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9. Go-Home. It has been suggested that this is a corruption of the 

 Indian termination word — gummee = ''si lake". The name Go-Home is 

 applied to a lake, a bay, and a river. The Indians do not recognise the 

 word and translate Go-Home Bay Kewatvequad, kewa being a prefix 

 meaning "return", as in Kewatin "the wind that returns from the north " ; 

 wequad = "a. bay". The root of— gummee is found also in agdm — "\ 

 am in harbour"; agomowin = " a. harbour", etc. 



10. Madawaska. This word is an alien in this region, coming hither 

 from the Madawaska River, a tributary of the Ottawa on whose banks 

 the University Club at first intended to settle. Various derivations are 

 given in "Les Noms Geographiques de Quebec" by M. Roy, The most 

 probable derivation is that suggested by Baraga, madawa or matuwa 

 = "sand"; —0^^^ = " grass". And so it signifies meadowland at the 

 mouth of a river. 



