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Place-nomenclature 



Norton. — P. 1795. As to this name the late Leonard Allison wrote me as 

 follows: — "I have for a good'while supposed, though I have no direct 

 evidence of the fact, that the Parish of Norton, in Kings County, was 

 named by the Honorable George Leonard, as the habitat of his branch 

 of the Leonard family seeined to be Norton, Mass., as appears from 

 W. R. Deane's Memoir of the Taunton Leonards (Boston, 1851), page S, 

 from which it appeared that his grandfather. Major George Leonard, 

 removed in 1690 to Norton, then a part of Taunton .... The 

 Honorable George Leonard's father, the Reverend Nathaniel Leonard, 

 was born at Norton." This explanation is entirely in harmony with 

 the mode of naming of many other parishes in the Province, and is 

 probably correct. It may be that the Norton Brook, in Sussex, east 

 of the parish may have some connection with the name, or it may 

 be a coincidence. 



Nova Scotia. — The very interesting genesis of this name with the curious 

 reason for its persistence in the Latin form, is fully discussed in the 

 Educational Review, XVI, 11, and in the Boundaries ivlonograph, 213. 



Numeheal Creek. — According to Raymond (N.B. Magazine, II, 217) this was 

 the Pre-Loyalist name of a creek " opposite Middle Island in Mauger- 

 ville." I believe, however, that this is simply a bad misprint for 

 Windmill Creek (now called Street's Creek?), for there was apparently 

 a Windmill Point just beside it (see Middle Island). 



Oanwells Island (of the Peachey maps). — Granted as Fall Island In 1785 to 

 Capt. Atwood (Land Memorials). Just below it is Belvisor Bar (which 

 see), and it is called Belviso Fall Island in a document of 1810, and 

 also Cronkite Island, according to Raymond (letter). Now called 

 Brown's Island. 



Ohio Settlement. — Origin locally unknown. Johnston (Travels in North 

 America, II, 62) speaks of it in 1849 as a new French settlement. I 

 think it very likely that this settlement, as well as the several Cali- 

 fornia Settlements in the Province, were named when emigration to 

 those places was attracting much attention, in a half-humourous allu- 

 sion to them as possible substitutes. Johnston, in his Travels in North 

 America, II, 39, comments upon the " emigration fevers " which swept 

 over the country at intervals, and adds: "These accessions of fever 

 come on at irregular intervals. The Indiana, the Illinois, the Michigan, 

 and the Wisconsin fevers have all had their turn, and now the Cali- 

 fornia paroxysm is at its height." 



Old Mission Point. — The Micmac name of this point, as I am told by Mr. 

 D. Ferguson, of Chatham, who knows the place and Indians well, was 

 Chee-gook. 



On locky wicket. — Name of a place on the Upper Nepisiguit, in local use by 

 guides and lumbermen, doubtless Micmac. 



Ononette. — (Formerly Rivcrianl; on the C.P.R.). Recent simplification of the 

 Acadian name of Brandy Point (see earlier in these addenda). 



