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WAGANSIS, a name applied on the Geological map to a very small stream on 
the north side of Lake Matapedia. It seems surely the same word as that discussed 
under Wagan above, but I do not know its appropriateness, though its position 
suggests its use as part of the old portage route on the Matane River. There is 
also, by the way, some suggestion of an abbreviation of O-WOK-UN-CHICH’ in 
the AWANTJISH River flowing into the head of the same lake; and this is con- 
firmed by the fact that Portage Brook, on the upper part of the Nepisiguit, appears 
to be called by the Miemacs OW-UN-JEECH, an obvious abbreviation of O-WOK- 
UN-CHICH (these Transactions, IT, 1896, ii, 256). 
AWAGANASEES, the name of a brook near the source of the Patapedia in 
Quebec, marked on the Geological map as heading near Upper Metis Lake, from 
which it is separated only by a “ Portage ? mile.” Obviously it is the same word as 
WAGANSIS, corrupted from O-WOK-UN-CHICH’, or LITTLE PORTAGE, dis- 
cussed above. The extra syllable in the diminutive ASEES appears also in M. 
Chamberlain’s form for WAGANSIS, viz. HA-WA/-KÜN-ÜS-SIS (Maliseet Vocabu- 
lary, 61). 
WAGANCHITCH, name of a tiny brook on the south side of Pokemouche 
River, about four miles above the Village, shown on a plan published in Acadiensis 
(VII, 1907, 12) and mentioned in records (these Transactions, v, 1899, ii, 255). It is 
obviously the same word as WAGANSIS, and of special interest because exhibiting 
almost exactly the original Micmac form. Its appropriateness, however, is not 
clear, and it may only refer to an early portage road cut by the whites southward 
from this place. 
WAGANITZ occurs on the detailed plans in the Crown Land Office at 
Fredericton as the name of the Southwest Branch of the Kedgwick River above Lake 
Charlotte. It is of course the same as Wagansis, and no doubt perpetuates a portage 
to Rimouski waters. 
The terminations of the words NAPUDAGON, ABOUSHAGAN, and SEMI- 
WAGAN all suggest a connection with OWOKUN, the more especially as those 
names are applied to streams having portages. But I reserve them for further 
consideration. 
