[ganong] PLACE-NOMENCLATURE OF NEW BRUNSWICK 221 



Acadian history. Probably the Belle Isle on Bellin, 1757, is this, though 



out of place. 



In Maliseet the bay is Pes-kay^-boc, commonly on plans as Pascohuc. On 



Monckton, 1758, it is named R- au Gautier ; in 1680, one Gautier was a grantee 



of lands for a fishery on the St. John. 

 Belliveau.— S. For an Acadian, its first settler, who lived to the age of 110 years 



(see Gesner II, p. 138). Near this village was that called in the last century 



Pierre à Michael (Gaudet). 

 Belle y lew. — See Beaver Harbour. 

 Benjamin, River. — Origin ? On plan of 1827. It appears to be the Holman's 



River of the grant to Captain Hamond in 1776. In Micmac it is Wops- 



kay-ga-la-jeechk^ or Wops-kee-jee-de-la-jeechk'. 

 Beresford. — P. 1814. No doubt in honour of Viscount Beresford, a British general, 



at that time prominent. 

 Black Brook. — Tradition gives it := Blake's Brook, from its first settler, who is 



said to have been the commander of the vessel which destroyed Burnt 



Church and the French settlements about 1758. On Micheau, 1785, the 



house of widow Blake is at its mouth, though it is called by its present name. 

 Blacklands. — (Northumberland.) Descriptive, caused by great beds of peat, 



which the sea is washing away, forming abrupt banks. On d'Anville, 1755, 



as Terre noire, = black land ; our name may be a translation, or else given 



independently. 

 Blacklands. — (Restigouche.) Descriptive; caused by great beds of peat. 

 Black Point.— (Restigouche). Apparently descriptive. In Micmac 3îak-tops^-(ik 



(Flinne). 

 Black River. — (Kent.) Probably descriptive Plan of 1794 and others have 



Mei^cogones, probably the Micmac name- 

 Black River. — (Northumberland,) Said to be descriptive of its water. On plan 



or in a grant of 1786. In Micmac Mat-quan-ti-gook (Flinne). 

 Blackville. — P. 1830. In honour, no doubt, of Hon. William Black, then admin- 

 istrator of the Government of New Brunswick. 

 Blackwood.— S. 1856 (p. 208.) Origin ? Persists in Blackwood Lake. 

 Blissfleld.— P. 1830. In honour, no doubt, of Judge John Murray Bliss, of the 



Supreme Court, iii 1824 administrator of the government. 

 Bliss Island.— For Samuel Bliss, a loyalist, its grantee. On Wright, 1772, and 



later Etang Island. In Passamaquoddj^ See-hes'-kook, = three peninsulas, 



because almost divided into three islands. (Related to See-by-ik, a peninsula 



the name for Pleasant Point, Me.) 

 Blissville. — P. 1834. No doubt in honour of Judge John Murray Bhss, who died 



in that year. See Blii-sfield. 

 Boar's Head. — Descriptive. On Campbell, 1785. In Maliseet, Poos-hetk^, which 



is obviously the English nameindianized. 

 Bocabec. — From the Passamaquoddy Po-ka-bes¥ . In Boyd, 1763, as Boquabeck, 



and in 1764 (Mitchell's Field Book) as Bookwebweck. It is perhaps the 



stream emptying Bocabec Lake, which Sullivan's Maine, 1795, pp. 40-42, 



says is called by the Indians Makagambo. 

 Boiestown. — For Thomas Boies, an energetic American, who settled there about 



1822 (Cooney, p. 111). 

 Bolands Brook, with Big Falls.— In Micmac Me-deeps-kechk. 

 Bon Ami Point. — No doubt for Peter Bonamy, to whom land was granted there 



before 1798. The rocks at the point are called, locally, Bonami Rocks. On 



