GEOGRAPHIC BOARD OF CANADA

Melville; settlement, lot 60. Formerly Raasay. Compare South Melville settlement, lot 29.

Mermaid; settlement, lot 48. Mermaid farm on Holland, 1765. After HMS. Mermaid. Refer to Deane cove and point and compare Johnston river.

Middleton; settlement, lot 27. A school district name in 1862. Middleton; school district, lot 58.

Midgell; river and settlement with post office, lot 41. Name Midgell river in ,use 1827. (“Prince Edward Island Register”.) Some say a corruption of French Michel.

Midmeadow; point, lot 35. Chart, 1845.

Milburn; settlement, lot 40. Named Milltown by Simon Kehoe after a grist mill. Name was changed to Milburn when a post office was opened. Post office closed February 7, 1914.

Milford; settlement, lot 62. Lake, 1863. Mill; brook, lot 24. ' Mill; cove, lot 35. Also Millcove settlement, which name antedates 1844.

Mill; river, lot 5. Also Mill River settlement. Chart, 1851. Fox cove of Holland, 1765. Hills river on Hill map, 1821. Refer to Hill river. .

Miller; point, lot 59. Chart, 1850.

Mills; point, lot 18. Meacham, 1880, which shows John Mills resident here. Millvale; settlement, lot 22. The name antedates 1843.

Millview; settlement, lot 49. Name in use 1845.

Milltown; settlement, lot 61. Name selected at a public meeting February 11, 1868, to re- place that of Sturgeon Road. Milltown Cross is the school district. .

Milo; settlement, lot 9. A post office August 1, 1908, to January 10, 1914. Milton; school district, lot 45. Meacham, 1880. .

Milton; creek and settlement with post office, lot 32. Settlement name on old-plan of the island, 1830-40. A school district name in 1862.

Miminegash; pond, lots 2 and 3, settlement lot 3, and creek flowing into the pond in lot 3. Formerly a Micmac camping ground. According to informants of Rev. John McDonald, M’negash means “what is carried,” that is, the name is akin to “portage place.” Rand does not list this name, but gives pemnegada as the verb “to carry on the shoulder.” '

Minchin; point. See Ferry.

Mink; river, lot 63. Holland, 1765. Doubtless after the animal. The Micmac Indian name is Teakoo—seboo, meaning “mink river.”

Miscouche; island, lot. 17. Name in Meacham, 1880, of island at mouth of Muddy creek. Corruption of Micmac name Munuskooch, meaning “little grassy island.” The use of the name has been extended to other features as below.

Miscouche; point and bank. lot 17. Chart, 1849, which also namesthe cove to the east of the Point Miscouche, but this is Sedgwick cove of Holland. Misprmted Muscouche on early charts.

Miscouche; settlement with post office, lot 17. Earlier known as “La Belle Alliance,” a name given by Father Perry, first priest about Christmas, 1824.,

Mitchell; river, lot 54. Chart, 1850. Mitchel on plan, 1825, and on chart of Cardigan bay: 1839. '

Moine (anse au); cove, lot 48. Between Battery and Seatrout points. Name on French plan, 17.49. Meaning Monk cove.

Monaghan; settlement, lot 36 and 48. Named by settlers from county .Monaghan, Ireland, in the first part of last century. There was a post office of the name 1n 1862.

Monckton; cove, lot 3. Holland, 1765. After Lieutenant-General the Honourable Robert Monckton (1726—82). After the surrender of Louisbourg, Holland was sent w1th Monckton as engineer, to the bay of Fundy and built a fort and barracks at the entrance of St: John river, below the falls. Moncton, New Brunswick, is also named after him. Little Mimme- gash pond is here. Robert Monckton was born on June 24, 1726, second son of John Monckton of Cavil and Holyrod, li‘. Yorkshire, England, and his Wife Lady Ehzabeth, daughter of John Manners, second Duke of Rutland. He joined the second regiment of Guards in 1741, and saw service in Flanders. In 1752 he was sent to Nova Scotla, and on August. 28, 1753, he was appointed to the Council at Halifax, whichass1sted the Governor in administering the province. This was five years before Nova Scotia was given an electlve Ho .ise of Assembly. One year after joining the Council at Halifax. he was appomted Lieutenant—Governor of Annapolis Royal. Monckton saw active servrce at the very outset of the Seven Years War, for in 1755 he led the British—Colonial force that captured the two forts of Beausejour and Gaspereau in what was formerly old Acadia. He was appomted Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia shortly after these military successes, and four years later he was one of Wolfe’s brigadiers before Quebec. He was present at the unsuccessful attack upon Mont- calm’s lines near Montmorency on July 31, 1759, and 1n the battle of the Plains, fought on September 13 following, he was severely wounded. On March 21, 1761, Monckton was