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CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



Bowen^s Creek runs into the Bay of Quinte just below the Mohawk 

 settlement, and near to John's Island. 



Brant's Village, or the Mohawk Village, Grand river. [Now 

 Brantford.] 



Bristol, now called the township of Darlington. 



Biirford Township, in the Western District, lies between Dindham' 

 and Dundas Street. [Prom Burford, a mai-ket-town in Oxfordshire.] 



Burgess Toionship lies to the northward of the township of Bastard. 

 [From a Devonshire family so named.] 



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Cabot's Head is a very large promontory running into Lake 

 Huron, west of Gloucester or Matchedash Bay, and embays a lai-ge 

 part of that lake at its easternmost extremity, stretching itself 

 towards the Manitou Islands. [From Sebastian Cabot, discoverer 

 of Newfoundland, 1497.] 



Calstor Township, in the County of Lincoln, lies between Binbrook 

 and Gainsborough, and is watered by the River ^Welland. [Caistor 

 is an ancient market-town in the English County of Lincoln : a 

 Roman camp or Castra.^^ 



\Galedonla Township, in the County of Prescott, is on the south, 

 and in the rear of Longueuil's seigniory, ascending the Ottawa or 

 Grand river. 2nd Edition.] 



\Galmnist, Grand, on the Ottawa river, on the south side, above 

 the Portage de Montagne.] 



Calumet, Polnte au, on Lake Superior, on the north shore, the 

 first point west of River du Ch§ne, between which places the coast, 

 consisting of perpendicular rocks, is dangerous. 



Cambridge Township, in the County of Stormont, lies to the south, 

 and in the rear of Clarence. [So named in honour of the Duke of 

 Cambridge.] 



Camden East, the township of, in the Midland District, lies 

 northerly of Ernest-town. • ' 



Camden Township, in the County of Kent, called also Camden 

 West, lies on the north side of the River Thames, opposite to Howard. 

 [From Lord Camden, successively Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 

 and Lord High Chancellor of England, temp. George III.] 



Canada, or the Province of Quebec. By the Royal Proclamation 

 of the seventh of October, 1763, this province was bounded on the 



