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P lace-iwvienclat lire. 



La Coup Creek. — Locally called La Cook, but the French form is explained 

 as meaning "a blow," because of the sharp turn it makes in entering 

 the Aulac. 



Lamec. — The preferable form of this name. See Alamec. 



Lancaster. — P. 17S6. Named for his former home in Lancaster, Massachu- 

 setts, by a prominent resident, Abijah Willard, as made plain by 

 Gilbert Bent in Acadiensis, V, 162. 



La Nef. — 'Compare the name applied by Champlain to Monhegan, — " We 

 inamed the island La Nef, for at a distance it had the form of a ship " 

 ' (Slafter, II, 91). It is possible that some confusion between these 

 two La Nef localities led to some of the duplication noticeable on the 

 Visscher and other maps of the time. 



Le Nim, Point- — Locally pronounced La Nim or Le Nim. On a plan of 

 1S16 as Point an Kim. I am told by Mr. D. Ferguson, of Chatham, 

 that the Indians call it An-an-imk, or An-an-im-kik, though Cooney's 

 meaning of a look-out place does not seem to him appropriate. 



Lepreau River. — Called in the David Owen map and MS. Minusliadi (possibly 

 Misuishadi), no doubt an Indian name. 



Lerwick.— Named for the native place of a group of Shetlanders, especially 

 of a prominent one, Mr. Abernethy, who were brought out to work 

 on the N. B. Railway, and settled here after its completion. 



Letite. — Very possibly an Indian corruption Petit, i.e.. Petit Passage; having 

 la,bials they cannot pronounce the p, and the 1 would be a natural 

 substitute. Still the evidence seems to favour a corruption of La 

 Tête, applying to the great head on McMasters Island. 



Lillooet. — Said locally to be so named by Senator King for a lumber centre 

 on the Pacific Coast, visited by him or his brothers. 



Lincoln. — P. 1786. The name is probably derived from the former home 

 in Lincoln, Mass., of the Glasier family, among its first prominent 

 settlers. Benjamin Glasier was a Lieutenant in a regiment in Lin- 

 coln, Mass. 



Liverpool.— Named " in humble imitation of the Queen of the Mersey." 

 Cooney, 150. — 



Loch Lomond. — In this form in Land Memorials of 1812. Earlier called 

 !)-Milc Lal-c. 



Loders Creek. — Simonds Creek on Sproule of 1786. (See also N.B. Maga- 

 zine, II, 87). 



Long Lake, Victoria. — Called by de Meulles, 1786, PSchpcm EachkSechpa, pro- 

 bably the same as the modern Indian Quasquispac. Gordon's Pechayzo 

 is very likely an error, really applying to Trowsers Lake (i.e., Belchesog, 

 the Indianized Trowsers, or Breeches, Lake. See Bull. N. H. S., IV, 

 327. 



