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Gordon; cove and point, lot 27. Holland, 1765. May be after Lt.—Col. Gordon Graham (refer to Graham) or Capt. Wm. Augustus Gordon, who fought at Louisbourg and Quebec,

grandfather of General Gordon of Khartoum. Gordon; point, Brudenell river, lot 58. Chart, 1850.

Governor; island and shoals, Hillsborough bay. Governors island on Holland, 1765. Trans- lation of the original French name ile Gouverneur, which on Franquet, 1751. Refer to St. Peter island. The Micmac Indian name is Okosik, meaning “the place where goods

are landed.”

Gowanbrae; settlement, lot 44. Meacham, 1880. Evidently named from the mountain daisy, Scottish “gowan.”

Graham; head, lot 26. Holland, 1765. Possibly after Lt.-Col. Gordon Graham, who received half lot 47, 1767; major 42nd regiment in North America, 1761, or after George Graham, maker of monthly astronomical clock used by Holland.

Graham; pond, lot 63. Name in use, 1829. Grand Pére; point, Rustico bay, lot 24. Grand Pere or Simeon’s point, in Meacham, 1880. Grandview; settlement, lot 57. Descriptive name given about 1885. Earlier known as

Murray Harbour Road. Grangemount; settlement, lot 19. A post office June 1, 1910, to November 30, 1911.

Granville; settlement, lot 45.

Granville and South Granville; settlements, lot 21. May be because in Grenville parish. Refer to Grenville.

Grave; point and island. Lot 59. Chart, 1850. Snugburry point in Meacham, 1880.

Graystone; creek, lot 55. Chart, 1850. The name is derived from gray rocks near where the creek empties into Boughton river.

Greek; river, lot 63. Holland, 1765. Kuhtowedek, meaning “reverberating echo,” is the Micmac name.

Green Bay; school district, lot 30.

Greenfield; settlement, lot 51. Descriptive name given 1904. A post office August 1, 1904, to July 1, 1913.

Greenfield; school district, lot 66.

Greenhill; settlement, lot 8. Meacham, 1880.

Greenr'narsh; settlement, lot 58. There was a Green Marsh post office in 1855.

Greenmount; settlement, lot 2. Meacham, 1880.

Green Road; settlement, lot 30.

Greens; brook, lot 29. Meacham, 1880. Greenville; settlement, lot 23. Meacham, 1880. Greenvale is the school district name since 1862.

Greenvale; settlement, lot 46. Named 1842 by Daniel Mooney, who had left county Antrim,

Ireland, 1821. Greenwich; settlement, lot 40. Map, 1794. After Greenwich, London, England.

Greenwich; school district, lot 21. Name in use since 1864.

Grenville; parish, Queens county. Holland, 1765. Probably after Rt. Hon. George Gren- ville (1712—70); treasurer of the navy, 1760; secretary of State, 1762; 1st lord of the Treasury and chancellor of the Exchequer (Prime Minister), 1763-65. His sister Hester married William Pitt (1708-78), Earl of Chatham. Refer to New London bay.

Gretna Green; settlement, lot 67. Lake, 1863. Grigg; creek, lot 12. Griggs creek in Meacham, 1880, which shows Wm. Grigg, settler.

Grover; island, Malpeque bay. Holland, 1765. Known locally as Ram island. Guerite (pointe de la); point, north of Alchorn point, lot 65. French name on Franquet, 1751,

meaning watch-tower pomt.

Guernsey; cove, lot 64. Name on plan, 1829. Lot 64 was settled by emigrants from Guernsey, Channel islands, in 1806 and later years. It is said that the region was selected because well wooded, and, being coopers, the settlers needed the wood in business; While it was also thought that land that would grow such large trees would when cleared give equally bountiful crops. Mellish, in his history of Methodism in Charlottetown, says that in May, 1806, seventy—three men, women and children arrived in Charlottetown from Guernsey. The diary of Benjamin Chappell, postmaster of Charlottetown, has the fol—- lowing entries in 1806: “Charlottetown, May 15—arrived this afternoon the ship from Guernsey. June 3—The Guernsey people go to Murray harbor—eight families of them.” In the winter of these early days the settlers used to make up a quantity of barrels, kegs products of their labour by various kinds and in the spring join together and send the and household utensils of water to Charlottetown, where they found a ready market.

Many household articles now made of metal Were then made of wood. Guernsey settle--

ment is also commemorated by the name Machon point.