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Place-nornenclaturp . 



Barreau, Point. — Origin locally not known. A map of 1S04 calls the island 

 (or grove) there Pt. <le Bar [Bass Point] which may have become 

 altered to Barreau. Barreau In Acadian means a partition, etc., and 

 the point may be so named for the way It separated Tracadie and 

 Tabusintac. A local tradition also derives it from the name of an 

 Indian who formerly camped there. 



Bartholomews River. — In this form in 1S09 in Land Memorials. 



Bay du Vin. — It is very likely the origin of this name is to be found in some 

 connection with the French frigate said to be sunk at the mouth of 

 the Bay du Vin River (see later under the Acadian Period). It is 

 to be remembered that Marston said in 1786 that the place was so 

 named from the French captain who first anchored here, and it may 

 be that either the captain or his vessel bore a name which has been 

 corrupted to our present form. In this case the name would be strictly- 

 homologous in origin with that of St. Simon, later considered, and, 

 perhaps, also with Aldouane. The earliest use of the name is in the 

 form Baic des Ouines in a document of March 3, 1760. 



Of other possible origins there are several, of which one thinks 

 first of some connection with the Vinland of the Northmen, suggested 

 by Bishop Howley in these Transactions IV, ii, 97. Another is sug- 

 gested by Murdoch's Nova Scotia, II, 217, where he refers to a Père 

 Badouin, at one time In Acadia. In this connection we recall that 

 DesBarres in his charts of 17S0 used the form Bedouin. There is 

 also a stream called Ouine in Poitou, France, and one might imagine 

 that the name has been brought here by early priest or settlers. 



The local names in the vicinity are mostly self explanatory. John 

 O'Bears Point, at lower Bay du Vin, is known locally to be a cor- 

 ruption of John Hébert. The eastern end of Vin Island is known as 

 John O'Groats, though it is not known by whom that name was 

 applied. 



Belas Basin.— On a plan of 1836 the name Belos (Bellows?) is applied to 

 a rock off the entrance to Lepreau Basin, and the word Basin is in 

 such a position that the two might naturally be thought to form one 

 name. It is probably thus that this name, which is locally unknown, 

 came upon our maps. 



Belleisle Bay.— Named, as M. Gaudet, Dr. Hannay and Dr. Raymond have 

 all pointed out to me independently, from the French family of that 

 name living on the St. John in late Acadian times. Murdoch (Nova 

 Scotia, II, 255) shows that M. de Belleisle was settled on the St. John 

 in 1754. M. Gaudet has documents which show that in 1737 Pierre 

 Robichaux married Françoise de Belleisle, and in 1739 François Robi- 

 chaux married Marie le Borgne de Belleisle, daughters of Alexander 

 Le Borgne de Belleisle, then living on the St. John. Now, the Monck- 

 ton map of 1758 shows " Robicheau," a group of several houses, at 

 the mouth of the Belleisle. Hence it seems reasonable to infer that 

 the Robicheaus settled near their father-in-law, who was settled at 

 the mouth of the Belleisle, which accordingly took its name from him. 



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