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or awl ; the fall of water having acted like a tool to pierce 

 the rock. 



Escoumains means the berry region. 



Yamachiche means muddy bottom and shore. 



Yamaska means shore covered with reeds. 



Kamouraska means reedy shore. 



Mingan means the wolf region. 



Maskinonge means the house of the marvellous Pike. 



Missisquoi means the home of the big woman. 



Madawaska means river having its outlet amoiig reeds. 



Mistassini means large stone lake. 



Miscouche means the bear country. 



Saguenay means outflowing water. 



Temiscouata means deep everywhere. 



Tadousac means the hillock region. 



Caughnawaga means at the rapids. 



Quinte — Kahenta means meadow. 



Hochelaga means Beaver Dam. 



We must not longer dally with the beautiful Indian 

 names beyond expressing a hope that the Post Offlce author- 

 ities, who are responsible for a great many place-names, will 

 treat with tenderness any remaining Indian names, especially 

 in the North West. 



Time is left for only a few words about the 2nd class, the 

 place-names memorizing men of local or Canadian fame. 



George M. Dawson has, it seems to me, been especially 

 careful to give prominence to our men of Canadian-made 

 fame. Ogilvie's name has been blown about this pendant 

 globe in connection with Canada's great treasure-house, the 

 Klondike. He stands for honesty and trustworthiness — a 

 civil servant of whom the Service and the Country may well 

 be proud. We know now what he has been doing as an 

 explorer. But George Dawson years ago gave a valley in the 

 Yukon District the name of Ogilvie Valley in honor of Wil- 

 liam. Both Dawson and Ogilvie commemorated that genial 

 Minister of the Interior, Thomas White — the first in Mount 

 White and the second in White Pass. 



Sir William Logan's memory enjoys the unique distinc- 

 tion of having five monuments, three of them mounts, more 

 enduring than brass or marble. Mount Logan near Lake 

 Francis in Yukon given by Dawson ; Mbunt Logan near 



