42 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Pinette; harbour, point, river and village. Jenyns river and Pinet village on Holland, 1765. 1770 map has Pine river. Pinet is village name on 1775 map, but it is replaced by Perth on 1794 map. De la Roque, who took a census of the island in 1752, refers to “ance a Pinnet and ance a Pinet.” The reference is not to fir trees (pinette or epinette) growing in a cove, but to a family resident there. Noel Pinet, born in Acadia in 1683, married Rose Henry, also an Acadian, at Grand Pré, September 1, 1710. In 1738 the family left Minas basin and emigrated to ile St. Jean, where it settled at anse a Pinet (Pinet’s cove). The name Pinet is now spelled .Pinette, the same as Doucette, Beaudette, Gaudette, etc., instead of Doucet, Beaudet, Gaudet, etc. (Placide Gaudet), Pond’s point on Wright and Cundall, 1874. Tulesipk is the Micmac Indian name of Pinette river.

Pisquid; river, point and settlement, lot 37. Corruption of Micmac Indian name Pesegitk, meaning “entering at right angles,” “the forks of a river.” Riviere de Peugiguit of de la Reque, 1752. Riviere de Pegedieg of Franquet, 1751. Hills river of Holland, 1765, pre- sumably after Wills Hill (1718—93), Earl of Hillsborough. Refer to Hillsborough. The name Pisquid river was in use 1825. Chart, 1846, applies the name to the river and to the point at the junction of it with the Hillsborough.

Pisquid; pond, lot 38. Lake, 1863. This pond is near the upper waters of Pisquid river, but drairilslinto,Morel river. The Micmac name is Poogoosumkek-coospem, meaning “clam beac ake.’

Pitt; island, lot 5. Pitts on Hill map, 1821. Pitt on chart, 1845. After Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-78).

Piusville; railway station with post oflice, lot 4. Refer to Rosebank.

Plat; river, lot 17. Plat is French for “shallow”; a shallow stream. Chart, 1850. Platt; river, Foxley river, lot 6. Chart, 1851.

Pleasant; point, Charlottetown royalty. Meacham, 1880.

Pleasant Grove; settlement, lot 34. A post office to July 1, 1820. The place was noted as a beech hill, and when the question of a name came up someone remarked to W. D. Duck, the future postmaster, that he had a “pleasant grove,” and it was then decided to name the settlement “Pleasant Grove.”

Pleasant Valley; school district. lot 21.

Pleasant View; settlement, lot 1. A post office July 1, 1906, to November 15, 1913. Point Deroche; settlement, lot 37. Meacham. 1880. Refer to Deroche point. Point Pleasant; school district, lot 63.

Pollard; cove, lot 7.

Poplar; island, Charlottetownlroyalty. From small poplar trees formerly growing on it. Name in use, 1830. York island on plan. 1786.

Poplar; point, lot 55. Chart, 1850. Poplar trees, rare in this section of the country, are found in abundance here.

Poplar Grove; lot 12.

Portage; river and settlement with post oflice, lot 10. Translation of Micmac Indian name Oonigun. An Indlan portage route from Cascumpeque bay to Egmont bay started from this river. Probably Communication river of maps published 1762 and 1764.

Portage; creek, lot 36. Name on chart number 1709, Bayfield survey, 1843. Meacham, 1880, lbias Black brook. The creek was on a “portage” route from Hillsborough bay to Tracadie ay. ' Porthill; settlement with post office, lot 13. There was a post office of the name in 1855. Named by early settlers after Porthill, a residence one mile from Bideford, Devonshire, England. Mogulwajlk, meanmg “brant place,” is the Micmac Indian name.

Portree; creek, lot 57. In 1824 Hector McKinnon was paid £40 for finishing off “Port Ree” bridge. Probably named by settlers from Skye as Portree is the capital of that island. Chart, 1846, calls the river N ewtown river.

Pork Selkirk; settlement, Iot 57. After Lord Selkirk. Wright and Cundall, 1874.

Port Wood; settlement, lot 62. A post office September 1, 1908 to October 16, 1915. Earlier known as Woodvdle. Wood Island is the railway station name.

Poudre; point, lot 11, Foxley river, opposite Gordon creek. Chart, 1851. Hardy’s on Wright and Cundall, 1874.

Pownall; bay, point and settlement with post office, lot 49. Holland, 1765. After John Pownall, secretary to the Board of Trade and Plantations, 1758-61. Later secretary of state. Thomas Pownall (1722-1805), governor of Massachusetts, was a younger brother. Misspelled I’ownal and Pownell. The Micmac Indian name is Ntuagwokum, meaning “good sealing place.”

Prevost; cove and point, lot 28. Holland, 1765. After Major General Augustin Prevost (1723—86). Born at Geneva August 22, 1723, of a French family long settled in Switzerland, he was educated as a soldier and fought against the French at Fontenoy, where he was wounded. Upon January 9, 17 56, when in the Dutch service, he was transferred as major to the newly-