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Cambridge Road; settlement, lot 63. After Cambridge family. John Cambridge came to the island in April, 1784, as agent for Robert Clark, owner of lots 21 and 49. His son, Lemuel Cambridge, Opened a fishing establishment at Oldstore point, lot 64, in 1805, also engaging in the lumber busineSs. Artemas Cambridge is a name also met with in early records. A pamphlet published by John Hill in 1821 says of Murray harbour that “the only business carried on there is by Messrs Samuel (?Lemuel) and Artimas Cambridge, one of whom resides at Bristol and the other at Charlottetown.” Lemuel Cambridge died in 1857, aged 74 years. John Cambridge died at Bristol, England, January 15, 1833.

Cameron; point, lot 29. See Inman.

Campbell; point, lot 46 and cove, lot 47. Meacham, 1880. Lake, 1863, only names the point. After Angus Campbell, first settler. He was a resident here when the lot was surveyed in 1808. Campbell point and cape Sylvester were the first points of the island seen by Jacques Cartier in 1534 as he came from the Magdalen islands according to W. F. Tidmarsh of Charlottetown, who sailed in a schooner in June from the Magdalen islands to Prince Edward Island on Cartier’s course. Like Cartier he saw land that appeared in the distance like two small islands which were seen on nearer approach to be Campbell point and cape Sylvester (Warburton, “History of Prince Edward Island”). Campbell Cove is a settlement name.

Campbell; point and creek, lot 13. Plan, 1808, which shows James Campbell resident here. Dugald Campbell was head of family here at census, 1798.

Campbell; point, Montagu river, lot 59. Chart, 1850.

Campbell; pond, lot 16. Campbells on chart, 1859. Census, 1798, mentions Donald Camp- bell as head of a family in this lot.

Campbell; pond, lot 21. Meacham, 1880, which shows John Campbell, settler here.

Campbelton; settlement, lot 21. In his diary, December 5, 1777, Benjamin Chappell, New London, has “Have sent to Campbelton with greece for the mill.” The diary in 1775, 76 and 77 has many references to a Mr. Campbell.

Campbellton; settlement, lot 4. Campbelton on Lake, 1863. Wright and Cundall, 1874, spells Campbellton.

Canadian; creek, lot 11.

Canavoy; settlement, lot 38.

Canceaux; point and cove, lot 65. Canseau on charts, 1846. Here were the pointes a Pierrot of French plan, 1749. The name is that of the survey vessel which brought Capt. Holland (refer to Holland) and his survey party from England via Quebec to Hillsborough bay in October, 1764, to begin the survey of the island. To quote Holland’s words, the Canceaux was “unrigged and laid up in a cove a mile distant from the fort (Amherst), where she is entirely out of danger from the ice doing her the least harm by driving upon her when it breaks up in the spring.”

Canoe; gully, lot 15.

Canoe Cove; settlement with post office, lot 65. Name in use 1844 (“The Palladium,” Charlottetown, December 28, 1844). Allen cove is the correct name of the cove sometimes called Canoe cove, from which the settlement name comes. Refer to Allen cove.

Cantalo; creek, lot 58. Chart, 1846. Cape Traverse; settlement with post office, lot 28. Refer to Traverse cape.

Cardigan; bay, point, river and settlement with post office, Kings county. Holland, 1765. After George Brudenell (1712—90), fourth Earl of Cardigan, created Duke of Montagu 1766; married 1730, Mary, only child of John, Duke of Montagu. His mother was the eldest sister of Charles Bruce, 4th Earl of Elgin and 3rd Earl of Ailesbury. His only son John, Lord Brudenell, born 1735 and created Lord Montagu of Boughton 1762, died 1770. See Boughton bay, river, point and islands; Brudenell point and river and Bruce point, Montagu river. The Micmac Indian name of Cardigan bay is Samkook, meaning “a sandy shore.” Known to the French as Trois Rivieres (Three Rivers).

Cardross; settlement, lot 53. A post office January 1, 1895, to June 1, 1914. Cardross is a village in Dumbartonshire, Scotland.

Carey; point, lot 8. Carleton; settlement, lot 6. Meacham, 1880.

Carleton; cove, lot 27. Holland, 1765. After General Sir Guy Carleton (1724—1808), 1st Baron Dorchester (1786), who has been called the greatest of all governors of Canada. During two terms of eight years each—terms separated by ten years—~he was the repre- sentative of a government whose intentions towards the new possessions were ill-defined and Often misunderstoou. But he laid well and deep the foundations of the Canada cf to—day, notably in fighting in London for the rights of the colonists, as shown by the im" portant provisions of the Quebec act for which he was personally responsible. Guy Carleton was the third son of Christopher Carleton, a landowner of county Down, of a family that came originally from Cumberland, in the north of England. His father died when he was fourteen years of age, but his mother afterwards married the Rev. Thomas Skelton, a man of ability and fine character, who had no small share in moulding the