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Place-nomenclature. 



de Clos, formerly living there. It is of interest to note that this name 

 de Clos occurs as that of an Acadian family, early residents of Point 

 Brule, Shippegan, who afterwards removed to Shippegan Island. 



Calamingo Brook. — Called Comingocs Brook in the original grant of 1823, 

 Conomingo or Conomingocs Brook on other early plans. I am told by 

 Mr. W. A. Colpitts, of Mapleton, that traditionally Conomingo is said 

 to have been a half-breed who hunted there, and this explanation is 

 very probably correct. Dove's Hollow, nearby, is said to have been 

 named for another hunter. 



California. — Name of two or more settlements in New Brunswick, probably 

 given at the time the " emigration fever " to that place was at its 

 height, in half-humourous allusion to these settlements as substitutes. 

 Thus, Johnston (Travels in N. A. II, 39), who was in New Brunswick 

 in 1849, speaks of the fever for emigration which swept over the 

 country at intervals, and says, " the California paroxysm is at its 

 height." Compare Ohio later. 



Campbellton (Restigouche). — The Indian name for this locality, as I am told 

 by Mr. D. Ferguson, of Chatham, formerly of Athol Farm, who knows 

 the place and the Indians well, is Wis-i-am~ca or Was-si-am-kik, mean- 

 ing " to be muddy," referring to the stirring up of the sediment of the 

 river by the current in the narrowing of the Restigouche here. 



Mr. Ferguson also tells me that the lower part of the present 

 Campbellton was laid off in 1833 and named in honour of the then 

 Governor of New Brunswick, Sir Archibald Campbell, though it was 

 long before the name replaced the earlier Martin's Point, so named 

 for a captain who had built a vessel there. 



Campobello. — On the names of the island consult the Journal of Captain 

 William Owen, in Collections of the N. B. Historical Society, Vols. 

 I and II. 



The first known name for this was Passamaquoddy Outer Island. 

 In view of the fact that the name Passamaquoddy originally applied 

 to the waters between Deer Island, Campobello and Moose Island (see 

 Passamaquoddy), and not to the inner bay as at present, this name 

 was a natural one for Campobello. Mr. J. Vroom has made the inter- 

 esting suggestion, however, (in a letter) that the name may be a 

 survival from the French, originally some such form as L'isle outre 

 Passamaquoddy, and he further suggests that the outre from which Har- 

 bour de Lute is supposed to have been derived, is this same word 

 and not the French for Otter. Though without any support other 

 than the resemblance of name, Mr. Vroom's suggestion may yet prove 

 to represent fact. 



Canoose. — This is explained by Gatschet (Eastport Sentinel, Sept. 15, 1897) 

 as from Eanusyik, pickerels. I suspect the accuracy of this, since the 

 pickerel is believed to be a modern introduction into these waters. 

 This spelling represents very closely the pronunciation, and is prefer- 

 able to other forms proposed or in use. 



