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construction of the word is clear. The termination — EGATIGEL is the precise 

 equivalent of our -A-KA'DI-K, (page 380), here, I believe, placed in the plural, 

 expressed by EL, from the fact that the name applies to several islands collectively. 

 The first part of the word is the Micmac word for SUGAR, given by Rand as SES- 

 MOGÛN {English- Micmac Dictionary, 258). Thus the word in full would be 

 SESMOGtJN-A-KA'DI-K-EL, meaning literally SUGAR-ITS-OCCURRENCE- 

 PLACE-S, in description no doubt of the former making of maple sugar by the 

 Indians on those Islands. 



Shenacadie. 



Name of a Village, including a railway station, on the southeast side of Little 

 Bras d'Or Lake in Cape Breton. It is called SUNAKADY on the map in Hali- 

 burton's History of Nova Scotia of 1829, where it is applied to the Cove. Rand 

 spells it SUNACADIE, and derives it from the Micmac SOÔNAKADË, meaning 

 THE CRANBERRY PATCH {Micmac-English Dictionary, 189). The construction 

 of the word would thus seem to be perfectly clear. The latter part would be our 

 familiar combination -A-KA'DI-(K), already fully explained (page 380 earlier), 

 while the first part would be SOON one form of the Micmac name for CRANBERRY 

 (Rand, English- Micmac Dictionary, 71), making the word in full SOON-A-KA'DI- 

 (K), meaning literally CRANBERRY-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. Father 

 MacPherson, of Glendale, near by, tells me that the present Micmacs agree upon 

 CRANBERRY PLACE as the meaning, while old residents say that cranberries 

 formerly occurred there. Thus this name seems completely explained. 



Rand also makes the suggestion that SOOLA'KADE, the Micmac name for 

 Mira in Cape Breton, may represent SOONA'KADE, meaning CRANBERRY- 

 FIELD {First Reading Book, 93); but, as shown elsewhere in this paper (page 426), 

 the origin of that name is quite different. Other uses of this root SOON meaning 

 CRANBERRY in our place-names are mentioned in the preceding paper of this 

 series, page 278. 



Further, a place called SHUNACADIE, northeast of Tusket Forks, is mentioned 

 in Brown's History of Yarmouth, 32, with the suggestion that it is probably identical 

 with the SOONECATY of Campbell's History, considered later, on page 427. 



Shubenacadie. 



Location and Application. The name of an important River of Nova 

 Scotia, rising near Halifax and flowing northward into Cobequid Bay, the head of 

 Minas Basin; also extended to a Township on its west side, and to the principal 

 settlement therein, which is also a railroad station. It is pronounced locally like 

 Shoo-ben-ac'-ad-ee, the vowels all short except the u and the diphthong ie, and the 

 accent on the third syllable. 



History of the Name. The earliest recorded use of the name that I have been 

 able to find occurs in 1686 in the form CHECABNACABIC (which, in view of the 

 later history of the word, I take to be some transcriber's error for CHECABNA- 

 CADIC), upon the great Franquelin-deMeulles map of Acadia {photograph from the 

 original in Paris). In an official French grant of 1689 it appears as CHICABEN- 

 ACADI (Murdoch, History of Nova Scotia, I, 182.) It is CHICHIMISKADY, 

 presumably an error for CHICHIMIEKADY, in a French petition of 1701, {op. cit. 

 252). On the great Carte de la Partie orientale de la Nouvelle France, of 1744, by 

 Bellin, it is CHEBENACARDIE, which is corrected in his later maps to read 

 CHEBENACADIE, this being the earliest case in which the second syllable, CA, 

 is dropped. Such are the principal French forms of the name. The earliest English 



