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248B. Washademock (Canaan) -Buctouche. The precise location of this port- 

 age, well-linown by tradition to residents on the Canaan, is happily 

 made certain by a plan in the Crown Land Office, (which I had pre- 

 viously overlooked) and shows it as on the accompanying map (Map 

 No. 9). This plan and the modern published maps by no means 

 agree in details, but as nearly as they can be correlated, the 

 portage must have followed very clearly the present highway road 

 from its crossing of the North Branch Buctouche to the southerly 

 branch east of Canaan Station. The portage is said to have been 

 three miles in length, but this map makes it much shorter. 



Map No. 8. From a Plan by Layton ; x -f^. 



249. The important Misseguash-Baie Verte portage apparently did not start 



at the present Portage Bridge, but from the first cove to the east- 

 ward of it. This is made clear by the fact that the official declaration 

 of the boundary between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia makes 

 it start from the portage, and Munro's map (reproduced in the 

 Boundary Monograph, 370) shows the boundary starting not from the 

 bridge but from the head of the cove next east of it. 



250. There is an old plan in the Crown Land Office showing a road direct 



from Fort Moncton through to " Musquash or Portash Lake, " which 

 may possibly, though this is unlikely, indicate an Indian trail. In 

 any case the use of the name Portash lake for this lake on the Tan- 

 tramar is of interest as showing some early portage by this route, 

 even though it may have been an early road of the whites. 



The existence of a Tantramar-Aboushagan portage or trail is 

 rendered likely by the name Aboushagan itself, the termination of 

 which strongly suggests oicoknn, a portage. 



A reference to the use of the Memramcook-Scadouc portage is in 

 Murdoch, Nova Scotia, II, 495. The probable route of this portage 

 is shown by the very detailed map of 1846 by Crawley showing the 

 route surveyed for a possible Memramcook-Shediac canal a part 

 of which is given herewith (Map No. 10). 



