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The existence of this name is a strong confirmation of the correctness of the view 

 that CAMSOGOOCH is simply the full aboriginal form of CAMSÔK, for were it a 

 diminutive, as Rand seems to have thought, we would then have in CAMSOGOO- 

 CHECH the remarkable and anomalous feature of a double diminutive. It is this 

 apparent though groundless need for explaining a double diminutive that has led the 

 editor of Rand's Micmac-English Dictionary (183) to define KAMSÔKOOTËTC as 

 "little place opposite small cliffs." But I think the evidence above given fully shows 

 that only a single diminutive is present. 



CANSEAU. The name of a Point on the south side of the Harbour of Charlottetown, 

 Prince Edward Island, as marked. upon the modern maps. The earliest use of the 

 word on the plans in the Land Office at Charlottetown, as I am informed by Mr. 

 Thomas W. May of that office, occurs on one of 1781, where it is spelled CANSO, 

 while on another of 1819, the name is applied in this form not only to the Point, but 

 also to the Cove next to the southward thereof. The word, accordingly, would seem 

 identical with the name CANSO, in Nova Scotia, already considered. Turning, now, 

 to the geographical features of the place, they are such as to seem to confirm the 

 identity not only in form but in meaning, for to one entering the Harbour of Char- 

 lottetown (and the nomenclature of Harbours and Rivers was given by our Indians 

 with reference to entering or ascending the same), the Point and Cove lie just be- 

 yond the lines of low c'iffs which occur upon both sides of the narrow entrance. 



On the other hand there is some good presumptive evidence that the name did 

 not belong aboriginally to this place, but was transferred here by an indirect method 

 from CANSO in Nova Scotia. The first survey of the Island was the very accurate 

 one by Captain Holland, made for the British Government in 1764-5, and it is known 

 that the vessel assigned to aid him in the survey was named the CANCEAUX (Camp- 

 bell, History of Prince Edward Island, 4). In an excellent address upon Holland's 

 Survey by Hon. F. de St. C. Brecken, published in The Daily Patriot, at Charlotte- 

 town, June 26, 1899, it is stated that Holland spent most of the winter of 1764-5 near 

 Fort Amherst, on the west side of the entrance to Charlottetown Harbour, and a 

 letter of Holland's is quoted in which he refers to men who are "to remain on board 

 of the Canceaux for the winter, which is now unrigged and laid up in a cove a mile 

 distant from the fort, where she is entirely out of danger from the ice doing her the 

 least harm by driving upon her when it breaks up in the spring;" and the author of 

 the article adds the comment that this cove was Canseau Cove no doubt, which is 

 in fact situated a mile from the old fort. Hence it seems clear that the Cove took its 

 name from its association with this ship, and later became extended to the neigh- 

 bouring Point, a wholly consistent and natural method of origination of place-names. 

 As to the origin of the name of the ship, we have no positive knowledge, but as the 

 word Canceaux does not occur anywhere excepting as the name of the place in Nova 

 Scotia, it would seem tolerably certain that it was drawn from that place. 



Other Aboriginal Place-names containing the root KAM, meaning 

 BEYOND, of CANSO. 



Of these I have found thus far but one, and that not a certainty, viz., KAM- 

 OURASKA. 



KAMOURASKA. An important locality, — County, former Seigniory, Village, 

 small River, and group of Islands, on the south shore of the River Saint Lawrence 

 a hundred miles below Quebec. The name has had its present form since early 

 times, for the Title of concession of the Seigniory in 1674 spells it as now (Bouchette, 

 Topographical Dictionary of Lower Canada,) while the great Franquelin-de Meulles 



