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A. The Tracadie of New Brunswick. 



A River, Bay (on the maps Lagoon), Beach and Village on the northeastern 

 coast of New Brunswick about midway between Bay Chaleur and Miramichi; also 

 a neighbouring smaller River called Little Tracadie. The place is fully described 

 and mapped in Acadiensis, VI, 1906, 18. 



History of the Name. It appears first in 1603 in Champlain's Des Sauvages 

 as TREGATE {Laverdière' s edition, 114), while in his Voyages of 1613 he has TRE- 

 GATTÉ (op. cit. 170), and on his map of 1632 TREGATAY, while Lescarbot in 

 1609, in his explanation of his large map, has TREGATE. It is TRACADI on the 

 important Jumeau map of 1685 (Champlain Society's edition of Father le Clercq's 

 New Relation of Gaspesia, 10), and TRACADY on the great Franquelin deMeuIles 

 map of 1686 (these Transactions, III, 1897, ii, 364). The Survey map made in 1724 

 by Sieur I'Hermitte has TRACADILLE, the final ILLE apparently representing 

 merely a liquid LL reproduction of the Y of the other forms, (op. cit. 376). On the 

 fine Carte de la Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France, of Bellin, of 1744, it is TRA- 

 CADI; and thereafter on various maps I find TROCADIE, TROCHADY, and even 

 the misprint FOCADIE. The earliest map on which I find TRACADIE, our present 

 spelling, is Wright's Nezv Chart of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, of 1790, though it pro- 

 bably appeared earlier. The New Brunswick maps and records, however, continue to 

 have TRACADY or TRACADI, with an occasional TRACADIE, down to the time 

 of Wilkinson, .whose adoption of TRACADIE upon his great map of 1859 fixed that 

 form firmly as a standard, which it has ever since remained. 



B. The Tracadie of Prince Edward Island. 



An enclosed Bay on the north coast of Prince Edward Island, northeast of 

 Charlottetown ; extended also to neighbouring settlements. 



History of the Name. It appears first, so far as I can find, as TROCADIE, 

 in 1744, upon Bellin's Carte de VAcadie, and this form is retained uponBellin's later 

 maps. It is, however, TRACADIE in the important Census of 1753 by Sieur de la 

 Rocque (Report on Canadian Archives, 1906, II, 146), as it is the next year on a MS. 

 map of the Island by Sieur Franquet (copy in the Canadian Archives). On the copy 

 of Holland's great map of the Island of 1765, given in Munro and Grant's Acts of 

 the Privy Council, VI, it appears as TRACADI; nevertheless, I believe that the 

 original has TRACADIE, partly because Holland was so careful to adopt a French 

 form for other names on the Island (e.g. Bedeque considered in the preceding paper, 

 page 276, and Malpeque and Cascumpeque later to be explained), and partly because 

 a London map of 1775 which follows Holland closely has TRACADIE. However 

 this may be, from the time of the London map down to the present the spelling 

 TRACADIE seems to be universal. 



C. The Tracadie of Nova Scotia. 



A Harbour, with a small River and a small Lake; a Village, including a Railroad 

 Station; and a Township; all on the northern coast of Nova Scotia, not far from the 

 Gut of Canso. 



History of the Name. Despite considerable search, I have not yet been able 

 to find an earlier use of the word than is contained upon Purdy's Map of Cabotia, of 

 1814, where it is TRACADIE, as at present; but it must occur much earlier. 



D. The Tulugadik, Micmac name for Shubenacadie Grand Lake. 

 Rand, in his English- Micmac Dictionary, 123, and also his First Reading Book, 

 88, gives TÛLÛGADIK and TULUGADIK for Grand Lake, Halifax County, 

 while in his Micmac-English Dictionary, 156, 190, he identifies the name, here spelled 



