[ganong] place-nomenclature OF NEW BRUNSWICK 247 



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McAdam. — P. 1S94. Of course from the Junction. 



McAdam Junction. — Named about 1869 in honour of Hon. John McAdam, of 

 St. Stephen, long a member of the Provincial Legislature. 



Maces Bay.— Origin entirely unknown. In Allen's Journal, 1777, as Mesh's Bay. 

 An N. B. statute of 1780 has Maise's Bay. Some maps have Mall's Bay, of 

 course, a misprint. Possibly from Mechescor (see Musquash Harbour). 



McDougall Lake. Origin ? On a plan of 1831 as McDougals. A Samuel Mc- 

 Dougald has a grant in 1786 at Second Falls. 



McMasters Island.— In Passamaquoddy, <SgMa-.so^-(?'i^- = landing-place ; perhaps 

 one of the several used by Glooscap. Mitchell, 1764, has Mountain Island, 

 and Wright, 1772, Bald Bead Island, which is descriptive (see Letite). 



Mactaquac River. — From the INIaliseet Malc-te-que¥ = big branch (?) In Munro, 

 1783, as Muchtuquach. 



Madawaska River. — From the Maliseet Med-a-v!es'-kak, meaning unknown ; has 

 been given as = where one river enters another (Rand), porcupine place 

 (Maurault), mouth of the river where there are grass and hay (Laurent), 

 and others. 



In 16S3, in the grant of the seigniory of Madawaska, as Madouesca. St. 

 Valier, in 1688. uses Medouaska ; Gyles, 1686, has Madawescook. Pr. loc. 

 Med-a-wes^-co, which is nearer the Indian than is our more usual 

 pronunciation. 



By, St. Valier, in 1688, named la riviere de S. Francois de *SaZes, which 

 appears on d' Anville, 1 755, as Grande R. S. François, while the present St. 

 Francis is there called Pte. R. S. François. On De Meulles, 1686, the 

 geography of this region is singularly distorted, and the Tobique River 

 (Negoott), is made to flow into the Lac Medaouasca, a fault which it took 

 nearly a century of cartography to correct. LTpon some maps called R. Spey. 

 Upon early maps, a large lake having the shape of Temiscouata, but 

 called Ourangabena (which see), appears in this region. 



Madawaska appears elsewhere ; as a branch of the Aroostook, as a river 

 in Eastern Ontario, as a lake in the Adirondacks — all examples, perhaps, of 

 familiarization (p. 184). 



Madawaska.— P. 1833. Of course from the river. 



Madawaska. — C. 1S73. Of course from the parish and river. 



Magag-uavic River. — From the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy Mag-ee-caat-a^ -uik 

 = river of big eels [Mag = big, caat = eel), often translated wrongly through 

 confusion of sound of eel and hill, as river of big hills. Rand gives for 

 Liscomb Harbour, N. S., Megadawih = where the big eels are taken (see 

 p. 192), no doubt the same word. In a French grant of 1691 to Jean 

 Meusnier as Maricadeoûy ; Boyd, 1763, has Magegadeivee ; Bailhe, 1832, has it 

 as at present. The name has the distinction of retaining a cumbersome 

 spelling for a simple pronunciation, which is always Mac-a-day^-vy. In 

 Maliseet, M. Lake is Mag-ee-raat-aw-gum (alt. Jack), and Little M. Lake 

 is Nee-coo-aw-gum-ek. 



By Wright, 1772, called Little St. Croix River. The claim of the 

 Americans that this was the St. Croix of Mitchell's map has been disproven 

 (see Grand Lake, York). 



