[ganongI additions TO MONOGRAPHS 13 



F lace- nomenclature. 



215. A Dictionary of the Place-names of New Brunswick. 



Since the publication of this work, a great amount of new informa- 

 tion has come to light, and the more important of this I aim to give 

 in the following pages. I have taken especial pains to give the best form 

 m all cases where more than one spelling of a name is prevalent. For 

 the sake of brevit}^ I have omitted all settlement names whose origin is 

 clearly implied or stated in the Settlements Monograph, and have used 

 the following abbreviations; — P, means parish and the date is that of 

 its erection. Bull. N. H. S. refers to the Bulletins of the Raturai His- 

 tory Society of New Brunswick, the La?id Memorials are the docu- 

 ments fully described in the Settlements Monograph, 181. The phrase 

 " first occurs " signifies that this is the earliest use of the names I have 

 been able to find. 



Aberdeen. — No doubt so named because the settlers of Glassville (to include 

 which the new parish was, of course, formed) came mostly from 

 Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1861. But also, possibly, it may have been 

 in honour of the then Governor of the Province, Hon. Arthur Gordon, 

 whose family name was Aberdeen. Perhaps the name was chosen 

 with both facts in mind. 



Aboushagan. — First as Aboushagin, in 1803, in Land Memorials. 



Abshaboo!, not Ashaboo (Cooney, 169). — It is possible this point was named 

 for Etienne Abchabo, an Indian chief of Pokemouche, mentioned by 

 Cooney, 37. 



Acadia. — This name is more fully discussed in the New Brunswick Maga- 

 zine, III, 153; in the Educational Review, XVI, 12; and in the Mono- 

 graph on Boundaries, 161. The current explanation is given by 

 Dawson, in his Acadian Geology, and also in the Canadian Antiquarian 

 for Oct., 1876. 



Acamac (formerly Stevens on the C. P. R.).- — Recent simplication of the 

 Indian name of South Bay. (See a few pages earlier). 



Adder Lake. — Given by Garden, the surveyor, in 1838, no doubt because it 

 is in fact the Little Serpentine, — a little serpent — an adder. The 

 local names of the waters above this lake are fully discussed in Bull. 

 N. H. S., v., 67. 



Addington. — Without doubt for Henry Unwin Addington, later Viscount 

 Sidmouth, who in 1S26 was made one of the English plenipoten- 

 tiaries to treat with the Americans over the northeastern boundary. 

 The other was William Huskisson (see Huskisson), and the fact that 

 these two parishes were named in the year they were appointed makes 

 this certain. (Moore, International Arbitrations, 87; also Boundaries 

 Monograph, 331). 



