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natives attacked him in the last and because he and his men 

 effected their escape from the first named. The great Edmund 

 Burke, the centenary of whose death was observed last month 

 (Nov. 1897) whose claim to renown is that he was a leading 

 actor in the four high tragedies of his time — the revolt of 

 America, the insurrection in Ireland, the misgovernment of 

 India and the revolution in France — Burke has his tablet in 

 our place-name of Burke Canal given by Vancouver ; and this 

 is so far as I can discover the only one assigned to him in Can- 

 ada. From the part he took as advocate and agent of the 13 

 American colonies, Burke was not a favorite with the United 

 Empire Loyalists who were giving place-names in Canada 

 and the Eastern Provinces during the period of his greatest ac- 

 tivity. 



Point Higgins he named after His Excellency Senr. 

 Higgins de Vallenar, President of Chili, in "commemoration 

 of kindness" shown him. Point Wales (west point of Obser- 

 vation Island) after, he writes, " my much esteemed friend, Mr. 

 Wales, of Christ's Hospital, to whose kind instruction in the 

 early part of my life I am indebted for that information which 

 has enabled me to traverse and delineate these lonely regions." 

 While the early Loyalists in Prince Edward County on the 

 northern shores of Lake Ontario were doing honor to King 

 George III by using the christian names of his fifteen child- 

 ren for place-names, Vancouver, animated by the same thought 

 was naming in honor of his King such places as Point Sophia, 

 Point Augusta, Point Frederick, Point Amelia, Point Adol- 

 phus. Point Mary and Cape Edward. Port Fidalgo was 

 named by Vancouver after Senr. Fidalgo who had visited 

 the place in 1790 and bestowed several place-names in 

 remembrance of his friends, but had omitted to use 

 his own name. Vancouver thought such modesty should 

 have its reward, and with his usual broad minded gen- 

 erosity rescured Fidalgo from oblivion by giving the 

 port his name. Port Countess, one might readily suppose 

 was named after some lady of that rank who had done 

 a kindness to the ever-grateful sailor. It was really 

 named in honor of Capt. Countess "of the Navy," as Vancou- 

 ver always refers to it, as if there were no other navy worthy 

 his thought. Cape Hamond, far up on the North west coast 

 of this continent, Vancouver named after Sir Andrew Snape 

 Hamond, some time Governor of Nova Scotia and landed pro- 

 prietor of New Brunswick, who thus has the honor of having 

 his name attached to places and rivers in the far West Pacific 

 and in the Atlantic Provinces. In Point Couverain, Vancou- 



