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Beauhassin. — French, == beautiful basin, descriptive, though it is also a French 

 family name. Seems to have been used as early as 1612 (Jesuit Rel. XL, 

 207); name of Seit;niory of LaValière, 167(i ; later restricted to vicinity of 

 Fort Lawrence, called by Church and others Siganecto (see Chignecto); 

 Pote, 1745, has Bon Basav. 



JBeaubears Island. — For Boishébert, leader of the Acadians here in 1755-57. 

 Beobares Island, in Grant of 1765; Beauheberts Id., in Statute of 1799. In 

 Micmac Qito-o-men-ee^-gook = Pine Island, descriptive ; the passage between 

 it and the point is the Tickle, which was used in Statute 1799. 



Beaufort.— S. 1880 (p. 208). For its founder, W. Beaufort Mills. 



Beauhebert Fort. — (On some ms. maps of last century. At Woodman's Point, 

 Mouth of Nerepis). For Pierre Boishébert, who commanded there (see 

 above). 



Beausejour. — French, = beautiful resort, descriptive, though possibly for a resi- 

 dent of that name, as stated in " Mémoires sur le Canada," 1700 (not perfectly 

 accurate work); la 2Joint<: de Beauséjour in 1678 (Le Tac, Hist. Chron. 191); 

 afterwards applied to the fort built there in 1750, later Fort Cumberland. 



Beausoleil Portcbo^e d. — (Portage between Petitcodiac and Canaan). On the 

 1757 map by Bellin. Pote's Journal of 1745 suggests the origin, for he says 

 that Bon Soleil occupied the last house on the Petitcodiac before reaching 

 the portage. Beausoleil was the surname of one Brassard, a hero of the 

 Acadians, about whom there is much in Casgrain's "Pèlerinage." In a 

 document of 1756, in Rameau IL, p. 373, this portage is called Ouuigesmock, 

 no doubt the same as Washademoak. 



Beaver Harbour. — On Wright, 1772, with Eastern Head at its entrance as Cape 

 Beaver. A town for the loyalists was laid out here and named Belle View, 

 but neither lown nor name have persisted. In Passamaquoddy said to be 

 Sla-qurn-sa' -ket. 



Becaguimec. — In Maliseet, A-hek-a-grvim'-ek, = a salmon-bed, or perhaps, going 

 up to the salmon-bed. (Gwimek is a place where salmon lie side by side in 

 a smooth rapid, i.e., at Hartland; a-bek-a = perhaps, on the way to.) Mr. 

 Jack gives = coming down branch. Pegagomique on Morris, 1784. The 

 island at its mouth is, in 3Ialiseet, Tee-gan-ook^-tesk, and the bar below Hart- 

 land, Am-mun-am-kof/ -Ink. 



BelaLr. — ''Belair vers Cocagne" in Abbé la Guerne's letter of 1756. This place 

 was six or seven miles up the Cocagne River on the north side (Gaudet). 

 There was another near Port Royal. 



Belas Basin. — See Lepreau Basin. 



Belledune.— French, = beautiful beach, descriptive. In 1770 (Dom. Archives, 

 1894. p. 301) as Belldown ; on Wyld, 1841, as Belle doune ; as at present on 

 Wilkinson, 1859. Compare Grand Dune. 



In Micmac the point is Mes-kee-see-ge-acJ/ ; Little Beldune Point is 

 P.«eg-c-aa-jeechk^ . Fie. pepcJndiachiche on Jumeau, 1685, and others = Little 

 Paspebiac (in Gaspé), which is on Jumeau as pepchidiak, and which it re- 

 sembles on a small scale. 



Jtellefonrl. — Seigniory, 1()90. In Queensbury, Dumfries and Prince William. 



Belleisle Bay. — Doubtless French, and extended to the bay from the small grassy 

 island at its mouth now called Hog Island, but upon early plans Belle Isle. 

 Occurs on Morris. 1775, as Belleisle River. Morris, 1784, names the island 

 Belle Isle, and the bay Belle River. There is nothing to connect the name 

 ■with Alexander LeBorgne, surnamed Belleisle, who was prominent in 



