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tract of land granted to the Indian chief, Joseph Brant, at this spot. Wellington, of 

 course, referred to the Iron-fhlke, but we already had a memorial of him in the 

 name of the County of Wellington, in Western Ontario. A general name for Burling- 

 ton Heights, and the whole range of high land on the west side of Lake Ontario, ap- 

 pears to have been " Dorchester Mount," when D. W. Smith's Gazetteer was con- 

 structed, but that expression has now long since ceased to be heard. A familiar name 

 for the swamp now traversed by the Des Jardins Canal, leading from Burlington Bay 

 to Dundas, was " Coote's Paradise," an expression now fallen into disuse. Coote 

 was an officer in the regular army, an enthusiastic sportsman, who found in the 

 wild fowl and other game frequenting this marsh a never-failing means of indulging 

 his favorite pursuits. 



Two grand thoroughfares were marked ofif and partially cleared out, at the very 

 outslet, through the Province of Upper Canada, one named Dundas street, and the 

 other Yonge street. The latter continues as a well-defined highway, leading from 

 Toronto to the Holland Landing, and thence virtually across the country, via Shanty 

 Bay and Penetanguishene, to Lake Huron and the far West. 



I fear the railway authorities are doing something to render Penetanguishene a 

 lapsed name, or at all events, partially so. They are encouraging the practice of 

 writing and printing " Penetang," instead of Penetanguishene." The name, tlius 

 mutilated, can have no complete sense, the whole word being descriptive of a land- 

 mark at the entrance to the Bay, consisting of a bank where the sands run down.(i) 



Dundas street as a grand thoroughfare has, unhappily, not retained its name 

 throughout. For a long time the whole route, from Chatham to Dundas, and thence 

 to Toronto, was pretty generally known as Dundas street. The popular name for a 

 portion of it, among settlers in the west was, for a while, and, perhaps may continue 

 still to be, the Governor's Road, and it will be remembered, possibly, by many of us, 

 that what is" now called Queen street in Toronto, was, in its western portion at least, 

 styled Dundas street, although " Lot street " was its more customary designation, as 

 it passed on eastward to the River Don, from which point the leading thoroughfare 

 became better known as the Kingston Road ; but in v.'ell-engraved early maps the line 

 of road eastward is to be seen marked as Dundas street, all the way to where it strikes 

 the Ottawa, a few miles from the entrance of that river into the St. Lawrence. 



The whole route from Chatham, in the west, to the Ottawa, in the east, was 

 designated a street, with allusion to the great Roman roads (viae stratae), remains of 

 which are traced everywhere in the Island of Great Britain and throughout the Con- 

 tinent of Europe — paved roads securing an easy transit for armies, arms and ammuni- 

 tion, and at later periods for merchandise. A noted instance of theee is Watling 

 street, reaching from Dover all the way to Chester, and passing through London, 

 where a fragment of this same Roman highway is still known as Watling street. It is 

 to be regretted, perhaps, that our " Dundas street " has become a lapsed term in so 

 much of its route, but, happily, Yonge street still remains to us an interesting re- 

 minder of the past. On this street, six miles to the north of Toronto, " Hogg's 

 Hollow " has been changed to the more euphonious expression, " York Mills." Of 

 these mills, Mr, Hogg was the original builder and proprietor. Along the great 

 thoroughfare, originally known as Dundas street, proceeding eastward from Toronto, 

 we meet every now and then with lapsed names. 



Irt connectioin with Toronto itself, two may be mentioned, in addition to those 

 already given. The township in which the city stands was, and is still named York, 

 but previously, strange to say, it seems to have borne the name of Dublin. Thus, in 

 our old, oft-quoted Gazetteer, we have, at page 55. " Dublin, now called the Town- 

 ship of York : wdiich see." No further explanation is given. It was expected, per- 



(i) Other lapsed names besides "Lake Toronto" are covered by Lake Simcoe's present name. The 

 French styled it for many years Lac aux Claips (Hurdle Lake\ from some arrangement for the capture of fish 

 at the Narrows, a name sometimes corrupted by the English into Lac le Clie. Two islands in this lake have 

 likewise lost names once borne bv them : Francis Island (so called by Governor Simcoe from the name of his 

 son), and Darline's Island (commemorative of a favorite aide-de-camp of the Governor's), are now respectively 

 known as Grape Island and Strawberry Island. 



