Section IL, 1915 [375] Trans. R.S.C. 



An Organization of the Scientific Investigation of the Indian Place- 

 nomenclature of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. 



(Fifth Paper). 



By W. F. Ganong, M.A., Ph.D. 



(Read by Title, May Meeting, 1915.) 



This paper continues the aim and general method of its four 

 predecessors, which have appeared in successive volumes of these 

 Transactions. In all I am trying to apply the methods of exact 

 scientific analysis to a very interesting subject which is more entangled 

 with error than any other I can think of. The method may be de- 

 scribed as that of coUection-authentication-localization-comparison- 

 classification-inference-testing-conclusion. It is solving the problems 

 of the difficult subject with unexpected success. 



For convenience of reference I may state that the previous papers 

 treated in this way the names Oromocto, Magaguadavic, Upsalquitch, 

 Manan, Nepisiguit, Kouchibouguac, Anagance, Wagan, Pokiok, 

 Penniac, Bocabec, Pentagoet-Penobscot, Pohenegamook, Cobscook, 

 Canso, Sevogle, Petitcodiac, Bedeque, Baddeck, Pokwagamoos, 

 Pugwash, Pocologan, and used the roots thus made available in the 

 analysis of a good many others of lesser importance. In the present 

 paper I have adopted a somewhat different plan, for I have taken a 

 single prominent root, viz., the suffix — acadie and its variants, and 

 have tried to treat systematically all of the names I can find that 

 involve this root. 



A great many of the names contained in these papers are extinct, 

 but they offer a perfect treasury of pleasing and appropriate place- 

 names for use in the future, as names are required for new post offices, 

 settlements, and the like. For this purpose they need often to be 

 simplified, to which end, I have given much effort; and I have tried to 

 suggest simple and pleasing forms, not on the basis of any arbitrary 

 choice of my own, but in accordance with the principles which have 

 guided the simplification of such aboriginal names as have remained 

 in actual use. 



As to pronunciation, I have myself used, as a rule, only the 

 ordinary English sounds of the letters in order that the reader may 

 be able to understand the words without constant recourse to special 

 keys. For a similar reason, viz., in order that the conclusions as to the 



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