e time known as Dor of chester , the name the township of which Antigonish is the shire town .

. D In Antigonish is the St Francis Xavier College , a iocesan

- B . . 1 8 53 Institution opened as Arichat College , at Arichat , C , in , transferred t o Antigonish and established as a college under its p resent name in 18 55 ; University powers created by an Act of 1 e 8 6 6 . L gislature in Named after Saint Francis Xavier , the of Patron Saint Canada . — N TO COL . Bo A N ( ) Formerly known as Polly g , changed t o 18 8 0 of Anton in by an Act Parliament .

I M — ANTR (H . ) S o named after the Ulster Town or County n of m in Irela d that na e . — AP AGWI T G . A m ll ( ) s a island in the Gut of Can so . An PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 1 1

Indi an word meaning moored in shelter or sheltered by the ” “ ” i or Aba wi t encircling shore . (Th s , g was the original Indian name for Prince Edward Island) . — APPIN (AN T. ) Named after a small district near Loch

r leshi re . Linnhe in A gy , Scotland — APPLE RIVER (C . ) The Indian name for this place was ” “ Agoomakun meaning where they catch herri ng .

i s 18 2 i e AP S LE Y (C . B . ) This name found in 0 appl d as the

Parish of Apsley in the County of Bathurst . It was within the present County of Cape Breton boundaries . The name comes “ ” of from the house Lord Bathurst Apsley , which became famous ; as it was the hou se presented t o the Duke of Wellington by a 2 grateful country in the yea r 18 0.

— ARCADIA (Y. ) This place wa s once known as Upper Che on 2 7t h 1 8 6 3 . bogue . It received its present name the of January , The name was chosen because of the building of a brig there in “ t 18 17 by Bartlett Gardner . The brig was named Arcadia .

— ARCHIBAL D MILLS (H . ) The Indian name f or this place “ ” “ ok k was Kes ede meaning the road that runs over a hill .

C B P T — A of AR HI ALD OIN (V point north North Bay , m Co I ngonish , said to be na ed after Archibald , a ﬁrm that ran a

ﬁshing establishment near there some years ago . — ARDN ES S P . S u ( ) The name , in a cottish settlement , s ggests of of s Aird , a town in the Isle Skye , from which some the ettlers “ ess t o of a s a came ; and N , akin nose , a point l nd running into the e .

It is an inland village , but nevertheless we believe that this is how “ ” the name was constructed . The preﬁx Ard is found in a number

of place names of Scotland .

" B — AREN ERG IS LAND (L . ) Sometimes called Paradise ” h r I . m w o f o sland Named after a family na ed Arenberg , many

y ears made the island their home . — ARG YLE (Y. ) O n e of the t wo township divisions of Yar

mouth County . This place is n o doubt named after Argyle or 7 l W . 1 71 Argy l , in estern Scotland The Township was granted in , i o and contai ned 18 7 sq . miles . The Ind an name f r this place was “ ” B M n on a kok k . cKi n p t e It was named Argyle by Capt . Ronald who received a grant of land here in consideration of his services a s a di r sol e . 1 2 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA - SCOTIA

Ai n sli e Y — n w as La ke . A LE I . Formerly k o n South Side R G ( ) o ‘ ’ t in the year 18 93 by an Act of Parliament was changed to 1 s pres ent name . — Y Abu t i c . ARG LE RIVER (Y . ) Was known as p River The “ “ k . Indian name and spelling was P obbobt ek Or B a pkokt e It wa s was settled in the year 1 76 3 . The settlement named Argyle n on by Captain Ronald McKi n , an early settler from the Western 1 Highlands of Scotland , and the name of the settlement was appl ed to the River .

— n N eri cha t V S S ARICHAT (R . ) The Micmac Indian ame I 1 s by transformation brought to Arichat . On some early plans t ” “ 1 found as N eri cha u . West Arichat was at one t me named ” “ of i Aca di a vi lle, as some the Acad ans after their expulsion from of Grand Pre settled in this place . The Indians also had the name , ” “ ” Eli ksa ke Li ksa ke for Arichat , meaning worn rocks , also mean ing “ the camping ground “

— ARIS AIG (AN T. ) This place was settled just previous to

1 8 15 by families from Arisaig in the Highlands of Scotland , who gave their old home name to their new home . The grants were dated 1 8 1 5 , but there is no doubt the settlers were there at an n earlier date . It is one of the four Township divisions of Antigo ish

County .

— Old ARLINGTON (H . ) The name for this place was Moose of land . It was given its present name by an Act Parliament passed in 18 97 . (See Arlington West) .

- o 18 76 b h ARLINGTON WES T (A . ) S named in by the in a i t a n t s who met together for that purpose at the time of the Opening r of a Post Offi ce fo the community . The name was probably suggested by some citizen after Arlington in Massachusetts .

— V I . 18 AS H ILLE ( ) Formerly named Sodom . In the year 75 the name was changed to Ashville by an Act of Parliament .

KI L I - AS TON ( . ) At one time part of and known as River “ 1 8 6 5 Aski lt on Inhabitants , but in the year was named , a word m D McAski ll coined fro the name of onald , who was the Postmaster at that time .

A P OTOGAN L — “ S ( . ) Also A shmut ogun . The name is i Uk udeska kun derived from the Ind an name p , which means “ ” When they blockade the passageway , referring to the place where the seals go in and out . The In di a n sused to block up the “ ”

. Kebe o Ko t passage in order to enable them to kill the seals g oc k , PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 13 meaning a closing of the passage is another Micmac name for

As ot o a n . p g There are the Harbor , Mountain , Peninsula and

Village Of this name .

— ’ AS PY BAY (V The French called this bay Havre D Aspe or ’ sa D Achepe . Some authorities y that the Basque sailors named it ’ d As e sa Pic p , after a Pyrenees Mount ; others y it is from the Mic “ ” odﬁ h mac Indian word apago meaning c s . There is also the

R iver of this name .

ATHOL (C)— A name possibly suggested by descendants of 4 h o the Loyalists after John Murray the t Duke f Athol . The name is now applied to the place that was formerly known as Little ”

1 . Forks . The change was authorized by Parliament in 18 7 E — AULD COV (G) First settled about the year 178 5 . It is

of . . named after one its ﬁrst settlers , a Mr Alexander Auld

— n AVON RIVER (H T S) was at o e time known as I n gogon . “ ” “ Tooet un ook The Indian name was meaning , ﬂowing square ” s a o into the e . The largest branch f the river the Indians called “ ” “ ” m 1 A a ga peskj k which means running over stones . The present

i s . name after the river Avon in Scotland , made famous in song “ The eastern branch of this river wa s called by the Indians Apset ” “ ” kwechk , meaning , running small and the largest branch was “ ” “ Ama a a ki t i k r known as g p j , meaning ushing over rocks or “ ” running over stones .

— AYLES FORD (K) Granted as early as 1 770. The township was on e of the four townships of Kings County and was formed in the year 1 78 4 . The name was probably given in honor of the

Fourth Earl of Aylesford , Lord , of the Bedchamber to King George

III . Aylesford B og the Indi ans called Kobet ek meaning beaver ’ ” or - the beavers home from a little beaver shaped island . 14 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

T S — BACCAR O , RAGGARO POIN ( ) This place is named

B a cca la os . from the Basque word , meaning cod ﬁsh The name B a cca la os was at on e time given to Newfoundland and Nova

Scotia , later to Nova Scotia only . This place and a small Isle in

Conception Bay , Newfoundland , are the only remains of a general ” name B a cca learum Regis which was at on e time ( 1542 ) applied

to Canada .

DD — or Ebedek O BA ECK (V Strictly speaking , Bedek , an ld

Micmac Indian name changed by the early French to B edeque .

Dr . Rand gives the spelling as Epdek or Ept ek and the meaning — — as B e e ue . . the warm place but he applies this mea ning to d q , P E “ ” “ ” I . For Victoria County Baddeck he gives the word Abadak , mea mn g a portion of food put aside for some one . Dr . Patterson

says it is Indian , meaning , place with an island near ; this would

ﬁt Baddeck , as Kitson Island is directly in front of the village .

— li BAILLIE BROOK (P . ) Takes its name from one of its ear est B a 1lli e settlers , John , a native of Sutherlandshire , Scotland ,

who took up lands and settled near the brook . — A Y. D . BAIN RO ( ) Named after an early settler , Mr Alex

ander Bam . — B D V . B . On AIR CO E (C ) the south shore of Morien Bay , so named ow1 n g to James Baird having Opened a coal mine nearby 1n a the ye r 18 6 7 .

S — o BAKER I LAND (L . ) S named after a settler named

James Baker .

BALAC E - H POINT (I . ) I h the Strait of Canso named after f a m1l a Jersey of early settlers , sometimes called , incorrectly , ’ y McM1lla n s 1 Po nt and Plaster Cove .

—Probably named by the French at an earlier 1 1 n date after Bale ne France . At one time known as Puerto Nova .

( ) . 1 597 New Port Captam Leigh in says he was in Puerto Nova . It has been said that the name was suggested by a whale 1a d 1 — sl r>e sla n d at the en t ra n cw the French word for whale being t) 1 1 a e ne . Lord Ochiltree built a fort here in 16 29 and made an eﬂort PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 5

a to colonize the place , but was forced by the French under Capt in

Daniel to abandon it .

— l B . ALL CREEK (C . B ) Named after an English fami y of this name , who came to Sydney in its early days and settled near where the present bridge crosses the creek .

B A B ALM ORAL (C . B LM ORAL (R) , ALM ORAL — MILLS (C O L) Named after the place in Scotland made famous by being a residential choice of Royalty .

B VE D — so ARN RI R ( . ) Named owing to an early settler

John Hill having built a barn at the river .

Y — BARNES CREEK , BARNES POINT ( . ) Named so after Y m an early settler John Barnes , who settled in Plymouth , ar outh

1 . County , 73 1

B P — 1 s r1v r of ARNEY RIVER ( . ) There a e and village this or McGee name named after Barnabas , Barney , who was the ﬁrst

1 776 . settler in Merigomish . He moved to Barney River in the year — B CK PO T C . B . o ARRA IN ( ) Part f Sydney , so named owing to the existence of Military Barracks there . This point was fort “ ” i ﬁed in 1 794 and was then called Fort Ogilvie .

’ - f V . o BARRA HEAD ( Near St . Ann s The Indian name “ 1 B th s place was oot l ot ek (See Barra Strait) . — B r . ARRA S TRAIT (C . B . ) (See Grand Na rows) This place was settled about 18 02 and named after Barra , Scotland . The “ ” “ o Ki lbar or original Barra is s named in honor of the Saint , “ ” - Bar of the cell . — BARR ACH I B arra soi s . O S HARBOR (COL . ) (See ) This 1 C 0 . place was at one time known as Joseph Harbor , as named by

W Desbarr s . Joseph Frederick allet e , after himself — BARR AS OI S or BARACHOIS A descriptive name found in many places throughout Nova Scotia . The word is from Acad “ ”

he i r or . ian French Barre a c o , and means lagoon pond It is generally applied to ponds separated from larger bodies of water by necks of land or sand bars . In Pichon ’ s History ( 176 0) he refers to the name Bara chois ” thus “ They give the name in this country to small ponds near the sea from which they are separated only by a kind of of causeway . There is no possibility travelling even the distance of a leagu e along the coas t of Cape Breton without meeting with s ome ” of these pieces of water . 1 6 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

— of BARRIE BEACH (H . ) The old name this place was

Stoney Beach .

BARRING TON (S ) —Called by the French , La Passage “ ” “ i t i ui sh or Mi n i st e ek mea n m an d by the Indians Mi n s g , g g he ” 1 76 0- 6 3 e1 ht 111 has gone f or it . It was settled in by g y fam es from

Nantucket and Cape Cod . n The town , tow ship and passage received their present name after the 2 n d Viscount Barrington ( 17 17 He was secretary

- - of war 1 755 6 1 and again 1 76 5 78 . Shelburne County is divided into two townships , Shelburne ,

1 76 7 . and Barrington , which was formed in the year

- T . BARRING ON COVE (C . B ) (See Prince of Wales Land

— - l o Lt . Co . BARTON (D . ) S named after Joseph Barton an l ’ early Loya ist settler . It was formerly known as Specht s Cove

- o BATES TON (C . B . ) S called after a family of early settlers named Bates .

— B t n . BATTER Y P OINT (C . . ) A Sydney Mi es There was a Battery of guns on this point (which was then known as

Pecks Head) in the year 1 794 . The fort was called Fort Dundas .

Y — on BATTER POINT (L . ) There was a Blockhouse this “

1 7 53 . on e point in , hence the name It was at time called Fort

Boscawen .

— BAXTER HARB OR (K . ) This place had an early settler

Wa s . D . whose name was r William Baxter , after whom it named

TT T H — 1779 BAYER S E LEMEN ( . ) First settled in the year a 1l by a f m y named Bayer and named after the family . — BAYFIELD (AN T) S o named in honor of Admiral Henry Wol sa B a ﬁeld y y , who surveyed and made charts for the Gulf of

St . Lawrence , and many other parts of Canada , between the years 18 14 1 and 8 54 .

BAY OF FUNDY— The Portugese called the place Baia ” Fundo meaning deep bay , hence the present name . Others claim that the word “ Fundy ” is derived from “ fond ” meaning the 4 D “ l end or top of the bay . In 1 6 0 eMon t s called the bay e grande ” Bay Francoise , a name it retained until the English renamed it . Sir William Alexander in 16 24 called it Argall ’ s Bay after Sir

who . Samuel Argall , an English adventurer raided it in 1 6 13

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D D H — i n D f BE FOR ( . ) Named honor of the uke of Bed ord , 1 who was Secretary of State in 1 749 . The I n d a n s called this place “ Kwebek meaning the head of the tide . It was known as Fort

Sackville before receiving its present name .

BEI R E H — N N BH AG (V. ) Formerly known as Red Head a descriptive name given it owing to the reddish character of the

. . 1n ven t or rocks The property of the late Prof Graham Bell , the

of the telephone .

The name is the Gaelic for Beautiful Mountain . The Indian “ ” Me a a k w t t e . name for this place was g p , meaning the red hea d

— Y . B . BELFR LAKE (C ) Near Gabarouse Lake . Pichon “ ”

says Near Gabarus is a pond called Bellefeuille . It is quite of possible that Belfry is a corruption the French name .

I — BELLE COTE ( . ) Formerly known as East Side Margaree

Harbor , given its present name by an Act of Parliament in the year “

1 8 92 . The name is French , meaning Pretty hillside .

D D— BELLEN EN HEA See Pettipas .

S — BELLI LE (A. ) Received its name from Alexander Le “ ” Borgne , an early settler , whose title was the Sieur de Bellisle and who was left by the Sieur de Morillon de Bourg in 1 6 6 8 as the m - i n - Co mander Chief of Port Royal .

D — o BELLIVEAU COVE ( . ) S named after a French Acadian

family of that name who settled there . There is also a village of D the same name in igby .

(L) - D BELL COVE Near Lower ublin , received its name after

an early settler named Bell .

S - D (L . ) BELL I LAN Named after an early settler , Alexander

B - ELLONI (C . B . ) Named after an American Robert w , Bello , who at one time owned and operated a coal mine in this

part of Cape Breton .

B H — ELMONT ( t s . ) This place was previously known as H i hﬁ g eld . It was changed to its present name by an Act of Parlia n 1 8 7 me t in the year 3 .

BE ACADI E — N The original of this name is the Mic “ ” “ 1 Ooobun aka de mac "Ind an word meaning place of bringing forth . It was a moose resort in the calling or mating season . ‘ ‘ PLACE- NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 1 9

Again it is said to be from the Micmac Indian word B en aka de “ meaning the humble place . — BEN EOIN (C . B . ) This is a Gaelic word meaning Jona ’ — tha n s Mountain the Scotch often call two of their family by the same Christian name . When . it is John , the second is generally known as Jonathan . One of the early settlers was known E as Jonathan , the Gaelic of which is oin , hence the name of the place.

— BERLIN (Q . ) See East and West Berlin .

— BER WI GK (K . ) I t is said that this district was settled as far back as 1 76 0 by English from Connecticut who took the places vacated by the unfortunate Acadians . It was formerly named ” “ ’ Pleasant Valley , and the village was known as Currie s Corner , l c “ ’ ” 18 3 5 “ D ’ ater alled Congdon s Corner and in avison s Corner ,

D . after a man named avison , an early settler — The present name was given it in 18 57 at a meeting called for that purposeb a n d is after the English seaport town on the

Tweed . At the meeting it was also decided the word would be

- - pronounced Ber wick , not Ber ick , as is the English name .

I A H I — RHEIN V OR C ( . ) A Gaelic name meaning sharp mountain .

— B . BI G BEACH (C . ) The Indian name f or this place was ”

Ama mkea k . , meaning the long sand beach

— B I . B . A G POND (C ) descriptive name . The Micmac " Indians called Big Pond and its neighborhood Edoobuku k .

18 6 8 . Dr . The maps as recent as give this name Big Pond itself , “ ” “ N a ookt eboo ooi k Rand says , the Indians called j , meaning it “ stands alone . The name of this place also appears as Anse du ” Charbon which is the French f or Coal Cove .

— Th H P H . BI G T R UMCA ( ) See rumca p .

— ' BI G TUS KET IS LAND (Y . ) (See Tusket . ) This Island is Ma ra t o i t s who sometimes known as g y Island , owing ﬁrst settler

1 74 Ma ra . came there from Marble Head in 7 , being named John g y

— BILLTOWN (K . ) About the year 1 770 this place was settled ; on e . was of the settlers was William C Bill , after whom the place named .

— B T W . A IRCH O N (S ) descriptive name , as the birchwood was plentiful there . This place is opposite Shelburne town . It 2 0 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

was laid out about the year 1 78 3 as a town f or the negroes . They numbered about four thousand at the time and bu11t quite a large

town there . The greater number of them were removed to

Sierra Leone in 1 790 or 1 79 1 .

— D D V . A f or of se BIR IS LAN S ( ) resort many kinds a birds . The name of these islands appears on the very Old maps a s “ ’ . Ci ux bo . 1 Islands and being near the entrance to St Ann s , g ves “ ” ’ Ci bou rise t o the belief that the name was iven to St . Ann s . g

a ut hor1 1 . t es . and not to Sydney , as stated by some (See Sydney ) “ Kloo skea a a The Indian name for these islands was p k de. On

some plans the outer Bird Island is called Hiboux , evidently a f or Ci boux mistake ; the inner island appears as Hertford Island .

B — IS HOPVILLE (K . ) Named after John Bishop or some of

his descendants . He and four sons came and settled at or near

1 76 0. Horton in They came from Connecticut .

BLACKAV N An — O ( t . ) This was a portion of the settle

ment known as Black River , and was given its present name by

an Act of Parliament in 18 9 1 . TT — B . BLACKE LAKE (C . ) At on e time known as Portage ’ , , s I n ovi lle Lake later Barn Lake owing to one of the ﬁrst settler , g s ,

. barn being near Still later known as Forks Lake . Received its of present name after a family residents . — An t . D BLACK RIVER ( ) One time part of Beauly . ivided

and named Black River by an Act of Parliament in the year 18 8 7 . — S L . A BLACK ROCK ( ) descriptive name . This place was

ﬁrst settled by families named Tanner and Allen .

P — BLANCHARD ( . ) Settled by William Cummings from

n , Inver ess Scotland , in the year 18 02 . The road wa s cut out by of 1 Colonel Blanchard T uro , hence the name . — L . BLANDFORD ( ) Named and settled by several Irish 111 : , . fam es Murphys Carrolls Keatings and Rileys , some time 1 previous to 76 7 .

BLOCKH OUS E H I LL - (L . ) O This hill is near the town of Lunenburg . It was 1n the early days called Windmill Hill from , on the fact that there was a corn mill it . It was fortiﬁed by a as 1 blockhouse as early 753 . The last blockhouse was destroyed 18 by ﬁre in 74 .

BLOMI DO — N (K. ) ’ ” The Micmac Indians called this place o ’ . . e. Gl oscap s week i , Glooscap s home . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 2 1

D . Owko e echk The Indian name as given by r Rand was g g , “ ” “ ” lomi meaning dogwood grove . The name B don is said by most authorities to have been given the place by the Portuguese . “ The Indian name for the cape was P l ekt eok meaning a hand “ - S pike . Navigators in old times used to call the cape Blow me d own .

BLONDE ROCK ( Y — Received its name from the fact that “ a ship named the Blonde was wrecked on the rock on the l 0t h of

May 1 78 2 . — BLOOD Y CREEK (A . ) About twelve miles from Annapolis . oﬂi cer So named because the Indians killed an and some men , and t ook about sixty prisoners , at this place . They were from the fort a t Annapolis and were sent to deal with some insurgent Acadians w hen the Indians fell upon them .

At one time called Bloody Run , also Moccasin Hollow .

D — BLOOMFIELD ( . ) At one time called West Settlement “ ’ a n d again Thomas Road was settled about the year 18 00 by

G ains Pritchard .

— G T A . BLOOMIN ON ( ) The earliest , or at least , early settlers i i i oo su w ere Jesse V d t and John H fma n . The present name was g of Torbrook an d wa s g ested by Elias Grimes , adopted by the resi dents . — P . o T S . BLUE M OUN AINS ( ) named by Wm Ross , who

n . ha r s i 18 18 . e u t ettled there Wm q , from Scotland , was the

ﬁ 18 1 . rst settler , in the year 5

BLUE M OUN TAINS (Y —This place the Indians called ’ ” “ ” K ooku ook 1 Kookwes j meaning the g ant s home , from a g iant . — BLUE ROCKS (L . ) A descriptive name . The place wa s

ﬁ rst settled by German families named Kn i ckle and Heinrich .

B EI — o LYS T N ER LAKE (L . ) S named after a family of early s ettlers .

B O S B K K —A r m AR AC ( ridge near Parrsbo ough , na ed by “ ” t he w okun f or w okun r or Indians Ou , A meaning a po tage a s hort cut .

B — o OIS DALE (C . B . ) Named after a place f this name in ' S ﬁr t ' e l rs McI n t res m outh Uist , Scotland , where the s s t t e , y and Ca p e b lls came from in 18 2 3 . There were some Irish settlers named 22 PLACE- NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

r . Lockman Bray , Beave , etc , at this place , but they left shortly after , “ ” B orsdell 1n the Scotch arrived . This name is found spelled some o records f 18 40. i The Indian name was Mi gt cet cwega t c.

— o D n u B OLMAN HILL (L . ) S named after a octor B oh a who lived near by . — B ONNAR HEAD (C . B . ) Named after a family named e wh o on f or Bonnar , of Scottish d scent , had their home the point

r . many yea rs , and some of the family are still the e

- D a r on A . BOOT IS LAN , Ne r Ho t ( ) Indian name Kade ” “ or . bun egek meaning clam diggings , place where clams are dug TT — B O LE BROOK (L . ) Near Hebb Mills , a favorite drinking s f or i t s brook for man and horse , which indirectly gives the rea on name . — BOUCHE HARB OR (An t . ) French name meaning mouth o or entrance . It was s named by the early French because the expanse of the harbor cannot be seen until the mouth or entrance i s passed through .

I - o BOULAR DER E (C . B . ) The ﬁrst Frenchman wh obtained t he a grant to settle and develop. the ﬁne island at the entrance to ’ P ou d . et Bras Or Lakes was Louis Simon de St Aubin de p , Cheva oul r lier de la B a deri e. His name wa s given to the island . He o di stinguished himself at the defence f Annapolis in 1 707 . He was

r u . taken prisone at Lo isburg in 1745 It was once called by t he. “ O French Ile de Verderonne . Captain B a yﬁeld gives the name f “ ” B oul t ri this island as a c a .

B T H — OU ILIER ( . ) Cove , Lake , and Point are all n amed after O O a George B out l ll er ( 1756 - 18 3 1) an early settler of this district

B WS S — O ER TATION (H . ) Named in 1900 after a man named r Angus Bowse , who ran a small hotel there and was the first Post master . The first settler was a French Huguenot named Nicholas B out 1l1er (about the year o m It is only ten miles from Halifax , and the ld Boutilier far w s hun t m n . 18 6 a a great g ground in bygo e days In the year 0, i of K ng Edward VII , then Prince Wales , and hi s following visited . on fishm 1 here a g tr p and camped over night . (See Timberlea . )

S — BOYL TON (G . ) This place was settled and laid out int o i n 1 78 6 r lots the year , by the Loyalist settlers , who we e settled on H a ll ow el O lf the Grant f Mi ord Haven . ' PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 2 3

’ — u t o BRAS D OR (C . B . ) This bea tiful name is said be (and “ we should like t o believe it) from the French meaning The Golden ” “ ” “ P et oob ook Arm . The Micmac Indian name was , meaning a ” o of 1 8 72 f . long dish full salt water On the maps and earlier , the “ ” r i s e e Lake is named Le Lac de Labrado , and this mor lik ly the true derivation Of the present name . The literal meaning Of “ Labrador is Laborer . ’ The Indians called t he entrance t o the little Bras d Or Bano ” “ "

m c . skek , eaning a deep utting ’ The present Little Bras d Or settlement was known as French O F F Village , wing to the settlers all being rench and rench Aca dians . ’ The - Big or Great Bras d or Lake was named by the Indians ” “ " O o M gla ka di k meaning place f brant geese . o In a paper prepared by the late Dr . Patterson f r the N ova ’ Scotia Historical Society he says he believed the name Bras d Or ’ ’ came from the Breton form of Bras d eau arm of water or Of the

sea .

— BRENTWOOD (Col . ) The former name Graham Siding a s 1 w replaced by the present name by an Act of Parliament in 903 .

— o BREWS TER PLAINS (K . ) This place is named after n e of its early settlers , Mr . Samuel Brewster .

— H . n of BRIAN LAKE ( ) The seco d the Tangier Lakes , named “ by the Indians Mi lp a gech .

— o BRICK KILNS (C . ) Near P a rrs r named by the Indians “ ” “ ” Ko olt a n e o chk or st run g o , meaning the neck cord g together .

— BRIDGES CREEK (Y . ) The place received its name from an early settler , George Bridges , who was a British Navy man and 1 settled there in the year 76 5 .

— B G . B . o D T r f . RI EPOR (C ) Named in hono a Mr Bridge , of o f . a member the London ﬁrm jewellers , Messrs Rundell , Bridge o and Rundell , the original members f the General Mining Asso ‘ ’ ciation . This Association s history is closely woven in the early o political and economic history f the Province . The Indians called “ “ the place Mela suk meaning abundance or a place of ” beauty .

— DG T W A . BRI E O N ( ) This place was ﬁrst known . as ’ Hicks Ferry . The present name was given it in the year 1 8 2 4 of because the bridge connecting Granville with Annapolis , which

‘ caused i t to grow into a town of considerable importance ; A 24 PLACE - NAMES OF NOV SCOTIA

D — m BRI GEWATER (L . ) Appropriately na ed owing to loca tion near the Bridge over the La Have River . It was settled about

i a 1 8 99 . the year 18 10. It was incorporated as a Town n the ye r

- 1 8 6 1 . BRIGHTON (D . ) Received this name in Was form “ ’ erly known as Head of St . Mary s Bay .

Y - BRILE BROOK (An t . ) One of the early settlers Ensign 1 o Brea rl or An t g John Brailey , y Briley owned a portion of land in h1s nish in the present town . The brook ran through place and of received his name . He is said to be the founder the present town of Antigonish . — A BRINE (H . ) lake named after a family of early settlers named Brine , not Brian . — D ’ BRIS TOL (Q . ) This place formerly known as ean s ho D , w Point , was named after a Captain ean with others estab li shed a whale ﬁshery at Green Harbor .

- E The present name is modern , and after the nglish seaport f or E city of this name . (The former name Bristol in ngland was

Bristowe) . — BROAD COVE (I ) A descriptive name . This place was ’ ” formerly known as Hunter s Bay . I — BROAD COVE MINES ( . ) This place was formerly known as Loch Leven and was changed to i t s present name by an Act of

Parliament passed in 18 95 . — BROAD RIVER LAKE (Q . ) A descriptive name . The “ “ ” - Indians named this lake Wobe akade , meaning white place , i s from woba meaning white , and akade meaning place . It some

- times translated as Swan land .

— ol BROOKDALE (R . ) The d name for this place was Black 7 o River R ear . It was in 190 given its present name by an Act f

Parliament . — BROOKFIELD (Col . ) Wa s ﬁrst settled and named about the year 1 78 6 . The ﬁrst settlers were William Hamilton and D D aniel Moore , later joined by William owning , William Carter “ n d ga mes Boomer . The I ndian name for this place wa s S i bumea 3ool

B F — A ROOK IELD descriptive name . First settled ‘ 1111 . was by W am Burke Burke a remarkable pioneer , and is said to ’ ﬁ wh1t e Of ue n ou be the rst man to explore the interior Q e s C n t y .

B a n kw en O skw The Indian name of this place was p , meaning ” h1m We hunt among the rocks . (See Greenﬁeld . ) B — ROOKLAND (An t . ) Formerly known as a portion of

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— CABBAGE CREEK (R See Anse de la Choux .

— D S o . CAL WELL COVE (D . ) named after a ﬁrst settler Mr

John Caldwell , a Scottish crofter who settled here about the year

178 9 .

— si x CALEDONIA (Q . ) Settled and named by Scotch fam i li es in the year 18 2 0. There are many places in the Province with o t of this name or variations f it , all named by se tlers in honor their

Scottish home . — CALUM - R UADH BROOK This place i s named after “ ’ a nearby resident . It is a Gaelic word meaning Red Malcolm s

Brook .

— O on e CAMPBELL HILL (Col . ) S named after of Tatama ’ gou che s early and progressive settlers Alexander Campbell , the founder of shipbuilding in that place .

T I — CAMPBELL ON ( . ) This place received its name after a o family of residents by Act f Parliament in the year 18 8 5 . It was hitherto known as Rear Loch Ban . — CANADA CREEK (K . ) This place is named after an early i Ka n d . settler named Kennedy , sometimes pronounced y This is a O case where a change f form has given the place i t s name . m There are so e , however , who claim it was named after an of original grantee Cornwallis township a Major William Canada .

— Ol CANARD RIVER (K . ) The d Indian name for this " “ R l ver A cheechkumoochwa - b was p akade , meaning a ounding in li l d “ ” t e ucks . Hence the French name Canard which means H suck

— - CANNES (R . ) Named after the watering place Cannes in 13 France , a French settlement . The post Ofﬁ ce was Opened in

18 8 4 . M P It was ﬁrst settled by Louis c hee, Marshall and Andrew Du ast g and others about 1 795 .

— N G K . CAN IN ( ) Was ﬁrst named Apple Tree Landing , “ . ” H a bl t a n t lat r was called Corner . About the year 18 3 0 at a e ‘ i i meet l n f or u c t zens g called the p rpose , it was named in honor of P LACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 2 7

a 18 2 7 George C nning , Prime Minister of England , (Born 1 770; died He was a great Constitutionalist . — N Y . t CA N HILL ( ) Named af er Hugh Cann , who settled in 1 4 the vicinity in the year 78 . — CAN S O (G . ) Some authorities sa y thi s word was deri ved ” of from the name a French navigator , Canse , and eau (water) . “ ” Others sa y that the French spelling Ca mpsea u suggests that the Harbour was so called because it wa s a common rendezvous f or “ vessels . Haliburton says : It i s said that the derivation Of the ” “ ” word Canso is from the Spanish Ganso a goose , a name given to it on a bcoun t Of the immense ﬂocks of geese then seen ”

. Dr s i s Ka msok there Rand state it from the Indian word , “ ” meaning Opposite the lofty cliff s . This would appear to be the proper derivation of the name as the Indians called White Head “ ” near by Ka msokoot c meaning the little place Opposite the lofty cl iffs . 1 76 5 t so i n In the own was known as Wilmot Town , named - O honor of Montague Wilmot , Lieutenant Governor f Nova Scotia at that time . The strait was at one time called Straits of Fronsac also “ at on e time called by the French Passage du Glas . Canso Township wa s on e of the four sub - divisions of the north

e o 18 . w stern part of Cape Bret n Island , formed in 28 The Micmac Indians sometimes applied the name Ta ooog ” un a k to the Gut of Canso . This name appears to particularly t o a apply the passage , and it is the general Micm c word for any passage .

A I C K — C N T OO (H t s . ) This place in Newport Township “ ” “ was called by the Micmac Indians Kun et kook meaning place ” near or close at hand . This Indian word wa s eventually brought to the present form .

— o CAPE A GROS NEZ (R . ) Named s by the early French of meaning Cape the Great Nose . It is near Petit de Grat on Isle

Madame . — C BLOMI D K . l o o APE ON ( ) (see B mi d n ) . — CAPE BRETON (C . B . ) The Cape from which the whole Island received its name was so named by Basque or Breton ﬁsher of o men after a cape the same name in their wn country . “ The mariners know this place better by the name Port N ovy ” “ so o Land , called from the small adjacent islands f Puerto Ncuvo . “ ” “ ” l o ll o o i l on i We ﬁnd this Cape called F uri n . F r l s a word applied o by the French to a large rock split ff the coast . 2 8 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

— CAPE BRETON Discovered by John Cabot in 1497 . The “ ” old Indian name of Cape Breton was Oon a ma a gi k sometimes “ “ “ o On uma e appearing as O n amggee. This spelling g or Wum ” age traces the meaning back to a vari ation of the name Meg ” Ma rl t l me amage , the name the Indians applied to the whole of the “

of or . Provinces , which means home the Micmacs the true men “ ”

B a cca l os codﬁsh . It was also called a , the Basque word for It was

o 1 3 . r . 6 0 named St . Laurent St Lawrence Island by Champlain in “ o a V eva zza n named Cape Breton Isle Du Cap . Later it w s “ ” kn own as Isle Royale The Cape was probably given i t s name by Basque or Breton of ﬁshermen in remembrance of the land their origin , Cape Breton in the Basque country , and this name was later applied to the whole island .

Cape Breton is the oldest French name in American geography . In the year 1 6 2 1 Sir William Alexander transferred the Island of o h Cape Breton to his friend Sir Robert Gordon of L c en var . Sir Robert and his son obtained a royal charter and named the island of o the Barony New Galloway . The present county f Cape n 1 1 6 9 . Breto contains square miles (See Sydney , Louisburg and

Cape Breton . ) 1 6 The Island was ceded to England in 7 3 , was a separate n 1 78 4 18 2 0 colo y from to , and was annexed to and incorporated N ova S cot i a 18 2 0. with , in “ u r 7 o A Co nty of Cape Breton was formed in the yea 1 6 5 , n

December 1 0t h . It included all of the Island of Cape Breton and all islands within three leagues of it . 18 2 1 In , Cape Breton had three Townships formed , named St . ’

Andrew s , St . Patrick and Sydney .

18 2 8 - In , the north western part of Cape Breton Island wa s d1v1 ded 1 nto four townships , and they were named Canso , Port

Hood , Ainslie and Margaree .

The following list of ancient Spelling appearing on old maps “ ” f or the name Cape Breton may be of interest :

C . de berton . Terra de bretto

Cabo Bretos .

Cavo de bretoni . D el berto . des Terre Britons . a ux Cap Bretons . ”

. Br i C et a n .

los Tierra de brotou . l os b o Terra de ert ms. ’ PLACE- NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 2 9

B ri on um C . t o os bert en s . C . d l o Tierra de s Briton . ” Cap de Breton .

C . de brits .

C . de Bertram .

Ga spey Island .

— CAPE BRULE S O named from the French word ”

Br l t o 1 752 . fl é meaning burnt , owing a coalpit being ﬁred there in

— o CAPE CHIGNECTO (C . ) At n e time called Cape of ” Two Bays because it separated Chignecto Bay ( see) from the o Basin f Minas . — CAPE DAUPHIN (V Indian name f or Cape Dauphin was ” “ ” Kookumi jen agwa n ak meaning our grandmother named from a certain rock . ’ 1 1 1 . 7 St Ann s Bay was called Port Dauphin by the French in , when they believed it was a better place than Louisburg , and were o o advocating i t s being fortiﬁed . It is n w applied t the Cape only . “ ” D m D son of auphin , fro the French auphin , the eldest Royalty “ ” Prince is the English equivalent . Sometimes erroneously “ ” spelled Dolphin .

’ —Wa s on e CAPE D OR (C . ) at time called Cap des Mines , owing to the attempts made here to mine copper . The French “ ’ “ ”

r . . named it Cap d O , i e Golden Cape , they having mistaken o its native Copper f r gold . — CAPE EGM ONT (V See Egmont Lake .

— CAPE GEORGE (An t . ) Formerly known as Cape St . o O George , undoubtedly s named by the English after one f the o English kings f that name . Earlier than this it was known as

Cape St . Louis , named by the French after their royalty . The “ ” “ ”

m Memka t c m . Mic ac Indians named it , eaning the small ﬁeld

— f or e CAPE J OHN (P . ) The Indian name this cap was ’ ” "

n oo cow or . We j t eamw a ka de meaning the pasture , cattle land

- 16 04 CAPE LA HAVE (L . ) Named Cape de la Have in sa w by Champlain . He evidently some resemblance to Cap de la w a s Have in France and gave the name to the Cape . This three o l years in advance f the ﬁrst English sett ement in Jamestown ,

Virginia .

D - - m earlA CAPE LA RON E (R . ) Thisplace was na ed by the 3 0 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

R French La Cap a, la onde after a man named La Ronde who settled on t he extreme cape . Marquis De La Ronde was Sir D ’ Nicholas enys grandson , and some believe the Cape may have been named after him .

— r S o CAPELIN COVE (R . ) O sometimes Caplin , named owing to the large number of these small ﬁsh of the smelt family that sometimes appear in this cove .

— K es CAPE NEGRO (S . ) Called by the Micmac Indians

OO . p gu i t . (See N )

— CAPE NORTH (V B y some historical students Cape North “ ” is believed to be the prima tiera vista or the actual landfall ﬁrst “ ol seen by John Cabot . On some d maps it is shown as prima vista . “ ” “ ’ The Indians called Cape North Ukt ut un ook meaning the land s “ ” end . It is probable that this Cape wa s named Cape Lorraine

1 5 . or Laurent by Jacques Cartier in 3 5 , when he named the St

Lawrence , and the name was afterwards wrongfully applied to

Lorraine , near Louisburg . It is said that the ﬁrst settlers at Cape North were named

- Stanley and Matatal and John Gwynn , an American refugee , in

18 1 2 . Gwynn was the ﬁrst preacher in the northern wilds of Cape

Breton . His name appears on some records as John Gunn ; he was a

Methodist . Cape North has been aptly called t he Watch Tower of the

— CAPE S ABLE (S . ) Named from the French word sablon meaning Sand Island . (See . ) The Micmac Indian name for the Cape “ ” “ ” “ ” KeS oo wi t k was p g meaning the last place or the end of land . It I S 1n t erest i n g to note that Charles de la Tour was known as “ ” of ” . K Lord Cape Sable , and Lieut of the ing in Acadia . The a s name of the Cape appears on old plans Cape Sandy .

S S A — CAPE ABLE I L ND (S . ) The name Sable is said to ” “ ” have come from the French word Sablon meaning sand . — CAPE S MOKY (V The old French name of this place was o Cape Enfume , and it was so named n accou nt of the cloud of ml st whl h - c so often envelops this storm swept landmark of the Gulf . “ ” “ The Indian S a k eedi ch for this cape was p , meaning a . name ” smooth bathing place . There are two white hills or cliff s to the - W of south est the cape . Pichon says these two hills were known 176 0 “ ( ) as the Veils of Cape Enfume .

S T — CAPE PLI (Y. ) Called by Champlain Cap Fendu ” “ , P ou t ri n o later called Cloven Cape was called Cap de c urt , PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 3 1 owing to it being stated that P ou t ri n court in his voyage ( 16 04 ’ 1 6 07 fell from this cape and nearly lost his life . (See Champlain s su Journal . ) The present name is of course the English name g “ gested by the early French name Cloven Cape . The Indians “ “ a c P lekt eok f or c lled this pla e , meaning huge handspikes break " “ P l u m O . e ing pen a beaver dam They also called it g , which means “ an opening in a beaver dam and the high rocks were “ ” o known as P lekt e k .

— CARIBOU HARB OR (P . This name is said to have arisen from some of the ﬁrst explorers having seen a herd of cari bou on n o but the east poi t f what is now known as the Big Island , which was then a headland connected with the shore , and which was “ “ ’ o Koma un uk s called Cari b u Poin t . The old Indian name was g , “ ” meaning a decoy place where they set duck decoys Dr . Rand “ Dictionary gives the spelling of the Indian name as K oma gun uk

P — i o CARIBOU MARS H ( . ) The Ind an name f this place was ”

a l eb ooa ka de . K , meaning Caribou Place

‘ H — CARIB OU MINES ( . ) Named Caribou because deer were common and Mines because of its being a gold mining dis triet .

— CARLETON ( Y . ) The ﬁrst settler was Daniel Raymond . ’ ” At on e time it was known as Nine Partners Falls Owing t o nine

“ o settlers having f rrrl ed a partnership to run a mill there . It was “ s also formerly known as Temperance , owing to the settler having formed a Temperance compact to eschew all intoxicating liquors . o of D Its present name is in honor f the ﬁrst Baron orchester , - i n - Sir Guy Carleton , who was Commander Chief in America in 2 178 1 7 6 . , afterwards Governor of Quebec , up to 9

— o i CARRINGTON (C . N amed s by a meeting of t s residents or called f that purpose in the year 19 1 0. It was formerly known E l as e Creek . The ﬁrst settlers were families named Bigney and

Angus .

’ — 4 CARROLL S CORNERS (H . ) Named in 18 3 after a man named John Carroll , who owned a house and small store at this p ace .

— CARRYING PLACE (H . This is the name given to the land between the P on hook Lake in Halifax County and the Dau hen e s i n i or p y Lake Lunenburg County , mean ng the portage place e wh re canoes can be carried from lake to lake .

— 18 96 . CAS TLE BAY (C . B .) Was given this name in the year 3 2 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

m u a dus m r It was formerly called A ag Pond , a Mic ac Indian w d “ o

18 05 . i meaning plenty . Settled in the year An Act conﬁrm ng the present name was passed by Parliament in 19 06 .

- CAS TLEREAGH (Col . ) Named in honor of the Marquis o f Londonderry (Robert Stewart) , who was also Viscount Castle reagh .

A E C TALON (C . B . ) Catalogne said to have been named “ ” of Ca t al on a after a French version the Spanish , the ancient

Province of Catalonia in Spain . There was a French Engineer in 2 - 17 1 . Louisburg in 8 73 5 named M de Catalogne , and in all proba bi li t l o i y his name was given to Ca t a n e . There is ev en ce that he O n e t - of w ed an x ensive tract of land in the vicinity thi place , which “ ” was then known as the Barachois de Mire .

I — i CAVEAU POINT ( . ) This s a French word meaning ” O or a small hole , pening cave , likely so named beca sre of a small opening in the nearby rocks .

— T D. CEN REVILLE ( ) Formerly known as Tro Cove .

S CHAMBER POINT (Col . So named after an early 18 settler Robert Chambers , who in 06 received a grant of the D B . s arr Point from Col e es.

— CHARLO (G . ) Was settled about the year 176 0 and named e t er 1t s ﬁrst settler Charles Richard ; sometimes called Charlos gove .

- S R . CHAPEL I LAND ( ) See Indian Island .

CH AS WOOD H — ’ ( . ) The places f ormerlyk nown as Gay s R l v er Road and Taylorville were changed to Cha swood by an Act 1 of Parliament passed in the year 9 01 . The name is in honor of a

. Mr Charles Wood of Halifax , who fell in the South African war l 1 n the year 8 97 . — B Y. An CHE EC ( ) Indian word , meaning The Narrows whl ch 1 o O was the Ind an name for Tusket Wedge . N doubt rigin ” “ ” Kebec ally (Quebec) or Narrows .

— G ( Y. CHEBO UE ) Sometimes found as Jeq ue . Indian ” ” a a u words che (gret) and p g (still water) . Another authority “ ” says the name 1 3 from the Indian word Ut kub ok or spring “ ” water , r Teceb o ue o q meaning cold water . It was permanently 1 76 1 settled m , but an unsuccessful attempt at settlement wa s made by some French in the year 1 73 9 .

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V T — CHE ERIE POIN (H t s. ) The Indian name for place “ this “ s : (S ee was N a ookt aboogwa dik meaning , It tands alone

Chiverie . )

T — N a ea CHEVERIE S PLI (H t s. ) The Indian name was “ ” di ch meaning heaving in Sight .

T — f CHEZZE COOK (H . ) The old spelling o this word was

Mus uodob o1t . Chi lli n cook It was once part of and included in q “ ” “ T e et The name is from t he Micmac Indian S eset kook or c s ” “ kook mea ning ﬂowing rapidly in many ch annels .

T — CHIGNEC O (C . ) From the Micmac Indian word Sig “ ” . ” I n n i ukt meaning a foot of cloth . This name appears the

English records in the year 1 6 9 1 as S i ga n ect oe. The Bay was at on e time called by the French Bay de ” “ ” derl va t l ve f or t hl s Gennes , i . e. , Bay of Twins . A fanciful ” “ D . name is Chignon u Col , meaning nape of the neck Chig “ ” hi n i ou n ect o somet i rn es appears as C g t , was also known as “ ” B i B eauba si n s eauba s n . This was after a family of descendants of the Sier de la Potherie who served in Acadia ; although it is claimed by others to have been so named as descriptive meaning , “ i ” a . beaut ful b sin . (See Cumberland )

— CHIGNECTO CAP E (C) I n 1 6 07 Champlain came in sight of be Cape Chignecto , which he named the Cape of Two Bays , cause i t was the western extremity of the land which divided

Chignecto Bay from the Basin of Minas . (See Chignecto . ) l o ooi oo An Indian name for the Cape was E m j kt k .

I — CHIMNEY CORNER ( . ) This place was settled by people from Scotland in the year 18 1 1 . It received its name from a high i c m p nnacle of ro k , rese bling a chimney , which is at the entrance to t he cove . The name is said to have been given to it by a French admiral . — CHIMNEY CORNER (L . ) A small harbor on the west ’

of . 1ven shore St Margaret s Bay , g the name owing to the position of the rocks which form the entrance . — C P K . o HI MAN ( ) Br ok and Village . Named after some ’ of old member the King s County family of Chipman . — CHI H t s . VERIE ( ) See Cheverie .

C S S S AN — HRI TMA I L D (C . B . ) Was settled in the year 1 8 02 . , and received lts name from a leading Micmac Indian said to “ ” “ ” Oel be a Chief named N which is the French for Christmas , PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA 3 5

who died there and was buried on the island Opposite the present “ railway station . The old Indian name for this place was Abad i ” “ " a t cet . kw c meaning , the small reserved portion — CHURCH HILL (H . ) Near Dartmouth . Here the ﬁrst o o church was built n the eastern side f Halifax Harbor . It was built by the Government for the use of the Maroons or Negroes who were brought from Jamaica and settled in that vicinity in the year

1796 .

— CHURCHILL LANDING ( Y. ) Named after an early settler Lemuel Churchill who came from Plymouth and settled here

about the year 176 2 . — H CH PO T D . C UR IN ( ) Received its ﬁrst colonists in 177 1 . ’ o 18 The college f St . Anne s here was founded in 90 by the Eudist ’ l ” Fathers . The point was at one time known as Point de l Eg i se. This is the neighborhood that was known to the Indians as ” Chi ca ben . (See Port Acadia) . — C CHV LL P . Wa s R HUR I E ( ) ﬁrst settled by John obertson , o a Scottish (Highland) immigrant to Pictou in 1 78 4 . S named

from its being the site of a church . — CH T A. A f m l l l r U E ( ) Cove named after a a i y of ear y sett e s .

— CI BOUX IS LAN DS (V . Generally called the Bird Islands

owing to the large number of wild sea birds found near . The name “ “ ”

i s di i . Ci bou In an , mean ng River Islands The name (Big

River) was at on e time been applied to St . Ann .

These islands are at the southern entrance of St . Ann Bay . — CLAM HARB OR (G . ) See Port Shoreham .

B — CLAM HAR OR (H . ) The clams were plentiful there . The “ ” “ ” Aa su a di ch di f r Indian name was g , Asuk is the In an word o

clam .

— C A . o D k CLAREN E ( ) S named in honor of Edward , u e of of Kent , who took a great interest in the settlement the place , and spent some time there . The ﬁrst and earlier settlers were Samuel

Elliott , Henry Barks , William Marshall , and Francis Jackson .

P — CLARE TOWNS HI (D . One of the two township divisions o D i 176 8 wa f igby County . Formed as a Township n the year , s ‘‘ ” a t Li eut en n med Clare by Michael Franklyn , who was a the time er of ant Governor of Nova Scotia , no doubt aft the subdivision k m Munster , Ireland , of this name . Clare was nown for erly as a PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

of ch French Town , as it was laid out and settled by some the Fren

Acadians who had ret urned from exile .

— on n C C B A ru Ba , e w LARK ( . . ) point in Gaba s y time kno as

. Low Point , named after residents there — l . CLARKVILLE (Co . ) See Hilden

V — o t CLA ERHOUS E (I . ) S named by the early Sco ch set

of G , t lers, who were evidently admirers John raham the Viscount

Dundee .

Y — f use r CLA I S LAN D (L . ) The excellent clay or in b ick making found there gave this island its name . — CLEAVELAN D (H . ) See Cleveland . — CLELAN D CORN ER ( Y. ) Named after the Cleland family , who were the ﬁrst settlers there .

— An CLEMENT IS LAND (Y . ) i sland in Chebogue Harbor m le named aft er an early settler , John Clements , who came fro Marb

Head and settled there in the year 176 9 . — CLEMENTS TOWNS HIP (A . ) One of the four Township o m divi sions f Annapolis County , was for ed and named in the year

178 4 and was at this time settled by Hessians and Loyalists .

— CLEMEN TS P OR T (A. ) Named after the Township of ” Clements . Was ﬁrst settled by United Empire Loyalists in

178 4 . on e a . . . . Was at time c lled Moose River Moses Shaw , M P P , m by a petition from the residents , had the name changed to Cle ents port in 18 56 .

LEME E - C N TS VAL (A. ) See Clements .

— o CLEVELAND (R . ) Named after a President f the United

a . r St tes It was fo merly known as River Inhabitants Bridge . It gi ven its present name by an Act of Parliament in the year wggl

C H — LEVELAND POINT ( . ) Sometimes wrongfully called ”

. on of Cleaveland The name appears maps Halifax in 18 6 4 . c i It re e ved the name after a family that lived at the Point . — CLIFTON (Cow Formerly called Old Barns as the barns of the French Aca dl a n s were still standing when the English settlers t o came the place . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 3 7

— CLYBURN BROOK (V S o named after an old settler a named Clyburn who settled near the brook about the ye r 18 40.

— o CLYDES DALE (An t . ) S named by an Act of Parliament in the year 18 76 . — COACHMAN (L . ) A head in Mahone Bay . One time known

i t s i . . as Covey Head , given present name by Capta n P F Shortland ,

4 . . 18 R . N , in 6

— r COBEQ UI D (Col . ) From the Micmac Indian wo d Wak ” “ ” O i o — bet g t k said to mean the end f ﬂowing water the bore . ri of 1 In a geographic desc ption the Province written in 77 1 , the “ ” C obequi d Mountains are called the Lady Mountains . The Abbe “ ” o i o i De Loutre refers to C bequ d as G bet ck in 1 73 8 . This name is “ ” found as Cocobequy an d land s here were gran ted t o Mathieu ‘ - Martin i n ti he year 1 6 8 9 .

’ — COCHRAN S LAKE (C . B . ) This lake is said to have been

- L . McKeen ho on named by the late t Governor David , w was at e time a land surveyor . One of his chainmen named Cochrane fell ’ into the lake and he gave it the chainman s name . — COGMAGUN (H t s . ) Said by some authorities to be an “ Indian word meaning crooked river . Dr . Rand says perhaps “ ” “ it is derived from an Indian word Coot umeegun meaning your ”

. S hatchet ( ee Hilford) .

I EA — CO N N CH BROOK (I . ) This place is named after on e

of . r oi n n h f its early settlers The wo d C ea c is the Gaelic or Kenneth .

— ’ COLBAR T L K H . ur l A E ( ) This lake is near P cel s Cove , H alifax , and bears a family name . — C C S T m ob e ui d OL HE ER For erly called C q (see) . Changed ” “ t o 178 0 D o Colchester in , then called the istrict f Colchester . r l Named afte the town in Essex , England , of that name : Ang o ” S x Coln ecea st er m r a on , , fro its being situated on the Colone Rive .

Raised to the dignity of a County in 18 3 6 . I S divided into f : our Townships viz Truro , Onslow , Londonderry and Stirling . C olchester County contains 13 08 square miles .

B P — COLE ROOK ( . ) This brook received its name from an e on e of 8 2 n d arly settler , the regiment grantees , named Colin McDon ald o l , but was known as Cole McD n a d .

C B — OLE HAR OR (H . ) At on e time known as Inner Harbor ” “ ” o f . on k m Musquodoboit The Indian name was W pea , eaning “ ” wh1 t e water . 3 8 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

’ O T — D m w on e COLIN S P IN (H . ) This point in art outh as ’ time kn own as Warren s Point .

O HI — C MEAU LL ( Y. ) Named after a family of Acadians .

l w . who resettled at this place after their expu s n

- COMEAUVI LLE (D. ) Once called Clare . Received its present name owing to a family named Comeau res1d1n g there .

— recel ved CON DON S ETTLEMENT (K. ) This place its name who a an d from a famil y named Congdon , came from Rhode Isl nd ’ a s settled in Kings County . James Congdon s name appears on e of the original grantees of Cornwallis in 176 4 . — CONN MILLS (C . ) This Village was named after an early settler who was a miller . — a i i eu . CONVICT POINT (C . B . ) Near M n ad A vessel loaded with convicts Wa s lost on this point ; hence the name .

— f or CONWAY TOWNS HIP (D. ) This wa s the former name o o Digby County ; was given the name in honor f the Rt . H n . Henry o 1 7 Seymour Conway who was Secretary f State (English) in 6 5 .

(See Digby . )

— h o COOK COVE , ( G . ) Named after a family of Loyalists w 2 r settled at this cove in the year 177 . The Cooks like all othe Loyalists would not take up arms against England and came t o o o Nova Sc tia t settle .

B — COOK HAR OR (Y. ) Named after a Captain Ephraim o t o o Y Co k , said be the ﬁrst English settler f armouth . He had a ﬁshing post at this Harbor ;

COOKUMI J EN A AK H — WAN ( . ) This is the name given by the Micmac India ns to a rock in the outlet of the Grand Lake into ’ the Shubenacadie River . The name means the Grandmother s ” Place . It was believed by the Indians that this rock was placed r f or m t o the e the ﬁsh from . — C I H . A Ba f r OOL N COVE ( ) Cove in Shag y , named a te a family named Coolin . N G — COR IN HEAD (Y. ) Named after Jonathan and Ebenezer Cormn t o m d 1 g , who it was grante in 76 5 . — CORKUM LAKE (L) S o named after an early settler named u James Cork m . W — CORN ALLIS ( K. ) Named after Colonel the Honorable PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 3 9

who G r r of Edward Cornwallis , was gazetted ove no Nova Scotia , o ar 2 576 the 9t h f May 1749 . He rived in Halifax with immi grants i n July 1 749 . The Indian name f or Cornwallis River was I j l kt ook mean “ ” “ ”

F . ing uncertainty . The rench called it Grand Habitant River Cornwallis is on e of the four Townships of Kings County and wa s formed into a Township in 1 759 .

D — GOS S MAN CREEK ( . ) Na med after Captain John Coss o man a resident f the place .

— o COTEAU INLET (R . ) A general descriptive name f sur “ “ or rounding lands . From the French , meaning hillock rising ground .

— on COUN TRY HARBOR (G . ) At e time this place was called ” “

ocoudom Moukodome. f or wa s M , or The Indian name it ” “ ” Moolaboogwek meaning gullied and deep . 1 8 o r First settled in the year 7 3 , by men f the Royal No th

. f or and South Carolina Regiments , and Carolina Rangers It was a “ long time known as Green Harbor . Changed to its present name “ ” 1 14 t o of in 9 , avoid duplication the name Green . — A . B . COW B Y (C ) S ee Morien . — COW BAY (H . ) The Indian name for this place was N oo ” l o ook kt ch .

— S o . . a COYLE COVE (H named by Capt . P F Shortl nd “ ”

. om l . 18 6 4 . S et mes i l (R N ) in called K e ey .

CRAMMO D I — N IS LAND ( . ) Evidently so named after a Crammon ds family of , whose name appears in the early records of n Inver ess County . This island is sometimes erroneously called

Smith Island .

B — CRAN ERRY HEAD (C . B . ) There is a bog near this place and in the early days cranberries grew in abun dance here ; hence i s old the present name , which a regrettable change from the name “ ”

on o 2 . Richard Point , by which it is known the maps f 1 8 9

— O l i CRANBERRY HEAD ( Y. ) S named owing to the p en t tude of cranberries found there ; this i s another regrettable change old m oon e t from the Mic ac Indian name S ca y , which means “ o place f cranberries . W — CRA LEY CREEK (C . B . ) Named after Captain Crawley 40 PLACE-NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

Of t he Royal Navy , who came to Sydney in its early days and settled

me hi s . at Point Amelia , near the Creek , which s e bears name

D — CRAWLEY IS LAN ( Y. ) Named after John Crawley , Y 176 1 known as Squire Crawley , who settled in armouth about , and was on e of a committee in authority in 176 2 . He came from

England to Marble Head and later to Yarmouth . — - b t he CREEK AUX NAVIRES R . ) Named y French , “ ” meaning the creek f or ships .

V — CREES ER CO E (L . ) Named after an early settler , George

Creeser. — CREIGHTON COVE (H . ) This Cove in Dartmouth is named or on , e after an Englishman named James Creighton , of his family , who owned considerable land nearby about the year 1 8 45 . — CREI GN I S H (I . ) After a place of the same name in Scot “ ” ” Crei - - land . Said to mean g Rock and Nish here , or Gaelic for “ ” “

or . here is rock , a rocky place

— O CRES CENT BEACH (L . ) S named owing to its shape . This “ o k Beach was formerly known as R m eys . — T . CRICH ON (R ) This beach , head , island and shoal is named D D after avid Crichton , an immigrant to Pictou from undee , 1 8 2 Scotland in 1 , who bought land on the island and established a ﬁshing station there in 18 24 .

Y — ‘ CROCKER POINT ( . ) This place received its name from r an early settle Daniel Crocker , who settled there about the year

1 76 5 . — S S B A. . . w CRO URN ( ) Named after J W Cross , who as the of D r w Woods Superintendent the avidson Lumbe Company , hich or di d makes , make Crossburn its headquarters . — S T W L . l l CROU E O N ( ) Named after ear y sett ers , John and Philip Crouse .

C D — ULLODEN ( . ) This place is named after a British ship “ ” k called the Culloden which was wrec ed there in t he year 18 59 . ” r a s It was fo merly known Broad Cove .

B N — CUM ERLA D The old India n name was Kwesomalegek ” ” rl d e or meaning hardwood g point . Cumberland Basin was at “ on e 1 B b i ” k t me called by the French eau as n , and is n ow nown as

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— of DALHOUS IE ( K. ) Named in honor George Ramsay , the - of D u who . ninth Lord alh o sie , was Lieut Governor Nova Scotia - in 18 16 and afterwards Governor of Canada from 18 2 0 2 8 . — A. DALHOUS IE ( ) (See Dalhousie , — DALHOUS IE COLLEGE (See Halifax . ) — DALHOUS IE MOUNTAINS (P . ) First settled by Peter of 18 15 of Arthur , a native the Orkneys ; later in by a number

o . families from the Lowlands f Scotland (See Dalhousie . ) The fﬁ ﬁrst settlers here had some di culty about their titles , some spec l or u a t s laying claim to them . The Earl Dalhousie interfered and f or made satisfactory arrangements the settlers , who in their gratitude named the place after him .

S L — D DALHOU IE ROAD ( . ) (See alhousie) . — DANE CORNER ( Y. ) Named after a resident and very early settler , Thomas Dane . — DARES POINT A point on the east side of Mahone of D Bay called after a family ares , which i s a very common fam l n u ily name Lunenburg Co nty . — DAREY LAKE (L . ) Named after an early settler James

Darey , whose name appears among the original grantees of Lunen . Town hl burg s p . — DARTM OUTH (H . ) One of the Townships of Halifax Coun

t . y Was ﬁrst settled in the y ear 1 75 1 . Named after the Earl of D artmouth , an English Secretary of State , and great conﬁdant of

Q . H l s 1 1 ueen Anne name was William Legge ; born 73 died 18 01 . 1mm1 ra n t s 1 750 or 1 75 1 The ﬁrst g arrived in in the ship Alderney . 178 4 t hl rt D In y Nantucket families settled in artmouth .

D as artmouth was incorporated a town in 18 73 .

V — D DAUPHIN ( (See Cape auphin) .

DAUP H I N I E — LAKE (L . ) Named after an old family of ’ early settlers ; the name John Da uphi n i e appears among the orig i nal grantees of Lunenburg . PLACE- NAMES O F N OVA SCOTIA

- r DAYS P RING LAKE (P . ) The child en of the Presbyterian churches in the Lower Provinces in the year 18 6 3 - 6 4 built a vessel in New Glasgow t o be used as a mission ship in the South Seas . “ ” They named it the Dayspring . The spars for the vessel were t hl s brought from the neighborhood of this lake , which was for reason named after the vessel . — DEADMAN COVE (C . B . ) Near Bridgeport , on the southern O of side of Lingan Bay . S named because a number bodies that had been washed ashore were found and buried there .

T — f or t o DEBER (Col . ) The grant this place was previous the grant of the Township of Lon don derry ( 1775) and was given l Ca ver e . t o the ﬁrst settler , Anthony y

— DEBERT POINT (C0 1 The Indian name for this point was ” ”

le a l oolkek . P e g , meaning smooth ﬂowing water o c Wa soka ek i The Indian name f this lo ality was g , mean ng , ”

l or . i t i s bright , seen in the distance as a signal

— n o o DEEP COVE (L . ) A arm f the sea which runs up t the base o of fﬁ of Asp t oga n . The water at the head is su cient depth to permit

o l i r . f the largest ship to e close to the sho e , hence the name

- 8 DELAP COVE (A . ) First settled about the year 1 00 by l ul Isa ac Haley and John McCa u . Haley likely Irish ; McCa was a

Scotchman . The place w a s named after Lawrence Delap , who did

18 5 . not reside there , but built vessels at the place about the year 0

“ ' n f or as daba n kea et c The I dian name this cove w Me j , meaning “ ” the little red bank .

° — B H V K. P ere u EL A EN ( ) Formerly known as Middle a x , changed to its present name by an Act of Parliament in the year

18 8 0.

’ M Y — D ’ E D T T . n EN RE ON ( ) Named after the Frenchman , tremont , who brought the French immigrants that settled there in ’ 1 o D En r mo 6 50. It is f interest to note that this man Philip t e n t wa s P ob omcon se made Baron ( e Pubnico) by Charles de la Tour , o who was hi mself known as Lord f Cape Sable and Lt . of the King

(French) in Acadia . — S I . DENY ( . ) (See River Denys) — 1752 . DES COUS S E (R . ) This name was known as early as “ ” The whole of Isle Madame was at on e time called Decoux by the writer Pichon 44 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

’ — DEVIL S G OOS E PAS TURE (K . ) The legend has it that the country near Aylesford where there is a barren sand plam was

r D . once owned by the Lo d , the King , and the evil The glebe lands to the ﬁrst , the ungranted lands to the second , and the barren sand plain to the last , hence the name .

— DHU POINT (C . B . ) This place bears a Gaelic name , the word Dhu meaning black . — B IC B Y Called at one time Conway . Received its present o D name in honor f Admiral Robert igby , who commanded the “ ” 1 500 British convoy Atalanta , and who brought refugees from - i n - New England in 1 78 5 . He was made commander chief in North

1 8 41 . America in 178 1 . Formed into a County about Has two

i D . D Townsh p divisions namely , igby and Clare igby Town was incorporated in 1 8 90. The County contains 1 02 1 square miles .

— ’ D At on . DIGB Y GUT( . ) e time known as St George s Chan ” “

. di D nell The In ans called it Tee Wee en , said to signify Little 1 1 “ Hole . In 7 0 it was known as the Gutt and later as Jennys ” Streights .

- GB Y K D. 1 DI NEC ( ) Settled by Loyalists in 78 3 . The “ ” “ ” Indian name for this place was Oosi t ookun meaning an ear ; “ ” “ Wa weik again it is found called by the Indians g , meaning the ” end . — G T V C . DILI EN RI ER ( ) First settled by Lieut . Taylor and

Captain Wilson about the year 1 777 . The place was visited by the i Gove or u . so u Prov ncial m Parr , and , ﬁnding Lie t Taylor industrio s an d l li en t hi s d g in effort to make a home , he named the place “ Diligen t River .

— ’ DINGWALL (V This place was first called Young s " “ . i D n Cove In the sevent es , a man named Robert i gwall , who kept Y ’ ‘ a small store at oung s Cove , made application for a post ofli ce, “ ” s t o of D l and sugge ted the Government the name ingwall . Par ia “ D ” ment confirmed the name ingwall in April 18 8 3 .

B — DOCTOR HEAD (C . . ) Between Sydney Harbor and ’ t t le d Or D c r w Bras Named after o to Jean , who o ned the place . : l l of and l ved there n the early part the nineteenth century . It is r on of ol called Oxfo d Point some the d maps .

D — OG I S A D R . l L N ( ) One time called Sea Island . Received b t s old oth i and present names from the fact that dog seals were n i ple t ful there . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA 45

— x OGG TT O T . f D D E P IN (Q ) Named a ter John oggett , an s o estimable ﬁrst ettler f Queens County . He came from New Eng

i n 1 . land 759 , and built a house at this place

— o DOMINI ON (C . B . ) This place was formerly part f Bridge port ; when t he Dominion Coal Company sank a coal mine there it ' o was called Dominion No . 1 . By an Act f Parliament in the “ year 1906 the place was named Dominion .

— K C B . D . 6 on e DON IN ( ) Known as ominion No , of the coal om n i l o O mu t es . mining c f the Dominion Coal C , named after Hiram D i ’ onk n , a civil engineer , at one time the Company s Manager , and later Deputy Minister of Public Works and Mines for the Nova

Scotia Government . It was previous t o this included in the district known as ” Schooner Pond .

P — o DONNYBROOK ( . ) Quite an unusual name t ﬁnd in P u Du l ictou County . Named after the village in Co nty b in , Ire

f or . land , noted its fairs

’ — o o mi D OR CAPE (C . ) S called by the French explorers wh s o took native Copper f r gold .

— o DORCHES TER (An t . A Township f Antigonish County . “ This subdivision of the County was at on e time known as Anti ” n i o go sh Interval . Named in honor f Sir Guy Carleton , whose title was First Baron Dorchester . (S ee Guysborough .

— ’ DORY RIPS (C . ) At Cape d Or a submarine cape extends l W i w x souther y into the sea , and produces h rlpools , hich is the e o planation f the name . — DOUCETTE POINT (D . Named so after an early settler

Pierre Doucette .

— o DOUGLAS (H t s . ) One of the si x Township Divi sions f

Hants County .

— o DOUGLAS S ROAD (A. ) Called after on e f its early settlers named Douglas

— n i DOVER S OI (H . ) Pronounced Dover S wa ; the mea ng is t o D S oi obscure but is said mean over Run . The name appears in a of t o number places in Nova Scotia , and is always applied small u r nning streams . — G o . DRA OON I S LAN D (C . B . ) An island n the Mira River 46 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

Legend has it that : in early days when Sydney was a garrisoned oml n . C town , two dragoons deserted with their horses g to the ' r Cu l d s Mira , they swam their ho ses from the point above p Cove

t o the Island .

D E D B BL S O — S UBLIN , N W U LIN , DU IN H RE (L ettled ’ 1n by Alexander McN ut t s colonists , brought from Ireland the year D 1 76 2 . They did not remain at ublin , but scattered throughout

i . the Prov nce , most of them going to New England There were

2 00 in all . — . S o DUFFERIN (H . ) DUFFERIN M INES (G ) named in u honor of Frederick Temple Hamilton Blackwood , the Marq i s of

‘ - - D uf 18 72 18 78 . ferin , who was Governor General of Canada from

— DUNDEE (R . ) Named after the Scottish City Dundee the ” “ " Hill on the Tay . Dun being a Celtic root word meaning Hill . “ ” The name as a whole comes from the Latin Ta odun um meaning “ o Hill n the Tay .

L — DUN MAG AS S (An t . ) Received its name after a town Dun ma la ss named g , Inverness , Scotland , from which the ﬁrst

179 1 . : settlers came in There were three brothers Andrew , Alex i ll E ch McG vra Mc a ern . and Angus y , and John It was so named in 18 79 the year , and the name was suggested by the Rev . Andrew Mc i llvra G y, Parish Priest , a native and descendant of the original f settlers , and an Act o Parliament was passed in that year con ﬁrm

ing the naming of the place .

— D G I . UNVE AN ( ) This place , which was hitherto known as blea k ro - Broad Cove Marsh , is named after the cold , , ck built castle o o o f the McLe ds f Skye . It received its present name by an

Act of Parliament in the year 18 8 5 . In the Gaelic language the ” word dun means a hill .

P — DURHAM ( . ) This place was named after John George of u Lambton , the Earl D rham , who came to Canada in 18 3 8 to out bring order of the chaos caused by the Rebellion . The name was suggested by William Graham , merchant , and was conﬁrmed

at a public meeting held for that purpose . The place was previously

known as West River . — DURKEE IS LAN D ( Y. ) Ou the Eastern side of Chebogue

i . Du R ver It was named after an early settler , Amasa rkee . “ PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 47

— EAR LTOWN (Col . ) Was ﬁrst surveyed in the year 18 17 by of . f Alex Miller , who gave it its name in honor the Earl o Dalhousie o o wh was at that time Governor f the Province . Miller surveyed boundary lines f or diff erent Townships and o gave some f them their names . Ea rlt own was ﬁrst settled by Donald McI n t osh and Angus

i 18 1 3 . r . Sutherland n They came f om Sutherlandshire , Scotland

- o EAS T BAY (C . B . ) The modern and inappropriate name n w ’ generally applied to St . Andrew s Channel . The Micmac Indians “ ” “ A la sea wa ka de or called this place g , the English settlement , “ place of the English .

— k w Pa n S T B L . EA ER IN ( O ) Formerly no n as Pudding , given the present name by an Act of Parliament in the yea r 18 8 6 . — EAS T CHES TER (L . ) Sometimes called Scotch Cove . F D irst settled by John Hutcheson , John uncan and Thomas

Thompson , from Scotland . — EAS T DOVER (H . ) S ee Ocean Glen . — TO D . ru r EAS N ( ) Sometimes known as New Je salem , ﬁ st settled by Enoch McMulli n in the year 1 8 56 .

P — a s di B EAS T RI VER ( . ) W called by the In ans uckland , “ oo - which is in their language Apcheekum k wa aka de. “ Sometimes called by the early Highland settlers Great River , o of owing t its being the largest the three rivers , East , West and

ﬂow u r . Middle River , which into Picto Harbo — CO OM . m E N Y (Col . ) Village and River Mic ac Indian “ ” “ ” o w or name was Ken mee, hich means Sandy Point a long point u jutting out into the sea . This name is fo nd in old church records “ ” and tokens spelled Oecon omy . Later it was found spelled “ ” “ ” o o C n my and at present Economy , which suggests a meaning “ r f altogethe dif erent , and less appropriate than the original Keno ” mee . — C H h n , E UM S ECUM ( . ) T is sounds like a Indian name but ” “ ” i M e wa sa un k the I ndians knew the place as , and called t g g . “ n mea ing a red house . 48 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA

— D of . E EN (P . ) See Garden Eden — EDWARDS VILLE (C . B . ) See Point Edward .

— Wi kome akum EEL BROOK (Y. ) The Indian name was p g , “ ” o . meaning place f eels , but they were poor and lean Was settled in 1 76 7 by seven Acadians who escaped deporta

— . Wi koma akum EEL CREEK ( Y. ) The Indian name was p g , “ meaning place of plum stones .

— o Th EGERTON (P . ) A Township f Pictou County . e 18 07 County was subdivided in the year into three Townships ,

r . namely : Pictou , Ege ton and Maxwelton Probably named after a Francis Egerton the third and last Duke of Bridgewater . He was “ great projector of ca nals and was known as The Father of British ” Inland Navi gation . — EGMONT LAKE (H . ) Named after the Right Honorable o O Earl f Egmont , who btained a grant of acres on the Shu ben a ca di e River in the year 1 76 9 .

The Indian name for Egmont Bay was Wegwaa k .

There is a cape of this name in Victoria County , Cape Breton — doubtless named after the same gentleman . It was formerly of of known as Aspe , and it is the southern promontory the Bay that name . (See Aspy Bay . )

P — EIGHT MILE BROOK ( . ) Given this name because of it being eight miles from the starting point of the old Cob equi d Road to the point where it crosses the road .

S H — EI NER COVE ( . ) Named after a family . — ELDER BAN H . K ( ) Formerly called Little Musquodoboit , ’

. of Elderba n k named after St Andrew s Church , which in its turn on a was named after the farm which it w s built . — D AD Y. EL ER HE ( ) Named after a resident , Mr . Ebenezer

Moulton , who was a church elder . He came from Massachusetts 176 1 Y m m and is said to be the ﬁrst preacher in ar outh .

P — o ELGIN ( . ) S named in honor of James Bruce the eight h Earl of Elgl n ( 18 1 1 a Governor- General of Canada during e 1 4 - the troubl some years 8 6 18 54 .

ELLE — R S H OUS E H t s . r ( ) Named afte Francis V . Ellers n a l , n t ve m Coun t i n bause a of Ger any , who settled in Hants y ,

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F T — m l w AI R MON (An t . ) This place was for er y kno n as part 18 92 of Hallowell Grant . By an Act of Parliament in the year it was given its present name .

- so FAIRY LAKE (Q . ) This Lake and the Falls are named because the Indian name appeared to mean the English word “ ” “ ” Fairy or Witch .

— ’ FAIRY HOLE (V This place between Great Bras d Or ’ so w Entrance and St . Ann s Bay is called o ing to the caverns that start in from the shore extending into the cliff s for a considerable of r distance . These caves are g eat interest to geologists and others visiting the place . A somewhat similar cave i s found in Pictou ’ County called Peter Fraser s Cave .

— FALES BROOK ( K. ) A small stream in Aylesford ﬂowing into the Annapolis River , named after an early settler Benjamin

Fales , who was employed by Brigadier General Ruggles in clearing o the southern Slope f the North Mountain .

H — o FALKLAND ( . ) Received its name in honor f Lady Falk

- land , who laid the corner stone of the ﬁrst church built there in the o year 18 45 . Lady Falkland was the wife f Lucius Bentinck Falk

u of . land , Visco nt , then Governor Nova Scotia She was the young of o est daughter William IV . Its name previous t this was ’ o Fergu ss n s Cove . — FALKLAND (L . ) See Falkland

L D — FA KLAND RI GE (A. ) Named in honor of Lucius r r of Bentinck Falkland , who was fo a time Gove nor Nova Scotia . — FALMOUTH (H t s . ) Named after the seaport and watering of o place that name in Cornwall , England . It is n e of the six town of w ship divisions Hants County , and was formed into a To nship ’ 1759 . wa s of in It previous to this , part King s County . — S BAY B . FAL E EACH (C B . ) A low strip of sand which pre mm Cow vents the co unication between Bay and Mira Bay , and , by of the appearance an entrance , deceives the mariners when approach I ng from the sea , hence the name . - ‘ OF S PLACE NAMES , NOVA COTIA 51

ARI BAUL I — F T BROO K ( . On the Cheticamp River m f a D l na ed a ter ominion geo ogist . — ER R ON A . O F (P From Ferra (iron) . Named by fﬁ cers of o the Nova Scotia Steel Coal C . , when the Company were manufacturing pig iron there .

FIFTH L — AKE (O. ) (S ee Liverpool) .

I — FINLAY POINT ( . ) Near Mabou named after a settler

Finlay Bea ton .

— o FIRS T LAKE (0 . See Liverpo l .

( 0 Port Medway .

(H . Tangier .

’ B — FIS HERMEN S CARD TA LE (L . ) The name given t o a ’ large square rock in a very elevated position with a ﬂat even surface — FIS HER S GRAN T (P The old Micmac Indian name f or “ this place was S oogun uga de or rotting place .

L — o FIVE HOUS ES ( . ) S named because for a long t1me In the early days there were but ﬁve houses at this place . — FIVE IS LANDS (C . ) The Indians called these Islands Nan ” “ ” n ool kulrn e eg meaning Five Islands . — FL T O T C . B . Lo A P IN ( ) Generally called w Point , is the of o f . Eastern Point Sydney Harbor The name is descriptive . — F G S H . An D r LEMIN I LAND ( ) island near Port ove , o named after a family f the district . — FLINT IS LAND (C . B . ) This place received i t s name from “ l ” the name given to it by the French . I ea pierre a fusil referring o o t the hardness f its rock .

— ’ FLORENCE (C . B . ) Formerly known as Cox s . About l the year 19 05 the Nova Scotia Steel Coal Co . started a coa mine there and the village was named after the wife of the Counties i m . D . D . n z e. Dominion Parlia entary Representative , Mr McKe — -LL E ol A ol l m . FOLLY VI G (C . ) See new name G en h — FOLLY LAKE AND MOUNTAIN (Col This word applied t o m of the na e a place is often found , and m this case expresses the Opinion of neighbors on an unfortunate location by on e of their 52 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

m kn ow h s nu ber named Flemmin g . At ﬁrst it was n Flemming ” ’ a “ Fa wlel 13 Folly later The Folly ; it then became g , and now , “ ”

ll l h . on the railway time tables as Fo e g

’ FOOTE CO — of RNER ( Y. ) Named after a family Footes who were very early settlers .

F - o ORBES BROOK (P . ) S named after an early Scotch ” on e . settler . Was time called The Half Mile Brook A number S i of brooks on the West River were known as Four , x, and Eight Mile brooks being the distance on the Cobequi d Road from the point of departure .

‘ — l i s l F ORBES POINT ( Q . ) This p ace sometimes ca led s Wreck Point . The pre ent name is after a Scotchman named

ﬁ . Forbes , who was the rst settler in this neighborhood

— FO T 1754 . R CLARENCE (H . ) Was ﬁrst erected in the year

o of of . The name is probably in hon r Edward , Duke Kent

F T — ru m OR EDWARD , (K. ) Now a mere in , was na ed after the Duke of Kent .

— n o he . FORT ELLIS (Col . ) A old fort n t Shubenacadie River It apparently received the name Ellis owing to a man of this name having a farm nearby .

FORT LATOUR (S )— Named in honor of the brave

w o 1 6 2 7 . Charles La Tour , h built a fort here in the year

— on FORT LAWRENCE (C . ) At e time known as Beau ” “ ” Kwesomale ek 1 2 . basin . Settled in 6 7 The Indian name was g , “ meaning a hardwood point . This place was also known as Mi ssi uash q , a name now only applied to the river dividing N ova

Scotia from New Brunswi ck . The fort wa s built by a Maj or Law rence who was sent there to reduce the French and Indians to obed i n e ce and who built the fort in 1750. The district now bears the name he gave the fort .

— om FO T S S H . m f C R MA EY ( ) Na ed a ter General Massey , “ ” - - mander i n chief in Nova Scotia in 1 776 . The name Fort Massey was given to the military cemetery in Halifax , later to the surround 1n res1den t i al n ow fl t o g area ; , chie y designate the cemetery and the famous church of that name .

S — FO TER S ETTLEMENT (L . ) This place is named after wo t r k r . brothe s , Eze iel and Henry Foster , who were the ﬁrst settle s " " PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 53

— f or or . FOURCH E (R . ) Thi s is the French forked cloven

— o FOUR M ILE BROOK (P . ) S o named because f its being four miles from the beginning of the old Cobequi d Road where it crosses the road .

— ee FOURTH LAKE (Q . ) S Liverpool

(Q . ) Port Medway .

(H . ) Tangier . — of . FOX IS LAND (G . ) An Island in the Gut Canso The ” “ S ebeI okum k are Indian name was n , meaning where s ins ” “ o stretched r the drying place .

AM R I E — f or FR B O S (R . ) This is the French raspberry .

The place was long known as Framboise Cove . The Micmac “ ” “ Indian name of this place was Ta wa n ok or Tawi t k meaning o o the outlet r ﬂowing ut . — F CKLI M O C . F t o RAN N AN R ( ) irst applied a home , and o n w to the place . Named and owned by the Honorable Michael F who - of rancklin , was Lieutenant Governor Nova Scotia in 176 6 o and G vernor in 1 772 .

- F S POI T P . r RA ER N ( ) Named after the ﬁrst settle , Captain o Fraser f the 8 2 n d Hami lton Highlanders 178 3 .

— o FREDERICK LAKE (H . ) This Lake bears the surname f a o Halifax angler f about 18 6 0. Sometimes called Pine Wood li cae"e . — F T D . a REEPOR ( ) Originally known s Long Island , changed t o present name by an Act of Parliament in 18 6 5 .

F C OS K — RENCH R S ( . ) See Morden .

’ — FRENCH LAN DING (H . ) This place is in Bedf ord Basin . It is believed t o e the landing place and the encampment ground f or who - - the men were with the ill fated , disease stricken , Duc ’ ’ D An vi lle s ﬂeet that arrived at Halifax in the year 1 746 . — FRENCH RIVER (P . ) The French had a settlement at the

- i i . mouth of this river n the ea rly days , hence t s name

F — RENCH RIVER (Col . ) This place was settled by the

French as early , if not earlier than 173 7 and has ever since borne

— o FRENCH S ETTLEMENT (D. ) F r a long time known as 54 PLACE - NAMES OE N OVA SCOTIA

D D D who oucette Settlement , after avid oucette , settled there in

1 8 3 0. — FRENCH VALE (C . B . ) Nearly all the present settlers of French Vale trace their origin from four brothers who were French n Acadians , and came from Prince Edward Island early i the nine

t een t h century .

’ F G B - RENCH VILLA E ROOK (Col . ) When Winslow s r i n 1 soldiers we e hunting the French Acadians in these parts . 775 of r some them ﬂed up Salmon River to a brook , which has eve

since been called French Village Brook .

R OS TFI S H H — F COVE ( . ) This place received its name owing t o - the tom cod being plentiful in its waters . It is interesting t o note that tom- cod is a corruption of a Canadian French word “ ” ﬁsh of di tacaud meaning plenty , and is In an origin . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA

— G B S C . B e t o A ARU ( ,) Bay , Cape , Lake and Villag said be “ ” o named after a French ofﬁcer f Bayonne named Gabarus . This o i s generally accepted as the right derivation . On maps f 18 53 “ ” bor on of 1 7 2 we ﬁnd it called Bay de Ga y , and an old map 5 , Gab ” u arus . Again it is said to come from the French name Cap Ro ge ,

. s Red Cape . The village is named from the cape The penin ulas “ ” north- west of the cape are called by Pichon Desgout i n s and the “ r a Governors . Pichon also refe s to a mountain ne r Gabarus “ ’ ” which he calls the Devil s Mountain . Cape Gabarus appears on some early maps as Cape Portland . — GAETZ COVE (L . ) This is a common family name in Lun b en ur . g County , and the cove is likely named after an early settler — P . n a 18 0 ri GAIRLOCH ( ) I the ye r 5 , a vessel ar ved with passengers from Gairloch a small arm of the sea on the western - o l n c . f a ds oast of Ross shire , Scotland Three them took up their k at a broo , which theynamed after their native parish in Scotland — GAIRLOCH M OUNTAINS (C . B . ) Named by the S cottish settlers after the arm of the sea of that name on the western coast of

- r . Ross shi e , Scotland

— o i GALLOWS HILL (K . ) S named ow ng to t he unfort unate n on o o ecessity at e time f erecting a scaff old n the hill .

A W — G LLO S HILL (L . ) This hill was known in early days as Star Fort owing to the shape of the fence which enclosed the

Garrison Fort in 1 753 .

G — o ARDNER MINES (C; B . ) Said t be named after Mr.

M . ichael Gardner , an early Irish settler

— o GARDEN OF EDEN (P . Evidently s named by William McDon ald who a c r , c me from Caithness , S otland , and settled the e “ ” i n 18 3 0. He was called the Adam of the Garden because he was t he ﬁrst man there . See Mount Adam and Eden Lake in the same

o o . vicinity , doubtless named s f r the same reason

' GAS P E E x — R AU (K. ) The original French spelling is Gas ” “ ” - - n p arot (an ale wife) . The ale wife i s a ﬁsh resembling a herri g n d i a s found in great numbers in certain parts of Nova Scoti a . 56 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA

a a ske et c meamn The Indi ans called Gaspereau River M g p j , g ” rushing or tumbling over large rocks . P a sedoock The Indian name for Gaspereau Lake was , ” m “ t o I m i eaning it has big whi skers , referring ts any small slands covered with shrubbery . The French Acadians called part of what Is n ow Gaspereau ” Melanson .

— ee r GAS PEREAU LAKE (A. ) S Gaspe eau

— dl o GATES FERRY (A. ) A crossing place near Mid et n named after a nearby early settler , Oldham Gates .

’ — f or w GAY S RI VER (G . ) The Indian name this place as

o r . Wi sun aw n , meaning Beave Castor — GELLFELLAN IS LAN D (Y. ) Named after its early settler ll ll James Ge f e a n , who came from Londonderry , Ireland , and settled there about the year 1 76 6 .

’ — GENERAL S BRIDGE (A. ) The Indians called this place k ” “ ” Eskun us ek , meaning the ground is hard and grassy , also ’

i n es ek Ei son s . E su kw , meaning place Here a bridge crosses the Annapolis River . — E R EFI ELD H t s . 18 2 6 or G O G ( ) Settled in , thereabouts “ l G or eﬁe d . by George Miller , and named after him , e g — GEORGE (An t . ) Bay and Cape named after King George

n on . G II . Know as St . Louis old maps Was ﬁrst named eorge

. r D sB arr 1 1 u f and St Geo ge by e es in 78 , the saint being a s rvival o ol the d French name . — GEORGE IS LAN D (H . ) Named by Governor Cornwallis in of honor King George I I . Was first fortified in the yea r 1 750. — GERRARD IS LAN D (H . ) Named after i t s first settler W1lll a m . wa s i on Gerrard He an Englishma n , and d ed the Island in the year 1 78 9 . — G TS O COV L . r E N E ( ) Named afte an early settler Mr .

John Getson . G ’ — HOUL S COVE (C . B . ) This cove is also locally known a s ” Three Echo Cove , from the fact that it has acoustic proper l on O t es producing still nights a triple echo . This explains the rigin o f the name .

’ G BB S B G ear dn — I ON RID E (N S y ey, C . B . ) Named after

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O I — a s GLENC VE ( . ) Formerly known Turk settlement , changed to the present name by an Act of P arhamen t in 18 72 .

L C - r GLENDA E ( . B . ) The Indian name fo this place was ” ” Ama sa st okek meaning the river with inhabitant s .

GLEN DHU (I . ) Dhu is a Gaelic word meaning black or possibly here Dark Glen . — P Dhu . GLEN DHU ( . ) See Glen , Inverness County

D R I — n 1 48 D McLea n McDon a ld GLEN YE ( . ) I 8 , onald came f or here from New Glasgow , N . S . and erected a mill the dyeing

- and dressing of hand made cloth . As this was the ﬁrst establish o B m ment f the kind in Cape reton , MC Donald beca e known as “ ” “ ’ ” The Dyer and his home wa s called The Dyer s Glen which “ f o l n d r he himsel transposed t G e ye .

- — G ELG . LEN (G ) No doubt in honor of Lord Glenelg , who was the Colonial Secretary in 18 3 7 but there is a place of this name

a . in Scotl nd , after which it may have been named This place was ’ ﬁrst settled in 18 01 and was then named St . Mary s . — GLENGARRY (P . ) Named by the early Scotch settlers

- after the famous Glen in Inverness shire , Scotland . After Culloden 174 6 . m , many Scottish Highlanders immigrated to Canada

GLEN H OLM ol — (C . ) This is the name given the old Folly Vl lla e b o g settlement y an Act f Parliament in the year 1909 .

G G T H — m LEN MAR ARE ( . ) Na ed after Mrs . James Fraser “ ”

18 76 . about the year Previously named Lower Ward . — GL I . S o ENORA ( ) named in 18 8 1 .

G T S V - LEN O H ( Formerly known as Big Hill , given its

I n . m I n o o present name honor of the Rev Abraha Mc t sh , wh was a P resb t erl a n ml mst er y in this district in the earlier days . — G V I . S o LEN ILLE ( ) named in 1 8 76 .

G -UI G An — LEN ( t . ) Settled and named in the early part of t he mn et e n t h century by Scotchmen from the place of that name In S cot lane

G W — OO An t . F k r LEN D ( ) ormerly nown as Lowe Keppoch , i l t s of g ven present name by an Act Parliament in the year 18 92 .

G W - L OO R . k w EN D ( ) The district nown as Hay Cove , as PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA 59

19 14 changed to this name in , and an Act of Parliament was passed in this year conﬁrming the change .

B — G OAT IS LAND (C . . ) This is a very old name f or this

a of . isl nd , and appears on very early maps Cape Breton It is near o Louisburg , and the French had a battery on it t defend the en trance — G OAT IS LAND (A . ) This island was ﬁrst called Biencourt “ o ville i n honor f Biencourt . Then it became known as Arm ’ ”

r . strong s Island , after a possessor named A mstrong At one time ’ m also it was called Vane s Island , after Charles Vane , to who it “ ” was granted . The French named it Isle aux Chevres that is “ “ ”

. G w Isle of the Goat The English called it oat Island , by hich name it is known today .

’ — G H . on e o OFF f r . S ( ) Named a ter f its early settle s , Mr

William Goff .

— o GOLDB ORO (G . ) By an Act f Parliament in the year 18 98 ’ ol changed from its d name East Side Isaac s Harbour .

- GOLD RIVER (L . ) There is a tradition that gold was orig i n a ll y found at this river by the early French settlers , and hence the “ name ; but another authority asserts that the name was Gould ” River after an early settler , and it became changed to its present “ ” ma a sk e name . The Indian name for this place was A g p eg t “ meaning rushing over stones . — GOOS E HARB OR (G . ) See S t . Francis .

— o o G ORE M OUNTAINS (H t s . ) N doubt named in honor f - i - . w Sir Charles S Gore , General n chief in North America , ith his residence in Halifax (Gore District in Upper Canada wa n o fﬁ F who s t named after this o cer , but after Sir rancis Gore , was - of 18 06 Lieutenant Governor Upper Canada ,

— of GOS CHEN (G . ) Named after the pastoral city Biblical

f S . or ame , which was ituated in Egypt This name also appears , f m did appear , as the name or settle ents in Antigonish , Hants and

Colchester Counties .

—u 6 h 17 suberbs of GOTTINGEN (H ) . O April t , 6 4 , the Hali “ ” fax were called Gottingen at the request of a number of people of f r u the neighborhood . It is named a te the Pr ssian city in Han over . — G . OUGH LAKE (H . ) S ee Anderson Lake PLACE -NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

l - B of e of m GOUZAR (Co . ) asin water at the h ad Tata agouche

o eeser . o n r G Bay , s named after a man named Go zar Its name on e time appeared as Port Ga uzar . It has been supposed that the t h Indi ans gave it its name because of the abundance of geese W

i s r . gather there , but this said to be er oneous

’ D - of l G OVERN OR S IS LAN (L . ) A tenting place the Ear

m . of Mulgrave , when he was governor , hence the na e — G OVERNOR LAKE (H . ) See Parr Lake .

T — k G OWEN POIN ( Y. ) This point is named after Patric

o 176 2 . Gowen , wh settled there about the year

- o GOWRIE MINES (C . B . ) S named after the beautiful D wa s on e home of Thos . . Archibald at Sydney Mines , who of the

. principal owners . The mines were at Port Morien

— FTO 2 1 . GRA N (K. ) Settled in 18 Probably named after D the uke of Grafton , or perhaps after the American town in Massa “ ” chuset t s of this name (The name Grafton in New Brunswick is “ ” said t o be a word coined from graft as applied t o fruit - grafting and nursing , practised at that place in — GRAFTON LAKE (Q . ) S ee Grafton . — GRAN D ANS E (R . ) A descriptive French name meaning

Bl g Cove . — ol . B en oo GRAHAM S IDING (C ) S ee r t w dﬂ

- AN D TAN G I . A F n GR E ( ) rench ame , meaning Large Pon d — GRAN DI OUE (R . ) First settled by a family named Kav “ ”

h 1 7 0 . an a 9 . D g , about The name is French , meaning Big itch “ ” The Indian name was Gebemkek .

A — G N LAKE (H . ) The Indians called this place Tulu O ”R D. “ a dl k mea n l n g g the settlement .

G N OW . f RA D NARR S (C B . ) Grand to distinguish it rom “ ’ ” he L1 t le on Narrows , the same Bras b or Lakes , where they t . t he I V1ct or1a hi n County . The Grand Narrows was , and we t nk is “ st l ll so , far as the Strait is concerned called Barra Strait . This of co on a urse , after the Sound of Barra the Isle of Barr in the S cot t l sh H ebrl des , where the most of the settlers in this neighbor i l o hood came from about the year 18 02 . They came d rect y fr m PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 1

8 u was “ Ta i t k Picto County . The Indian name W meaning the outlet . D G RAND PAS S AGE ( . ) and — GRAND PAS S AGE (R . ) Known to the Indians as Ta oo o itk r the Opening . — P K. F GRAND RE ( ) rench meaning the great prairie , a of of village on the shores the Basin of Minas , the scene many con ﬂi ct s F of Ex ul between the rench and English , also the scene the p sion of the Acadians — A V A. GR N ILLE ( ) Granville Centre , Granville Ferry , Lower of d Eart Granville , in honor Lor John Cartaret , who became

1744 of . Granville in , and was English Secretary State On what O was known as the Granville Shore , about pposite to Goat Island is the site of the ﬁrst European sett lement in N Orth America (See ’ ” on e of ur Patterson s Sir William Alexander ) Granville , the fo of f r Townships Annapolis County , was ormed and g anted in the year

176 4 with 16 8 proprietors . Here the senior De La Tour built his

ﬁrst fort .

— o GRAPNEL BEACH (V. ) This place is s named because the anchorage or holding gr ound in the adjoining waters is good

Grapnel means a small boat anchor . — AY L . A on l a GREEN B ( ) t e time named Pa merston B y . — GREENDALE (An t . ) This place was known as Greenﬁeld ; but the name was so common it was changed t o its present descri p

’ o tive name by an Act f Parliament in 18 8 6 . — G REENFIELD (Col . ) Surveyed and named by a Mr . Alex

r a ou . ande Miller , b t the year 18 17 He surveyed the lines and r of Earlt ow bounda ies n , Kemptown , and Greenfield , in this County and named them all . — GREENFIELD (Q . A farming village so admirably situated it is said that the season is a fortnight earlier than in other parts of u . i the County . Early green s ggested the name It s near the “ ” P o oo n h k or first lake on the Medway River . In this County f ” the af ix field in naming their places appeared to be popular , “ “ “ i ddlefi l B rookfield West field as we find places named M e d , , , “ “ ” N ort hfield kfiel r of , and Buc d , all within a very sho t distance m refixi n r each other , the place name being for ed by p g the wo d “ field by a descriptive or decorative word .

GREEN HILL (P - The old Micmac Indian name was Es m ” paku egek meaning high land . 6 2 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA

L — f rl k GREEN VA E (P . ) This place was orme y nown as ” t o McI n t osh Mills . It was changed its present name by an Act of Parliament in the year 18 9 1 .

C - I GREENWI H (K. ) After the town on the Thames n Kent ,

t he r . England , noted as great Observato y Town

’ — GRENADIER S LEAP (C . B . ) Near Louisburg . Named of after a Captain Grenadier , who led a party English at the ﬁrst siege of Louisburg , and who was supposed to have made a long , dangerous leap from his boat to the shore . History tells us it was a Captain Brooks who led the landing .

- GREVILLE BAY (C . ) Named in honor of a former English

Parliamentary General , Robert Greville , the second Lord Brooke

- 1 794 18 6 6 .

T TT T — m GRIN ON S E LEMEN Na ed after a ﬁrst settler ,

who 18 19 . m Corst or James Grinton , settled there in He was fro phine , Scotland . (See Springﬁeld) . — GR OS VEN OR (G . ) Said to have been named by a Mr . J . B o Hadley f Mulgrave . Was ﬁrst settled by families named Kennys and Tait (before Probably named after the Lord of that name or after Grosvenor Square .

’ D — o GULLIVER S HOLE ( . ) S named from a legend that a pirate named Gulliver once visited the place . Sometimes called ’

. Dorm n Gulliver s Cove First settled in 1 78 0 by a William Mc a d .

— G YS G heda buct o U BOROU H First named C , when Sir

Nicholas Deny located a ﬁshing station there about 1 6 3 5 . Named of in honor Sir Guy Carleton (See Guysborough Township , Queens

County) . Sir Guy wa s ﬁrst Baron Dorchester ; at one time Govern or of Canada ; wa s a Loyalist leader and a great promoter of Loyalist settlements in Nova Scotia . ’ wa This County s named Sydney when St . Mary s Township wa s 18 18 . formed in The Townships are Guysborough , St ’ Mary s and Manchester . The County contains 1 6 56 square miles was and formed in 18 3 6 .

G S GH TO — o UY BOROU WNS HIP ( O. ) One f the two Township divisions of Queens County granted t o Donald McP her s n on e o and hundred and two others in the yea r 1 78 4 . They were disbanded soldiers who had served under Sir Guy Carleton during ’ the Revolutionary War . They named the place Guy s Borough hl I s . m n honor The second year after their settle ent , the whole V l lla e wa s g destroyed by ﬁre . They then removed to Cape Canso . r (See Guysbo ough) . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 6 3

— ’ H C TT H . f m C A KE ( ) Cove and Village , or erly H a gg et s ove r on e of wa sH art named afte the ﬁrst settlers , whose real name agg . ,

— o HALIBURTON (P . ) Named in honor f Thomas Chandler of Haliburton a native Nova Scotia , who wrote extensively of o of and well Nova Sc tia , was a member the Nova Scotia Legis o l a t ure and a Judge f the Supreme Court . — H B T . S O ALI U HEAD (O ) named after the Halibut , a large i of ﬁsh u on spec es ﬂat which abo nd the Nova Scotia coast . — HALIFAX The Indian name was Chebookt meaning ” “ ”

or a H . H a Chief Harbor , Gre t Long arbor alifax w s known as u o Cheb ct o up to the year 1 749 . On the 18 t h day f July of that “ of o H year it was called Halifax in honor the Earl f alifax , then of of l m President the English Board Trade , whose tit e was fro the i o w English e t y f that name . His name as George Dunk Montague

1 772 . or H f He died in It is said that L d alifax , having no amily hi and wishing to immortalize s name , sent Edward Cornwallis as of n Governor Nova Scotia . Cor wallis arrived with 2 576 immi “ i n 174 who grants July 9 , and it was he changed the name Che ” buct o t o Halifax in honor of his patron . It is interesting to note the probable derivation of the word ” ” Halifax . The word means Holy Hair the name being account ed for by the fact that the head of a virgin who had been murdered was from a tree in the neighborhood of the English city “ ” Halsiuf aspxe. nded o Lord Halifax was Lord Lieutenant f Ireland in 1 76 1 . Hali fax was declared a free port i n 18 1 7 and was incorporated 1 4 1 of in the year 8 . It became the capital Nova Scoti a in the year 4 m 1 7 9 , when the Provincial Headquarters were re oved from n i or a d 17 10 A napol s , which was capital Provinci l Hea quarters from

t o 1749 . : i Halifax County is divided into four townshi ps , namely Hal

f D w . ax , artmouth , La rencetown and Preston The north end of Halifax City in the early days was known as ” “ ” Dutchtown and the south and suburbs as Irishtown . i D l r of G In Halifax s alhousie Co lege , named in hono eorge - D who Lt . Ramsay the ninth Viscount alhousie , was Governor

- o - f Nova Scotia 18 1 6 and Governor of Canada 18 2 0 2 8 . The Earl t of was the founder of the college i n the year 1 8 18 . I s Act Incor orat i on w a p was passed in 1 8 2 1 . University powers ere cre ted in 6 4 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

re- O re- 18 41 . Closed for some years , but was pened and organized

in 1 8 6 3 .

- i n HALL HARBOR (K. ) This place was named after Capta 1 779 r of Samuel Hall , who in piloted a p ivateering band seventeen

men from the revolting colonies in America to the place , and from here they committed a number of thieving raids on the settlers of

the surrounding country .

- on HAMILTON CORN ER (K . ) This place was at e time ” “ t o called The Whalebone , and later Jawbone Corner , owing ’ there being a gateway , with posts made from a whale s jawbone ,

near the place where the four roads meet . Later changed to “ ’ ”

of . Hamilton s Corner , no doubt after a settler that name

— o HAMM ONDS PLAIN (H . ) Named in honor f Sir Andrew t - r 178 1 Snape Hammonds , who was Lieutenan Governo from to

1 78 3 . — HAN DLEY MOUNTAIN (K. ) Named after an early settler .

This place was settled mostly by disbanded soldiers .

H TS C N T — I n 1 8 1 Fa lrn out h AN OU Y 7 , Windsor , and New

port , with lands contiguous thereto , were detached from the county of Kings and made a separate county to be called the County of “ ” i a . a bbrev a Hants The name Hants which was , and is used , is in o l tion f Hampshire . (The o d English for Hampshire was Hantes shi n t e ce the abbreviation ) . The name was probably suggested

by the Loyalists from New Hampshire . 18 24 m A new township was added in , and named Ke pt in

- honor of Sir James Kempt , the then Lieutenant Governor of the

Province . i : Hants is d vided into six Townships , viz Windsor , Newport ,

Kempt , Falmouth , Douglas and Rawdon . This county contains 1 179 square miles .

H AN T P OR — o S T(H t s . ) On the banks f the Avon River . The “ “ f or Ka ka ek Indian name this place was gw , meaning the place “ ” of dried meat . Elsewhere we ﬁnd Ka ka gwek given as meaning “ o f . the place dried ﬁsh (See Hants) . B B — HAR OR OUCHE (An t . ) See Bouche . — H R B H . At on e Du k A OR LAKE ( ) time called Black c Run , 1v en . F . . . 18 6 4 g its present name by Captain P Shortland R N , in . H O — ARM NY ( Q . ) Settled in 18 2 1 . — HARTLING (H . ) S o named in 19 12 after James Hartling

the Postmaster .

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m H eckrn an . ﬁrst settlers , named Heck an John of Lunenburg was a parliamentary representative from 18 19 to 18 47 . — HECTOR POINT (V A point near Grand Narrows prob Dou a l l l ved . Mc ably so named after Mr . Hector F g T, who nearby and was f or years a parliamentary represen t a t l ve for Cape Breton County ; — HELL BAY (L . ) Named , it is supposed , by a seaman who i t s had an experience in waters , which were turbulent enough to suggest the n ame of a thickly settled place without the conﬁnes of

Nova Scotia .

- o l rt hfi . H EN N I GAR (H t s . ) Formerly named N e d Changed “ ” a few years ago to H en ni ga f in honor of its first settler John ‘ La i n s a nd . H en n i gar . The other first settlers were fl Millers The

Brook was once known as Weir Brook .

I — HENRY IS LAND ( . ) The name given to outer Port Hood ‘ ’

i . i s . . Island . It sometimes wrongly called W D Sm th s Island

L — HERMAN IS LAND ( . ) The name Philip Herman appears of 1 as one of the original grantees Lunenburg Township in 76 1 . i s o This island probably named after him or some f his descendants .

H — HERRING COVE ( . ) The Indian name for this place was Mool e chu ech o r . p g meaning a deep chasm , valley gorge

- G . HERRIN COVE (Q ) Now called Brooklyn . An i m a s 1 3 a portant ﬁshing station , probably as early 6 5 , s it is believed that Denys and R a zi lly had their establishment at this place about that time . a i There is lso a lake in Queens County of th s name .

S - o HER EY RIVER ( Y. ) Named s after a family of early settlers .

H — 18 2 0 IBERNIA (OJ Settled in the year by two Irishmen , and so named in honor of their home land . G — F LD H t s . S e HI H IE ( ) e Belmont . G N D — HI HLA D ( . ) The former name of this place was Mink

Cove . Changed to the present name by an Act of Parliament m 1 passed 9 07 .

G T - HI HLANDS ( . ) This place wa s formerly known as Cape Ma O b u . re e1ved l It e ts present name , which was suggested by the hl lly of nature of the district , by an Act Parliament in 18 8 8 . PLACE- NAMES O F NOVA S COTI A 7

I l - H LDEN (Co . ) The set tlement formerly known as Slab ” “ ” “ ’ e u Town , Clarkvill , and Johnston s Crossing , were nited an d of given the name of Hilden by an Act Parliament passed in 18 95 .

D - o o H I LLFOR (H t s . ) S named by an Act f Parliament “ o m u 18 95 f m C a m. S e. passed in , changing it ro g g ( e )

— o HILLGROVE (D . ) The former names f this place were ” “ “ ”

D . igby , Joggins and also Hainesville — HILLS BOROUGH (I . Named after the Right Honorable of H S of 176 9 Earl illsborough , ecretary State ,

’ I — o HILLS DALE ( . ) S o named by an Act f Parliament i n

8 0.

— HILTON POINT( Y. ) This place was named after its early f m settler Amos Hilton , who came ro Massachusetts and settled

o 17 5 . there , ab ut the year 6 — H I RTLE HILL (L . ) Named aft er an early settler . Orie of o l f H i rt e S . the original grantees Lunenburg was Jacob , enior

’ H - d Aul n OG I S LAND (A. ) About 16 6 0 deeded from M . a y o B roui ll 1 . n 2 to Jacob Bourg is , acquired by Governor M de a in 70 . , “ ’ “ Called by the French L I sle aux Cochons that is Island of ” pigs . — HOPEWELL (P . ) R ece1ved its name after the name of t he vessel which brought Alexander McN ut t and his Ulster colonists to Colchester County in 176 1 . — HORS E S HOE COVE (L . This place is supposed to be i i between Bridgewater and Summerside , t is a min ature semi “ ” I S circular shaped harbor . It the Hufeisen Bucht of Judge Hali “ ” burton in The Old Judge .

— o HORTON BLUFF (K. ) The Indian name f this place was “ ” “ Makt omkus meaning the black reef or black rocks .

- mt HORTON (Lower) (K . The Indian name was U aban “ meaning an overﬂowing ﬂood . The name was suggested by the fact that before the dyke was built all communication with Long

Island was cut off by the high tides . — HORTON TOWNS HIP (K. ) The Township of Horton was on e of granted and formed in the year 1759 . It is the four Town of ship divisions Kings County . 68 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

— HORTONVILLE (K. ) Wa s called Horton Landing . Changed to its present name by An Act of Parliament in 18 97 .

- as . HOS IER RIVER (H . ) Sometimes known Osier River Probably named after an early settler named Hosier

D Y — m f on e w o HOWAR IS LAND ( . ) Na ed a ter Ho ard , t r whom it was g anted in 1 76 2 . — B D H . HUB AR S ( ) The original Hubbard , for whom the place

18 00. k was named , lived on Green Island , about One time nown o as Hubbards Cove . In 1905 by an Act f Parliament the word

Cove was dropped .

— ’ BL H . . Ba l k HU EY ( ) Cove in St Margaret s y , also a a e and of a Railway Station , named after a family early residents . (See

Seabright . )

HUN TER ’ S M OUNTAIN (V — This mountain is named after an early settler , John Hunter .

S AN — 1 HUNT I L D AND POINT (Q . ) Sett ed in 18 13 by D on e of eacon Samuel Hunt , the original proprietors of Liverpool . 1 The lands were granted to Hunt in 78 8 . — HUNTING TON POINT (K. ) Named after some member of this Old Kings County family . Caleb Huntington came to this on e o County from Connecticut and was f its early settlers . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 6 9

— I MP ER OYAL (H . ) The name given the place situated about two miles south from Dartmouth on the eastern side o f ’ r of Halifax Harbo . The name is made up from part the Company s name that has built an Oil Reﬁning and Storage System there , the

Imperial Oil Company . — INDIAN BROOK (V S o named after a Micmac Indian “ ” named Joe , a cooper by trade who lived in this vicinity — B . o INDIAN COVE (C . ) See Prince f Wales Landing .

P P — S o o INDIAN CROS S OINT ( . ) called owing t the dis covery of a large Iron Cross about ten feet high . “ ” oo de or S un a a . The Indians called it g g , rotting place ’ Now known as Fisher s Grant . — INDIAN POINT (L . ) A Micmac Indian headquarters in

. r of the early days , hence the name The ﬁrst white settle s were m W l Ger an descent , among them were Lohnes , Ernst , entze ,

H . yson , Eisenhauer and Zwicker

— o INDIAN GARDENS (Q . ) This place on the Rossignol (n w R r on e Liverpool iver) , was a great Indian reso t , and was at time “ ” “ ” o oo P on hook I n di an w or P n h . m called Liverpool k , an d eaning “ ﬁrst lake .

- I D I L R . k l N IAN S AND ( ) Also nown as Chape Island . This is the place where the Micmac Indians of the surrounding “ ” of districts assemble each year to the Feast St . Anne . The F i famous French Missionary , ather Maillard , gave the island t s ” of early name Ile Ste Famille , (The Island of the Holy Family) . It was given to the Indians in 1 792 by Lieutenant- Governor McCormi ck wa s , and permission granted them to build a church “ ” “ ll i . Vi ma upon it In the permission the name is spelled St . e , “

w f or F . which as evidently intended Ste . amille — IN DIAN ROAD BROOK (H t s . ) S ee P eba k . — ING ONIS H (V This place was once known as Port of ” “ “ ol h on Orleans . The d spelling was I n ga n i s and I n ga n i c e and “ ” old i n a n i h u plans N g c e . Some believed it to be a Port guese “ n arn e n of i an i s. m m , spelled N g However , the eaning the na e l is Ost . 70 PLACE - NAM ES OF NOVA S COTIA

It is said that the Portuguese had an important settlement Ke an n a here as early as 152 1 . The Indians called this place g g ” wet ck . t he of o In 172 6 thi s was , wit h exception L uisburg , the most important place in Cape Breton . — I PO T o 1905 . NGRAM R (H . ) S named in Was previously “ r ” i l m kn own as Ingram Rive . First settled by a fam y na ed

Webbers .

— — IN H ABI TAN TS (R . ) See River Inhabitant This is the of n ot name adopted by the Geographic Board Canada , Habitants n or River Inhabitants .

INVERNES S — Obviously named by the Scotch settlers in “ on e a u honor of their home land . It was at time named Justin ” W set off i n 18 3 6 corps . as from Cape Breton County , and formed 1 1 e i nto an independent County . As early as 79 , a large numb r of

Scotch Roman Catholic settlers came to Inverness from the . Heb

13 8 5 . rides . This County contains square miles

- of IRIS H COVE (C . B . ) This place was the home a number ’ ’ Ca shen s O Ca lla ha n s of Irish settlers notably Cash s , and g and

“ owing to this received its name . The Micmac Indian name was “ ”

Golban ki k .

- IRONBOUND IS LAND (L . ) There is an island of this name in Chester Bay and La H ave. One is called the Chester Bay ”

LaH ave . Iron Bound Island , and the other Iron Bound Island “ Thelatter was gr anted in the year 1778 to Leonard Christopher Wo t e.

— o o IRIS H M OUN TAIN (P . ) Named s wmg to an Irishman named Patrick Finner being one of the ﬁrst settlers there . — IONA (V On the western side of the Grand Narrows or Barra Strait an d once part of what was kn own as Gran d Narrows

Settlement . First settled by Scotch from the Hebrides via Pictou

County in the year 18 02 . “ aun dri Was ﬁrst named S e, but was changed and called after r r 18 the histo ic and sac ed Isle in Scotland , in the year 73 , at t he B McKi n n o suggestion of ishop n , who had visited the Scottish “ ” ” “ dri S aun e . Iona and said that resembled it The , name Iona ” w o as conﬁrmed by an Act f Parliament in 18 9 1 . This place had a “ ” or on m o o kl district township name at e ti e f Br o esby . “ “ ”

. I l Iona is Hebrew , after Jonas , the prophet ts equiva en t “ ” “ ”

um . in Latin is Col ba , and in English Dove PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 7 1

— I ONA WES T (V See Iona . Was formerly Grand Narrows of 18 9 1 i t rear , by an Act Parliament in was given s present name . — IS AAC HARBOR (G . ) This place was named after an early n egro settler named Isaac Webb . (See Goldboro . )

— n IS LAND POINT (C . B . ) A island point on B oularderi e ” Island called by the Indians Men a kweskawei . — IS L H T C . 1 0 o E AU ( ) Champlain in 6 7 , r unding Cape C hig “ ” n ect o e , called h re and named the Island Isle Haut in consequence of its elevation . ' The Micmac Indians called this Island Ma skuset ki k from “ ” “ ” Ma sku e a s the word s t meaning wild potatoes . M kuset ki k ” o meaning the place f wild potatoes .

’ M . IS LE MADA E (R ) My Lady s Isle . Once called ” “ ”

ri cka . a i lk N e Rand gives the Indi n name as N e saak . “ ” a F This place was at one time named Maurep s by the rench , of - m o m in honor a well known French states an f that na e . Nicholas Denys at on e time referred to the Island as The ” o Island f St . Marie . 176 8 u of who “1 7 In the year a n mber Acadians , in 6 5 had emi

. r grated to St Pierre and Miquelon , came to Cape B eton , took the t o B o m oath of allegiance Great ritain , and settled n Isle Mada e . — I K I H ol . A i S UN S (C ) stream near Onslow . The name s “ ” “ derived from an Indian word N esakun echki k meaning Place ” o f Eel Weirs . 72 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

J ACKS ON POINT (V - Named after a Jackson family who were early settlers in thi s neighborhood . — J V . AMES RI ER (An t . ) Named after Rev James Munro , the

‘ whO wa s ﬁrst Presbyterian Minister in Antigonish County , lost in the woods and followed the river to the coast . — J AMES VILLE (V This district wa s given this name by an

Act of Parliament in 18 8 3 . — J AN VRIN IS LAND (R . ) Said to be named after a native of e an vri n on e Jersey nam d J , who owned land the Island at the b gin o ning f the 19th century . This island appears on some old maps “ ” “ i ” a a n ur u . as Conway Island , also s J s Island The Indian name “ ” Li ksa kechech Li ksak or was (see Arichat) , meaning Little “ Little Arichat .

— EDDOR E H . a dor f k 17 J ( ) Mentioned as J e as ar bac as 27 . “ ” I n some places mentioned as Isadora . The Indian name wa “ ” “ ” boo wechk i n e . W g , meaning the swearing place eddore dooa sku The Indian name for J rocks was Mun p , “ ’ meaning Devil s Rock . The string of small islands near Jeddore was named by the “ ” “ Mooean uk o o Micmac Indians , meaning haunt r place f sea duc

I M An - J TOWN ( t . ) Named after an early Scotch settler Do l named Captain James Mc n a d . — J OGGINS (C Gesner says : Descriptive notches or j ogs I n ” ” o r i m the rock , hence j g in , but it is mo e l kely of Mic ac origin . o i It might be connected with Cheg g n (see) . Maps as far back as 1 50 “ 7 use the name Joggin .

J OH N S TOWN — (R . ) The place was named by the people in r honor of an old and much respected Parish Priest , the late Reve end Dou all John Mc g . m emt o m The Mic ac Indians named it N eg wak , eaning the ” sitting place .

’ — J OH N S POI T P . l N ( ) Named after John Patriquin , an ear y l set t er .

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KADUS KAK ( O — A narrow channel which discharges into w Lake Rossignol . The rapid , ﬂowing , roaring ater suggested “ ” “ ” the name Ka duskak which is the Indian word f or screecher .

— of m KAR S DALE (A. ) Received its name in honor Sir Willia B of s Fenwick Williams , who defeated the Russians at the attle Kar ,

5 . . . October 29t h , 18 5 He was born at Annapolis , N S and was

18 5 . Governor of Nova Scotia , 6

KEJ I MKUJ I K OR KEDGEMAKOOGI C LAKE (A . ) ( Q . ) — “ ” “ A Micmac Indian name Koojumkooji k meaning attempting ” “ ”

o Ked ema kOO i c. t escape , sometimes spelt g g Some authorities “ on sa y it means Fa i ryla ke. This is the fourth lake the Liverpool ”

u . River . This lake was known as Seg m Sega — KELLEY COVE ( Y. ) Named after a James Kelley who was an early settler . He came from Massachusetts about the year

176 5 . — KELPY COVE (R . ) Probably so named owing t o the quan tity of kelp or large sea weeds thrown ashore there; although it “ “ ” may have been so called Kelpy or Kelpie an old name f or an imaginary spirit of the waters generally appearing in the form of a horse . — KEM PT (OJ One of the six township divisions of Hants

. Wa s 18 2 1 County settled in , and named by and after Sir James i 2 H Kempt , who vis ted the settlements in Queen County in 18 2 . e - r of 18 2 - 1 28 o was Lieuten ant Gove nor Nova Scotia , 0 8 ; Governor f 18 2 8 - Canada 18 3 0. — K PT L K K. m of rl I l EM A E ( ) (See Ke pt) . One the p n C pa ' k u kn n f la es of the gro p ow as the Ayles ord Lakes .

T W S P H — KEM P TO N HI ( t s. ) Formed and added t o Ha nts u l 18 24 . Co nty n the year (See Kempt . )

W Col — KEM PT TO N ( . ) Surveyed and named by Alexander il m , 18 17 . M ler about the year (See Ke pt . ) — PT ILL Y. of KEM V E ( ) Named in honor Sir James Kempt , who Ll eut en a n t - of was Governor Nova Scotia . The ﬁrst settler was A r who l l i out r bner And ews had ands a d there in t he yea 18 2 1 . PLACE - NAMES i I N NOVA S COTIA — H s . n e t KENNETCOO K ( t ) While u c r ain , it is thought this “ ” name is from t he Micmac Indian word Kun et kook meaning “ ” a place nea r or cl ose at hand — KENNINGTON COVE (C . B . ) Probably called after a l ” wh k British War Vesse , the Kennington , ich took part in the ta ing “ ” o of Louisburg . Was a t n e time called Freshwater Cove and also “ ” earlier known as Anse de la Cormora n di ere.

- 1 KENTVILLE (K . Sett ed by the English In 1 76 0. Named of Du of of in honor Prince Edward , the ke Kent , the father Queen “ ” Victoria . This place was previously known as Hort on Corner .

Incorporated as a town i n the y ar 18 8 7 . The Indian name f or e ' “ ” ’ o i this place was P en oek mean ng Pineo 5 place. Kent ville is on e of the four Townshi p divisions Of Kings County

I E — KEN Z VI LLE (P . ) Settled by and named after William i o McKen z e who m t 1 8 03 . le , ca e this country in He sett d in “ ” n zi vi lle Ke e i n 1 8 07 . He Came from S utherlandshire .

— o KETCH HARBOR (H . ) The I ndian n a me f r this place was ” “ m kun uk N e a a a . g , me ning a good ﬁshing place — KI L . on R l DNEY AKE (Q ) A lake the Liverpool iver , ca led ” t o B oo ul on ak oo ul oon i owing its shape , g w p , B d e being the M o mac Indian word for kidney .

KI D ’ — S TON S IS LAND (V Opposite Baddeck . It was ol o o named after an d settler . Some f the early maps f Cape Breton ” name this Island Duffus Island .

I I I — K G G AK OR KEGS H OOK RIVER ( Y. ) A Micmac “ n Indian word meaning great establishment . The ame is also “ i found as K egi ca pi g a k . — KILLAM LAKE ( Y, ) This lake received its name after a u Yarmouth Co nty family .

- I B R L . B K N U N ( ) S ee Mahone a y .

— ' ‘ KINGS COLLEGE (K. ) S ee Windsor .

— o KING S COUN TY. This name n doubt was chosen along

with Queens as an expression of loyalty t o the monarchy . The o e 5 of County was f rn i d In 17 9 and then included pa rt Lunenburg , of on e- o on e- of the whole Hants , third f Colchester , and about half

Cumberland. Kings was ﬁrst settled by the French who built a village at Horton which they ca lled Mines or Minas ; after their expulsion many of their farms were taken by emigrants from t he 76 PLACE - NAMES IN NOVA SCOTIA

u w N ew Engla d S tates . The County is divided into fo r To nships , — n r . i namely Kentville , Horton , Cornwallis , and Aylesfo d K ngs County contai n s 8 1 1 square mi les

— w f m KINGS BURG (L . ) This place as ﬁrst settled by a ilies ‘ m zer k H a ut man . na ed Mossman , Kli e , Knoc and It used to be ” m called The Lunenburg Bank , owing to the onetary assistance the young men from Lunenburg received from the thri fty people of Kingsburg .

- S i KINGS TON (K . ) Changed from Kingston tat on by an Act of Parliament i n 19 1 6 to its present name . Named after the County which in turn was named after royalty .

— n n lo h KINLOCH (I . ) The word is from the Gaelic Cae c “ ” meaning the head of the lake .

— o KINNEY TOWN (D . ) S named after Herman and John

r t . Kinney , who we e early set lers

K — on e o KINS MAN ( . ) Named after Benjamin Kinsman , f who on e i m the Cornwallis grantees , kept a store at a corner , t e ’ known as Kinsman s Corner . — KN OYDAR T S McDon ald ettled by Martin , who e 1 8 7 arriv d from the Highlands of Scotland in 7 , and settled at “ ’ ” o a o Kn yd rt to which he gave the name f his native place .

— KI TI WI TI H . m s a s Ki t t ee Wi t t ee ( ) So etime known Shoals , possibly of the same derivation as Qui dvi di ﬁshing settlement near ’ St . John s , Newfoundland . — — KI TP OO AKYADY H t s . A i ( ) place near Shubenacad e , m i Mic ac Ind an name meaning the place of eagles .

CH ’ S P I T L — r KO O N ( John Koch , an early German settle , i i i l 1 2 used this place as a sh pp ng po nt , and bui t a house here in 8 0.

The place was called after him .

KWEED BADE — A B U ( Q . ) place in rookﬁeld named by the “ ” “ ” r or i Indians , the wo d meaning a soaky place a soak ng place . ” PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA 77

L H V — ll A A E (DJ Founded by De R a zi y in 16 3 6 . “ ” “ ” “

Fren . . ch La i e . l Have , , The Harbor Fond du port de a ” ” ”

. e . of . w r Have , i , Head the Harbor Again , the o d Heve seems t o have a local meaning , as the following would go to show . Littre “ ” : o ou says Heve , a name in lower Normandy f r cliff s hollowed t o below where ﬁshermen search f r crabs . La v P l n oor ka k The Indian name for H a e River was j e s , “ ” meaning having long joints . o This river is known as the Rhi n e f Nova S cotia . The name being suggested by its beauty and the f act of its settlement by people of German descent . L H V I L — 1 A A E S LAND ( ) Granted in the year 78 5 , and settled b P ern et t e r k W y Joseph , Henry Volge , Matthew Par , Joseph hit f r o d and Baker . — o ee . LAHAVE LAKE (L . ) A lake n the La H a ve River (s ) “ ” “ i -t ool w i k m S l The Indians knew as S ea a g t , eaning ilver ies in the ” water .

I — o - Gov LAKE AINS LIE ( . ) Named in honor f Lieutenant c u 18 1 w - G of r or Ainsley , ( 6 He as Lieutenant overnor Cape

Breton Island . on e f u of Ainsley Township , o the fo r subdivisions the north

w r of w f 18 28 . este n part Cape Breton Island , as ormed in o 1 ‘ Previous t 18 6 the lake was kn own as Marguerite , which gives the name to the beautiful river which ﬂows from it .

— ’ LAKEDALE (G . ) Formerly kn own as Grant s Lake , changed by an Act of Parliament in the year 18 94 t o its present name .

— of LAKE EGMONT (H . ) N o doubt named in honor the Earl o who of l S di f Egmont , received a very large grant and at hubenaca e in 176 9 . (S ee Egmont . )

LAKELAND —The di strict between Windsor and Halifax “ ” En kooma dedet i c which was known t o the Indians a s s , meaning on a place where conversation can be carried at a long range , both being hidden .

— a LAKE LAWS ON (L . ) The lake w s named Lawson , o f or in honor f Thomas Lawson by Captain Ross , in gratitude what Lawson had done t o assist Ross and some others of the ﬁrst 78 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA settlers who were shipwrecked in the Archduke Charles about the year 18 16 .

’ — L l . AKES C LAW (I . ) After a ake in Scotland This place ” is found named Mario on an old map . Whether this name was applied to the lakes or the di strict is not clear . “ The lakes are now called Harvard Lakes . There is a settle “ ” so ment near called Emerald , that the Irish must have had some representative among the early settlers .

LAKE ROS S IGNOL (OJ — Was called after an early French adventurer and trader named Rossignol whose property and ship D were conﬁscated near Liverpool by e Monts and his party , who founded Port Royal . (See Liverpool) .

Rossignol , who was the first white man to visit the place , off wandered into the wilderness , and is said to have died on a small island near the north end of the lake which bears hi s name . — LAKE TUPPER ( Q . ) This place was likely named after a ol o fine d family f Queens County . Nathan Tupper was an early o Parliamentary representative f the county . — LAKE WALLACE (S a bl e Isl a n d) This small lake on S eble Island was named in honor of Michael Wallace who wa s an acting - o he Lieutenant Governor f t Province about the year 18 18 . — LAKE WENTWORTH (D . ) This place was first settled by “ Frederick A Robichaud in 18 3 6 . It is sometimes called Robi

- chauds Lake . Named in honor of Governor ( 1793 18 07) Sir John

Wentworth . (See Wentwort h) .

A — L NARK (A. ) Named after the inland county of Scotland o f this name .

S DOWN E P — LAN ( . ) Named in 18 8 4 in honor of Henry - u o Charles Keith Petty Fitzma rice , the ﬁfth Marquis f Landsdowne who was Governor General of Canada ( 18 8 3

S H t - LANTZ IDING ( s . ) Received its name about 18 98 O from a gentleman named Lantz , who perated a brick and tile manufacturing plant at this place .

’ — H R . L ARC EVEQUE ( ) Village and Cove , a French word m eaning Archbishop .

’ — D S R . S o m L AR OI E ( ) named by the French , eani ng The Ba of e u of f n he . y Slate , 1 b ca se the slate cli fs alo g t shore The “ ” “ 1 m ac o l hk Ind an na e for this pl e was M g akac , meaning the place ” PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

— LARRYS COVE (H . ) See Ocean Glen . — LARRYS RIVER (G . ) Settled about 176 7 and named after an early Irish settler , Larry Keating . — W WN A . I n 1 4 LA RENCETO ( ) 75 , acres of land was granted t o twenty gentlemen who named their new domain in honor of G of S Governor Lawrence , who was overnor Nova cotia at the time .

— o LAWRENCETOWN (H . ) One of the four Townships f ’

n r . Halifax County , o ce cove ed by the name Musquodoboit Named aft er Colonel Lawrence who was Lieutenant - Governor of Nova Scotia in 1754 and Governor in “ ” “ of w am a ck Chezze Old Indian names this district ere W p , t “ ” “ Ta boolsi mkek cook , and , the last meaning two small branches ” ﬂowing through sand . h o l ot f 1 7 4 . The ﬁrst grant to twenty families is dated June , 5 Just below Lawrencetown there is a place named by the Indians “ NeS n a ka de meaning the place of eel traps .

’ H — LAWLOR S IS LAN D ( . ) This island was formerly called ” Bloss Island after Captain Bloss who wa s a settler about the year

- o - o - 1750; he wa s a half pay captain f a man f war .

L — l AZYTOWN (C . B . ) The o d town of S ydney Mines was given this name by the visiting farmers . The coal miners in former days went to the pits at a very early hour ; their wives , after pre paring the early meal for their husbands went back to their beds and when the farmers came to town to market their produce they found the window blinds drawn and the families sleeping . This is how the name originated . — LEAM INGTON (C . ) First known as Maccan Mountain . 18 8 6 of t In a meeting the residents named it Leaming on , no doubt after the Warwickshire town of that name . 1 2 m It was ﬁrst set tled about 8 5 by Willia Bostock , Peter D l k —n o u Lo elson , avid Gi roy and another named Coo e do bt y Na i st s .

-r F LE BLAN C (D N amed after settlers of that name . orm ’ erly and n ow somet l mes called Major s Point .

’ — LEI TCH E S CREEK (C . B . Named after a family of early “ l be h settlers who were named Leech . It wil noticed t at the spelling of the word ha s recently been changed to the present form .

LE x — o of h a in rs r N N o (An t . ) There i sat wn t is n me Be k hi e 8 0 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTI A

m f m s County , Massachusetts . It ay have received its name ro thi of town , but it is more likely to have been named in honor Charles k f R m who was on e e Lennox , the Du e o ich ond and Lennox , at tim

English Secretary of State .

L O — of f wn s of m ENN X (R . ) One the our to hips Rich ond ,

r of . was named no doubt , in hono some personage The County called after Charles Lennox the Duke of Richmond and Lennox He was on e time English S ecretary of S tate (Born 1 73 5- Died

— LENNOX PAS S AGE (R . ) See Lennox . — LEQUILLE RIVER (A. ) The river bearing this name today is n ot the on e to which t he name was applied by Champlain in ’ 1 04 L E ui lle f or of 6 ( sq , French a small ﬁsh that name with which the water abounded) . It is a misnomer . The river was formerly “ kn own as Mill Brook because on it was erected the ﬁrst mill in “ ’ ” America . It was once called Allain s River , after a man named

w . Louis Allain , ho owned land at its head At another time it ” bore the name of Jenny River .

L — LEVY S ETTLEMENT ( . ) This place was ﬁrst settled E i by a man named Captain John vans , who was accompan ed by E . wa s m Li eutenants nwright , Harris and Beatty The place for erly “ ” kn wn as Sherwood . The ch ange to its present name is regret l tatee .

B R D — LI ERTY OW S ETTLEMENT ( . ) Named so after an Lo ree . early settler , g Liberty , who was a Guinea Negro

K - LILY LA E (Q . ) There are a great many small lakes in i the Prov nce bearing this name . This particular one is said to cP herson have been named by John M , the local poet , who was “ lm wn as the Harp of Acadia . Large white lilies grow on the l alfe . — LINDEN (G . ) Formerly called Goose River . GAN — LIN (C . B . ) A curious English corruption of the French ’ L I n di en n e name Bay (Indian Bay) . 1 74 In the year 5 the French had a mine here , and called the “ place Cape Coal . They also erected a fort . The mine and fort “ ”

n 1752 . The m w i l s k were destroyed by ﬁre i Indian na e as M e e .

W An — o n LIN OOD ( t . ) S amed by an Act of Parlia ment 1n r 1 passed the yea 8 8 4 . T — L T CAN S O G . n Kam o oo I E ( ) The India name was s g ch . “L e n i li m a ng ttle place opposite cliff s .

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’ umkwi eok Liverpool s Indian name w a s Og g , meaning the ” ” r S en l or . place of departure . It was also once known as Po t “ Near here is a place which was called by the Indians Nesogwa de “ ” or place of eel pots .

LIVERPOOL LAKES — The ﬁrst Liverpool Lake was named “ ” “ ok a s ou by the Indians B a n o , meaning the ﬁrst lake met y ascend

ok . a river . (See P on h o ) The seco n d lake of the Liverpool chain of lakes wa s named by “ ” “ oo kek . the Indians Ked s , meaning surrounded by tall grass “ P oosuk The third Liverpool lake was named by the Indians , “ ”

o . the Indian name f r the Juniper tree , or a fragment The fourth lake of the Liverpool chain of lakes was named by “ “

oo umkoo ik . the Indians K j j , which means attempting to escape The ﬁfth lake of the Liverpool chain of lakes was named by the “ “ ”

I mooek k . Indians e , meaning leading straight on The sixth lake of the Liverpool chain of lakes was named by the “ ” “ ”

Tob a dookook n . Indians e , meaning li ed with alders

— V V . on e LI ERPOOL RI ER ( Q ) (See Liverpool) , At time t hl s o river was named Mersey after the English river f that name .

GS An — LIVIN TONE COVE ( t . ) This place recel ved its name f m h a ter its ﬁrst settler , a Malcol Livingstone , w o settled there u abo t the year 18 00.

B — LLOYD COVE (C . . ) Named after the famous Marine

‘ “ Insurance Clearing House Lloyds . on 4t h 1 It was at this cove the of September , 7 1 1 Admiral ’ l - Wa ker s ﬂeet of forty two sail anchored . He had a large cross on erected the shore , claiming the whole of Cape Breton for the

En hsh . of g A carpenter and two his crew landed , and were killed and scalped by the Indians . This cove is the landing place of an Atlantic cable fromI reland ’ l v a Heart s Content , Newfoundland .

— S T Y. I n 1 6 3 3 LOB ER BAY ( ) , Jean de Laite calls this Ba y l ” La Ba e Courante .

- C An . LO HA ER ( t . ) Named after the place of that name 0 B 1 1 I n vern esshl r 1 e . wa s , Scotland It at one time called College Lake .

BA I — i LOCH N ( . ) I n Engl sh White Lake Scottish Loch “ ” “ ” “ i n mean ng lake and Gaelic Ban mea ing white .

O M P — LOCH BR O ( . ) S o named because of its resemblance l t s r s - from harbo approache , , to Loch Broom in Inverness shire

. Fl rst Scotland settled by Alexander Cameron in or about 1773 . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 8 3

m r Ca mercn of of Ca e on was a relative of Lochiel , Culloden fame . It is said that at this place the ﬁrst church was erected i n

Pictou County .

— LOC K T I An t . f k o H A R NE ( ) Named a ter the La e , r Loch o - ﬁve l f that name , which is twenty miles from G asgow and was made famous by Sir Walter S cott .

I — LOCH LEVEN ( . ) S ee Broad Cove Mines . — LOCH LOMOND (C . B . ) Named in remembrance of the of r place the same name in Scotland , by the Scottish settle s , who settled here in 18 27 .

l — LOCKARD POINT (Co . ) This point i s on the north side of r the Shubenacadie River and was named afte a Captain Lockard . Some of the early settlers moved by vessel from Cumberland to

1 772 . i Colchester County in They landed at this point , and t was o called after the master f the vessel . n o k w Among the settlers were the Ashmores , w n o n as

Creelma n s .

— LOC IS S . KE LAND ( ) Named after Jonathan Locke , a on pioneer settler (See Lockport) . At e time called Ragged or

Rugged Island . — LOCKPORT (S . ) Was ﬁrst settled by three families from : ur l New England Joseph Hardy , Josiah Ch chi l and Jonathan

Locke , and was named after Locke . “ i The Indian name wa s S ebun sk .

— LOCKH AR TVI LLE K . r kh ( ) Named afte Nathan Loc art , of of an estimable ﬁrst settler this district , in the latter part the

- eight eenth cent ury . The Lockhart family were of Scotch Irish o l n rl g .

’ P — LOGAN S TAN NERY ( . ) S ee new name Lyon Brook .

— ’ LONDONDERRY (Col . ) S ettled by Alexander McN ut t s 1 Ulster Colonists who arrived and settled in the year 76 1 . They “ ” arrived in a vessel named the Hopewell on the 9 t h of October ob ui d 1 76 1 at Cornwallis Island . They later came to C eq Town ship , and the place was appropriately named Londonderry , after the Irish County from which they came . on e of w The grant of Londonderry Township , the four To n of f or was f or ships Colchester County , was acres , and sixty G nine settlers . It was dated March 1775 and signed by overnor

Legge . (See Truro) . 8 4 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

’ — n d r LONG IS LAND (C . B . ) A island in the Little Bras O

Lake ﬁrst granted to the Rev . Hibbert Binney . It was at that “ ” t o time ( 18 2 0) called Parturient Island , likely intended mean ” “ of ff fruitful or perhaps t o convey the idea a child , or o spring of the larger island .

— LONG IS LAND (K. ) Near Horton . The Indians named “ ” “ esa dek . thi s place M , meaning separated

— LONG LAKE (Col . ) Near Truro . The Indian name for “ “ ” k i lbok . this la e is P , meaning long and narrow — so . LOON LAKE (C . B . ) Said to be named by the late Lt D cKeen Governor avid M , who was a land surveyor , and when camped near the lake his sleep was disturbed by the lonesome call of the loons .

— of LOREMBEC (C . B . ) The original name this place was ” “ ” Loremb ec on La uren bec. The name appears the maps of

1 1 1 . 75 1 , 764 and 790 l — LORNEVILLE LORNE (Co . ) Named in honor of the D - of Marquis of Lorne ( uke of Argyll) , who was Governor General

- Canada in the years 18 78 18 8 3 . — LORRAINE (C . B . ) Near Louisburg , settled by Germans

- from Alsace Lorraine in 1753 .

The name is found in the earlier days with various spellings ,

: Lorambec le . viz Loram , Loran , , Laurent and Laurent bec

B — 1 LOUIS BURG (C . . ) Until 7 13 this place was known as ’ l oi l An s . 1 1 English Harbor (Havre a g ) It was founded in 7 3 , o named in honor of King Louis XIV f France . Was named by

. . u St Ovide , Port St Louis tentatively and a little later Louisb rg . Captured by the British in 1745 a nd ceded back to France in 1748 ; and again captured by the British in 1 758 . The Dunkirk of Amer i o . was what Louisburg was considered and called in the early gays . The Indians named it Eloi bolg a corruption of the French name . 1 2 0 of o o - As early as 7 the foundations a town , t w and n e half miles in circumference were laid down on a neck of land on the south side of the harbor .

LOUI DALE — S (R . ) The earliest name of this place was Seal “ ” was arr oi Cove ; it afterwards named B as s St . Louis . In 1905 at

of . . the suggestion Mr J Nelson Scott , the Postmaster , it was of t o changed by an Act Parliament its present name , which retains part of the old name with a local descriptive a PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA . 8 5

— h LOUS E HARBOR AND IS LAND (G . ) T e changing from ' O a a f or t he an ld to new name is not lways best , but here is a case where any change would be an improvement .

— o LOVE TT GROVE (Y. ) S named after an early settler

Mr . Israel Lovett . — LOVET ROAD (A. ) This place near Round Hill was called o La bla l t by the Indians .

— 2 LOWER DUBLIN (L . ) Settled in 176 by some Irish families and n amed in honor of one of the principal towns of their native land . — LOWER HORTON (A . ) See Horton .

- LOW POINT (C . B . ) An important lighting and signalling o - o station n t he south eastern extremity f Sydney Harbor. The l ow ground is ﬂat and , there being no high cliffs at the point , but o f or x f f . e tremely . high cli fs south and west it This accounts the “ n ame . All early and some modern maps and charts call it Flat

a . Point , which was its e rlier name Mooi n akun t cet c The Indians named this place , meaning

the lit tle Black Berry Picking Place .

— o LOYAL HILL (H t s . ) S named by an early American Loyal ’ i s t . f r settler , Mr John Grant , in honor o its ﬁrst settle s loyalty to the English King . — LUCAS VILLE (H . ) Settled by Americans named James

e . Lucas , Oliv r and Dishna It was ﬁrst known as Lucas Settle

. 18 1 ment A church was built in 9 , and since that date the place has been known as Lucasville .

LUNENBURG— This place was at one time named Mala “ ” “ i rli li g ash and also M guesche. Me gech is no doubt the ” i r i s Ind an wo d for milk , and it is generally conceded that this i o the orig n f the name Malagash . The name is ﬁrst mentioned in 1 6 3 0. “ Mi rli uesche or g is said to mean milky surf milky bay , referring to its white appearance in a storm . The Indians also “ ” “ “ c Asceedi k or of alled this place , meaning clam land , place c ams . Desbri sa y quoted Rand as saying that the Indian spelling was “ ” Ma lli lak - m gg , meaning mal bad and the ter ination meaning ” “ ” inherent and inanimate . and that the name was applied to the whole coast along by Lunenburg .

In 1 6 3 0 Sir William Alexander granted to Sir Claude de St . of son of Etienne , Lord La Tour , and his Charles , a large stretch lands along the coast which included Mi rli guesche. 8 6 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA '

It was settled in 1 75 1 - 1753 by a party of Germans from P rus

e of . sian Hanover , whose King , G orge II , was also Ki ng England w “ ” I as m 1 3 . t na ed in May 75 , after Luneberg in Hanover n d y si n s o The Tow ship , one of the two township i i i lo f the County

. h was formed in 1753 The Town was incorporated in 18 8 8 . T e

County contains 1 1 16 square miles . — L L C . A e of l i m a YNDA E ( ) settlem nt east Wi l a sdale , w s of a r named as above by an Act Parli ment in the yea 18 79 .

- Col . f e LYNN ( ) Named a t r a city in Massachusetts , which “ ’ o o was called after the English seap rt town , Lynn Regis , r King s ” Lyn n . — S B P . LYON ROOK ( ) Named after the Rev . James Lyons , “ ” on e of i the Ph ladelphia emigrants , who arri ved in the Bri g Hope

in 1 76 7 . By an Act of Parliament passed in 1903 it was enacted that

Logans Tannery , Scotch Hill and Lyons Brook be thereafter known

as Lyons Brook .

K — LYON COVE ( . ) Named after an estimable and early of Ki u or of settler ngs Co nty , some his descendants . PLACE- NAMES OF NOVA S COTI A 8 7

— MABO I a D Cha U ( Nichol s enys called the place Le dye. “ ” of The name is a corruption the Indian word Malabo . The “ ” Malab okak — Indians named the place the meaning is obscure . — MACCAN RIVER (C . ) The Indi an name was Ma a kan ; ” “

r . o Maagan , meaning the ﬁshing place The English changed the spelling to its present form .

MACNAB CREEK - Named after a family of MacN abs early Scotch settlers of Richmond Coun ty

— M COV L . f ADER E ( ) Named or Bernard Mader , a native of r m i Ge many , fro which country he came to Nova Scot a , and was on e of the original colonists locating at a point in Lunenburg u f k w Co nty, which took the amily name , and has since been no n as “ ” Mader Cove . — MAGRAY I S LAND (Y. ) S ee Big Tusket Island .

— MAHONE BAY (L . ) I n 1 754 Captain Ephriam Cook of “ ” Halifax formed a settlement here . It was called Mush a Mush ” wa s o in 1756 . It is said that the name Mahone ﬁrst given t the

Bay because it was a resort f or pirates . As their vessels were l ow “ ” “ m a crafts the French word Mahonne , which e ns Venetian wa s o . l l boats , was given to the Bay The name ater app ied t the village . ” “ Ki n urn 1 The name b , Kindred Streams , was used in 8 57 , “ but the name fell into disuse . Mahone Bay was shortened t o ” Mahone . On a map dated 16 72 this place appears as La Baye de Toutes

I or of . sles . the Bay Many Islands

I - n MAI N AD EU (C . B . ) Some Fre ch maps have it Mena “ ” old o harlevoi s P en a d ou . r d u . C has it It is an Indian wo d , but drifted into the French spelling . D m rm- Some give this story : Main a ieu , said so e sto tossed wh o of G od sailor , believed he saw the hand ( Dieu) stretched forth t o save . “ Luskuch Latter day Indians call it by the name , meaning a r w on k hie oglyphical direction , dra n bar and placed as a direction

o o B . t others . Mai n a di eu was at n e time known as Little Cape reton PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

— MAITLAND (A. ) See Maitland , Hants . — MAITLAND (R . ) One of the four Townships of Richmond who was Gov Coun ty named in honor of Sir Peregrine Maitl and ,

- ern or of Nova Scotia 1 8 2 3 3 1 .

— o MAITLAND (H t s . ) Named in honor f Sir Peregrine Mait

- land ( 1777 whowa s Governor of the Provinc e 1 8 2 3 3 1 . After or t he French deportation the ﬁrst settler was John Raines Rhines .

The ﬁrst land grant was to William Putnam and Luke Upham , “ ”

a n usr 3 0t h 1 77 1 . Men esa t un dated J y , The Indian name was g “ meaning healing waters . Before Maitland received its present name it was known as Beaver River (see) Settlement . — M IT Y . . A LAND ( ) See Maitland , Hts

— i o MALAGA LAKE ( Q . ) This s the second lake n Port “ ” a li Medway River , and the name is from the Indian word M geak “ ” meaning fretful water . — MALAGAS H (C . ) This place was called by t he Indians “ Ma le awa t e or g , meaning the mocking place , , the place where the Indians used to meet to play games . Some Micmac students sa y that the word is from the Micmac word meaning “ end of smooth ” waters . The wat er between Malagash Point and Cape John was at on e so time known as Frederick Bay , named by Colonel Joseph Freder l Desbarres f . ick Wallet , after himse The Malagash Point or Cape was called by t h e Indians Wag ” “ ” ’ k of h a woskoogwe meaning the end t e still w ter .

AT H I — MALAGAW C T ( . ) Said to be a Micmac Indian word meaning a triangular piece of land formed by a river on t wo sides of and a lake or larger body water on the third side . In New Brunswick there appears the name Ma legawa a chk given a lake with many islands in it .

LI E — MA G AK LAKE (L . ) An Indian word said to mean ” ” ﬁrm - - loose not . The word is compounded of Mal bad loose i t h a ni termination denoting inherent and ina mate . (See Lunen hurg)

P — MALIGNANT COVE ( . ) S o called ow1n g to the wreck ” near-by of a British man- of -war vessel named the Malignant

u . u bound to Q ebec (See new name Milb rn . )

L Y C K ea r ort h S dn — m MA ONE REE (N N y ey) (C . B . ) Na ed after a family of this name who settled and for a long time ran a

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— o a m MARR BROOK (D. ) S named fter an early settler Tho as

Marr .

— “ An t i on l sh M MARS HY HOPE (P . ) A valley in the g oun tains . When his neighbors were in the habit of saying to James “ W 1I1 Ma el about 18 1 0) Leave this marshy plac ; the frost pp ( “ e I W111 1m rove . destroy your crops , he always replied I hope t p Hence his neighbors made the remark that hl s hope was a marshy

O of . h pe, which became the name the valley — MARS HALL COVE (A. ) See Port Lorne .

— MARS HALL TOWN (D . ) Named after a ﬁrst settler

Anthony Marshall .

- MARTIN RIVER (L ) Near Mahone Bay . The Indian “ ” “ k . name was P i kt oojoo . meaning small explosions

- MARTIN POINT (Col . ) Near Londonderry . The Indian “ “ o S name was W soksegek meaning seen in the dist ance , as a ignal ; bright land mark .

— o MARY J OS EPH (G . ) The Indian name f this place was ”

Me wasa un k mean l n l . g g , g red shel s

— An . MAS S ACRE IS LAN D ( Q . ) Island in Port Mouton

It is said that a French ship was wrecked upon this island , and the crew were all cruelly murdered by the Indians . The bones of many human beings were found from time to time beneath the sands on — the beach of the island hence the gruesome name .

—o MAS ON IS LAND (L . ) S named owing to the excellent quaht y of sand and gravel to be found on the island which was ex t en sw el s a y u ed by loc l and other masons .

MAS T — o i S OWN (Col . ) At one time called C bequ d Village . This village takes its present name from the fact that the French i of r - Acad ans had a place wo ship or mass house there , Winslow herded them into this church before taking them on board his 1 vessels in the year 775 .

- MATTIE (G . ) This place is named so because of a number of the re3 1den ce bearing the name Mattie

G B H — o EACH ( . ) This beach is near the entrance f . MAU ER Halifax Harbor . At on e time it was own ed by PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

who a 1 49 n Mauger , in the ye r 7 was Provincial Agent in Lo don f or i Nova Scotia . He came to Halifax from Lou sburg , and in 175 1 was t o Victualler the Navy at Halifax . There is a Township and an Island in New Brunswick also named after this man .

P - MAXWELTON TOWNS HIP ( . ) A Township of Pictou u 18 7 of Co nty . In the year 0 the County Pictou was subdivided

wn . into three to ships ; namely , Pictou , Egerton and Maxwelton

— 8 MAYFIELD (An t . ) First settled in 1 2 0 by James Mc “ dougall from Keppoch , Scotland . He named it Keppoch . It was changed t o Ma yﬁeld about the year 18 8 8 . — MAYPOLE BROOK (Col . ) A brook near St . Andrews o River , where the Indians used t assemble and hold their councils and kindle their ﬁre under a large tree , which later suggested the “ name Maypole . M — cCULLY HILL (Col . ) Named after a resident William McCull son of ull o F y , a William McC y an early Scotch settler f rench

— MCG TH COVE H . f W Mc ra h RA ( ) Named a t er illiam G t , who r se tled he e in the year 18 5 1 . (See Ocean Glen ; see also Rock haven . t — MCKI N N ON HARB OR (V Named after a family of set l i “ ” “ t ers. a i boo k m The Ind an name was Am s gwe , eaning a grand ri r ve .

M LE — c N N AN M OUN TAIN (P . ) Received i t s name from McLen n a n of John , the first settler at the mouth the brook that o flows past the base f the mountain . Here it is claimed was (l rga n i zed the first Presbyterian Church in the Province of Nova

S cotia .

M A ’ — ACN B S IS LAN D (H . ) I n 1750 was called Cornwallis

Island . It was named after Peter Ma cN a b who bought the island o 1 f r £ 000 in 178 3 . The name appears on the Colon i al Ofﬁce map of r 18 1 the yea 5 .

M I L — cN E BAY (C . B . ) A Bay on the Mira River named after r l ea ly settler Lieutenant McN ei .

M - t hus U . cN ut t en cN TT I S LAND (S ) Alexander M , an o ho of iastic adventurer from the north f Ireland , w was the means i — of settl ng Truro , Onslow and Lon donderry also the County Shel 92 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

— ' burne a t the close of his life resided on an island there and in 176 5 was drowned crossing to the shore . The island has since been ’ known as McN ut t s .

’ — a o , MEAGHER S GRANT (H . ) S named after Captain Meagher to whom the Government granted this tract of land about “ the year 1 78 4 to compensate him for the loss of a schooner whl ch he had loaned to the Government .

- I n . MEANDER (H t s . ) Newport The Indian name was i l i M t c ga t c.

T C V V — MEA O E . ( Received its name owing to the great whl ch number of moose and caribou found there in the early days , furnished the natives and others with 5 supply of meat . — MEDWAY RIVER (Q . ) See Port Medway . — MEIS NER POINT (L . ) Named after the Postmaster

Jeff rey Meisner .

I — I n MELROS E (G . ) MELROS E HILL ( . ) After Melrose i oxb sh re . R urg , Scotland

— n 1 . MELVERN S QUARE (A . ) First settled i 790 Was “ named Mill Town . About fifty years ago at a public meeting “ ” f or su called the purpose , it was named Melvern Square at the g of gestion William Gates . The Gates family were among the first settlers of the place . Four roads meet at this square . — MELVILLE IS LAND (H . ) Was at one time called Couries ” D Island probably named after Henry undas , the first Viscount on e a n d wa s Melville , at time Secretary of State , Lord of the - Admiralty 18 04 18 05 . — G P . ll o i o MERI OMIS H ( ) Micmac Ma eg m chk . At n e ” al on i s o time called M eg h . The Micmac word means Hardw od ”

. McG ee of Grove First settled by Barnabas , a native of the north Ireland who emigrated to Pennsylvania or Maryland and from there to Merigomish in the year 1 776 . l Dr . Rand says the name is from the Indian word Ma egomi t c “ ” m of eaning the place merry making . e on Merigomish Riv r was at e time known as Port Luttrell . ’ r Merigomish Island sometimes known as Robe tson s Island ,

f r t on e . a te Colonel Alex Rober son , who owned it at time

- - Dr . Patterson ﬁnds the Micmac meaning for M allegomi chk as diversiﬁed by coves ; he quotes n o a uthority but it is beautifully a O l ppr pr a t e. PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

D n — on e MERLAN (A t . ) At time named Usher changed by o o an Act f Parliament t its present name in 18 6 8 . It was ﬁrst : settled by the following Irish families Dominic Daley , Thomas f m H O a n n d k D Cof ey , Tho as Power , Michael g a Patric unn , about o the end f the eighteenth century . It is said this place was named

r of f . r in hono a ormer priest the Reverend James Merle Me le is , the Scotch name for a black bird .

— ’ . B . d r MERRITT POINT (C ) Near Little Bras O , named after a family who settled near and owned the land which forms

r of . the point . They we e Scotch descent

D — i i hi k n METEG HAN ( . ) The Indian M t a meaning wood ” — en fence weir . The village was ﬁrst settled by Prudent Robi a 8 of che ud in the year 1 7 5 . The Geographic B oard Canada ” states that it is a descriptive Indian name meaning blue stone .

- M T Y . m F EUS E POIN ( ) Na ed after a rench Acadi an ,

Benjamin Meuse , an early settler .

C H V — A ’ 00 MI A ILL ( hill near Neil s Harbor , about 9 feet high . Received its name owing to mica being present in the near neighborhood . — MICHAUD POINT (R . ) Appears sometimes as Mi chea ux ” Point . Denys in his descriptive passage around the Island refers Mi chaur or of to the Isles , the name a variation it , still given the point . The islands are known as the Basque Islands . — M IDDLEFIELD (Q . ) S ee Greenﬁeld . — MIDDLE HEAD (V A name given t o the point of la nd which divides the north and south Ingonish Bays . — H . M IDDLE RIVER ( ) Near Sheet Harbor . The Indian “ ” K oo oo ode or name was kwej gw , meaning the haunted place “ ” ’ o the place of spectres . The Indian game f Blind Man s Buff was played here .

MI DDLE RIVER (V — The original Indian name was a a ma t cook or Wokumut kook n W g , , meaning little gree ” “ ”

t o . water, elsewhere said mean somewhat cleaner

— mi M IDDLETON (A. ) S o called because it is nearly the d point between Annapoli s and Kentville .

— i m f or s MIDDLE RIVER (P . ) The Mi cmac Ind an n a e thi “ O emcheboo wek ﬂowrn or place was N g , meaning straight g , i ” ﬂowng down hill in a straight course . 94 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

—B Act 19 15 MILBURN (An t . ) y an of Parliament in the year the name Malignant Cove (see) was changed to the present name .

M FO — o IL RD (I . ) S named by an Act of Parliament in the year 18 8 4 .

— H a llowel MILFORD HAVEN (G . ) Settled by Benjamin and ll owel 1 76 5 . H a others in the year 1 78 4 . The grant was given in e r came from Boston . He divid d his acre g ant among 1 8 6 1 8 4 . 7 Loyalists , in 7 In they planned and laid out a town “ named B oylston .

L O - u son of MIL BRO K (COL) Here William Wa gh , the ﬁrst r settler Wellwood Waugh , built a wat er mill at a ve y early date . hence the name .

— m F1 MILL BROOK (P . ) First settled by Tho as and John aser

18 08 h . in the year 18 00. They built a mill there in , ence the name wa s It s earlier than this known a Bear Brook , owing to their having trapped a large bear on their ﬁrst visit to the Brook .

— MILLIGAN S WAM P (D . ) Named after an early settler

John Milligan . — MILL CREEK (C . ) On the River Hebert . The Indians “ “

l B ookt ow a un . ca led the place a g , meaning ﬁre works — MILLVIEW (H . ) The settlement formerly known as Lower ’ s Bedford , The Dump and Doyle s Dump , changed to its pre ent o name by an Act f Parliament passed in the year 18 96 . — MILL VILLAGE ( Q . ) At one time called Mills Village . c It re eived its name owing to the ﬁrst settlers Smith and Moseley , having erected a grist mill there . The place was surveyed and granted about 1 76 0. — MILTON (Q . ) This place was called the Falls until the year It received its name owing to the excellent milling O pportunities in the locality .

Richard Kempton and his four sons were the ﬁrst settlers .

M Y — ILTON ( . ) This place was known as The Mills in 1 2 8 0. In this year a brig was built here , and the place of building ” was ﬁled in the Registry as Milltown . The Customs Ofﬁcer.

t : i . changed to Milton , and so the name was evolved This place was ﬁrst settled by Sealed Landers in the year 1 76 1 ; he was one of od . the three ﬁrst settlers in Yarmou th . They came from Cape C PLACE- N AMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 95

M S B S I — INA A N Minas , Manis , Menis , as it has been various l “ y called . Was named by the French Les Mines . It wa s named after the Cape which owes its name to the fact that veins of Copper ’

r . had been found at Cape d O , called also Cap de Mines — M I S C L P lee n NA HA NE The Indi ns called this place gu , ‘‘ N ”a meaning opening in a beaver dam .

M INAS RIVER , MINAS S ETTLEMENT, M INAS R EG IO S B S — m N , MINA A IN The ho e of the Acadians , all named after n o : the Cape of that n ame . These places are w covered by the names r Avonport , Hortonville , Grand Pre , Gaspe eau , Wolfville , Port ’ W s illiams , New Mina , Kentville , Starr s Point , the two Canards ,

Cornwallis and P erea u .

— MI A I LLE . N S V (H t s . ) See Minas Basin This name was given it by an Act of Parliament in the year 18 90; it was hitherto known as Moose Brook Settlement .

- M T CO D . IN VE ( ) Often called Mink Cove , was settled in

l — MINE HOLE (Co . ) Believed to be the result of very early

C ore . excavating for opper , hence the name

MI DI E — A o k N U (C . ) n Indian word Men ode meaning a ” or D . f small bay A fanciful derivation the name is Main a ieu , ’ “ ” “ i . u ood k . e . God s Hand The Indian Word M n e means a sack ” or “ a bag ” and the name may have been derived from this word .

— M V C . B . i S oolaka e IRA RI ER ( ) The Ind an name was d , “ ” “ ” - r o meaning the silver place . It was named Mi e in honor f a

F fﬁ . i 1 46 . rench o cer , Lieutenant M de Mire , n the year 7 We ﬁnd “ ” it on the maps about the year 18 00 a s Miray and Myre . 1 B oui lla 73 . r n In 7 Mons St Ovide de , at that time the French ’ K o o l ing s Lieutenant n the Island , received a large grant f sp endid

on he . r of land t Mira River There is a little rive , a branch the “ ” “ m M oodcok fi Mira , which the Indians na ed t , meaning a dif cult , dangerous place .

MI P —Thl m d S OUKLAKE ( Y . s name is fro the In ian words ’ ‘‘ ” mi s (great) a nd paug (still water) .

river that formed the the 96 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

za ouesch Mesa oueche 175 spelled Me g , g , In 0 records it “ appears as Musa gua sh . In 1 755 the French called the river “ ” Ste . Marguerite .

M IS TAKE RIVER , MIS TAKE S ETTLEMENT (D. )

Lumbermen under William Hassett , who was foreman for John v si e H ea y d , an early enterprising lumber merchant , at one time reached the shore and thought it was the north - east branch of the S i ssib ou ; ﬁnding they were mistaken they gave it the name as above ,

18 2 8 . this was about the year Sometimes called Irish Settlement . — MOLAS S ES HARBOR (G . ) See Port Felix .

An t - MONAS TERY ( . ) This place received its name from the f act that there was a monastery there , which was established by

a Father Vincent in the year 18 3 9 . — on i a i e . MONEY POINT ( M r R v r) (C B . ) The story i s told that a passing boatman sa w exposed on the sands at this place a cask which he thought contained money . He came back at night to

get it , but the swift change in tide had covered it .

— o MONEY POINT (V . ) This place is s named owing to the fact that a specie ship was lost there and up "to the present time gold coins are found in the sands and rocks of the place .

G H — MONTA UE ( . ) This district received its name in honor of on o . Gore Montague , the s f Col George Montague a descendant D of of the uke Manchester , who owned lands at Lake Loon , near D artmouth .

— MONTROS E (Col . ) Named after the seaport town of this name in the North Sea in Forfarshire , Scotland .

P - MOODY POINT ( . ) The Indian name of this place was P oo un i k g p chk . M — OOEAN UK H . A of e o ( ) string islands near J dd re. An O “ ” 1 o Ind an name meaning the haunt f the sea duck .

MOOS ELAN D H — ( . ) See Arlington .

S A — MOO E RIVER ( . ) Wa s at on e time called by the French ’ ” R l vl ere d Ori n a l La g , after some man of that name . The English ” “ ” 1 r ol confounded th s word Orignal with O egn , which in French “ ”

. means a moose Hence the present name .

S — M OO E RIVER (C . ) The Indians named the place “ ” Kese w 1t ck mea mn u r g , g the c r ent ﬂows swiftly .

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178 0; or perhaps in h onor of his son who bore the same name and

- succeeded him as Surveyor General in 1 78 1 . The Geographic Board of Canada states it is named after an Indian family of

Morris living at the lake .

— o M ORRIS ON IS LAND (P . ) The Micmac Indian name f “ ” “ ’ Tuma kun awa aka de mean i n c this place was , g the pipe stone pla e

P — MORTIMER POINT ( . ) Near Pictou . Named after

Edward Mortimer, an Englishman who settled in Pictou and became a wealthy merchant . “ r n He built No way House , a historic and interesti g place in the town . ’ P ow1n Was for some time known as Gordon s oint , g to a

Lieutenant Gordon having settled there .

An — Do a l MORVAN ( t . ) First settled by Mc n ds and Mc “ D l . Mc ou a l galls It was named Keppoch by James g , after his “ Scottish home village . Later it was named Morvan .

— L . o S S S . M O ER I LAND ( ) named after a Mr Jacob Moser, on e of o u the early grantees of the Township f L nenburg .

— M S H . An O HER ( ) Island and Point named after an old St . ’ — /l argaret s Bay family one time known as Grampus Island and D hoint .

OS I H t — m w M HERV LLE ( s . ) This place was for erly kno n as Middle Kennetcook and was by an Act of Parliament in 18 70 changed to its present name . — MOUN T ADAM (P . ) See Garden of Eden . — MOUNT DEN S ON OR DENIS ON (H t s . ) This place re cei ved of D D n its name in honor Colonel Henry enny e son , an Eng 1 lishman who settled here about 755 , and took up a large grant . “ D ” His home was called Mt . enson . ’ B enson s name appears as a member f or Newport (Kings County) in 1 76 7 — M OUNT EGERTON (P . ) See Egerton . — M P . M OUNT EPHRAIM , MOUNT THO ( ) Thomas Troop and Ephraim Howard , coming from Pictou to Truro to meet and as ist the ﬁrst settlers who were arriving from Philadelphia in the s “ Bu g Hope , called these mountains after themselves . “ f or u w P amdun ook The old Indian name Mo nt Thom , as m (a ountain chain . ) PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 9

— ’ M OUN T GRENVILLE (R . ) S ee S t . Peter s . — MO T H L A. l f r m UN AN EY ( ) Cal ed a te a man na ed Hanley , ’ who crossed over it in the early days . It was named Hanley s o o Mountain upt 18 96 ; then it was changed t its present name . l a f w A very noted Loya ist n med Thomas Barclay, a ter ards S a r of pe ke the Nova Scotia Legislature , settled himself and a num o ber f Loyalists here .

M OUNT PLEAS ANT (DA—S ettled and named by settlers from Digby in the year 178 7 .

— MOUNT THOM (P . ) See Mount Ephraim .

— M OUNT UNIACKE (H t s . ) This place was settled in 18 08 Ri U by an Irishman named chard John niacke , who came to Cum 1 74 o berland County in 7 , where he received a large grant f land . - o He was Solicitor General f the Province in 1 78 2 . He died at

Mount Uniacke in 18 3 0.

— o M OUNT VARNER (L . ) S named after E lias Varner . on The Mount is lands owned by him .

M I — i OUNT YOUN G ( . ) I t s said that this place was named after Sir William Young ( 1799 who was the ﬁrst representa of 18 4 - 18 57 tive of this County . He was Premier Nova Scotia 5 and

' again in 18 6 0 when he was appointed Chief Justice of Nova Scotia 8 and was knighted in 18 6 8 . The County was in 1 3 6 known as “ ” r Juste a u co ps .

B - M OUS E I S LAND (C . . ) Near Long Island , in the Bras ’

r . 1 2 . d O Lake Granted in 8 0 to Rev Hibbert Binney , with Long

‘

Island . A very small island near the comparatively large one suggested the name .

— S MOYDAR T (An t . ) Evidently named after the cottish “ ” oi da o County M rt n the west coast , although the spelling is unlike the original .

- me D B DG n ea r olf vi ll e K . w MU RI E , W ( ) The Indian na as ” “ - h ba a t ﬁs . Mt a n , meaning mud c ground

— dn . B . MUGGAH CREEK , n ea r S y ey (C ) Named a fter a h o ff Mugg a native f Ban shire , Scotland He was employed as a military engineer at Sydney . He married a Miss ’ Mel on of Mel on e ey , a daughter Sydney s ﬁrst settler , John y , and 1 00 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA

’ of settled at Mugga h s Creek . The plant the Dominion Iron

Steel Company is located on the old Muggah farm . (It is strange that the creek in the northern arm of Sydney ’ Harbor is named after the family t o which this man s wife belonged “ ’ Maloney s Creek . ) A very early authority refers to this creek and stream as ” Dartmouth River .

— MULLEGAS H (C . ) See Malagash .

— o o MULL RIVER (I . ) Named after the Island r Sound f h m a S t s n a e in the Hebrides , Scotl nd , by the settlers of cotch i o origin .

’ - V. A . MUNRO POINT ( ) point in St Ann s Harbor , named after a resident family spellin g their name thus . There is also a m on B oul arderi e m point of this na e Island , na ed after the owners , o a very respectable family f Scotch descent who lived there .

I LE H — MUR CH YV L ( . ) Settled by Scotch about the year “ 18 12 . It was for years called Mill Village . The ﬁrst settlers ffi were named Merson . The ﬁrst post o ce was established in 18 76 . “ ” A number of the inhabitants are named Murchy - hence the name of the village . — MURDERERS IS LAND (L . ) The Isla nd was so n amed owing to the many crimes committ ed on it by the Indians in the early days .

’ — P S B DG Y. S o a W m o of MUR HY RI E ( ) n med after illia , n e i o the s x sons f a very early Yarmouth settler James Murphy . — MURRAY (V This place was so named in honor of the

. of Honorable George H Murray , Premier Nova Scotia , by the manager of an American Lumber and Pulp Company doing business there . — MURRAYFIELD (P . ) Named after an early Scotch settler named Murray .

MU H — ol S ABOOM (H . ) This is an d Indian name by which fﬁ the Post O ce at this place is still known . It was at one time called “ “ ”

. k Winchester Harbor It is locally n own as Chelsea Bay . — MUS QUODOBOIT (H . ) Indian name . The original spel “ ” ’ l Mascoudab ouet uskoo boo ek ing was and also appears as M de w , “ ” “ a t o ou o o o s id mean ﬂowing t square , r rolling ut in foam r sud ” den l out i y widening after a narrow entrance at t s mouth .

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— Men aban k NAPPAN (C The Indians called the place , ” “ ” m e a n a n d eaning washed away . Old spelling was N p the “ ” meaning was a good place to get camp or Wigwam poles .

— o . NAS S POINT (L . ) S named after an early settler Mr

a ss G . Thomas N , of erman origin

— N AUFFTS POINT S o named after an early Musquodoboit family N auff t s.

H — n r V D . A f . NA Y IS LAN ( ) island in Bedfo d B asin , Hali ax Prior to 18 6 6 the Admiralty had a lease on the island f or riﬂe

m . practice , hence the name , for erly Stevens Island

H — o N ECUM TEUCH ( . ) This is said t be an Indian name “ ” l or of . o meaning gravelly river , beach ﬁne sand The d spelling is ‘ 0 oo k N 0 g m ea k .

- NEGRO CAPE AND PORT (S . ) This place was so named by

1 6 . f so Champlain in 04 He gave as the reason or naming it , that Opposite the Cape were rocks which resembled at a distance a ’ “ ”

. oo i k negro s head The Indi ans called the place Kesp gw t , mean “ ’ ” ing land s end .

AR B — on Le a NEIL H OR (V Named after e Neil Mc n n n . “ We believe that this is the place referred to by Pichon as Quara ’ u N i an i che n choq e between g (I ngo ish) and Aspre (Aspy Bay ) .

He refers to it as a creek . — NERIS S A (G . ) This place was formerly known as Clam w a s so Harbor , named Ncrissa in the year 19 00. Evidently named “ ” dm of o by some a irer of The Merchant Venice , as it is the name f ’ on e of s Shake peare s characters in this play .

N EW B — A ERDEEN (C . B . ) See Aberdeen .

N EW N A NAN , EAS T ANNAN , CENTRAL ANNAN (Col , )

. of Dumf ri e hi r ﬁrst settler Mr John Bell , Annanda le , s e, Scot

. t o f u land He came Nova Scotia in 18 06 , and le t Tatamago che , o ol m settled and named New Annan in honor f his d ho e , in 18 15 . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 1 03

— N EW CAM PBELLTON (V This name was suggested t o CM bell i n u n i al the residents because a Mr . Charles p was a very ﬂ e t

r a on e . esident here , and a parliament ry representative at time “ ” ’ The place was known as Kelly Cove or Kelly s Cove received its present name in 18 6 2 .

H — NEWCOMB CORNER ( . ) The place was named after its

18 6 8 . ﬁrst Postmaster , Judson Newcomb , in the year It was ﬁrst

1 r r . settled by a John Higgins , about 78 0, late by a Joseph Mille

— E o - - N W CORNWALL (L . ) At the head f the Mush a Mush ll mo . H a a re Lake It was ﬁrst settled by Rafuse , Brum and fam i li es of , in the year Some them were likely from Cornwall , m r and na ed the place fo their homeland town .

— N EW L . On 3 rd 1 l DUBLIN ( ) the of May, 76 2 , A exander McN ut t 1 70 of w w arrived with North Ireland settlers , ho ere to go “D ” to this Township , at that time named ublin . Few of them actually settled here , but the name was given the place in honor of these Irish settlers .

EWDY — N O D H . Or ood Q U D Y ( ) N y Quoddy , said t o be “ “ ” f 1 ooda a wo l rom an Ind an name N g de, meaning p enty of seals “ ” , or o place f seals . W — N E G H . S ee W m u l EDINBUR H ( ) ey o th . S ett ed in 1 78 3 by Anthony Stewart and others .

N EW ELM L — ( . ) Named by early German settlers after the r i lm Ge man R ver E .

N EW GERMANY (LO— Named after their native place by 1 early German settlers , about 78 55 John Fi en da l built the ﬁrst house here .

N EW - G S G W P . 18 LA O ( ) Settled in 09 , and named by the “ early Scotch settlers , after the Scottish city Glasgow . Mr .

James Carmichael who built the ﬁrst house here , was an estimable early settler , and is said to have the credit of selecting New Glasgow Si te for a town , and New Glasgow for its name .

ﬁrst grant of land wa s f or 500 acres t o John McKen zi e in 18 09The

N EW H S N EW HA FO C - ARRI , RRIS RKS ( . B . ) S o named “ by early Scotch settlers after Harris , a subdivision of the Northern H ebn des i n Scotland . — N EW H ARR I S V S l oi ( J See s A Brochan . ' 1 04 PLACE - N AMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

— N EW HAVEN (V This place wa s formerly known as ” Hungry Cove .

D — ’ N EW INLET ( . ) Sometimes called Bartlett s River after

an early settler of 1 799 Lemuel Bartlett .

— B . N EW MINAS (K . ) See Minas asin — O T H t . on e of NEWP R ( s ) The Township of Newport , the o si x Townships f Hants County , was formed and thus named in the “ ”

wa s . year 176 1 . The old name West Falmouth The present

- name was suggested by Mr . Morris , Surveyor General of the Prov ince to the Honorable Jonathan Belcher (who was then Lieutenant

Governor of the Province) in honor of Lord Newport , who was a ’ - . o particular friend of t he Lt . Governor s It was erron usly gener ally supposed this name wa s given because of former association of

the early inhabitant s with Newport , R . I .

— N EW ROS S (L . ) This place wa s formerly called Sher ” Coa e brooke , after Governor Sir John p Sherbrooke ; but as great inconvenience was Caused by two places in the Province bearing this “ oha n ed ” mi n i name , the name was g to New Ross during the a d s ra t i on of t Lord Mulgrave , in honor of his lordship , whose second

was s . title derived from the town of New Ros , in Ireland — N EW ROS S CROS S (L . ) Named aft er New Ross and the t e i fact that this is h place where the roads to Lunenburg , K n gs and

Annapolis intersect each other .

Y m NICKERS ON IS LAND ( . ) N a ed after Nathan Nickerson who was the original grantee (in

I TA X — N C U F S A . A ALL ( ) Micmac Indian name Niktak , meaning the forks of a river .

— L L . S o i t s NINE MILE AKE ( ) named owing to position , i “ ” somet mes called Big Sherbrooke Lake .

ol — NINE MILE RIVER (C . ) The Indians named this river ” ” “ ” en a doo web oo wek or r N g g mean ing he is clean clean wate .

H — NINE MILE RIVER ( . ) The Indian name for this place was ” “ Wokumeak meaning the trail route . — NINEVEH (V Named after the ancient capital of the Assy ri i an Emp re .

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—An of NOOS AB OON (H , ) Indian word meaning the hair ” m di d t o y head . Here , says the In an tradition , the fairies use play o n . ut k ball , runni g and seizin g each other by the hair , pulling loc s an d scattering them on the ground .

TI — or NOVA S CO A Said to have been visited , at least sighted , k 8 6 m “ ” by Eri , an Icelander , in 9 , and by him n a ed Markland , “ “ - r 1 16 meanin g forest clad land . It was refe red to in 5 as Bac ” “ ” l codﬁsh ca oes, said to be the Basque word for , but this name was a very general on e for all places at or near the entrance of the Gulf “ ” o . Af . . f St . Lawrence terwards it was known as Acadia (See ) “ It was at one time also called Arambec. The Indians knew “ ” “

m . or e u a a e e. m Nova Scotia as M g g , i , Mic ac Land , the home ” of the Micmac or true man ; this name the Micmac Indian applied o t the Maritime Provinces generally . “ ”

. e. It received its present name Nova Scotia , i , New Scot i n 1 2 1 t land , the year 6 , when a deed or gran was given by King of of James the First England and Sixth Scotland , granting the Provin ce under the present name to S i r Willi am Alexander ; just “ ” wa previous to this date it s known as Nova Francia . New

Brunswick was included in it until 178 4 . Scotland was at on e time known as S cotia Nova or New Scotland ” to distinguish it from the whole or part of Ireland that ” “ ”

S . e . or was then called cotland , i , Land of the Scoti Scots . Some of the Scots later left Ireland and settled in North Britain in n o a th e part w known s Scotland . Some old maps bear the name New Caledonia f or Nova “ ” f or Scotia and New Alexandria New Brunswick .

o - The ﬁrst representative Assembly , consisting f twenty two m embers , was held in the year 1 758 .

Y V — N ANZA ( Named after Victoria Nyanza , the great i ake of Afr ca , which is supposed to be the source of the Nile . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 1 07

— OAK IS LAND (L . ) This island was made famous by the interesting search f or hidden treasure which wa s made upon it at on e oa k di ff erent times . It was at time covered by heavy trees , hence the name . l I n i The ﬁrst settlers were named McMu li n and Mc n s.

- i o OAKLANDS (L . ) Descri ptive name g ven owi ng t the groves of oa k found there at the time of settlement . o i This place was ﬁrst settled in 178 0. One f the earl est settlers

Kn ei ss m l . was a man named , who built a i l there — n AK P OI T K . U kw we a O N ( ) Called by the I dians p a eg n , “ ” meaning a house covered wi th Spruce rinds .

— OC G . . kn EAN LEN (H ) The settlement own as Larrys Cove , McGra t hs D Whistlers Cove , Cove and East over are all included “ and named Ocean Glen by an Act of Parliament passed in the year 18 93 .

' ” - OBAN (R . ) Named after the seaport town Oban in Argyll

t . shire , S co land — ODIN (Col . ) Evidently named after the Norse mythological — o l - god f that name makin g a rather pretty p acename . — OGDEN (G This place was named after a Mr . Alfred Ogden who was at on e t 1me the parliamentary representative of the County o f Guysborough . — OHI O (Y . ) First settled by Nehemiah and Benjamin Church ill who about the year ' 18 2 6 decided wit h a number of other Yar t o t o u U . F mo th families go Ohio , nited States or some reason these two men changed their minds and settled beyond the utmost “ ” n o settler , at what was k own as the Ponds . They gave the name f “ ” io ha o Oh to their farms , whi ch s thus become the name f the settlement . — S Col . S o ON LOW ( ) named in 1 759 by a Mr . Kn owlton and ﬁf t - ho o y two others w resolved t form a township there . The town w 2 l st of F r 1 6 on e ship grant as given the eb uary , 7 9 , and is of the wn h of four to s ips Colchester County . The place was originally of . m settled by New E nglanders Later , about 1776 , a nu ber

l fr n rur m rur . U sterites om Londo derry and T o ca e i n . (See T o ) 108 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

The original grantee of the Township of Onslow was Anthony

1 . E . 76 9 Elliott , a discharged nglish soldier The grant was dated “ P l ul oolk k The River Onslow was named by the Indians e eg e , “ meaning smooth ﬂowing water . (See Debert River . )

— 1 8 0 OS TREA LAKE (H . ) This place was ﬁrst settled about 7 by families named Williams and Temple . It was formerly called ’ “ Williams Settlement ; was named Ostrea abou t 18 8 1 .

This lake is noted for its oyster beds , which suggested the root “ ” word for oyster a s its name . — OI T L . OVENS P N ( ) The Ovens , about twelve miles from so Lunenburg , called owing to the deep caverns worn into the sides or of the rocky cliffs . These holes caves are formed by the constant action of the salt water decomposing the pyrites crumbling the softer slates and decaying quartz away .

— o OWLS HEAD (H . ) The Indian name f this place was ” “ ” P u OOO oo j p sk k meaning corrn ora n t rock . — OXNER COVE AND BEACH , OXNER S HOAL (L . ) S o na med after an early German settler Henry Oxner whose name of appears as one the early grantees of Lunenburg Township .

H — O YS TER POND ( . ) The Indian name for these ponds was ” “ ” P e do b g de ek meaning a second apartment .

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D — PEARL IS LAN (L . ) Named after the Pearl family ,

- 18 73 19 08 . . Albert Pearl being Light keeper , and M B Pearl since ” 19 08 ; named Pearl in 19 14 to avoid duplication of Green its

former name .

— P EAS BR OOK (G . ) This place is supposed to have received its name because of the plentiful growth of wild peas found near the

brook ; was ﬁrst settled about the year 176 0.

— ' PERAK (H t s . ) A small stream near Shubenacadie . A Mic “ ” mac Indian name meaning a wilderness . Sometimes known as

Indian Road Brook .

— S D C . B . so PECK HEA ( ) Near Sydney , named after an early Irish family who settled near by (See Battery Point) .

— PEGG Y COVE (H . ) Locally said to be named after a woman named Peggy , an early settler .

I — PEGG Y S O (H . ) Pronounced Peggy Swa . (See Dover

— PENNANT POND (H . ) The Indian name of this place was ” ” S kaban k , which means where they eat raw .

P ERE — A . U (K . ) Part of the Land of the Acadians The “ f or o echk Micmac name this place was W j , meaning white ” “ ”

or off . water , white signal far

R — PER ANG COVE (H . ) This name was given this place in 18 6 4 . F by Capt P . . Shortland , R . N .

’ ’ — o o PERRY S CREEK (Y . ) Named after n e f Yarmouth s m Cod ﬁrst three settlers , Moses Perry , who came fro Cape and settled in Yarmouth in the year 1 76 1 .

PETER FRAS ER ’ S CAVE (P — The name of a singular ﬁssure in Pictou County ; the roof rs formed by limestone rocks m leaning against each other , the interior illu ined by numerous stalactites that are suspended from the roof . A somewhat similar “ ” u ave known as the Fairy Hole is found in Victoria Co nty , Cape Eret on .

H t — PETITE ( s . ) The Indian name f or this place was Was okwesoo o gw de.

E — PETIT ANS The French for small cove . PLACE -N AMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 1 1 1

— T T G T R . be . of a PE I DE RA ( ) Said to B sque origin , grat meani ng a ﬁshing station , a small ﬁshing station . There is a Cape Grat in Newfoundland and several other places in which the word

appears .

P D — PETI TE AS S AGE ( . ) The Indian name f or this place ” “ ” “ ” Tawi lk or et c O . , meaning the little outlet pening — P T T I V L . R a zi ll s E I E R IERE ( ) Isaac de y , a Frenchman , 2 settled here in 1 6 7 . There were only two settlers in the year m 1 74 . 5 The ﬁrst British settler was Benja in Harringt on .

m . of A descriptive na e There are two these rivers , the Indians “ ” “ ” on of im oo m oo called e them S k k and the other Upsa k k .

H — a PETITE RIVER ( t s . ) The Indi ns called this place ” o oo o Wa s kwes gw de.

P TIT S D — k so E E RUIS EAU ( . ) English Little Broo , named

by the early French settlers .

P E P E H — T WI CK . . S ( ) Cape , Harbor , Lake and Village The “ ” Indi an name for this place was Koolpijooi k .

— on PETRIE REEF (C . B A reef the south side of Sydney

‘ Harbor named after a P et rre family who were seagoing and very early settlers

’ — B llen den s 172 PETTIPAS Changed to e Head in 5 , in wa was memento mori of Lieutenant John Bellenden , s descended

f m . from a noble a ily , and who wa s buried there

A — S o PHINN EY COVE , PHINN EY MOUN TAIN ( . ) called set after a family named Phinney , who owned the land and were

t l ed there as far back as 1 8 56 .

— i PICTOU Pictou County conta n s 1058 square miles . There are a number of theories relative to the origin of this

o . name . A few f them are given below

m r P i ct ook . r . According to D Rand , it is the Mic ac wo d “ ” m w The k at the end of Mic ac names , he says , marks hat gram “ ” “ a i or r mari ans call the locative c se , express ng at in , The wo d “ ” “ ” o e u Pict means an explosion f ga s . Wh never the no n ends in “ ” the sound of kt the regular form of the case locative is the addi “ ” “ ” “ ” o o oo m P i ct ook an d ti n f k . Thus Pict beco es , the k “

m . being dropped , we have the na e Pictou The entrance to Pictou Harbor the Indians called P OOgun e ” “ ” “ ” k h m h e e n r m pa c k . Also the Mic ac word u to , m a ing ﬁ e ight 1 12 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

m rd Buct o or B oo oo . k be the original The Mic ac Indian wo t k , “ ” meaning Big Harbor would appear to be a plausible derivation of the n ame . It is questionable whether there is any place that has had so f many names as this town , as it was at dif erent times known as : D Ti e n mout h Coleraine , New Paisley , Alexandria , onegal , g , South ampton , Walmsley . A place near Pictou Light House was known by the Indians a s ” “ E sa sok meaning the western encampment . 17 Changed from Walmsley to its present name in 90. “ ' P oo un ek chk The Indian name for Pictou Harbor was g pe . The ﬁrst settlers of Pictou were about a dozen families from “ 1 Maryland , who came in the brig Hope in the year 76 7 . “ ” The Hector settlers from the North of Scotland came in the 1 78 3 year 1773 . In at the close of the American Revolution many other settlers arrived . w a s 1 78 The ﬁrst frame house in Pictou built in 9 . 18 07 In Pictou was divided into townships , named Pictou , o Egerton and Maxwelton . It was set ff from Colchester a s a sep in 1 7 2 i s o arate district 9 and was ra ed to . the dignity f a county in

1 8 3 6 .

The name was supp osed by many to have been a corruption of P oi ct ou old o , the name of an Province of France . It is found s ol o Spelled in many d documents and plans . Ot hers claim it was s - of named owing to the bottle shaped appearance its harbor .

P — m PICTOU IS LAN D ( . ) The Mic ac Indian name was ” Akoogomi ch also In 1 76 2 it was referred to as Isle P oi t ee in a report made by Lieutenant - Governor Belcher to the Home Government . (See 3 70 emigrants from the Isle of Barra in Scotland settled on of e t o Pictou Island in the year 18 02 . A number these later w nt and settled in Cape Breton .

P — Du a ld ' McKei PIEDMONT ( . ) Named by the Reverend g ’ so i t s chan , the ﬁrst minister of Barney s River , named from situa “ ” “ ” o o bi lls tion at the foot f a range f . Pied from Pes (Ped) “ ” f or e Latin foot ; mount (mountain) . G nerally by an extension this word pertains to any place situated at or near t he foot of mountains . It w a s ﬁrst settled in 18 10—18 1 6 by Scotsmen from Perthshire and Blair Athole .

— e PINKNE Y POINT ( Y. ) Named after an arly settler John Pinkney' who settled there in the year 1 777

PIPERS GLEN (I )— This place was so named because Niel

- Jamison a bag pipe player of considerable local fame resided there.

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—S o S - POINTAGONI (c. B . ) called from its harp , needle like “ ” promontory . The word must come from the Greek Acon (a dart) ; may have been named by the Spanish

- T dn e H arb or C . B . POIN AMELIA , S y y ( ) Named by Captain Crawley (for whom Crawley ’ s Creek was named) in honor of Princess Amelia , daughter of King George III . ’ “ One of Sydney s streets is named Amelia , and Frederick

Ameli a Lovell was the ﬁrst born and ﬁrst baptised in Sydney .

P - POINT BETTY IS LAND ( . ) Said to have been named ’ ” after Captain Savage s vessel , the Betty which was lost here . “ l Mkobeel he o d Indian name for this place was , which “ ” means beaver place .

— POINT CARLETON (S . ) Named in honor of Sir Guy - i - Carleton who was Commander n Chief in Canada in 1 796 . The place was ﬁrst settled by Isaac Wilkins , an American Loyalist .

— POINT EDWARD AND EDWARDS VILLE (C . B . ) A point and village between the two Sydneys formerly known as West ” of . a Arm The present name is in honor King Edward VII , who s

Prince of Wales visited Sydney Harbor in the year 1 8 6 0.

— POINT M ICHAUD (R . ) Named after an early French settler .

— — on Two names , which have entirely disappeared are given old maps for this point or a point near by ; viz : Cape H i n chi n broke “ i o and Cape Henlopen . There s a cape on the eastern coast f

Delaware of the latter name . i hou Denys calls the islands near here Isles M c r.

— POINT PLEAS ANT (H . ) At one time known as Sand ” wich Point . When Cornwallis in 1749 ﬁrst thought to form the ’ of City Halifax , it was at this place he intended to locate the City “ The North West Arm Halifax , was at one time known as Sand wich River .

T — i POIN TUPPER (R .) Said to be named after S r Charles on F Tupper , a Canadian statesman and politician , e of the athers ” of Confederation , of whom he was the last survivor . He was 1 8 2 1 di born in ; ed 19 15 . The old name was Guernsey ; it was given its new name by a . resident Henry Paint . It is held by some that this place was not

i m of . named after S r Charles, but after a fa ily settlers

- B OG ol . POLLY (C ) See Anton . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 1 15

P M — O Q UET (An t . ) The place was first settled by three men named Duon , Dorion and Vincent . Old papers dating 12 8 years “ ” o back (from 19 16 ) spell the name P mmquet t e. “ M o m D . m P u k k m r Rand gives the ic ac name as g e , eaning ” raining along and from this the present name ha s been formed . “ A place near here was known to the Indians as P Ogumko ” “ ” oi gi t k meaning flowing over dry sand . — — P ON H OK L K . di B ahn o k first O A E ( Q ) In an , o , lake in

. on on the chain There is e lake of this name Liverpool , and another on Port Medway River ; and still another in Halifax County . — POPE HARB OR (H . ) The Indian name f or this place was ” “ ” Kw emoodet c , meaning the little loon place .

— P OOUETVI LLE (V This name is given t o the territory ’ - between the Half way House , Neil s Harbor and Cape North , and was given it by an Act of Parliament in the year 18 93 .

n — o PORCUPINE CAPE (A t . ) S named owing to the curious resemblance the cape has to the back of a porcupine . “ ” P ookuda skw ode Ma dooes The Indian name was p , and also ” “ ” w ot m of u . p , eaning the head a porc pine

— PORT ACADIA (D . ) Named by an Act of Parliament ”

18 6 0 m . passed in the year , was for erly known as Church Point

(See) .

— PORTAGE CREEK (V . ) See Whycocomagh Portage

P — P OR TA I Q UE (Col . ) River and Village in Colchester ” County . Descriptive French name meaning Port under a hill .

“ I - - PORT BAN ( . ) An English Gaelic word meaning white ” Ban is Gaelic for a degree of whiteness .

— P T V . n ow m m OR BE IS (V ) Originally , and so eti es called ” of Big Harbor . The present name was given it in honor an American who was identiﬁed with the company that at on e time was engaged in mining plaster rock at this place .

- PORT BICKERTON (G . ) This place is said to have been r o r who named in hono f an English Lord Bicke ton , was Vice

Admiral some time on the West Indian Station .

— S alrn on PORT DUFFERIN (H . ) Was formerly known as

River . In the year 1 8 99 by an Act of Parliament the name was 1 16 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA changed to the above in honor of the Marquis of Duff erin,whowas

- - - o 18 72 18 78 . Governor General f Canada , — PORTER LAKE (H t s . ) The Indian name for this place was “ - ma n t cet c . A gu , meaning the little breezy place — PORTERTOWN (C . ) See Hastings . — PORT FELIX (C. ) Formerly known as Molasses Harbor . An Act of Parliament passed in the year 18 6 9 changed it to i t s “ f or ol present name . The Indian name Molasses Harbor was W “ ” u kak S . n , meaning the cooped out place — O T G G A . P R EOR E ( ) Named after English Royalty , the “ ” “ ” ol o kooch o w a s . Indian name was G g p , meaning Hood seal rock — PORT GREVILLE (C . ) This place takes its name from

Greville Bay in Cumberland County . The Bay was no doubt of named in honor Robert Greville , the second Lord Brooke , a

- f E 1 7 4 18 6 6 . amous nglish Parliamentary General , 9 It was form a s erly known Ratchford River , but was changed to its present name by an Act of Parliament in 18 6 5 . — T S T GS I . At on e POR HA IN ( ) time named Plaster Cove , o Ol owing t gypsum deposits in the neighborhood . The d name was o changed by An Act f Parliament in the year 1 8 6 9 . It received r D on its p esent name in honor of Sir Hastings oyle , at e time Lieu o tenant Governor f Nova Scotia .

I — PORT HAWKES BURY ( . ) At one time called Ship of Harbor , which was changed by an Act Parliament in the year 18 6 0 e “ ” to its pr sent name , owing to their being a Ship Harbor in

Halifax County . w a s i n k It named honor of Admiral Edward Haw e , an English B S ee . aron . ( Hawkesbury)

- B . 1 2 PORT HE ERT (S ) Named by de Monts in 6 3 , after his apothecary , Louis Hebert . — I . . on PORT HOOD ( ) Harbor , Island and Town At e time “ ” called Juste au corps by the French . The British changed the name to its present name in honor of the famous Admiral First Viscount Samuel Hood ( 1724

- - He was appointed Commander i n Chief in North America in 1 76 7 . who The ﬁrst English settler is said to have been John Smith , settled there in 1 78 9 . a weamkek The Indians called the place K g , meaning sand

PLACE- NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

The second lake on the Port Medway River was calledby the “ ” ” a le ea k n . Indians M g , mea ing fretful waters The third lake on Port Medway River was named by t he “ “ i ooskek a . Indians M ri eg , me ning the place of the Little Islan d The fourth lake on Port Medway River was named by the “ “ ’ ”

o chuk . Indians N a begw n , meaning the ships place “ This name appears in several plans as Port Met wa y . — PORT MORIEN (C . B . ) See Morien . — PORT M OUTON ( O. ) Town , Island and Port . Named ’ ” “ of Luke s Bay which was the name the ship St . Luke sent out r a 1 2 t h with colonists by Sir William Alexande in the ye r 6 3 , but e ol der French name stuck to it . The name was given to it by D m of e Monts in 1 6 04 , fro the circumstance a sheep jumping over ‘ d board and being nearly rowned before it was rescued . “ ”— The proper form is Port du (n ot au) Mouton now Port

Mouton . The name Port Matoon appears on some modern maps a s o the present form f this name . In 1 77 1 we ﬁnd a reference to this “ i ” Mat t o s . place , and it is called Port “ ” The name Gambier Harbor appears as the name for this “ ”

on e . Wolu umkook port at time The Indian name was g , meaning ” “ ” a deep gully or hole in the river . — PORT MULGRAVE (G . ) Named in 1 8 59 in honor of t he

of o 18 8 . Earl Mulgrave , Governor f Nova Scotia in 5 The old “ di W olumkw a un uchk In an name for this place was g , meaning “ ” the lobster ground .

- - PORT NOVA (C . B . ) (See Cape Breton the Cape . o Pichon spells it ( 1 76 0) P rt en ove. The cape was known a s 2 Le Chameau in 17 5 .

— PORT PHILIP (C . ) Formerly known as Mou th of River ” of Philip , changed to the above by an Act Parliament in 18 6 7 .

I — PORTREE ( . ) Named by Scotch settlers after the Northern d1vrsi on o of the Isle of Skye n the west coast of Scotland .

S — PORT RO EWAY (S . ) Formed by Alexander McN ut t i n

1 76 5 . old m This is the name for Shelburne Harbor . This na e is the old French name Port R azoi r transformed into an English name of 1m1l ar S sound .

P RT R - O OS S I GN OL . u 1 2 t h 6 s ( O ) O May , 1 04 , De Mont O i n L1ver ool u H arbor, f of p t at p _ where he ound Captain Rossignol PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 1 19

di . D Havre , carrying on a contraband trade with the In ans e c Monts arrested the Captain and onﬁscated his vessel , naming the port after the captain . — PORT ROYAL (R . ) This name adopted and the old name ” Grand Rosseau discontinued . The change approved by an Act of Parliament passed in 18 6 7 .

— o PORT S ALTER (C . ) S named by an Act of Parliament i n

18 8 2 .

‘ — I n 1 PORT S HOREHAM (G . ) 9 01 an Act was passed by Parliament changing the old name of this place “ Clam Harbor ” to a sea Port Shoreh m , after the port town in Sussex , England — O T WAD A . D . kn own un t i l P R E ( ) Opposite igby It was , a “ ” f 1 0 . . ew years ago as West Ferry named about 9 5 after Mr F B . f or wa s i n s ru Wade , a member Annapolis County , who partially t mental i n having a railway terminus and pier bui lt at this place . It was originally settled by French ; later by United Empire

Loyalist s .

— P ORT WILLIAM (K . ) This place wa s formerly known as ’ ” so on e Terry s Creek , called after of the early settlers named o Terry . Its present name is after a former Governor f the

Province .

’ POTTER S POINT - First settled and named after

Joseph Potter .

’ — POTTLE S LAKE (C . B . ) The lake from which the Town s of North Sydney and Sydney Mines receive their water supply . a It was n med after the original grantee , an Englishman named

Pottle .

P M — OULA ON (R . ) This place bears the Acadian French “ o name for the small c dﬁsh known as the Tom cod . The word “ ” “ ” Tom cod is a corruption of t he' Ameri ca n Indian word Tacaud ” plenty ﬁsh .

’ — P S . F e RE OU ILE (I A rench word meaning p ninsula , from “ ” or l the word Presque , meaning near a most an isle meaning “ “ “ “

. i . island Nearly an island , that s peninsula

— o PRES TON (H . ) One of the four township di visions f Hali i 2 h o fax County , settled n 1 8 1 by colored men and women w were of r m plantation slaves , among them descendants the Ma oons fro h o Jamaica w settled there a few years previously . 1 2 0 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

It was originally surveyed and laid out in 1 78 4 by on Theophile i - us Chamberlain , and granted to him and his assoc ates , sixty three

other Loyalists .

— o PRIM POINT (D . ) The lighthouse n the point bears the

1 8 1 7 . name of Prim Point Lighthouse , since the year

— N . PRINCE OF WALES LA DING PLACE (C B . ) This a d Cove , on the shore of Sydney Harbor , between North Sydney “ ” n a s i Sydney Mines , was originally known Indian Cove , and s “ ’ ’ ’ t of locally known as Barring on s Cove , after the family that name who own the beautiful adjoining property . It received its present name owing to the fact that in the year 2 8 t h 1 8 6 0, on the of July , the then Prince of Wales and afterwards ’ King Edward VII of England , who was en route from St . John s , i ‘‘ ” Newfoundland to H alifax , Nova Scotia , n the ships Hero and “ ” Ariadne , made a landing at this place and visited the Sydney

Mines and inspected the Sydney Mines Volunteers .

— PRING IS LAND (Y . Named after William Pring . It was given to him and John Crawley in the year 1 76 2 for assistance 1n Y rendered to the ﬁrst families that settled armouth , they arrived ff in 1 76 1 and su ered great distress during the ﬁrst year .

— o PRIVATEER C OVE (D . S named owing to a privateering vessel having used the port about the year 1 777 The vessel was ’ lost at the time on Baxter S Point near by .

— I n PROS PECT (H . ) 1 77 1 this place is referred to as Pros “ ” o P a ss per at n e time called epa c. The Indian name was ” s a da kun N a p , meaning an herb mixed with tobacco .

— Y . P o omkoo PUBNICO ( ) Named from the Indian word g k , “ meaning land from which the trees have been removed to ﬁt i t for ” “ ”

. P omb on cou cultivation The old French spelling was p , from “ ” 1 which the transition to Pubnico was easy . It 3 also stated that ‘‘ ” P oub omcou it was called p , after a French family of that name or m 1 0 who lived there thereabout 7 5 , but it is more likely that the i s Indian derivation the correct one . Of the Indian word Pog ” “ bumkook B o bumkook , or g , we ﬁnd the following English and “ ” ” P ommi cou P oumi cou P o o French variations p , p , b mcon , “ ” ‘‘ ” i n i o P g c , and Pubnico . — GW S C . 1 5 wW PU A H ( This from an Indian name Pag ea k , “ ” “

or . meaning Shallow water , a shoal Settled by t he French “ ” u 1 750. m f abo t Was one ti e called Water ord .

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—S o Q UAKER IS LAND (L . )f named because a number of out Quakers from New England , wishing to ﬁt for whale ﬁshing , were at on e time anxious to make the Island their headquarters . so t They could not secure it , they abandoned the scheme and e turned to New England . The name still clings to the Island .

S TY— On 2 l st 1 76 1 Q UEEN COUN August , , the Council at of Halifax advised that the Townships Barrington , Liverpool and Yarmouth be erected into a County and to be known by the name “ — of Queens chosen no doubt to express loyalty to the monarchy .

It is now divided into two townships , Liverpool and Guysborough .

The County contains 1 06 5 square miles . — Q UARRY IS LAN D (P . ) Received its name from its stone f or o quarries which were well adapted the making f grindstones . — QUI N AN (Y . ) Once called Tusket Forks up to t he1 5t h of

1 8 8 5 . ui n a May , Then changed to Q n in honor of a deceased o pastor f that name .

EE P — l i Q U N OR T(G . ) This p a ce wh ch was at one time known 1 8 as Crow Harbor , was named in honor of Queen Victoria in 97 , being her Diamond Jubilee year . The Act conﬁrming i t s n ame was passed in 1 8 98 . The Indian name for Crow Harbor was “ ” oon i k Wed meaning having a mouth . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 12 3

— RATCHFORD HEAD (C The records show that a n umber of Ameri can emigrants were settled in this part of Nova Scotia in was and previous to 1775 . This point probably named after one “ ”

s . of them . The name appears sometimes pelled Rotchford — RAYS HILL (C . B . ) Near North Sydney . Named after an

English soldier who settled near there .

— o RAWDON (H t s . ) The ﬁrst inhabitants f Rawdon were dis banded soldiers who had served under Lord Rawdon in the War of

of n n . Independence , most them havi g been enl isted in the Caroli as i n n w The place was named his ho or , he was after ards created of on o . e f Marquis of Hastings The Township Rawdon , the si x township divisions of Han ts County was granted in 1 78 4 t o l o o . o 2 Lt . C Small for the location f the n d Battalion f the 8 4th

Regiment .

— i RED HEAD (V See B e n n Breagh . — RED I S LAN DS (R . ) This place received i t s name from the d o Islands near by . The soil an rock is f a reddish color and the sun o h t at certain times f t e day gives them a beau iful red appearance . “ ” The Indian name of this place was Gwesa ssek .

— ’ H . REDMOND COVE ( . ) A cove in St Margaret s B ay named after a Redmond family . — T . I n RED POIN (G ) the Gut of Canso , was known by the “ Indians as Wi pkoogw en k . R EARL — AN D (R . ) A rather pleasant name formed by making

' on e b ei n l a n d word of the two , which meant Rear or Back lands , g s situated back of lands generally more advantageously l ocated near the shore or leading roadway . — F G COVE C . RE U EE ( ) . See Morden So named owing to a number of French Canadian Refugees landing here from the opposite Side of the Basin . Now known as “ ” “ or French Cross Morden . — REID ROCK (H . ) I n 1752 a Solomon Reid was living in the of south suburb Halifax , and as the rock is near the shore and Reid or Reed owned the adjoining land , it is probably the name came in 124 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA

— 1 8 2 . RENFREW (H t s . ) A gold mining camp commenced in 6 One of the late King Edward the Seventh ’ s younger titles t he was Baron Renfrew . This , it is said , is where name Renfrew was found . — RES ERVE (C B . ) When the General Mining Association owned all the coal in Cape Breton County , the coal at this place ’ O was known to exist , but the Company s perations were then con

ﬁned to Pictou , Sydney Mines and Lingan , the coal seams outside “ of Glace Bay being held in reserve for future Operations . Hence “ ” “ ” 1 8 2 7 Reserve Mines now Reserve . In , about the time - o of the above named Associati n was formed , we ﬁnd all the coal “ ” mines referred to as Royal Reserved Mines . — I D E ALE S . R G V ( ) Named by Judge Lewis Morris Wilkins , f or who made his home there . The place was known many years as “ ’ ” Wilkins Folly .

IC O C T — R HM ND OUN Y Named in honor of Charles Lennox , D of r of i fourth uke Richmond , who was Governor Gene al Brit sh

- North America 18 18 1 8 19 . off m 18 3 6 Was cut fro Cape Breton County in , and formed of into a separate county . The townships Richmond County are

: . four Arichat , Lenox , Maitland and Hawkesbury This county contains 6 2 3 square miles .

’ — RIS ER S POINT (L . ) This point was formerly known as ’ Lovely s Point . — RING POINT (Y . ) This place received its name from an early settler , George Ring , who came from Massachusetts and settled here about the year 176 2 .

RIVER B OURGEOIS — The Indian name for this place was ” “ “ ” N a bi on chek r gw meaning a brig o ship , the whole meaning ’ ” a brig or ship s place . — RIVERDALE (D . ) For a long time known as Wagoner ”

18 3 3 . Settlement , as it was ﬁrst settled in by a Mr Benjamin

Wagoner . — RIVER DENYS (I . ) Named of f er and it is said by Sir Nich

D u . olas enys , Sie r de Fronsac , a native of Tours , France He was a r m ve y enterprising Frenchman , who obtained a patent in 1 6 54 fro of 4 o the King France . In 1 6 5 he was appointed Governor f Cape

Breton , Prince Edward Island , and part of Newfoundland . — RIVER INHABITANTS (R . ) The Inhabited River or River of Inhabitants .

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— ROBINS (C . B . ) Named after a family Robins who settled

there about the year 1 790.

P — ’ ROCKFIELD ( . ) This name wa s given this place by an

Act of Parliament in the year 1 8 8 5 . It was hitherto known as the “ settlement of Aucl ei n Cairn .

H — B ROCKHAVEN ( . ) y an Act of Parliament this name was

substituted for the old name M cGrat h Cove in the year 19 08 .

— - ROCKINGHAM (H . ) Named after Charles Watson Went

worth , Marquis of Rockingham , who was English Prime Minister in

178 2 .

—‘ ROCKVILLE (Y . ) A descriptive name . It was once known ” as Rocky Nook .

— l R OCKYVI LLE (I . ) See Tupperda e.

— i D Y C . n t a ri o . n RO NE ( ) Named after Rodney , O , the year 1 8 6 6 by a Mr . Howard Mills . First settled by three families named R l s e . Boss , y y , and Schurman “ The name Rodney was originally , no doubt , in honor of

Baron (George Brydges) Rodney , the noted English Admiral .

— ROS EWAY (S . ) See Port Roseway . — ROGERS HILL (P . ) The old Indian name of this place was ” “ i mn okun a un i N a g kt meaning blackbird grove . Received its present name after John Rogers who owned the land , and was one of the settlers to arrive from Philadelphia in the brig “ Hope ” in “

1 76 7 . h a s . This place recently been named Scotsburn (See) .

— R OGER TON (G Called so owing to the number of fam i li es named Rogers liv1ng there .

G — RO ERS POINT (D . ) Called after a Major Rogers who was

an early settler . — R OS EBURN I . ( ) Formerly known as Bridge End , in the 18 8 7 Of year changed to its present name by an Act Parliament .

OS TT — 1 R E E (Q . ) Sett ed and named in 18 2 2 .

S - RO IGNOL LAKE (Q . ) See Lake Rosignol . — S S PO T ol . RO IN (C ) Named after a Presbyterian minister ,

the Rev . Hugh Ross , who resided there in 18 24 . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 12 7

R OS S WAY (DJ — First settled in the year 1 78 5 by Major

i . Robert Tmpa n y and Capt Frederick Williams from Annapolis .

— i ROUNDHILL (A. ) This name appears n early Nova Scotian “ l “ ” history as Le Pre Ronde , a so known at one time as Lovetts . “ ” l l o La b a t n . The Indian name was , named after an old reside t

’ — ROUS E BROO K , ROUS E IS LAND (L . This place was I of s named n honor Captain John Rous , who was Ma ter of the ship h that landed the ﬁrst settler in t e county in the year 1 750. The

Brook I S the spot where the landing was made . Captain Rous was of a very successful English Captain , and took part in nearly all the stirring events in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia between the years 1 744 1 76 1 759 In 0 he became a resident of Halifax , and a member o of the Council f Nova Scotia . — RO YAL CENTRE (P . ) This place in Pictou County was previous to 1906 known as Rear Meadows . In that year an Act changi ng the name wa s passed . — DDE H AM C K . B . I n m R U R REE (C ) Sydney Harbor , na ed f R u dderham a ter William , an early English settler whose descen d ants are still living near the creek .

RUDHA MH I N I S TEAR (I O— Gaelic meaning The Min ’ ” Mal a awa t cht wa s S O i st er s . i s Point It near g and named _ owing t D McDon a ld to a Presby erian Minister the Rev . onald having settled there in 18 24 .

L — RUDOLF POINT ( , Named after Ch arles and William

a s 1 8 2 S . Rudolf , who early as 0 built vessels of considerable ize there

— RUS S ELL LAKE (H . ) A Lake near Dartmouth named in

r of m . hono an early settler Nathaniel Russell , an A erican Loyalist 1 2 8 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA

— 4 S ABLE IS LAND I n 1 505 n amed Santa Cruz . In 1 5 4 “ ” 1 4 it appears on the map as I da Crus . In 5 8 its name appears as “ ” ~ a s 1 54 Isolla del Aren a . The presen t n ame appears as early 6 ’ “ ‘ - n . when Joan es Freire , a Portuguese map maker , calls it I do It is said by some to have received its name from t he “ “ ” French word sablon mean ing sand . i r The name appears on very old maps a s Sandy Ile . S ' 50 Humphrey Gilbert visited it in 1 58 3 . La Roche left convicts on it in 1 59 8 . Owing t o the great number of vessels that have been lost on this treacherous island which is forty miles long and t wo and one “ ” half miles wide , it is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic . — S ABLE RIVER (S The Indian name f or this river was ” N es a k e m . , meaning riley water ﬂowing down over sand “ ” of i oo ek Another part the river t hey named P j eb gw , meaning “ ” a long ﬂowing river .

S — ’ o ACRIFICE I S LAND (L . ) Near Heckman s Island . Kn wn by this name a s it is said that a white child was off ered as a sacriﬁce by the Indians on this island;

S - o ACKVILLE (H . ) This place was named in honor f George v s v Com Sack ille Germain , ﬁrst Vi count Sack ille , who was made mander of the British forces in the year 1758 and Secretary of State - 2 o for the Colonies 1 775 1 78 . The Indian n ame f r this place was “ “ Al oOsoola wa ka d i e of . , mean ng the place measles e o t o Again an Indian name appears as Kw b a c , applied “ of Sackville , meaning the head the tide . S ALMON RIVER — Changed from the Micmac Indi 3 “ ” “ ” B oon amoo wa de i n of name g , mean g place frost ﬁsh , or Tom

- cod ground .

S — ALMON RIVER S ETTLEMENT (Y . ) This place was settled about the beginning of the l gt h century by liberated negro slaves . These slaves were owned by some of the early settlers of Y armouth . — S L V H . D ff A MON RI ER ( ) (See Port u erin) . The Indi an “ ” P ul ammoa - seb oo name for the River was , meaning , Pulmo “ ” S eeboo (salmon) (river) .

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— S AVALLETTE PORT (G . ) Named by Champlain after a “

n . Basque Shipmaster . It is now called Whitehave

— S AVARY BROOK (D . ) S o called after an early settler named Nathan Savary .

- P — S AW MILL BROOK ( . ) The Indian name of this place , “ ” ” - w a s N a w e un i chk . meaning Saw mill Brook , g wa s The ﬁrst settler William Kennedy , who built a mill here hence the name . The mill is said to have been the ﬁrst frame

1 . building erected in Pictou C oun t v . It was built in 76 9 Kennedy came from Truro .

S CATAR I— I t a on is so spelled in pamphlet Cape Breton , “ ” dated 1 746 . Formerly called Little Cape Breton . Called

Ponchartrain on some old French maps . It is probably a cor “ ruption of a E uropean name ; although ﬁnding it called S ecet ere on “ ” ol very d maps it presumably means dry land . There is a little island at the mouth of the Shannon River in Ireland named “ Scat t ery .

— S CH N OR E H . o ( ) After a family f residents of this name .

- S CHOONER POND (C . B . ) Received its present name o owing to a certain schooner having been lost n its dangerous shore . Sometimes called Big Glace Bay— called by the early French “ Bay ” “

. e . . de Charbon i , Coal Bay

S — o COTCH OR S COTTS FORT (A . ) S named in 1 6 2 8 . It ’ was built by Sir William Alexander s son and a party of Scotch m im igrants .

P — S COTCH HILL ( . ) See Lyons Brook .

P — S COTS BURN ( . ) Formerly called Rogers Hill (see) and given its present name by an Act of Parliament passed in the year

1 8 6 7 .

— S COTS VI LLE I . ( ) Formerly Outlet of Lake Ainsley , of of ol d named by its residents who are sons , or descendants sons of i . t s Scotland Received present name in April 1 8 8 3 .

’ — o S COTT S BAY (K . ) S called owing to some Scotch immi a t on grants having been wrecked this place , their way to settle at ’ '

d Or a b out 176 4 . Cap , the year They remained there for some time , but eventually moved elsewhere . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 13 1

’ — S COTT S IS LAND (Y . ) This place received its name from t 1 its earliest settler , Moses Scott who set led there in the year 76 3 , he came from Fitchburg , Mass . — S CRAGG Y LAKE (H . ) One of the Tangier River Lakes . “ “ ’

Mi se umi sk u . The Indians called it g , meaning scraggy and ro gh — S CULPIN HARBOR (G . ) The I ndian name was Chulok “ we ook . g , meaning the Sculpin

— o S EABRIGHT (H . ) This place was at n e time known as ” Hubley Settlement . In 1901 it was changed to Hubley . The “ Act was amended in 1902 changing the name to Seabright . — S EAL IS LANDS (Y . ) These islands were named by Samuel o Le Sieur Champlain who accompanied DeM n t s in 16 04 . The explorers found an abundance of seals and named the islands “ Isle ” “ ”

r . aux Loups Martins , o Island of Seals — S EA VIEW (R . ) Wa s formerly known as Sporting Moun of tain , received its present name by an Act Parliament in the year 18 9 0. — S L . v ECCOMBE I S LAND ( ) Named after the R e . John

Seccombe , from Medford , Massachusetts , who came here in the 1 o 708 n . year , and lived the island for some years — S ECOND LAKE (Q . ) See Liverpool (Q . )

See Port Medway (Q . )

See Tangier (H) .

S ELMAH H t s — ( . ) This place was ﬁrst settled by the French ,

out . who were driven by the English in 1 755 . A Mr Salter of 2 1 Halifax was granted 500 acres in 1 76 5 . He sold it in 78 5 to who R General Small , , after the American evolution , settled Kennet ’ cook and other districts with American soldiers . General Small s “ ” hon ie estate was known as Selma . Some person added the ’ ’

There is a city in Alabama of this name ; the spelling is Selma .

’ S - — EVEN PENCE HA PENN Y BRANCH (D . ) Said to be S O a med because a coin of that denomination was found on its IDani

S BA — HAG Y AND HEAD S HAG ROCK (C . B . ) After

- a wild sea bird of this name which frequented the Bay .

S — o HEEHAN LAKE (H . ) Named after a family f early residents . 13 2 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA

- S HEET HARBOR (H . ) The Indian name for this place was ” “ i oo e i k . W j , which means running crazily , spreading every way There is a small stream running into Sheet Harbor which the Indians “ ” “ oo a ek called Kaj gw j , meaning the place where gold thread

grows . — S HEET HARBOR LAKE (H . ) This place was named by the ” “ of un a ka de . Indians P , meaning the place bringing forth

- S HEFFIELD VAULT (K . ) A brook ﬂow mg into Minas so m e Channel , named because it has co paratively waterl ss channels

called vaults . — H L . 1 r S E BURNE Bay , Harbor and Town In 76 5 Alexande “ McN ut t applied f or a charter to found a city which he called New “ ”

r m . so Je usale . This is now Shelburne It was named by 2 2 n d 1 78 3 o Govern or Parr on the day of July , , in honor f the Earl

of r o . Shelburne , Sec etary f State It is said that as the Governor ﬂa - ff on o named the place , the g sta which stood Stanhope Hill , n '

h h . whi c t e British colors were ﬂying , fell to the ground

Over United Empire Loyalists , principally from New

Y 1 78 . ork , settled here in 3 The Town grew at an astonishing pace and it is interest ing t o note that at on e time it had a larger popula

tion than Quebec and Montreal combined . The Indian name f or “ ” S o umkee n r u r this place was g gu , meaning a sho t c t th ough a ” sandy bar. Shelburne was formed into a county about the year 1799

it is divided into two Town ships , Shelburne and Barrington . In 1 8 3 e of Y 6 the County was divid d , part Shelburne going into ar

n a 48 . mouth County . This cou ty cont ins 9 square miles Shelburne Harbor was at on e time called Port R a zoi r by the

French and Port Roseway by the English . — S H C I C B . m S oon aka d ENA AD E ( . ) The Indian na e was de, “ ” meaning the place of cranberries . The name appears on old ” m S n a aps as u ka dy .

S — o HERBROOKE (G . ) Named after Sir John C a pe S her - o 1 brooke , Lieutenant Governor f Nova Scotia ( 18 1 Gov ern or-General of Canada ( 18 16 Giran Le di ere had a farming place and a small fort , afterwards s - of Cheda buct o a ﬁ hing and fur trading station , at the head Bay , n ow S o u t o 16 59 . herbro ke ; do btful date , but previous — S B S o . HER ROOKE LAKE (L . ) (S ee herbro ke )

S H I N I MI A - o C S (C . ) This is said t be an Indian name “ m a S e ning hining River .

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— S IXTH LAKE (Q . ) See Liverpool .

P — S I X MILE BROOK ( . ) Given this name because it was si x miles from the place the ol d Cobequi d Road started t o the point where this brook crosses the road . — S KIR DH U (V This is a Gaelic name , meaning Black

Rock . — S LAB TOWN (Col . ) See Hilden . — S LATE MOUN TAIN (C . B . ) The Indian name was Ken ” “ ”

o . eskw t pat , meaning having a peaked head A brook near by “

E o ek t o . was named by the Indians g g , meaning next the woods — S LAUGH EN WH I TE POINT (H . ) One time called Oak land . Received its present name from Captain P . F . Shortland , ’

8 4 m . R . N 1 6 , and is a com on family name about St Margaret s

Bay . — S LOANE POINT (L . ) Named after an Irish settler named m John Sloane , who came fro Lower Dublin

— S loi S LOI S A BH R OCH AN (V (See New Harris) . s “ ” or Bhrocha is the Gaelic for place countryside . n is the Gaelic

u or . on for gr el , very thin porridge The name was a derisive e and “ the Scotch settlers have recently changed it to New Harris , l l ’ ke y their former home in S cotland . It is on the Great Bras d Or

étrait . — S MAS H EMS HEAD (P . ) An early Robertson Island settler ’ named Robert S tewart was known as smashem owing t o this being o o a fav rite expression f his in describing battle scenes . — S MELT BROOK (C . B . ) A brook in North S ydney originally “ ” k un nown as Sparling Brook after an early land owner , but fortunately changed to i t s present name .

‘ - S MITH COVE (G . ) The Indi an name for this place wa s S e e uee u g g g n k .

S P I — MITH IS LAND ( ORT HOOD) ( . ) The name given t o the Inner Port Hood Island , named in honor of the ﬁrst settler ho w . John Smith , settled in Port Hood in 1 78 9

S - M ITH M OUNTAIN (V . Near Cape Dauphin . These “ ’ ” l on e n F on high hil s were at time know as Les Quatres ils d Aym , of F m which was the title a rench Medieval Prose Ro ance . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA 1 3 5

— S MOKEY (V See Cape S mokey .

’ — S OLDIERS COVE (R . ) The St . Georges Channel was at ’ one time known as Soldiers Gulf , the name was evidently retained as the name of this cove . — S OULIS COVE (D . ) S o named in honor of an early settler .

Daniel Soulis . — S OUTH BAR (C . B . ) The village was known as Victoria t B ar Pier . The Bar extends into Sydney Harbor opposite Nor h ’ o forming a Splendid breakw ater . Was n e time called Guion s ” “

1 7 4 . Bar . Was fortiﬁed in 9 and known as Fort Edward

- ol S OUTHAMPTON (C . ) The d name for this place was o Maccan . (See) . A portion f Maccan was given the above name in honor of the English seaport city of the same name by an

Act of Parliament passed in the year 18 72 .

- . B . S o on S OUTH HEAD (C ) outh Head , C w Bay , appears “ ” o the maps f 18 2 9 as Murgai n . — S OUTH VILLE (A. ) This place was formerly known as Negro Line ; it was changed t o its present name by an Act of Parlia ment in 18 9 1 . — S OUTHVILLE (D . ) Formerly known as Duck Pond .

First settled in 18 2 7 by Gilbert Crossett . This place was also called New Salem .

— o S PECTACLE I S LANDS (L . ) These t wo islands are c n t n ec ed . by a narrow sand bar , which suggested the name "

S - PENCER IS LAN D (C . ) The Indian name f or this island “ ” ” W ochuk was meaning a small kettle or pot . — S L T Y . P I ( ) See Cape Split . — S P RINGFIELD (DJ This place was formerly called S un

S — PRINGFIELD (A . ) This place was at one time known as

G . S rinton Settlement ( ee) .

S — on PRINGHILL (C . ) This town is situated a hill , and has

f or . excellent natural water springs , which gives reason the name

The earliest settlers were families named Hunter , Gilroy ,

Anderson , Boss , Mills and others . Coal was di scovered here in 18 3 4 by a man named Lodovi ck

Hunter . 1 3 6 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

— 1 78 F S PRINGVILLE (P . ) Settled about 0 by John raser and

some others . An extremely large spring which issues from the foot

of a hill in this locality suggested the name .

Y — S PRY BA (H . ) The Indian name for this place was Kwem ” “ ” oodet c meaning the little loon place .

— of S PRY HARBOR (H . ) The Indian name the smaller “ “ ”

mode c . harbor was Kw e t , meaning the little loon place The “ ” larger harbor was called by them S ebi mkooa a k meaning a bog ” ‘ on old extendi ng across . The name of this harbor appears some maps as Winchelsea Harbor ” named after one of the Cinque ports in Sussex on the English Channel .

S PRY HEAD (H — The Indian name for Cape Spry was ”

oo oomke aw a a chk a of . N g g , meaning small place soft sand

— T O D L . S ANF R LAKE ( ) This lake is named after a Mr . f John Stan ord , an English settler who arrived in Chester about

4 . 1 8 5 , where he established a tannery — S TANLEY (H t s . ) This settlement was a portion of D ouglas

Township . It was given its present name by an Act of Parliament 1 8 72 of passed in , in honor Frederick Arthur Stanley , the Earl of D - of 1 - erby who was Governor General Canada 8 8 8 18 93 .

S — TANWOOD BEACH (Y . ) Named after a family of Stan woods who were the ﬁrst settlers there .

- S TARR POINT (K . ) The Indian name for this place was “ N soo wi t k o e g , meaning lying n the water between two other ” pomt s . B oudro The French called the place ban k . present name is from a family named Starr .

S S ol — TEEL I LAND (C . ) Named after a family of early settlers of this name . The late Frank Steel used to relate that he of on found a large number human bones the beach of this island .

S P - o TELLARTON ( . ) S named after a singular bed of coal “ ” “ so i t s known as Stellar or oil coal , called from peculiar scintilla 1 i n o t ons burning , and f r its yield of oil .

S T — ERLING (Col . ) One of the four township divisions of

Colchester County .

S TEWAR D I — o T ALE ( . ) S named by an Act of Parliament in 18 8 4

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1 w a s D here in 1 6 29 . In 1 7 0 the place called Port auphin , a name still given to the Cape . The Indian name for the bay was “ ” i b ou Great C , and for the village A Frenchman named Captain Daniels is supposed to have ﬁrst “ ”

of . given it the name of St . Ann in honor St Ann the Mother of Mary the Mother of Jesus . Daniels captured the English settlers and carried them t o Falmouth and some of them to France . ’

. D In 1 7 1 3 St . Ovide changed the name St Anne s to Port auphin , but the name given it by Daniels survived . The northern arm of St Annes Harbor was f or years known as ” of con Rouville River , after a French Captain of Infantry some sequence named M . de Rouville , who evidently had received a N i a n i che grant here . Rouville made application for a grant of g

(Ingonish) , but without success . — S T. COLUMB O (C . B . ) Named in honor of The Apostle of

Caledonia , who founded the Monastery at Iona . This name was given it and an Act of Parliament passed confirming it in 1903 . “ o The former name f the settlement was Grand Narrows Rear . — S T. ES PRIT (R . ) There was a French Order Saint Esprit “ ” founded by Henry III in the l 6 t h century . Esprit is French “ “ “ from the Latin spiritus , meaning spirit . The prefix St . i s rather a puzzle . The French also knew this place as rade ” di forcine , which signifies that tra ng vessels could have access to it only at particular times of the year .

suka i t e The Indian name for this place was A d , meaning ” the place of clams . — S T. FRANCIS (G . ) Formerly known as Goose Harbor 18 7 1 changed in to the present name . — S T. FRANCIS XAVIER COLLEGE See Antigonish .

— ’ S T. G G EOR E CHANNEL (R . ) See St . Andrew s Channel .

’ — S T. G G AY n EOR E S B (A t . ) S ee George .

’ — S T. G Y MAR ARET S BA (H . ) Named by Champlain in 16 1 “ ” 3 , Le Port Sainete Marguerite . A number of people came here from Lunenburg in 1 78 3 and settled permanently . — S T. MARYS (G . ) One of the three Townships of Guys

r u . f m bo o gh Was or ed into a township in 1 8 18 . “ f or N a boosa kun The Indian name the river was , meaning ’ a It takes its present name from St . Mary s Bay . (8 cc PLACE - NAMET OF NOVA SCOTIA 3 9

’ — e S T MARY S BAY (D . ) Named by D Monts in 1 6 04 La ” “ ” Wa w euk Baie S amct e Marie . The Indians called this bay g , “ meaning the end . There is a large cove in the bay that the Indians named Wes ” “ ” kabok , meaning salt water .

’ — S P . S T. MARY S RIVER FORK ( ) This junction the In “ ” “ m i n o un or N i mn o um m dians na ed M m g , g , eaning a black ” birch tree .

’ — ’ S ee . S T. PATRICK S CHAN NEL (V ( St Andrew s Chan

— o 1 5 - S T PAUL I S LAND Called s by Cabot in 3 5 3 6 . It was “ ” o o at on e t1me called the Island of M n eg . The Indians called the “ “ ”

umi n l . island Kewt ege, meaning the round is and

’ — B a l ova - S T. PETER S (R . ) The Indian name was s akade . ” The Portuguese called it San Pedro . The French in 1 7 13 named “ ” son it Port Toulouse , after Comte de Toulouse , the illegitimate of Louis Quatorze and Madame de Montespan . Denys settled “ ’

1755 . . . it in , and he named it St Pierre , (St Peter s) The spelling of the Indian name is very similar to that of the f or Indian name Cape Traverse in Prince Edward Island , which is “ “ ” o s l ooa B u e , meaning to travel by water , and as it was the rest ing place and portage f or the natives in their travels from the lakes or o to the ocean , it is very likely the same word , a variation f it . Near here is a mount which in the year 1 790 appears in several records as Mount Grenville ; there was a redoubt here and eight o guns mounted . It was named in honor f Grenville who was in

1 79 0 English S ecretary of State .

’ — S T. PETER S IS LAND (R . ) Named after the place and “ ”

. . m r bay (See) It was na ed Isle Ve t by Nicholas Denys .

I — S TRATHLORNE ( . ) Formerly known as Broad Cove o Interval , named by a local lady in 18 79 , in honor f the Marquis “ ” “ ” of . Lorne Strath is a Gaelic word , meaning a broad valley

- and is often used in Scotch place names . — S TRATHM ORE (An t . ) This was formerly known as Nort h G i t s of rant Settlement , was given present name by an Act Parlia “ ” “ ”

m 8 8 8 . r m m ent in the year 1 St ath ore eans a great valley . ee S r (S trathlo ne . )

S ’ — TRICKLAND S COVE (D . ) This cove is na med after a of S o family tricklands wh settled here ; they came from Weymouth ,

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- I . S T. ROS E ( . ) Formerly known as Broad Cove Ponds

By an Act of Parliament in 18 9 1 changed t o 1t s present name .

V P T— On u D S T. S AU ER OR the Island named Mo nt esert , “ “ on e u called by the Indians P emet i g . At time called Mo nt

D a s 16 13 . eserts . It w given its present name in

- n S TRONACH (K. ) A section of the North Mountain amed r who m after an early settler , Geo ge Stronach , came fro Glasgow ,

Scotland . — S UGAR LOAF (C . ) This place was named by the Micmac “ “ ” okt uk n t . Indi ans Ken eskw , meani g a poin ed mountain — S UGAR LOAF (V Near Cape North . This descriptive name occurs in vari ous counties . The Micmac Indian name was “ ” “ ” - ua di chk m . S q , eaning the highest point

— o S UMMERS IDE (An t . ) S o named by an Act f Parliament in t he year 18 6 9 . — S UMMERVILLE (H t s . ) The Indians called part of this “

Ach e echk . place including a creek , g — S UNNYS IDE (R . ) Formerly known as Bear Island and “ ’ ” o again as McP hers n s Ferry . Changed by an Act of Parliament in 18 94 to its present name . — TT I S Y. S URE E LAND ( ) Named after Frederick Surrett , 8 5 2 who with some others settled on the island ( 9 acres) about 18 1 .

— n S UTHERLAND COVE (C . B . ) O the eastern side of Syd ney River , about three miles from Sydney , named after an early settler a Scotch Presbyterian named George Sutherland . — S TH IS L P . U ERLAND AND ( ) (See Sutherland River) . “ oon da a a The Indian name for this island was C w ka de, “ ” meaning a stone quarry .

- S T D K K . A m U HERLAN LA E ( ) small lake na ed after a Mr . “ Kenneth Sutherland , whose home was near by .

S — UTHERLAND RIVER (P . ) This received its name from a r Scotchman named John Sutherland , who was a passenge on the H ” ector , and who settled near it in the year 1 78 5 .

S W ’ S H — EET CORNER ( t s . ) First settled by families named D111 , Cochran , Hunter and Sweet . One Sweet had a grocery store on e 1 u f m here at t me (abo t The place was named a ter hi .

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— TABLE IS LAND (Col . ) An island near Tatamagouche “ ” “ ” named by the Indians Tcegoon koot c meaning the small knee . — I . cR a e TAILOR IS LAN D ( . ) Named after a tailor Mr John M who is said to have been the ﬁrst settler on the Island . — TAN COOK LITTLE (L . ) First granted to Patrick Suther “ land . It was originally called Queen Charlotte Island . The ” “ name is from the Indian name Ukt a n kook meaning facing the

Open sea . — H - TANGIER RIVER ( . ) The Indian name was Ah ma ” - - ke . gops keek , meaning tumbling over the rocks A Morocco seaport and an island in Chesapeake Bay bears a this name . It w s owned by Portugal and the early Portuguese may have given it its name , but it is said to have been named after a schooner wrecked there in 18 3 0. The Indians at one time called “ ” this place Wospegea k meaning the sunshine reﬂected from the ” water . The Forks of the Tangier River was named by the In ” “ dians N i kt ookpak meaning the place where the still water branches off . — T GI K H . of AN ER LA E ( ) The ﬁrst the Tangier Lakes , “

Wi skusok of . named by the Indians , meaning a branch a tree The second of the Tangier Lakes was named by the Indians l ” “ i a e h . M p g c meaning variegated (See Brian Lake) . The third of the Tangier Lakes was named by the Indians ” “ Ema sa kun k o e n . , meaning he could walk snowshoes They “ ” “ ” P eda i s a k o also knew it as w p r barren lake . The fourth of the Tangier Lakes wa s named by the Indians ” “ P eda wi kpa a k meaning the ﬂowing i s obstructed in the midst ” of a barren .

A — of T NGIER GRAND LAKE (H . ) The fourth the Tangier o chain f lakes named by the Indians P eda wi kpeak .

H — s TANTALLON ( . ) Previous to 18 9 0 this place wa called

Head Harbor . It was ﬁrst settled by German and French . The present name is after the famous stronghold of the Douglas

F . amily in Haddingtonshire , Scotland

E — ot TAR B OT, TAR BOTVAL (C . B . ) Named after Tarb sub - c in the division of Harris in the Hebrides , S otland ; suggest

of . ed , no doubt , by descendants emigrants from these parts “ The Scottish spelling is Tarbert . PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA 43

— TATAMAG OUCHE (Col . ) This place is mentioned as far back as 1 73 8 when La Loutre refers to it as Ta hami gouche said “ ” to be the Indian word for the place where two rivers meet . The ” Waugh and French River meet here . The termination oochk “ ” or as it appears ouche is the Micmac locative termination which ” “ ” o gives the word the meaning f place at or at the . Tatama ouche f or g Township was a time called Southampton , and the “ ” ’ harbor Southampton Harbor . Rand s dictionary says the Indian “ ” “ name was Takamegoot ck meaning barred across the entrance with sand .

— oo TAYL ORVILLE (H . ) See Cha sw d .

— TEDD Y FOLE Y HILL AND BROO K (C . B . ) Near Syd so ney , named after a colored man named Edward Foley , who was on I o i ll o employed the old n g v e Farm and had his cabin n the hill .

— i TEDFORD HILL ( Y . ) This hill received t s name after an l o d Yarmouth County family named Tedford .

— TENNYS ON ROCK (C . ) This rock is the pinnacle of

I slan d on e of . Pinnacle ( of the Five Islands , Basin Minas ) The w rock is solitary , and nearly two hundred feet high at lo water , a i seated ﬁgure strongly resembling , as seen from the bas n , Lord — f or Tennyson in his old age with his cloak about him , this reason the Rock is so named .

— ff TERENCE BAY (H . ) This place had at di erent times the : following names Tenants Bay , Tern Bay , Turner Bay and Turner

Bay Rock .

— THE H UB (C . B . ) This place is now included in the bounds of “ ” New Aberdeen . It was at on e time called Burnt Head owing to “ ” o o a ﬁre in n e f the old coal mines . The name Hub which is now : applied only to the coal mine , came about in this manner Nearly all of the coal mines at on e time in Operation in this district were Opened on the outcrop of the various coal seams Which swing around “ ” r in a circle . The Hub was near the Shore In the cent e of the — circle hence the name .

— THE MARTYRS (L . ) These islands were so called by Cham plain . The name was suggested by the fact that a number of

Frenchmen were killed on the Islands by the Indians .

— THE NARROWS (H . ) This place w as known to the Indians ” “ ” as Kebek or the narrow place . (This word is also the possible origin of the name 144 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

- THE OVENS (L . ) See Ovens Point .

— o THE P INES (K . ) This place was at n e time known a s “ ”

. m . Pine Woods , now called The Pines It is a negro settle ent — B . THE ROOS T (C . ) Near Glace Bay , was known in the “ early days as the Shag Roost because of the fact that large ﬂocks “ ” o on o f the sea birds known as shags roosted the point f land . The name Shag was in time dropped . — TH T sket Y . 1 E WEDGE ( u ) ( ) Settled by Acadians in 76 7 . “ ” i i l o The Indi an name was N zi gouz a ck also O seg u . — TH I BEAUVI LLE (R . ) This place received its present name l st 1 o 7 . i ha August , 9 0 It was named after the maj ority f its n b i “ ” t a n t s . , who are named Thibeau It was ﬁrst settled by Jacob

Thibeau about 1 8 3 6 .

— i er ool L v . THIRD LAKE ( Q . ) S ee p — (Q . ) See Port Medway . — (H . ) See Tangier .

— THO P . RBURN ( ) Formerly known as Vale Colliery , was given its present name by an Act of Parliament in the year 1 8 8 6 . “ ” of of The name made up Thor the Scandinavian god Thunder , “ ” “ and burn the Scotch and north of England word for brook or small river .

H — THREE FATHOM HARB OR ( . ) The Indian name of “ ” “ Ama un chech n i this place was g , mea ng the little breezy place ,

- - so THREE MILE PLAINS (H t s . ) A village named because it is three miles from Windsor . (See Mapleton) .

TH — R UMCAP (H . ) Shoal and Island near entrance to Hali so or of fax Harbor , probably named from the thrumming noise the “ ” El a sa kt . ca t c surf on the cape The Indians named it p , meaning “ canted over .

’ S — o THUR TON S CORNER ( Y . ) Received its name after n e of the early settlers named John Thurston .

TI DD I - V LLE (D . ) S o named after an early Loyalist settler

Samuel Tidd .

TI D I - N S H (C . ) This name is probably the same as Tignish ” “ ” or M a un chk . Micmac t g e , meaning a paddle

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— I TOWN POINT (Y . ) n 1 76 3 a committee intended to survey and form a town on a projecting point of land on the Chebogue

Harbor . This place is still known by the name of Town Point .

- o TRACADIE (An t . ) One f the four township divisions of l ” Antigonish County . The Micmac Indian name was Tu uka ddy “ ” which means place of residence . Champlain mentions it in “ ” o 1 6 3 1 as Tregate . Another explanation of the derivation f this “ ” name is that the Indians called it Telega di k a word used by the Micmacs to denote any particular i n ha bi t at ed place or camping “ ” “ ” “ ” ground . The English changed the l to r (there is no r in Et r a di e Micmac) , making it a g , from which we get the name “ Tracadie .

— TRAFALGAR (G . ) Named after Cape Trafalgar in S pain or

after the great British naval victory gained there in 18 05 .

P — TRENTON ( . ) Named thus owing to the Nova Scotia Steel

Coal Co . having their steel manufacturing plant at this place , and after the busy manufacturing capital of the State of New

Jersey . The name originally was after the English River Trent . The choice of a name f or this ambitious little Nova Scotia town was unfortunate as it lacks originality , and the name is used to de note a battle between the Americans and British , in which the

British were defeated .

EM I — ” TR U AN V LLE (C . ) Named by Act of Parliament

passed in 18 76 .

— ’ TRURO (Col . ) First settled in 176 1 by McN ut t s colonists

f U . 3 l st of rom lster The Township was granted the October , “

. o i 176 5 It was at one time called C bequ d . The present name

of . u is after the Town of Truro , the chief town Cornwall Tr ro o is one f the four Townships of Colchester County . In the Court House in Truro there is a tablet erected by the Nova Scotia His

. of on 1 2 . . D C Historical Society in 19 , unveiled by H R H the uke “ m r naught , which reads as follows : This Tablet comme o ates the u w 1 76 0z- 1 76 2 British settlement of Tr ro , Onslo and Londonderry

partly by a colony of English stock from New England , chiefly by Scots - Irish from New Hampshire and Ireland under the leadership

of McN ut t . . Colonel Alexander etc , etc — T I L . UM BLIN S LAND ( ) Named after a resident , Benja

min Tumblin .

T H — UN I S LAND ( . ) An island in Blind Bay , named by

. 4 . . N . 1 Captain P F Shortland , R . , in 8 6 PLACE - NAM ES OF NOVA S COTIA 1 47

— P P ERDALE I . F m k TU ( or er name Roc y Ridge . Changed to its present name i n honor of Sir Charles Tupper by an Act of

Parliament in the year 18 97 . — T P E L KE . S ee U P R A (Q ) Lake Tupper . — P P R I LLE A. S e Tu TU E V ( ) e pperdale. — TUS KET (Y. ) This place derives its name from the Micmac “ ” “ Indian word Neket a ouksi t meaning the great forked tidal

r1ver.

on Tusket Wedge was at e time called Chebec . Tusket Island in 1 6 3 3 is called by Jean de Laite Isles aux ” “ ” Ta n gn eux or Gannet Islands . The Indians also knew this “ “ ” l ka d a ssa a e or o . place as Ag w , place f the English “ ’ The name also appears as Tousquet in Ramean s history of the French colonies 18 59 . — G Y. S ee TUS KET WED E ( ) the new name Wedgeport . — TWEEDMOOGE (C . B . ) The Indi an name given to the ’ oi B a rra s s or Lagoon at the head of East Bay or St . Andrew s “ ” T edmoo e Channel . we g was the name by which the portage from

East Bay to Sydney River was known . 1 48 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

I S E S — U G BAN FALL (V Near Baddeck . The words ” i s e U g Ban are Gaelic , meaning white water . — C H s . UNIA KE ( t ) See Mount Uniacke .

S B H — UPPER HIP HAR OR RIVER ( . ) The Indians called “ ” “ this part of Ship Harbor River Chi pkoot OpS kook meaning the ” gulley formed by a waterfall . — H t s . At on e URBANIA ( ) time called Carleton . The 18 “ name was changed about 6 0 to Urbania .

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WAG ONER S ETTLEMENT (D —Settled in 18 3 3 by Ben

m . . ja in Wagoner , and called after him Now known as Riverdale

— o h r of WALLACE (C . ) One f t e t h ee Town ship divisions ‘ ’ l a ce R amsa ck Cumberland County . This p was at one time called “ ”

4 s . or R amshag . It was settled in 1 78 by American Loyali ts 8 1 In the year 1 0, Alexander Stewart , for many years the County s (Cumberland) representative in the legi lature , had the name “ ” of changed to Wallace in honor Michael Wallace , Provincial - o 1 a s Lt . 8 18 Secretary . Wallace acted Governor f the Province in S and again in 1 8 24 . The name has pread to Wallace Bay River — — i — — — — Bridge Stati on Grant Hi ghland Ridge East Wallace Head — — e . of Wallace Bay North and South , t c all in Cumberland County This appears to be a regrettable multiplicity of nearly similar

t o . names , and must lead endless mistakes and misunderstandings

R — ol WALKERVILLE ( . ) The d name for this place was Basin r i w Rive Inhab tants . It a s renamed by an Act of Parliament in

1906 .

H t s — WALTON ( . ) The name wa s formerly Li ttle Petite . It was changed about 18 3 0 to “Walton ” after a gentleman named ‘ of James Walton Nutting Halifax , who owned considerable property there .

W — o C . S of ARREN ( ) named in honor Warren Hastings . S ( ee Hastings) . W — ARREN LAKE (V . ) Named after a family who are said of - to be one the ﬁrst Engli sh speaking settlers at North Bay , t he ‘ exodus of Ingonish , after the French .

WAS H ABUCK (V —S aid to be a Micmac Indian word m of m m eaning an angle land for ed between a river and a lake . So e “ Wa shabuckt a k times spelled , and W t chabuc t . There is an “ ” Indian name Wosobachuk which means placi d water and is l t he ikely word the name is derived from . W — ATERFORD (C . B .) A mining town located near a lake “ ‘ ” whl ch 1 s as — m known Waterford Lake hence the na e . Locally , “ ’ the lake was known in recent years as Kearn ey s Lake after an PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA S COTIA 1 5 1

on Irish settler whose farm was situated its margin . The locality was formerly kn own as the B a rra soi s (see) and previous to 19 1 1 this name included all the territory between Low or Flat Point and

Lingan . — WATERN I S H (G This place was formerly part of Still i s i of o water . The name sa d to be that the Scottish home town f McKen zi e G f or the ﬁrst Postmaster , Nish is the aelic here, or “ ” place , hence water place .

— WATS ON CREEK (C . B . ) A creek in Sydney Harbor

D . named after an early Scotch settler , aniel Watson His descend ants still live near the creek .

l — WAUGH RIVER (Co . ) Named a fter the ﬁrst Scotch set 1 777 of D tler , Wellwood Waugh , who in came from the County um

of on r on . fries in the south Scotland , and settled an inte vale this

River which ha s ever since borne his name .

— H . . WAVERLEY ( . ) The name given by Mr Charles P Allen or to a house , and afterwards applied to the village district . Mr . ’ Allen w a s a great admirer of Scott s famous Waverley novels hence the name .

D — WEAVER S ETTLEMENT ( . ) The name wa s given in of honor the ﬁrst settler , Michael Weaver .

. — o WEDGEPORT (Y . ) The former name f this place was

. of Tusket Wedge In 19 09 by an Act Parliament , it wa s changed

to the present name .

WELLING TON WELLING TON S ETTLEMENT (H . ) — E o Both obviously named after the nglish Lord and General , s

famous early in the nineteenth century .

P — WELS FORD ( . ) Was formerly known as River John a s Vill ge , and wa given its present name by an Act of Parliament

passed in 1 8 58 .

- o WELTON CORNER (K . ) Called after a family f this name who came from Annapolis County— but originally from Connec t i cut .

W W ENT ORTH , WENTWORTH CENTRE , WENT W — o ORTH S TATI ON (C . ) Named in honor f Sir John Went

- worth , who was Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia in the year

1792 . 1 52 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

d e - WENTWORTH CREEK (Nea t S y n y) (C . B . ) Named

- after Lieutenant Governor Sir John Wentworth , who was at one

- time also Surveyor General for the Province . — WENTWORTH LAKE (Q . ) See Wentworth .

— o WENTZELL LAKE (L . ) S called in honor of an early on settler named Nathaniel Wentzell . This lake was at e time “ ’ ” known as Ma cKa y s Lake . — WEES I K (G . ) A hill near Country Harbor . It is an Indian ’ word meaning The beavers home .

- WES KAWEN AAK (D . ) A place near Digby . An Indian “ “ name meaning Happy Land or Laughing Place . — WES T ARICHAT (R . ) This place was at one time named i i ll Aca d av e .

I — WES T BAY ( . ) The Indi an name for this place was Wol ” “ n amkea k , meaning a sandy cove , Wolna being the Micmac for Cove . Was ﬁrst settled in 1 8 13 by a few Scotch families who

came from Pictou , N . S . — WES T BERLIN ( Q . ) This place was formerly called Blue ” berry owing to the number of these berries found there . The of 1 present name was given it by an Act Parliament in the year 8 8 6 . — WES TH AVER IS LAND (L . ) An island at the entrance of on e Mahone Bay , evidently named after of the original grantees West heff er or hi s of land in these parts , Jacob some of descendants . — W S TF D . 1 2 2 E IEL (Q ) This place was settled in the year 8 .

(See Greenﬁeld) . — i WES T RIVER (P . ) Wa s called by the Micmac Ind ans ” l oo o P eb g wa ak .

P — o WES TVILLE ( . ) S named because the Colleries and Rail way started in 18 6 9 were further west than the colleries already in

Operation . — WES TVILLE (D . ) This place was formerly called Brinley

Town by the freed slaves who came with the Loyalists .

D - WE YMOUTH ( . ) Laid out in the year 1 78 4 . It was at “ on e time called Wessa gusset t . In 1 78 4 there is a record of the of S i ssi boo D forming two towns on the River in igby County , to be ” “ ” or w called Edinburgh Ne Edinburgh on the east side , and

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of . Whitney Pier . It is part and a suburb of the City Sydney

m a l . e . It was named after an A eri c gentleman , Mr H nry M Whitney , who was t h e founder and the ﬁrst President of the Dominion Coal

8 3 . Company , formed in the year 1 9

WH YCOCOMAGH (V — This is an Indian name meaning “

or of . the head of the water , end the bay The Indian spelling “ ” u h of the word is Wa kog ma a k . Although t is meaning given hi s D i D . appears in several places , r Rand in ict onary gives the “ ” “ ' ” meaning a s beside the sea or beside the ﬂowing wave tops . I t was ﬁrst settled in the year 18 2 1 by John McKi n n on from Scot l and .

WH YCOCOMAGH PORTAGE (V — This name is given to the strip of land where the Indians portaged or carried their canoes ’ from the waters of the Great Bras d Or Lakes t o Whycocomagh or Bay vice versa .

W I - ILBURN ( . ) The place formerly known as South Why cocoma h g , was changed to Wilburn by an Act of Parliament in the 1 year 9 01 .

W C T — ILD A (Q . ) A place near Liverpool which the Indians “ ” Kw e e oo b k or ko eeh . named j . The Indi an word f wildcat is Ut w

W S — ILE ETTLEMENT (H t s . ) This place was settled about 18 58 f h o by the following amilies , w came from Kings and Lunen : burg Counties James Boyde , Abraham Zwicker , Charles and

Israel Wile . From the last two comes the name .

WI LE I LLE — V , WILE LAKE (L . ) Called after an early

German settler named Wile . The lake is sometimes known as “ ” Oakhill Lake .

W S — I n t I I M L C . 1 8 7 Ac LL A DA E ( ) the year 6 , by an of Par “ ” 11 of E ament , the old name the place , ast Branch River was dis and carded the present name adopted . W — ILM OT (A . ) One of the four Townships of Annapolis m County , was for ed in the year 1 76 4 , and named after Montague L - 1 76 3 Wilmot , who was appointed t . Governor of Nova Scotia in

and Governor in 1 76 4 . It was settled about four years after the “ arrival of the vessel Charming Molly with the ﬁrst emigrants f or

Annapolis from New England . — WINDHAM HILL (C . ) S ettled early in the nineteenth

century by a colored family named Rodgers . It was named by a

. B . o f . . G l m Mr John ragg , a J P in honor enera Windha PLACE - NAM ES OF NOVA SCOTIA 1 55

t m Glace Bay , in Cape Breton County , was a one ti e called ” Windham River after the same man .

— f or WINDS OR (H t s . ) The Indian name Windsor was ” S et un ook meaning a lake extending back or where the sea water on e of si x of ﬂows back . The township , the Townships Hants , was 1 4 . 76 4 or formed in the year 176 Previous to , the township , the ” P esse ui d ﬂow land covered by it , was known as q meaning to

- split wise (as the tide does here) . Windsor was ﬁrst included in the

County of Halifax . wa s O At Windsor is located Kings College , which pened in

1 78 9 . l 178 8 , and an establishing Act passed in Received a Roya 2 i 1 8 . s Charter in the year 0 It a Church of England Institution , and its name is a tribute to Royalty . — WINE HARB OR (G . ) The Indian name f or this place was ” " ” n uch ﬁsh P ul a moo P ulamkeegu t , meaning the spawning place ( f is salmon) . It is said to have received its present name because o a vessel having been wrecked there with a cargo of wine . — WINGING POINT (C . B . ) The name given the east head o land of Forchu Bay . It is said to be s named owing to many wild duck being shot there on the wing . — WITTENBURG (Col . ) Named after the Saxony town of of that name by settlers Prussian origin . — F I L . f l WOL E S LAND ( ) Named a ter the Grantee , Wende

of . Wolfe , an early settler German origin

— O F OCK C . B . A so W L E R ( ) rock in Gabarus Bay, named owing to its being the landing place of Wolfe at the last taking of

Louisburg in 1 759 .

— WOLFVILLE (K Situated on the Cornwallis River and known as the Aca deml c Town . This place was originally called “ 8 3 ol . 1 De Mud Creek In 0, the Postmaster , whose name was W f e, of De olf e and who was a descendant Judge Elisha W , who had enter “ ” t a i n ed the King at Mud Creek a generation earlier , petitioned the authorities to change the name . It was at that time named “ ” o l Wolfville in honor f the DeWo f es . The Micmac Indian knew ’ this place as M t ab an . W At olfville is the Acadia College , founded by the Nova Scotia u 3 Baptist Ed cation Society in 18 8 . University power created in

1 8 40; given its present name by Act of Legislature in 18 4 1 .

— ’ W H . B a d OODEN COVE ( ) A cove in St . Margaret s y , name f r f m of r a te a a ily early esidents . 1 56 PLACE - NAMES OF NOVA SCOTIA

— as of WOODS IDE (H . ) Near Dartmouth . This w the name on e the home of the Honorable John E . Fairbanks , who at time “ ” owned the property that is now known as Woodside .

— o WOODVILLE (D . ) Named s owing to the excellent quality

. 2 f 1 8 . o timber found there First settler in 5 , Abraham Robert

- o WOODWORTH COVE (K . ) S named after one of the num ber of Woodworths who appear as grantees of Cornwallis Town

ship .

— W OTT POI T H . F YN N ( ) Named by Captain P . . Short ’

8 4 . l . . 1 6 and , R N in One time known as Smith s Point .

W S H — o O . S Y E C RNER ( ) named after William Wyse , who D was an early settler at ollars Lake , near by .

— ’ o - WYVERN (C . ) S named by the then Postmaster General s “ fi I n Of ce 1 8 90. It was formerly known as West Branch River ”

. w Phillips It as ﬁrst settled about 18 3 6 .

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’ L - ZWICKER S IS LAND ( . ) Named after settler

Mr . Peter Zwi cker .