380 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



East Lake lies between the townships of Marjsburgli and Sophias-' 

 burgh, immediately to the north-east of little Sunday Bay, on Lake 

 Ontario. 



Eastern District, The, was originally constituted and erected into a 

 district by the name of the District of Lunenburgh, in the province 

 of Quebec, by His Excellency Lord Dorchester's proclamation of the 

 24tli July, 1788, and was taken principally off the west end of the 

 District of Montreal. It received its present name by an Act of 

 the /provincial legislature ; it is bounded easterly by the province of 

 Lower Canada ; southerly by the River St. Lawrence ; northei'ly by 

 the Ottawa river ; and westerly by a meridian passing through the 

 mouth of the Gananoque river, in the township of Leeds. 



Ecors, Grand, the high lands to the eastward of York. [Ecors= 

 Cliffs in escarpments, in Old French. At the present day Scar- 

 borough Heights.] 



Ecors, Petit, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, east of Salmon 

 river, and between it and River G-anai-aska. [Salmon river is pro- 

 bably the Highland Creek for which, according to A. Jones, the 

 expression was, Y-at-qui-i-bi-no-nick=A Creek comes out under the 

 Highlands.] 



Edinhzirgh, now called the township of Pickering : which see. 



Edwardshurg Township, in the County of Grenville, is the seventh 

 township in ascending the River St. Lawrence. [A compliment to 

 Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.] 



Elhow Island, in the north-westerly part of Lake Superior, lies to 

 the north-east of the Grand Portage, and westerly of Isle Maurepas. 



Elizabeth Town; the township of, in the County of Leeds, is the 

 ninth township in ascending the River St. Lawrence. [Compliment 

 to the Princess Elizabeth.] 



Elmsley Township, in the Eastern District, lies to the south, and 

 in the rear of Cumberland. [From Elmsley, Chief Justice of Lower 

 Canada in 1802.] 



Epingles, les, on the south-west branch of the Ottawa River, about 

 the main or Upper Forks, between Portage \ la Rose and Portage 

 Paresseux, but nearer to the latter ; it is nearly halfway from the 

 fork to the Lake Nipissing Portage. [Epingles^pins. Comp. The 

 IS'eedles, off the Isle of Wight.] 



Erie, Fort, in the township of Bertie, is in about 42 degrees, 53 

 .minutes,- and 17 seconds of north latitude. It has a barrack for 



