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Skum-cook under Douglas Harbour. If these are the same word, it may 

 describe a harbour with a narrow entrance. 



Chance Harbour. — Said locally to be descriptive of the difficulty of entering it 

 safely. 



Chapmanville.— S. 1880 (p. 2(i8). In honour of Father Chapman. 



Charlie Lake. — Said locally to be for a hermit, Charlie Flemming, who lived 

 there many years ago (see St. John Sun, .Tan. 4, 1892). 



Charlo River. — Said locally to be for a former resident (p. 205). This is con- 

 firmed by the plan of 1825, which has River Charles ; another, of 1829, has 

 Charlo; Baillies small, 1832 map has Cltarles or Charleau R. A very old 

 resident pronounced it Sharloo. In Micmac, Soog-a-mos^-kik. 



Charlotte. — C. 17S5. No doubt in honour of Queen Charlotte, consort of King 

 George the Third. 



Chatham. — P. 1814. Origin uncertain ; perhaps in memory of William Pitt, Earl of 

 Chatham, w'ho died in 1778, or possibly for the second Earl, then prominent 

 as a soldier. A tradition ("Young Lion of the Woods," by T, B. Smith, 

 p. 9), states that the transport Pitt was wrecked in the Gulf in 17(35, and 

 one of her boats drifted ashore near the present site of the town, suggesting 

 the name ; probably not correct. 



Chaitffou^'S- — Seigniory, 1()S4. Most of Kent south of Kouchibouguac. 



Chepedneck. — (Local name of the lower of the Chiputneticook chain, which see, 

 and sometimes shortened to Spednick). The name Omquememkeag , applied 

 sometimes to this lake, belongs to Palfrey Lake. 



Cherry Island. — (Near Indian Id.) D. Campbell, 1806. In Passamaquoddy, 

 Mink negum = little island of trees (Gatschet). Compare Indian Id. 



Cheval, Point. — French = Horse Point. In INIarston's Diary, 1785, as Point au 

 Cheval. 



Chignecto. — (Cape in Nova Scotia, Bay and Isthmus.) It is derived by Rand 

 from the ^licmac Sigunikt = a foot cloth, alluding to some legend. It 

 appears to apply properly to the cape. In Biard's Relation of 1611 as 

 Chiinctou ; La Valière's grant of 1676 has Chignilou, applied to the region of 

 the Isthmus; Gyles, 1689, has Sigeneclo ; Church, 1696, Senactaca ; Pote, 

 1 745, Secconnectau, and various other spellings. 



At first a generic term covering the region about the head of the pre- 

 sent Cumberland Bay and used especially by the English, while the French 

 used Beaubassin. (A French map of 1755 has " Beaubassin, en Anglais, 

 Segnekto.") Both names later became localized about Fort Lawrence on the 

 Nova Scotia side of the Missiguash. Finally the name has come to be used 

 for the Isthmus between N.B. and N.S. 



By Little ("State of Trade in the Northern Colonies," London, 1748), 



said to be a corruption of Le Chignon du Col, but this is fanciful (see p. 200). 



By Champlain the bay was called Baye de Gennes == Bay of Twins; 



reason unknown. 



Chipman. — P. 1835. No doubt in honour of the younger Ward Chipman, who 



was made Chief Justice of N.B. in 1834. 

 Chiputneticook Lakes. — A Passamaquoddy word, though original form and 

 meaning are not known. On a plan of 1785 as Chipnecto ; again, in a docu- 

 ment of 1795 (Kilby, p. lis), as Chejmlnatecook, and in a Ms. of the same date 

 in Mr. Kilby's collection it is Che.putnaticook, and other forms are known. 

 Also extended to the river as far down as the forks. The two chief 

 lakes of the chain are Grand (which see) and Chepedneck. The stream 



