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no known fact to sustain it, while the fact that the form Doucet or 
Doucette is not known to occur prior to 1859 is an insuperable objec- 
to it, aside from the fact that the local pronunciation of the word 
Doshay, could hardly have been derived from Doucett. A combination 
of the forms Dochet and Doucette, namely, Douchet, is sometimes used, 
as by Winsor (America, IV., 137), and other variants occur. 
St. Croix, or Isle Saincte Croiz— This was the name given it 
in 1604 by Sieur de Monts, as Champlain’s narrative, later cited,* 
records. Champlain does not tell us why the name was chosen but 
his contemporary, Lescarbot, explains $ that it was suggested by the 
resemblance of the meeting of the rivers above the island to a cross 
(see Fig. 2), and this is fully confirmed by the fact that both Cham- 
plain and Lescarbot on their maps give the river a marked cross shape 
(Fig. 7). This name was used in the Jesuit Relations and one or two 
later documents, cited below (page 196), often abbreviated to Ste. 
Croix, down to 1632, when it vanished, only to reappear as an alterna- 
tive name for the island, and usually anglicized to St. (not Ste.) 
Croix, in connection with the boundary disputes in 1797 (Fig. 
12). It lingers upon certain later maps, as on Purdy’s “ Cabotia” — 
of 1814, and on Bouchette of 1815, and even in deeds, later cited, of 
1826 and of 1856, the former of which speaks of the island as com- 
monly called St. Croix Island. But it has not in recent times been 
in use as the common name of the island. It was, of course, from 
the island the name was extended to the river, first by Champlain him- 
self. 
Some maps show, and records mention another St. Croix Island 
in this region, namely, Treats Island, near Eastport. The name was 
improperly used under a misunderstanding, but it long persisted on 
maps.* 
Bone— This name first appears on Wright’s fine map of this 
region made in 1772, on which we find the earliest modern representa- 
tions of the island, reproduced later in this paper (Fig. 10). The 
name is further applied to it in sundry documents connected with 
the boundary discussions of 1796-1798, (misprinted Bon and Boon), 
and is on Wright’s map of 1797, given herewith (Fig. 12). It per- 
*It is not necessary to go so far afield or aback to find a Doucet after 
whom one might claim it to have been named. I am informed by M. Placide 
Gaudet, our leading Acadian genealogist and historian, that one Charles 
Doucet, born in 1776, at Baie Ste. Marie, N.S., removed to St. Andrews or 
vicinity when a young man, and married there a Miss Monroe, and they had 
several children. But there is nothing to connect him with the island. 
? Page 155. 
> Page 180. 
* It is discussed in these Transactions, VII., ii., 237. 
