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find that without any solicitation on his part he has been 

 gazetted a Post Captain. 



In B. Cohimbia the C. P. Railway people have given us 

 Field after D. D. Field of the U. S. family of Fields to which 

 Cyrus of Atlantic Cable fame belonged ; Mount MacDonald, 

 after Sir John of glorious memory ; Mount Agnes, after our 

 one Baroness, Agnes of Earnescliffe ; Revelstoke, after Lord 

 Revelstoke, one of the Barings ; Mount Stephen, to com- 

 memorate George Stephen, who has taken it as his title ; 

 Mount Sir Donald, to keep in remembrance for future gener- 

 ations the Donald Smith whose unwavering faith in the rail 

 passage — the real Anian passage — never faltered even when 

 the fortunes of the C. P. R. were at their lowest point. 



They or others have given us Mount Cartier, Mount 

 Tilley, Mount Begbee — and have incidentally presented us 

 with a very good idea, viz., the appropriation of our mounts 

 as memorials of the Fathers of Confederation. We have 

 enough to go round and leave lots for the premiers of Canada, 

 for our great scientists, historians and poets. 



NEW BRUNSWICK 

 FROM A PLACE-NAME POINT OF VIEW. 



In 1757 the township of Cumberland was formed and 

 named after Fort Cumberland, the name given by Col. 

 Moncton to the French Fort Beausejour after its surrender in 

 1755. It was a strip of land fourteen miles wide and extend- 

 ing from Cumberland Basin to Bay Verte- — the whole distance 

 across the isthmus of Chignecto which connects Nova Scotia 

 with New Brunswick. In 1759 the growth of population in 

 Nova Scotia to the south and to the north of the isthmus led 

 the Nova Scotian Executive Council to create a new county 

 embracing all the population north of Kings County on the 

 Basin of Minas. The new county taking, its name from 

 the fort and settlement around it, was called Cumberland, 

 and embraced all the present Province of New Bruns- 

 wick. 



