[ganong] INDIAN PLACE-NOMENCLATURE 397 



SPECTRE-(THEIR)-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE), or more generally THE 

 SPECTRE PLACE. No place called Jareds Point occurs in the Maritime Provinces 

 so far as I can find, but there is a Gerards Head on Gerards Island on the eastern side 

 of Pope Harbour on the Nova Scotia coast east of Halifax; and as Rand gives an 

 unusually large proportion of Micmac place-names in that vicinity, I think it most 

 probable that he refers really to Gerards Head. 



Further, in his Micmac-English Dictionary, 183, Rand gives the name KOOK- 

 WEJOKWÂDË, meaning HAUNT OF THE GIANTS, as the name for Middle 

 River of Sheet Harbour, not far from Gerards Head. Evidently this Micmac word 

 is identical in every particular with that above given, though the meaning is some- 

 what different. Since, however, Rand does not repeat this locality in his other 

 works, both of which assign the name to Jareds Point, and since the two places are 

 too near to bear the same Indian name, and since the Middle River of Sheet Harbour 

 has a very different Indian name of its own (Rand, First Reading Book, 99), one 

 would infer that Rand has here a slip in locality, and that the latter name is 

 identical in locality as well as etymology with the former. But Rev. Father 

 Sweet, of Sheet Harbour, tells me the Indians apply the name COOKWEJOOK- 

 WODIK to the East River of Sheet Harbour. Evidently the matter needs 

 further study. Furthermore the name must be identical with that given as 

 KOOKEJOO-KWODDY, meaning GIANTLAND, or LAND OF GIANTS, by 

 Dawson, upon Rand's authority, in his Acadian Geology, 2nd edition, 3. 



As to the apparent discrepancy of meaning here involved, one giving SPECTRE 

 and the other GIANT, that is easily explained, for there is a word KOOKWES 

 evidently substantially equivalent to KOOKWËJOO, and meaning "a giant, mythical 

 race of cannibals of enormous size and strength," (Rand, Micmac-English Dictionary, 

 80), to which obviously the word SPECTRE can apply as well as GIANT. As to the 

 appropriateness of the name to Gerards Head, two or three possibilities occur, — one 

 that some natural appearance, great stones or the like, suggests giants etc. ; another 

 that this is a place fixed upon by some legend of the cannibal giants as their home, 

 sometTiing in the form of the place giving the suggestion; and third, that the word, 

 is a familiarization of the name of some animal that occurred there. As to the 

 possible identity thereof, however, I have no better suggestion than that it may be 

 KAKA-WEGËCH, given by Rand as the name of the "pigeon duck," {First Reading 

 Book, 47), meaning evidently the Old Squaw Duck, still abundant in Nova Scotia, 

 the Micmac name of which survives in the name Cockawee applied to this bird by 

 the white hunters. 



This name is evidently allied to the COOKWEJOOK, Micmac name for the 

 Blue Mountains in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, given by Rand as meaning 

 THE SPECTRES {op. cit. 83). 



KOONDAWACADIE. The Micmac name for Sutherlands Island, near 

 Pictou, Nova Scotia (probably Quarry Island in Merigomish Harbour), according to 

 Patterson's History of the County of Pictou, 32, which gives the word as COONDA- 

 WAAKADE meaning A STONE QUARRY. The roots of the word are clear, for 

 the latter part is evidently our familiar combination -A-KA'DI-(K) already explained 

 (page 380), while the former part is as certainly the Micmac word KOONDAOO, 

 meaning STONE (Rand, English-Micmac Dictionary, 253). This combination, 

 indeed, is given by Rand in the form KOONDAWÂÂKÀDE, meaning A STONE 

 QUARRY {op. cit.) the word in this case representing a topographical term readily 

 transformable into a place-name. The combination is obviously not aboriginal 

 but recent, and perhaps represents simply another case in which an English name 

 has been translated into Indian. 



