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GASPALACADIE. The Micmac name somewhat simplified, for Portage 

 Brook, a branch of the Tabusintac leading down towards Burnt Church in eastern 

 New Brunswick, as shown on a map in Acadiensis, VII, 1907, 326; given me by 

 Charles Bernard, Micmac teacher of the Micmac school at Burnt Church in the form 

 GÂSPALAOOACADIE. The word involves a typical use of our familiar com- 

 bination -Â-KA'DI-(K), earlier explained (page 380), while GASPALOO is the 

 Micmac pronunciation of our word gaspereau, the name of a common fish. This 

 word, however, appears not to be aboriginal, the Micmac name for that fish being 

 quite difïerent, and as Portage Brook is confused locally with Gaspereau Brook, I 

 think the name GASPALAOOACADIE is simply a translation of the English name 

 Gaspereau Brook into Micmac. We have an exactly homologous usage in the case 

 of the Micmac name for Gaspereau River in Westmorland County, i.e. GAS-PAL- 

 A-WIK'-TOOK, {these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 235). which seems clearly only a 

 translation of our name, perhaps originally French, into Micmac. 



GATWEGATIK. See KATACADIE (page 395). 



KAKPESACADIE. The Micmac name, in simplified form, of St. Omer, 

 between Carleton and Nouvelle on the north side of western Bay Chaleur in Quebec. 

 Father Pacifique gives me for the place "at the flour mill," the form GAGPESAOE- 

 GATIG, with the meaning PLACE OF SMELTS. Thus the construction is clear, 

 for -OEGATIG is Father Pacifique's form of our -A-KA'DI-K earlier explained 

 (page, 377), while KÂKPËSOW' is the Micmac' name for THE SMELT, a very 

 common fish of this region, according to Rand {First Reading Book, 53). Thus the 

 word would be in full KÂKPËSOW-A-KA'DI-K, meaning literally SMELT-THEIR- 

 OCCURRENCE-PLACE, which presumably is accurately descriptive. 



KALEBOACADIE. The Micmac name for Caribou Marsh, a place shown on 

 the maps between East Bay and Little Bras d'Or in Cape Breton, according to Rand, 

 who gives it in the form KALEBOOAKADE {Micmac-English Dictionary, 183). 

 KALEBOO is the Micmac name for the Caribou (and indeed the original of the 

 latter), while the termination is clearly our familiar combination -A-KA'DI-(K), mean- 

 ing OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). It is possible that the combination is not an 

 aboriginal name but a translation of an English name into Indian. 



KALEBOCHACAD IE. The Micmac name for some brook near Liverpool, 

 Nova Scotia, according to Rand, who gives it as KALEBOOTCHWAKADE, meaning 

 LITTLE CARIBOU PLACE {Micmac-English Dictionary, 183). The word seems 

 clearly identical with the preceding, except for the interpolation of the TC or CH, 

 which is apparently the Micmac diminutive CHEECH, making the word LITTLE 

 CARIBOU. But I have no further information about the place. 



KATACADIE. The Indian name, in simplified form, of several places in the 

 Maritime Provinces as follows. 



(1). KATEKADIK. The Passamaquoddy Indian name for the little stream 

 now called Eel Brook near the northern end of Grand Manan Island in New Bruns- 

 wick. It is thus given by Gatschet in his fine article on Indian names in this region 

 in the National Geographic Magazine, VIII, 1897, 21. He derives it from KÂT 

 meaning EELS, with -AKÂDI meaning ARE PLENTIFUL, and -Kthe locative 

 ending meaning WHERE (better, PLACE), thus making the word KAT-A-KA'DI-K, 

 meaning literally EELS-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. This interpretation I 

 believe to be perfectly correct. The English name of the place, EEL BROOK, 

 shows that the Indian name is accurately descriptive. 



I have myself been given for the same place by a Passamaquoddy Indian, 

 QUAT-A-GUA-DICK (in the form of my notes), evidently the same word but in less 

 perfect form than Gatschet's. 



