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Place-nomenclatwe, 



Saint Croix River (Charlotte). — The naine St. Croix was at first given to 

 tlie island, but was soon extended to the river by Champlain, who 

 was rather careless in his use of it, applying it sometimes to the 

 entire river and sometimes to its lower tidal part. Thus, some con- 

 fusion later arose among those using his Harratives, such as Denys, 

 Tyho understood him as making the River St. Croix and the River of 

 the Etchemins two distinct rivers, when they are the same. 



The local pronunciation is invariably St. Croy. There is some 



evidence that the early settlers pronounced the word Croix in English 



. fashion. Thus, in the Courier Series, CII, there is a deed of 1785 



which spells the name Saint Croyick's. B. Glasier in 17G4 spells it 



St. Croys (Coll. N. B. Hist. Soc, II, 313). 



Ste. Croix River. — An early name for the Miramichi. In an important docu- 

 ment of 1686, mentioned later (under " Settlement of Richard Denys 

 de Fronsac") the name is restricted to the river below Beaubear's 

 Island, but the niaps extend it much higher. 



Saint David. — The Patron Saint of Wales, and hence naturally associated 

 with St. George, St. Andrews and St. Patrick. 



Saint John City. — On this and the alternative names it bore or which were 

 proposed for it, see Raymond in Canadian History Readings, 50; 

 Coll. N. B. Hist. Soc, II, 65. There is a discussion of the origin of 

 its Indian name Menaguasche, meaning " place where dead seals are 

 gathered," in St. John Telegraph, June 3, 1901. 



St. Martins. — Despite much search, I have not been able to find a reason 

 for the application of this name. Possibly it was suggested by the 

 presence within its bounds of Martin's Head. I have sought to find 

 some connection wàth a former Loyalist centre in the Colonies. I find 

 that the region now called St. Martin's, in Maryland, was a Loyalist 

 centre in the Revolution (Van Tyne, Loyalists, 166; Scharf, Hist. Mary- 

 land, II, 296); and, curiously enough, just north of it in Delaware 

 is a Sussex (as there was in New Brunswick when these naines were 

 first given), which is probably only a coincidence, but which may have 

 suggested the name. 



Saint Simon. — The origin of this name is probably not as given by Cooney 

 from that of a French vessel sunk here in 1760, but for the name 

 of her captain (compare later, under Historic Sites Addenda, Acadian 

 Period, St. Simon). Locally the name is invariably pronounced St. 

 Simo (or, at least, the final syllable a nasal hardly sounding the n), 

 and the word Inlet of our maps and charts is never used. 



Its Micmac name, as I am told by Joe Prisk, of Bathurst, a very 

 reliable Micmac, is 8ee-ies' -kaa-daan, meaning, as he says, something 

 like a " carrying-over place." The earliest use that I have found of 

 the name is in the Land Memorials of 1805, where it is called River 

 Saint Simon, and Saint Simon's River, and it is called St. Simond's Inlet 

 in the same Memorials of 1816, and Saint 8ini07i's Inlets on Ferguson's 

 plan of 1820, copied later in Map No. 33. 



