[ganong] INDIAN PLACE-NOMENCLATURE 427 



meaning literally SILVER (or MONEY)-ITS-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. This 

 agrees precisely with Father Pacifique's form, with his different spelling. 



Some years ago I was given, by a chief at Mission Point, the name SOO-LE-A- 

 WAY-GA'-DICH (as in my notes) as that of a place on the Restigouche, with the 

 meaning ROCK HEAD TIDEWAY, (i.e., a rock at the head of the tideway ?). As 

 Sellarsville is two or three miles above Tide head, it is possible that this is a different 

 place from SOOLEA-WA-KA'DI-K, the name being the diminutive of the latter, 

 in which case it is likely that both names are aboriginal. But I think it more 

 likely we have only two forms of the same word, my form involving the softened 

 form of the locative, -CH instead of - K (page 377 and compare WOBIMS- 

 KWACADIE later). 



Possibly this name has connection with the SOOLACADIE of Cape 

 Breton (page 426), or with the SOOLEAWAGITG mentioned on the same page. 



SOONACADIE. The Micmac name for Cranberry Head, a place in Yar- 

 mouth County, Nova Scotia, according to Campbell's History of Yarmouth County, 

 20, which gives the form SOONECATY, with the meaning PLACE FOR CRAN- 

 BERRIES. Thus the construction of the word is clear, for the latter part is evi- 

 dently our familiar combination -A-KA'DI-(K), earlier explained (page 380), while 

 the earlier part is SOON, 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). Thus the English 

 name is either a translation of the Indian, or else a coincidence showing the promin- 

 ence of the cranberries at the place. 



Brown's History of Yarmouth, 32, speaks of SHUNACADIE, a place northeast 

 of Tusket Forks, probably identical with this (page 422). My efforts to identify the 

 exact place by local inquiry (written) have failed. It is not on the maps. 



SOON ACAD lEJEECH. The Micmac name for Nashs Creek, a small stream 

 on the south side of Bay Chaleur in New Brunswick, a little west of Jacquet River. 

 The word was given me some years ago by Micmacs as SOON-A-GE-DE-JEECH, 

 {these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 255), or SOON-AG-A-DE-JEECH (from my notes); 

 and Father Pacifique gives me the word quite independently as SONËGATIT- 

 JITJG, with the meaning CRANBERRY GROUND. The construction of the 

 word would seem to be quite clear. The latter represents part our familiar com- 

 bination -A- KA'DI-K, earlier explained (page 380), with the diminutive termination 

 -JEECH or -CHEECH, meaning LITTLE, here apparently actually present, and 

 implying the presence of a SOONACADIE somewhere within moderate distance. 

 In words having the diminutive termination the accent is thrown to the last syllable. 

 The former part of the word would be SOON, meaning CRANBERRY, as in case of 

 SOONACADIE just given. Thus the name in full would be SOON-A-KA'DI- 

 JEECH'-K meaning literally CRANBERRY-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-LITTLE- 

 PLACE. I have confidence that the designation will be found accurate. 



TABULCHACADIE. The Micmac name for Connolly (or Bird) Island, a 

 small Island near Lenox Island, in Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island, according 

 to Rand's special MS. list of the names of Prince Edward Island (page 390), which 

 gives the word as TABÛLCHWAAKÀDE, meaning GOAT ISLAND. The con- 

 struction of the name is perfectly clear, since the latter part is evidently our familiar 

 combination -WA-KA'DI-(K), already considered (page 380), while the former part 

 is as evidently the Micmac word TAABULCH meaning GOAT (Rand, First Reading 

 Book, 44). Now TAABÛLCH is not an aboriginal word (the goat of course being 

 unknown to the Micmacs prior to the coming of the whites), but is clearly derived 

 from the French DES BOUCS. Therefore the name must be recent and is pro- 

 bably simply a translation of an older English name into Indian or French. 



