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the Acadian settlers at Passamaquoddy between 1680 and 1704, who used 

 the few French names there, and their persistence is doubtless due to the 

 New England fishermen and pilots who visited the region continuously from 

 the time of Church, in 1704, down to the New England period. Between 

 1679 and 1700 a great number of grants in seigniory including most of 

 the best lands in the province were made by the government at Quebec 

 in the etlbrt to promote their settlement; but of the names of these sei- 

 gniories not one has survived. It will be of interest here to note some of 

 these names, which were usuallj^ those of their seigniors. On the St. John 

 were Cb'gnancourt, Belief ond, Vilrenard, Soulanges, Freneuse, St. Denis, 

 Martignon, St. Casthi, Be Valence, DesGouthis, Breuil, DePlenne, and 

 earlier LaTour. Around Passamaquoddy were St. Aubin, Perigny, 

 DeBazilly. On the North Shore were d' Iberville, Esnault, Fronsac, 

 DeChautfours, Duplessis, Linovllle. St. Paul, La Valière. The locations 

 of these may be found in the Dictionary. And there were others of less 

 importance, and some which took Indian names. As new names are 

 needed in the future, would it not be well to restore some of these ? 



Along the upper St. John the French names may belong to the 

 later, perhaps even to the post-loyalist period. On the lower they were 

 doubtless given by Acadian guides to Monckton and other leaders of 

 expeditions, as is shown by the Monckton map of 1758. It is probable 

 that after the departure of these expeditions the French lingered in the 

 sheltered streams and lakes, originating the name French Lake, which 

 occurs twice. About the head of the Bay of Fundy, the French were 

 more numerous and their contact with the English more complete, and 

 here their names are relatively numerous. Along the north shore, 

 without doubt, straggling settlers were present continviously from the 

 days of Denys down to the expulsion. The expulsion itself left no trace 

 in our place-names, but extinguished a great number which otherwise 

 would now be in existence. In the absence of records it is impossible to 

 distinguish the earlier from the later French names, and some which are 

 placed in this list may belong later and vice versa. 



During this period. Acadia passed twice into possession of the Eng- 

 lish, and from 1713 until 1759 the ownership of what is now New Bruns- 

 wick Avas in doubt. Sir William Alexander received a grant of Nova 

 Scotia in 1621 from King James I., and gave a new set of names ; New 

 Caledonia to the peninsula, Neiv Alexandria to the mainland, Twede to 

 the St. Croix, Clyde to the St. John, Forth to the Miramichi, ArgaVs 

 Bay to the Bay of Fundy. These reapj^eared only once or twice and 

 are extinct. Between 1694 and 1704 there were expeditions led by Colonel 

 Church against the French of the Bay of Fundy. To these were pro- 

 babl}- due the names Wolves and some of the others now extinct, shown 

 on Blackmore's chart of 1713. An English expedition against the French 

 at Miramichi in 1758 gave origin to the name Burnt Church. 



