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there by a French priest named St. Andrews (or St. André). It is probable 

 that the name does date back to the French period. It occurs first in 1770 

 in the Owen Journal aa St. Andreivs Point ; on Wright, 1772; in a letter of 

 1773 (Courier, CXI.). 



In Maliseet, Qun-nosk-wam¥ -ook = the long gravel bar (perhaps Qun- 

 long, amk= gravel). Gatschet has Kunaskwamkuk = at the gravel beach of 

 the pointed top. In Boyd, 1763, as Connasquamkook. This name appears to 

 have been applied to the point at the steamboat wharf, originally called 

 Indian Point (Morris, plan 1784). This point seems also to be that called in 

 Mitchell, field-book, 1764, Point Lue, perhaps after an Indian whom he 

 names Lue Nepton, whose real name was Lewis Neptune, mentioned in 

 contemporary records. It is this point no doubt which is meant when the 

 boundary commissioners in 1797 (doc. in possession of W. H. Kilby), asked 

 the Indians whether St. Andrews Point was ever called St. Louis, to which 

 they answered no. 



Parish erected in 1 786. 



Sainte Anne. — P. 1877. For the church established 1872 (p. 205). 



Sainte Amies Point- — The Acadian name for the site of Fredericton ; 

 retained in the name of the Episcopal parish. On a map of 1755 by Bellin 

 as Se Anne, and upon later maps by Morris. It is still called See-dan-sis = 

 Little Sainte Annes, by the Maliseets (see Fredericton). |To them St. Annes 

 was once Hart's Island, now Indian Village at Kingaclear. 



Saint Anthoine.— A large mission in Kent, so called in Plessis, 1812, and per- 

 haps earlier ; persists doubtless in the present settlement of St. Anthony. 



Scdnt Aubiii- — Seigniory 1684. At Passamaquoddy. 



Saint Basil.— (Should be St. Basile)- P. 1850. From the church, which was 

 named in 17;t2: "As the annual mission (visit of the priest from Quebec) 

 was made in the month of June, the title of this church shall be Saint 

 Basile-le-Grand . . . whose feast occurs on the 14th of June."— Archives 

 of the church (Dugald). 



Saint t'rt^^m.— Seigniory, 1689. On the St. John, near Jemseg. 



Saint Croix.— P. 1874. Of course from the river. 



Sainte Croix Island-— {In Maine. Now called Dochet, which see.) So 

 named in 1604 by De Monts- Champlain tells us, 1613, " le lieu est nommé 

 par le Sieur de Mons, I'isle Sainte Croix," He gives no reason, but Les- 

 carbot states it was suggested by two streams coming into the main one 

 above the island, forming a cross, i. e-, the main river and Waweig coming 

 into the lower river and Oak Bay. 



Another island of this name, still found (.n some maps, is that at Cobs- 

 cook, now called Treats. 



Saint Croix Eiver.— Properly Sainte Croix = the Holy Cross. The name taken 

 from the island (which see). Champlain himself uses Ste. Croix for the 

 lower part below the Devils Head; the entire river he calls Ririère des 

 Etchemins, from the Indians of that region. Wright, 1772, has Great St. 

 Croix. The river above the Devils Head is, in Maliseet, Skoo'dik, while 

 below it is, according to Mr. Chamberlain, Kûn-a-tauk' -tûk, 



By Alexander, 1624, called the Tweede, " because it doth separate New^ 

 England from New Scotland." 



The St. Croix figured prominently in the boundary disputes, which 

 may be traced in the Courier series and Kilby. At different times the name 

 has been applied to the Scoodic, to the Magaguadavic and to the Cobscook. 



