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Coles Island. — Said to be for a loyalist of that name, its grantee. 



CoUina. — From the Latin Collis, a hill. Named in 1854 by Mrs. Elizabeth 

 'MacDonald) Johnson. She writes me (from Worcester, Mass., Jan 26., 

 1S92), that she went there to live soon after her marriage in 1854, and "one 

 day having asked the name of the splendid hills round about, and finding 

 them very personal, suggested a change in the prevailing style by giving 



the corner a name suggestive of itself and its surroundings My 



choice was CoUina, which is a Latin proper name (L. Collis, a hill), which 

 we considered very pretty as well as appropriate. I can't say when it was 

 otlicially adopted, but it must have been very soon, I think within a year." 



Commeau Ridge. — S. About 1S76 (p. 20s). Local name. 



Co7iivay. — T. 1765. In Lancaster and Westfield. No doubt in honour of General 

 Henry S. Conway, who was made Secretary of State for England in that 

 year. The news of his appointment reached Halifax, Oct. 12 (Archives, 

 1894, p. 265), and the township was established Oct. 18th. 



The name is applied also in the Owen .lournal to Head Harbour, 

 Campnbello. 



Coronary Lake. — Named by Mahood about 1837, no doubt for the place of that 

 name iu Ireland (p. 207). 



Coude, J^e. — French = the bend. An early Acadian village four or five miles 

 above Moncton (CJaudet). 



Ccuitney Bay. — Origin unknown. First on DesBarres chart of 1776; possibly 

 for John Courtenay, then of the English Ordnance Office. 



Coverdale. — P. 1S26. From the river, which, on a grant of 17s8, is named Cover- 

 dale ; origin unknown. 



The river is Scadouck on the N.B. postal map of 1889, probably by 

 mistake. 



Cow Mountains. — The mountains north of Little >S. W. INliramichi Lake, said 

 to be the highest land in N. E. 



Cowperthwaite or Lanes Brook. — In Maliseet Skoot-mook-oy-a-mis^-is = trout 

 brook. On D. Campbell, 1785, as Skuleguaguniah or Trout K. ; INIorris, 1784, 

 Trout River; some Maine maps have Menucook. 



Cranberry Lakes. — Probably descriptive. On the 1798 survey map the smaller 

 has the present name; the larger is Pequescgchatrgum or Bear Lake, and the 

 stream emptying both, now called N. E. Branch, is called River Pequescge- 

 hawk. The name has spread from the smaller to cover both. 



Crockers Island.— (Near St. Stephen.) For a pre-loyalist settler, Robinson 

 Crocker (Courier Series LIL). 



Cumberland, Fort— Named in honour of the Duke of Cumberland, Kon of 

 George III., after it was taken from the French in 1755 ; earlier, Beauséjour. 



Cinnberland. — T. 1757. Suggested, no doubt, by that of the fort. Included all 

 lands seven miles N. W. and seven miles S. W. of the road between Fort 

 Cumberland and Bay Verte. 



Cumberland- — C. 1759. No doubt from the fort and township. Established to 

 include all land in N. S. north of Kings County, and hence including all of 

 the present N. B. In 1765 Sunbury was set oil" (which see). In 1784, when 

 N. B. was made a separate province, it was re-divided into counties, leaving 

 Cumberland County to N. S. 



Cumberland Basin.— No doubt by the English in 1755 to replace the French 

 Beaubassin. See Fort Cumberland. On DesBarres chart of 1781. 



Cumberland Ridge.— That on which Fort Cumberland stands. Between 

 1750-55 the different elevations of this ridge had names, apparently from 



