[ganong] place-nomenclature OF NEW BRUNSWICK 229 



their inhabitants, which were often used in documents of the time. Thus 

 Butte or Coteau Charles was 700 feet from the fort, Butte à Roger just to the 

 east of the present highway road, Butte à Janot further to the eastward, and 

 Butte à Mirande was one half a league to the eastward of the fort. 



Cumberland Bay and Creek. — ((Jueens.) Origin uncertain. There is said to 

 have been a portage route through this bay and creek to the Canaan River, 

 and thence on to Cumberland t'ia the Petitcodiac. The Maugerville settlers 

 went by some such route on their expedition against Fort Cumberland in 

 1776, from which time and circumstance the name may possibly date. It 

 first occurs in a grant of 1784 as Cumberland Bay. 



On De Meulles, 1686, the creek is Pichkotkouet, which is so like Pet-koat- 

 kwee-ak (Petitcodiac) as to suggest that they may be the same, and that by 

 the French also the bay was called by the name of the place towards which 

 its portage leads, a most striking coincidence, if true. 



Curries (also Clarks) Mountain. — In Maliseet Wee-jo^-sis ^ little mountain. 

 (Wee-jos = mountain.) ^Ir. .Tack gives Po-te-wis-ive-jo-sis = little council 

 mountain. 



Currys Cove. — Doubtless for .Tohn Curry, an influential early settler (ColL N. B,>- 

 Hist. Soc. I., 207) ; by Capt. Owen named Port Owen (do. 105). 



Dalhousie. — Named by statute in 1826 in honour, no doubt, of the Earl of Dal- 

 housie, Governor-General of Canada, 1820-28. 



In Micmac, ^ig-a-dom'-kuk, commonly given = place of bright stones, 

 but doubtful. On French charts of 17(i0, the point is Indienne Point, and 

 the larger island, Isle Indienne. Bouchette, 1831, gives Indian Point, and 

 on early plans the larger island is Douglas Island. 



Danish Settlement.— Also New Denmark. Established 1872 by Danes from 

 Copenhagen. Also Hellerup (see Report on Immigration to N. B. 1873, p. 29). 



Danks Point. — No doubt for Benoni Danks, in 1760 a grantee of land near there. 



Darlings Island.— No doubt for a pre-loyalist settler of that name (see Coll., 

 JN. B. Hist. Soc, L, 100). In statute of 1786. 



Davidson Lake. — Earlier on plans Prince William Lake. 



Deadmans Harbour. — The local tradition is that long ago bodies were found 

 floating there and buried on Deadmans Head. 



On Bouchette, 1831 (but too far to the eastward). 



Deadmans Head. — See above. On Wright, 1772, Etang Point. 



Debbeig Foil it- — Now Reeds Point. By Des Barres, 1776, and on some maps ; 

 probably for the officer of that name then in N. S. 



Debec Junction. — For one George Debec, who lived there in 1861. 



Deer Island.— Probably descriptive. In Mitchell's Ms. Field Book of 1764 as 

 Deer Island. In Passamaquoddy the lower end of it appears to be called 

 Peelsquess = a girl, from the shape of a rock in the water. They seem to have 

 no name for the entire Island except Ed-ok-€-men-ee¥ , probably a transla- 

 tion of the English name. 



Clam Cove on Wright, 1772, later Fairhaven. Northern Harbour is, on 

 Wright, Ledge Cove. The names of most of its coves are for residents (see 

 Courier Series CXXI). 



Demoiselle, Cape. — French = cape of the young wom3,n. In a document of 

 1749 as caj9 de Bamoiselles, &nd in La Valière's Journal of 1750-51, Cap de* 



