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Guy; cove, lot 28. Holland, 1765. After General Sir Guy Carleton, afterwards Lord Dor- chester. Refer to Carleton cove.

Haldimand; river, lot 15. Holland, 1765. After Colonel Sir Frederick Haldimand (1719-91), governor general of Canada (1778~86), an original officer of the Royal American regiment, which was also Holland’s; or after his nephew, surveyor—general Holland’s assistant, who was drowned, while sounding, at Louisbourg, December 16, 1765, in his 24th year. Holland speaks of him as being a most accomplished mathematician and that he had “not only lost a friend” but “his principal assistant in astronomy, in which he had made surprising pro— gress.

Haliburton; settlement, lot 7. Meacham, 1880. Named by Robert Bruce Stewart, proprietor of the lot after Robert Grant Haliburton, son of Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796—1865) (Sam Slick), judge of the Supreme Court, N.S. R. G. Haliburton was R. B. Stewart’s arbitrator under the Land Purchase Act of 1875. Haliburton thought the award unfair and refused to sign it.

Halifax; parish, Prince county. Holland, 1765. After George Montagu Dunk (1761-71), 2nd Earl of Halifax, Viscount Sunbury and Baron Halifax; president of the Board of Trade and Plantations (1748—61); Secretary of State, 1763. Halifax, Nova Soctia, was founded in 1749 during his energetic administration of the Board of Trade, and is named after him. See Bedeque Bay; Dunk river; Sunbury cove.

Hall; island, Rustico harbour, lot 24. Halls island in Meacham, 1880.

Hamilton; settlement with post office, lot 18. Name selected at a public meeting February 22, 1869, to replace the two names Oyster Cove and Shipyard.

Hampshire; settlement, lot 31. A post office April 1, 1897, to October 1, 1912.

Hampton; settlement with post office, lot 29. Named about 1865 by Mrs. James McPhail, who came from New Brunswick. Probably after Hampton, Kings county, N.B.

Hardy; point, lot 11.

Hannah; creek, Hill river, lot 5. Hill map, 1821f Un—named on chart. Meggisson creek in Meacham, 1880. A Meggison creek in lot 4.

Harding; creek, lot 20. Hardings creek in Meacham, 1880. From two families, settlers at the mouth.

Harmony; creek and settlement, lot 45. Meacham, 1880. New Harmony was a post office name in lot 45, July 1, 1910.

Harmony: settlement, lot 13. The name dates from 1875, when a school district was formed. As the settlers got along peaceably, though of many nationalities—French, Irish, nghland Scottish, Lowland Scottish, English and Dutch—the name Harmony was selected; earlier known as Line Road, because between lots 13 and 14.

Harrington; settlement, lot 33. Covehead bay is named Harrington bay_ on Holland, 1765. After Wm. Stanhope (1719-79), Viscount Petersham, 2nd Earl of Harrington. Hence the

settlement name found in Meacham, 1880.

Harper; brook and settlement, lot 1. After Wm. Harper, early settler. Harper Road is the = school district name. Harpers on Wright and Cundall, 1874.

Harriet; point, lot 5. Name on Hill map, 1821. Refer to Hill river. The western entrance point to Dock river, Cascumpeque point being the eastern entrance pomt.

Harrington; settlement, lot 33. Hartsville; settlement, lot 22. Meacham, 1880.

Haszard; point, lot 48. Chart, 1846. After Wm. Haszard, .United Empire Loyalist, original grantee. Win. Haszard, his father Thos. Haszard, and his brother Thos. Rhodes Haszard

came to the island 1785. (Journal of Assembly, 1833.) Hawthorne; settlement, lot 8. A post office January 1, 1904, to September 20, 1913.

Hay; river, lots 43 and 44. Hayden; point, lot 36. Alex. Hayden leased land here, 1835. Hazelbrook; settlement, lot 49.

Hazel Green; settlement, lot 52. Meacham, 1880. . . . Hazelgrove; settlement, lot 22. Name in use 1826. Originally name'of 1nn kept by Richard Bagnall, son of Samuel Bagnall, a United Empire loyalist. Mail drivers used to meet here and then turn. In 1833 Mrs. Bagnall, aged 84, gave evidence thatthey emigrated from Staffordshire, England, to Philadelphia. At the revolution, all thelr property was seized. Her hquand was in prison 18 months at Albany, whlle she, With eight children, was 100 miles away. She saw many people killed by Indlans, and they often threatened t0 scalp her and the children. Her husband was finally released by givmg £2,000 bail.

Heatherdale; settlement lot 59. Probably a Scottish settlement.

Hebron; settlement, lot 8. A post oflice July 1, 1907, to January 10, 1914.

Henry; creek, lot 5. The name Henry’s river is applied on Hill map, 1821, to the creek between Hill river and Dock river. Refer to Hill. Un—named on chart.