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be adopted as place-names and there are some — such as Gait 

 and Cartier and Grey — whose names had already been em- 

 ployed before the Quebec Conference took place. 



Momds in Manitoba commemorates Alexander Morris, a 

 man who strove to make his country great and prosperous. 

 De Salaberry, of whose good works Suite has sung, is remem- 

 bered in Salaberry in the French district of Provencher. 



We recognize at once, in the place-names of Burpee and 

 Bidwell and Billings and Dawson (ex M.P.) and Rowland 

 and Mills and Robinson and Sandfield and Brantford and 

 Papineau, Lauder, Osier, Widdifield, Kirkpatrick, Hagerman, 

 Blake, Lount, Himsworth, Chapleau, Schreiber — public men 

 who have worked for the best interests of the country. 



Of course this vein might be worked and results produced 

 for a whole night. What has been said must suffice. 



And yet we have but skirted the shores of the subject. 

 An inexhaustible supply is untouched. 



Some place-names are corruptions arising from misunder- 

 standing of previous names. We have had place-names given 

 by Basques, Portuguese, Spaniards, French and English. 

 Some of these earlier place-name givers bestowed names that 

 from the ignorance or carelessness of subsequent generations of 

 different races have been subjected to much phonetic abrasion, 

 and in some instances mutilated beyond all recognition. In 

 London, Eng., under the operation of this factor there is Ser- 

 mon Lane, the 'origin of which is traced to Shermonier's lane 

 — the lane in which stood the office of the money-shearers^ or 

 clippers connected with the Mint. So in Canada a mountain 

 near the head of the Bay of Fundy is known as the Shepody 

 Mountain. The name (so say some) the French gave it was 

 Chapean de dieu^ from the cap of cloud which often overhangs 

 it. The English who followed continued the name as Chipody 

 and later as Shepody. 



Down in the Gulf of St. Lawrence forming the most 

 easterly point of the north shore of Bale des Chaleurs is Cape 

 d'Espoir, so named because it was a welcome sight to early 

 French fishermen who had lost their bearings in a storm. The 

 English call it l ape Despair and the lugubrious change is 

 reported to have been intentional having been caused by the 

 total loss there of an English troopship carrying a portion of 

 Sir Hovenden Walker's squadron in 1 71 1. We have added 

 to our list of post offices in this very year of grace, 1897, '^^ 

 post office of Cape Despair, 



