198 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



At Head of Bay of Fundy. 



Tantramar Cape Meringoiiin 



Aulac Cape Enrage 



Point de Bute Jolicœur 



By translation, 



Grindstone Island 

 And the obsolete, 



Beauséjour 

 Indirectly, 



French Lake Frenchman's Creek 



French "Village French Fort Cove 



(Shepody, Petitcodiac, Tête-à-Gauche are not French as commonly 

 said, but arc Indian.) 



In this period also, tboiigh of English origin. Wolves, Cumberland, 

 Burnt Church. 



That names of French origin are not more numerous in New Bruns- 

 wick is due to two causes, first, the French themselves used so many 

 of Indian origin, and second, the contact of English and French was 

 not friendly as one may believe when he recalls the expulsion. Without 

 doubt Acadian place-names were numerous in New Brunswick ; we get 

 one glimpse of them in Monckton's map of 1758, but the conditions under 

 which the English replaced the French in the ])rovince were not favour- 

 able to the transfer of place-names. 



Most of these names of French origin are purel}^ descriptive, and, 

 indeed, it is possible that many of the names which we seem to have 

 from them by translation as Grand Bay, South Bay, Long Eeach, etc., 

 were given again independently in the New England Period. It is pos- 

 sible, but unlikely that Beauséjour and perhaps some others are family 

 names and not descriptive. 



A minute study of the changes in Indian words in their adoi)tion by 

 the French would', no doubt, show a series of principles, or a law as defi- 

 nite at Grimm's ; but the only one that needs mention here is the con- 

 stant replacement of the Indian I by ?• ; thus Wel-a-mook-took, became 

 Or-a-moe-to ; Nel-e-pitchk became ]Ver-e-pis,ete. Good examples of French 

 familiarisations of Indian names are Bout-au-sac, for Pook-saak (Poke- 

 shaw), Aux-pacques for Aucpac. 



In names which record contemporar}^ events, this period is the 

 poorest in our history. The many journe3-s and great influence of the 

 early missionaries have left us only St. .Francis. All of those recorded 

 by St. Valier, Jumeau and others, such as Sfe. Catherine^ St. Claude, 

 St. Joseph, Ste. Marie have vanished. The presence of Denys and 

 his son on the north shore left us only Cocagne. It was, no doubt. 



