308 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTOBY. 



Atokas, River aux, runs into Lake Ontario, west of York, and the 

 River Humber. The mouth of this river is the boundary between 

 the Mississaga lands and the East Riding of the County of York. 

 It is now generally called the Etobicoke. \_Atohas appears to be a 

 French abbreviation of the native name, which meant " a place 

 where there are alder -trees." "Etobicoke" has retained more of 

 the original expression. The early surveyor, Augustus Jones, writes 

 the word as " Atobicoake " in one of his letters, and designates 

 another stream at " the head of the lake " by the same name, which 

 he interprets " Black Alder Creek," and notes that it is " the creek 

 near Morden's," ?,e., the solitary house (in Jones' day) at the point 

 1 where "Dundas Street" struck the stream of which Burlington Bay 

 is, as it were, the estuary. Baraga, in his Otchipway Dictionary, 

 gives "Wadopiki" as "Alder-forest;" and "Alder-point," Lake 

 Superior, is " Nadopikan." Comp. Apanee, Napanee.] 



Attica Bay, on the south side of the Ottawa river, in Monsieur de 

 Longueil's seigniory, lies at the mouth of the river of the same name. 

 [See note on next article.] 



Attica, River au, runs into the Ottawa river, in Monsieur de 

 Longueil's seigniory. [This ought probably to be Riviere aux Atticas. 

 Drake, in his work on the Indians of North America, mentions the 

 " Attikamigues " (Whitefish) as a tribe " in the North of Canada, 

 destroyed by Pestilence in 1670."] 



Augusta Township, in the County of Grenville, is the eighth town- 

 ship in ascending the River St. Lawrence. [Augusta is probably a 

 compliment to the King's daughter, Augusta Sophia.^ 



