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by others Dwellers in a rocky region— both epithets being 

 true to fact. 



Winnipeg comes, after various modes of spelling, from 

 two Cree words — IVinne "cloudy" or murky, and Napee, 

 " water ; " the Crees calling the Lake, Winnipec — meaning 

 water tinged during the summer months with a green color 

 owing to the presence of a vegetable growth which abounds 

 in parts of the lake. " It is a minute, needle-shaped organism 

 about half an inch in length, sometimes detached and some- 

 times in clusters, and at times the water is almost as thick as 

 pea-soup." 



Pembina : nipa-mina^ a Cree word for a red berry which 

 grows in great abundance along banks of rivers. 



Shnbenacadie ; a place for ground nuts. 



Pictoii ; Pict means explosion of gas. Whenever in Mic- 

 mac, the noun ends in the sound "kt," the regular form of 

 the case locative is the addition of ^'- ooky Pictook is equal 

 to Pictou. Peter Toney, an educated Micmac, says there was 

 once on a time a big lire which burned the tents of a large 

 encampment, and always after the Indians referred to it as 

 Muskeak Bucto (big fire) corrupted by the Whites into Pictou, 

 Mr. Howe said Pictou means anything like a jar or bottle 

 which has a narrow mouth and widens afterwards. Pictou 

 Harbour does this ; hence the name. It seems more than 

 probable, from the coal found there and from the coal fires 

 that have been burning in the region suggesting the likelihood 

 of fires caused by lightning, that the root word means fire or 

 some manifestation of fire. 



Chebogiie^ N.S., from Itebogue, spring water. 



Merigo?nish^ N.S , from Micmac, Mallegomichtk — " hard 

 wood grove." 



In Nova Scotia and also in other provinces the Indian 

 names were in some cases translated into the French by the 

 French when they gained supremacy, and sometimes into 

 English when in turn the English came to rule. 



Apohech-Kumoochzvakadi^ "place of Black Duck," was 

 translated by the French and called Riviere des Canards. The 

 English to-day call it Canard River. Eel Brook is the Eng- 

 lish translation of the Indian Oopt-omagogin — " place for eels." 

 Cranberry Head is simply the English of the Indian Soone- 

 catio^ " place for cranberries." Membegwich means " Little 

 Harbour " and so the English call it Little Harbour. 



In Nova Scotia a fair number of Indian names remain, 

 though more might have been retained, A good many year§ 



