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THEN         NOW

Acadia                     Nova Scotia
Baie des Chaleurs          Chaleur Bay
Baie Francaise             Bay of Fundy
Baie Verte                 Part of Northcumberland Straight 
Beaubassin                 Amhearst, Nova Scotia 
La Bouteillerie            Kamouraska 
Chedabouctou               Guysborough, Nova Scotia 
Chipoudy                   Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick
Cobequid                   Truro, Nova Scotia 
Cove d'Eglise              Masstown 
Dauphin River              Annapolis River 
Fourchu                    Yarmouth 
Grosse Ile                 Parrsboro 
Ile Perce                  Perce 
Ile Royal                  Cape Breton Island 
Ile Sainte Croix           Dochet's Island
Ile St-Jean                Prince Edward Island 
Justeaucorps               Port Hood 
Le Chadye                  Cheticamp 
Le Coude                   Moncton, New Brunswick 
Les Mines                  Horton, Nova Scotia 
Lingan                     Indian Bay 
des Mines                  Minas Basin 
Mirliguesh                 Lunenburg 
Mistigoueche               Mahone-Bay 
Niganich                   Ingounich 
Nipisiguit                 Bathurst, New Brunswick 
Passage de la Jeunesse     Grand Narrows 
Pentagoet                  Penobscot, Maine 
Petitcoudiac               Hillsborough, New Brunswick 
Pisiguid                   Windsor, Nova Scotia 
Plaisance                  Placentia, Newfoundland 
Pobomcoup                  Pubnico, Nova Scotia 
Port-Lajoie                Charlottetown, P. E. I. 
Port Morien                Cow Bay 
Port Rossignol             Liverpool 
Port Razair                Shelburne Harbour 
Port Royal                 Annapolis Royal
St. Anne                   Fredericton 
Spanish Bay                Sydney Harbour 
Tousquet                   Tusket

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Abram Village - Named for Abraham Arsenault

Anse a Charles - Cove immediately north of Pointe de la Croix, adjacent to present Warren Cove

Anse a la Pirogue - Stewart Cove

Ance a Pinet - Pinette (Pinette Bay) named for Noel Pinet who migrated to Ile St. Jean in 1738 from the Minas Basin.

Anse a Pinnet - Pinette (Pinette Bay)

Ance a la Pointe Prime - Hillsborough Bay

Anse a Matieu - Rollo Bay (named for Mathieu Turin who had a family of ten at East Point in 1752)

Anse au Matelost - Alexandra

Anse au Moine - Cove between Battery and Seatrout Points

Anse aux Morts - Mermaid Cove

Anse aux Morts - Spring Garden Creek

Anse aux Piroques - Stewart Cove

Anse au Sauvage - Rocky Point (cove immediately west of ferry landing place) also known as Canceaux Cove

Anse aux Sangliers - Holland Cove, also Observation Cove (Rocky Point)

Anse Canot - Canoe Cove

Anse de la Boullotiere - Newtown River flows southwest into Orwell Bay

Anse Dubuisson - Walker's Cove

Anse du Compte St-Pierre - Keppoch

Anse du Compte de St-Pierre - Keppoch Bay

Anse du debarquement - Port Lajoie landing place (Warren Cove farm at Rocky Point)

Anse du Nord-Est - Nine Mile Creek

Baie des Esturgeons - Sturgeon Bay

Banc Merchine - Billhook Point extends into Cardigan Bay from Panmure Island

Baptiste Creek - Named for an early settler that cut hay there, flows into Percival Bay

Barachois de Rossignol - Poxy Island in Georgetown Harbour

Baye de la Grand Ance - Egmont Bay

Baye de Malpec - Malpeque Bay

Bedec - Bedeque

Belair - Scotchfort

Cap a David - Howe Point

Cap de la Souris - Souris Head

Cap a l'Ours - Cape Bear

Cap Blevile - Panmure Head extends into Cardigan Bay

Cap dauphin - Cape Bear

Cap d'Orleans - Kildare Capes

Cap Roma - Panmure Head extends into Cardigan Bay

Cap Rossignol - Panmure Head extends into Cardigan Bay

Cap Rouge - Red Head extending into Northumberland Strait

Cap Vere - Launching Point.

Cinq Maisons - Five Houses (named for five French dwellings that were destroyed during the expulsion)

Courtin Island - Island in Malpeque Bay named for Abbe Courtin (missionary to the Micmacs)

Deroche Point - Extends into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, named for Etienne Charles Philippe dit LaRoche

DeSable - DeSable

des Etangs - St. Peter's Lake

Doirons Creek - Flows north into Hunter River near Rustico, named for John, Felix and Joshua Doiron

Dunes a l'est du dit Havre - Dunes to East of St. Peter's Harbour (Greenwich)

Etang des Berges - Stanhope (Campbell's Pond at Grand Tracadie)

Etang des Peaux - Skinner's Pond (skin pond)

Etang du Noffrage - Naufrage

Etang du Cap - Big Pond

French Creek - Flows southeast into Savage Harbour

French Creek - Flows north into the Montague River

French Creek - Feehans Creek flow north into the West River

French Creek - South Branch Pinette River flows north west into the Pinette River

Frenchfort - Named for a fort built during the French occupation

French Marsh Point - Extends into Murray Harbour

French Mill Creek - Ross Creek

French Point - Landrys Point

French River - Flows south-east into New London Bay

French River - Near New London

French River - South Branch Pinette River flows north west into the Pinette River

French Village - Cascumpeque

French Village - North of Mount Stewart

French Village - Northwest of Hunter River

Gallas Point - Earnscliffe, extending into Hillsborough Bay, possibly named for Michel Hache dit Gallant)

Gaspereau - Gaspereaux

Grand-Anse - Orwell Cove

Grand Acension - Vernon River

Grand Chenail - Cardigan Bay

Grand Digue Point - Extends into Egmont Bay, possibly a description of the sandbar there

Grande-Sanction - Point Prim

Grand Pere Point - Extends into Rustico Bay, named for Simeon Gallant surnamed Grand-pere who had a farm there

Grand Rastico - Rustico Bay

Groshaut - St. Charles

Gtijimenigog - Courtin Island (chief island)

Guise River - Perceval Bay

Habitant de demoulin - Clarks Creek, flows north into the Hillsborough River

Havre a l'Anguille - Savage harbour

Havre a la Souris - Souris

Havre a Mathieu - Rollo Bay

Havre-aux-Sauvages - Savage Harbour

Havre de l'Echourie - South Lake

Havre de l'Escoussier - Basin Head

Havre la Fortune - Bay Fortune

Havre Quiquibougat - New London Bay

Havre St-Pierre - St. Peter's Harbour

Ile a Bova - Wood Islands

Ile a Courtin - Curtain Island

Ile aux Bois - Wood Islands

Ile aux Chevres - Rams Island in the Hillsborough River (island of goats)

Ile aux Sauvages - Courtin Island, possibly Ram Island at the entrance of the Malpeque Harbour

Ile Biland - Boughton Island

Ile Brullee - Rams Island in the Hillsborough River

Ile de Bedec - Holman Island

Ile de Tentrec - Fish Island

Ile Gotteville - Rustico Island

Ile du Comte de St. Pierre - St. Peter's Island

Ile-du-Gouverneur - Governors Island (named for Gouverneur de Gotteville)

Ile Gouverneur - Governors Island

Ile Marlot - Boughton Island

Ile Saint-Pierre - St. Peter's Island

Ile St. Jean - Prince Edward Island

Ilot de Comte St-Pierre - MacLeods Island, next to Mermaid Cove

Ilot de la Comtesse - Next to Ilot de Comte St-Pierre on the west side of Mermaid Cove

Jacques River - Flows west into Egmont Bay, named for an early settler Jacques Bernard

La Belle Alliance - Miscouche

La Belle Riviere - Belle River

La Bois - Wood Islands

La Boullottiere - Newton (Newton River)

La Fortune - Fortune Bay

La Grand-Anse - Orwell Bay

La Grande Ascension - Davies Point at the mouth of the Vernon and Orwell Rivers (formerly known as Centia Point)

La Grande Riviere - Hillsborough River

La Longue Pointe - Duffy's Point extends into the Hillsborough River

La Marais - Pownal Bay

La Riviere Platte - Plat River

La Rommannie - Brudenell Point

La Saint Famille - The Holy Family Parish (Malpeque)

La Terre de bauchimyeq - Prince Edward Island

La Traverse - Traverse River, the crossing,(Cape Traverse)

Le Marais - Pownal Bay

Les Etangs - St. Peter's Lake

Les Trois Rivieres - Brudenell Point

Little French Fort - Two miles east of Frenchfort

Lukes Creek - Flows south-east into Rustico Bay, named for Luke Gallant

Marguerite - Cherry Valley

Marie River - Probably named for Marie-Josephe Chenel, widow of Morel, a prominent landowner in the area

Maxime Creek - Beatons Creek flowing southeast into Percival Bay

Morel - Morell (from Jean-Francois Morel)

Moyaque - West Point

New Acadie - St. Charles

Petite cap a l'Ours - Cape Bear

Petite Riviere - Pinette River

Petit Havre - New London Bay

Point de Rouge - Point Deroche

Pointe a la Framboise - Seatrout Point also Raspberry Point extends into Hillsborough Bay at Keppoch

Pointe a Marguerite - Battery Point, site of York Battery

Pointe a Pierrot - Immediately north of Anse du Debarquement (also known as Canceaux Point)

Pointe a Pierrot - Fairview (near the landing point of the ferry)

Pointe a Pinette - Pinette Point

Pointe a la Pirogue - Rosebank Point extending into the Charlottetown Harbour

Pointe au Boulleau - Birch Point extending into Orwell Bay

Pointe au Sable - Poverty Beach sandbar between Murray Harbour and Northumberland Strait

Pointe-aux-Boulaux - Rosebank Point extending into the Charlottetown Harbour

Pointe-aux-Boulots - Birch Point extending into Orwell Bay

Pointe au Buse - Burnt Point extending into Cardigan Bay

Pointe de la Croix - Point immediately north of Block House Point

(also known as Canceaux Point)

Pointe de la Flamme - Block House Point, south-west side of Charlottetown harbour

Pointe de la Guerite - Immediately north of Anse a Charles, south-east of present day Rocky Point at Fort Amherst, means Watchtower Point

Pointe DeRoche - Point DeRoche

Pointe d'Est - East Point

Pointe de l'ouest ou il y a des cedres - Cedar Dunes Park at West Cape

Pointe du Nord - North Cape

Pointe du Sud ou de prime - Point Prim

Pointe Prime - Point Prim

Pointe Rouge - East Point

Port a l'Anguille - Little Harbour

Port Chimene - Tracadie Bay

Port Lajoie - Fort Amherst National Historic Park (Rocky Point)

Port ou Riveiere de la Joie - North River

Poudre Point - Hardy Point

Rassicot - Rustico

Rau de la Mouliere - Nortons Creek flows south into the Brudenell River

Riviere a Charles - Morell River

Riviere Achee - Cardigan River

Riviere a la Fortune - Fortune River (river of riches)

Riviere au Vergne - McCallum Creek flows into Brackley Bay

Riviere aux Esturgeons - Sturgeon Bay

Riviere Bobokimik - Rustico Bay

Riviere Broullian - Millers Creek flowing south into the Hillsborough River

Riviere Cadopigs - Savage Harbour

Riviere-de-Bedeceq - Dunk River

Riviere de Blang - Winter River flowing east into Tracadie Bay

Riviere de l'Ascension - Brudenell River

Riviere de l'Escoussier - South Lake

Riviere de la Grande Ascension - Orwell River

Riviere de la Petite Ascension - Fullerton's Creek

Riviere de l'Ile aux foins - Fullerton's Creek (hay island river)

Riviere de L'Ile au Foin - Wright's Creek flows south-east into the Hillsborough River

Riviere-de l'Ouest - West River

Riviere des Barques - Ship Channel, entrance to Malpeque Bay

Riviere-des-Blancs - Johnston's River area

Hornes Creek - flows south into the Hillsborough River

Riviere des Blonds - Tryon River (Tryon)

Riviere des Crapeaux - Crapaud River (Crapaud) (river of toads)

Riviere-du-Moulin - Mc Kie Creek flows north-east into Charlottetown Harbour Rocky Point (empties into Anse au Sauvage)

Riviere-du-Nord - North River

Riviere-du-Nord-Est - East River (Hillsborough River)

Riviere de Pegedieg - Pisquid River

Riviere de Peugiguit - Pisquid River

Riviere de Pigiguit - Pisquid River

Riviere du Moulin a scie - Glenfinnan River

Riviere Platte - Flat River

Riviere Quiquebougouet - New London Bay

Riviere Ronton - St. Peter's Bay

Riviere Royalle - Cardigan River

Riviere Sud Antoine de Pade - St. Peter's Bay

Riviere Touboutouinee - Rustico Bay

Riviere Tranche Montagne - Naufrage

Riviere Tranchemontagne - North Lake

Ruisseau a Commeau - Berrigans Creek flowing north into St. Peter's Lake

Ruisseau a Lafrance - Squaw Bay also Burhoes Creek (Alexandra area)

Ruisseau de du Moulin - Clarks Creek, flows north into the Hillsborough River

St-Jean the Evangalist R. C. Church - Port Lajoie (Rocky Point)

St. Louis du Nord R. C. Church - Riviere du Nord-Est (Scotchfort)

St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church - Pointe Prim (Lord Selkirk Park in Eldon)

St. Pierre - St. Peter's Harbour (named for Governor de Gotteville)

St. Pierre du Nord - St. Peter's Harbour

St. Pierre du Nord Roman Catholic Church - St. Peter's Harbour

St. Raphael - named for Raphael Poirier

Shemody Point - Burnt Point extending into Malpeque Bay

Shemody River - Carrs Creek flowing north into Bentick Cove (spear pole)

Tracadi Harbour - Tracadie Bay

Trocadie - Tracadie

Trois-Rivieres - Three Rivers (Brudenell Point)