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Place-nomenclature. 



Shogomoc. — The D. Campbell map of 1785 has Sehogomuck, or Snow Shoe River. 

 It is called Little Eel River by Sproule, map of 1787. 



Siegas. — As Shiegask or Troublesome River on Sproule's map of 1787 (see Map 

 No. 39, later). 



Skiff Lake. — Named, as I was told by Mr. John Stewart, by Hon. John 

 McAdam because when he first cruised it for lumber, long prior to 

 any settlement in the vicinity, he found there a skiff. This may 

 have been a relic of the Titcomb survey of the lake in 1794. 



Slugundy. — A name, apparently Indian, which is in local use (though not 

 on any maps) on the St. Croix between Grand and Chepedneck Lakes, 

 on the Lepreau and on Tobique. It appears to apply to rapids or 

 small falls. The same word appears on the Mattawamkeg, according 

 to Springer, Forest Life and Forest Trees, 167, and, perhaps, occurs 

 elsewhere on Penobscot waters. Possibly has some relation with 

 Magundy, which see. 



Smith's Creek, Kennebecasis. — Said locally, as I am told by Mr. W. H. 

 Venning, to have been named for an old trapper who hunted on the 

 stream before the advent of the Loyalists, and whose camp stood at 

 its junction with the river. 



Spednic. — Name of falls and also a lake on the east branch of the St. Croix; 

 of course, a lumberman's corruption and abbreviation of the Indian 

 Chiputneticook. 



States Brook. — No doubt given by the surveyors in 1818, because it fell just 

 west of the due north line from the source of the St. Croix, hence 

 falling into " the States " according to the American boundary claim. 



Sunbury. — After long study I have been able to determine the origin of this 

 name, which so long puzzled all our local historians. It was given> 

 no doubt, in honour of the Earl of Halifax (for whom Halifax was 

 named), who was also Viscount Sunbury, as fully discussed in the 

 Educational Review, XV, 159. 



Surreau Blanc. — Name of a stream and inlet at Tracadie, between Big and 

 Little Tracadie, said locally to have no meaning in modern Acadian, 

 but very probably an early corruption of Ruisseau blanc, that is, 

 " white brook." I have found the name on an old plan in the Crown 

 Land Office in the form Seirreaii Blanche. 



Sussex. — P. 1786. This parish was very likely so named in memory of 

 Sussex, in New Jersey, a supposition to some extent confirmed by a 

 recent newspaper statement, seemingly reflecting tradition, to that 

 effect. Though I have not been able to trace a positive connection, 

 the fact that Sussex, N.J., was a Loyalist stronghold in the revolution 

 (Lee's New Jersey, II, 311 and elsewhere), and that many men from 

 a New Jersey regiment settled in the parish seems to confirm this 

 supposition, especially as so many of the parishes were thus named: 

 Sec. II., 1906. 4 



