[ganong] place-nomenclature OF NEW BRUNSWICK 231 



Douglas.— P. 1824. No doubt in honour of Sir Howard Douglas, then Lieut.- 



Governor of N. B. 

 Douglas Harbour.— Said on good local authority to be named bocause Sir 



Howard Douglas once spent the night there in his yacht. Earlier called 



the Keyhole, or West Keyhole, to distinguish it from that up the lake. On 



Campbell, 1788. In Maliseet Skum-cook. (Compare Chamcook.) 

 Douglas Mountain. — On plan of 1826. 

 Douglastown. — Said locally to have been named in honour of Sir Howard 



Douglas, who visited the place just after the great fire of 1825. Earlier, 



Gretna Green, after that place in Scotland, no doubt. 

 Doyle Settlement. — Said locally for the first settlers, sixty years ago ; perhaps 



related to Doyle of Jacquet River (which see). 

 Drummond. — P. 1872. Said to be in memory of Sir Gordon Drummond, hero of 



Lake Erie, died 1854. Probably suggested by its proximity to the Parish 



of Gordon. 

 Drummond, Fort- — The block house which stood near the Martello Tower 



early in the century ; no doubt for INIajor Drummond, in command at St. 



John in 1S12. 

 Duck Cove.— (Lepreau.) On Wright, 1772. See Dipper Harbour. 

 Duflferin. — P. 1873. In honour, of course, of the Marquis of Dufîierin, then 



Governor-General of Canada. 

 Dumbarton. — P. 1856. Origin ? A place in Scotland. 

 Dumfries. — P. 1833. Said to be in compliment to Captain Adam Allen, a 



loyalist and a native of this place in Scotland, who settled at the mouth of 



Pokiok (Raymond). Pr. loc. Dumfreece. 

 Dundas. — P. 1S26. Probably in honour of Robert Saunders Dundas, second 



Viscount ^Nlellville, then First Lord of the Admiralty. Several men of this 



name were then prominent in England. 

 Dungarvon River. — Local tradition states that many years ago a drive was 



"hung up" below its mouth, and there was a dance, during which a big 



Irishman, in his enthusiasm, shouted, "We'll make Dungarvan shake!" 



and the name clung to the river. Dungarvan is a river of Ireland. On 



Baillie's large map of 1S32 as Dungarvan. " Dungarvon Turns" are said to 



resemble such a place on the original river. 



In Micmac Meg-va-guelk^ (perhaps connected with megua, red). 

 Dii])lessis.— Seigniory, 1696. In Dundas. 



Durham.— P. 1839. No doubt in honour of the Earl of Durham, Governor- 

 General of B. N. A. in lS38-3i». 

 Dutch Valley. — Said to be so called because settled by a loyalist corps of Dutch 



volunteers from New Jersey. 



Ecoles Island —(York, below Harts Island). No doubt for Lieut. James Eccles, 

 grantee in 1784. Called Choncore <ya. pre-loyalist plans; this, no doubt (as 

 suggested to me by Mr. Jack), is a corruption of Clignancourt, and prob- 

 ably marks the island which was the residence of René d'Amours, Sieur 

 de Clignancourt. In the census of 1693 ? he is returned as living at Ekopag, 

 i. e., near Springhill (see Aucpaque). 



Edmundston.— Said to have been named in honour of Sir Edmund Head, Lieut- 

 Governor of N. B., 1848-54, on the occasion of his visit to the place in 1848. 

 By the Acadians called Petit Sault = Little Falls ; from the falls at the 

 mouth of the Madawaska; pronounced locally Tee-so. Formerly called by 



