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• Place-nomenclature. 



Saint Stephen, Town. — A part of the town once bore the name Dover, which 

 seems to have originated the name Calais. Thus, the late G. A. 

 Boardman, in an article in the St. Croix Courier in 1895 or 1896, wrote 

 as follows: — "In 1806, now ninety years since, the people of Township 

 No. 5, by act of the legislature and in accordance with the wishes of 

 the people, received the name of Calais. A part of St. Stephen was 

 then called Dover Hill, and it was thought appropriate to call No. 5 

 Calais. It was hoped the people of St. Stephen would take the name 

 of Dover, as that was the name of a coast city in England." This 

 is curiously confirmed by a statement in Wedderburn's Statistical 

 and Practical Observations of 1836, where (page 16) he says: — "Saint 

 Stephen, from its locality, is the Dover of the Province, and opposite 

 the thriving American Calais." Again, Johnston, who was here in 

 1849, tells in his work on North America (II, 157). "It was nearly 

 dark when we arrived at St. Stephens; and found comfortable quarters 

 in Dover Street — the names of the town on the one side of -the 

 stream, and of a principal street on the other, carrying the mind far 

 away, to scenes very different on the whole, but where frontier towns 

 and rival populations were also vis-à-vis with each other." There is 

 now no Dover Street in St. Stephen, but the name Dover Hill is still 

 in use. 



The Indian name of St. Stephen was, according to Gatschet (East- 

 port Sentinel, Sept. 15, 1897), KtcJii Medabinuht, meaning great landing, 

 because an important camping place. 



St. Tooley. — One of the headlands of Quaco Bay (name used locally, but not 

 on any map). In all probability a persistence and corruption of St. 

 Louis, a name applied by Champlain in 1604 to one of the rivers here. 

 (Discussed in Bull. N. H. S. N.,B., IV, 72). 



Salkelds Islands. — It is, perhaps to these that Champlain applies the name 

 Jumelles, " the twins " (or sisters) in this vicinity. The origin of 

 " Fothergills " is not known to me. 



Savage Island. — Called upon the early maps Indian Island. The persistence 

 of the form lavage unquestionably is an inheritance from the French 

 to whom, of course, it was Isle Sauvage. There is a Savage Island, 

 having, no doubt, a similar origin on the St. John about 10 miles 

 below the St. Francis. 



Serpentine. — This name occurs also as name of a branch of Shogomoc, as 

 the outlet of French Lake Oromocto, and as an inlet of Ludgate Lake, 

 St. John, all of them, no doubt, named for their crookedness. 



Sevogle. — This name is, no doubt, of Indian origin, but the meaning is very 

 doubtful. The late Michael Flinne, Indian teacher, told me it meant 

 " sour," referring to some early incident in which the fish were sup- 

 posed to have been driven away by a poisonous substance which 

 spoiled or soured the water. On the other hand, Rev. Father Pacifique 

 tells me the Indians derive it from a word meaning " cliffs," a mean- 

 ing which would be fairly appropriate, though not more to this 

 river than to others of this region. Considering that the Square 



