Transactions of The Royal Society of Canada 



SECTION II 

 Series III DECEMBER 1914 Vol. VIII 



An Organization of the Scientific Investigation of the Indian Place- 

 nomenclature of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. 



(Fourth Paper). 

 By W. F. Ganong, M.A., Ph.D. 



(Read by Title May 27, 1914.) 



This paper is identical in aim and method with its three pre- 

 decessors, which were published in the immediately foregoing volumes 

 of these Transactions. In a word, I am trying to apply the principles 

 of scientific analysis to a very interesting subject especially prone 

 to doubt and error. The comparative method which I use, explained 

 in the introduction to the first paper, is proving wonderfully successful 

 in solving the problems, as this paper will further illustrate. 



For convenience of reference I may add that the former papers 

 made analysis of the names Oromocto, Magaguadavic, Upsalquitch, 

 Manan, Nepisiguit, Kouchibouguac, Anagance, Wagan, Pokiok, 

 Penniac, Bocabec, Pentagoet- Penobscot, Pohenegamook, and Cobs- 

 cook, and used the roots thus made available in the analysis of a good 

 many other words, both existent and extinct, of lesser importance. 

 Of these extinct Indian names, — indigenous to the country, ap- 

 propriate to the places, and often reducible to a highly pleasing form, 

 — the greater number may be revived to obvious advantage when 

 additional place-names become needed in future; and I have tried to 

 suggest simplified and softened forms for such purpose. 



As to pronunciation, I have myself used, as a rule, only the 

 ordinary English sounds of the letters, in order that the reader may 

 be able to understand the words without constant resort to special 

 keys. All of Rand's words, from his Reader and two Dictionaries, 

 use pronunciation signs which are identical with those of our English 

 Dictionaries, excepting that in his Micmac -English Dictionary his 

 editor uses the letters tc to express the soft sound of ch in church. 



