GEOGRAPHIC BOARD OF CANADA

joined at low water and are named Long island. McIsaac, one of Glenaladale’s settlers at Tracadie, moved to East point to what is now Rock Barra. The Beatons and others followed. When they met McIsaac, they asked as to the nature of the country. He replied, “you might as well be on the rock of Barra,” meaning it was a barren country.

Rollo; bay, lot 44, and point, lot 43. Rollo bay on Holland map, 1765. After Andrew Rollo, 5th Lord Rollo (1700-65), Lieut. Colonel 22nd regiment October, 1756. Distinguished himself at siege of Louisbourg, 1758. Immediately thereafter sent with a detachment of 500 men to relieve Prince Edward island from the French governor de Villebon; his visit resulted in the deportation to France of 354 people. Co-operated with General Murray in the reduction of Montreal. After the conquest of Canada he was sent to New York. In June, 1761, he was detailed for the West Indies with the command of a large force of troops. After an assault of two days’ duration, he drove the French from Dominica and took possession of the island. He took part in the reduction of Martinique in the following year and then joined Lord Albemarle, who was besieging Havana. Before its surrender 'his health obliged him to sail to England. He died in 1765. Colonel 22nd regiment February, 1762. Rollo point on chart. Sometimes called Aitken’s cape. Meacham, 1880, shows Wm. George and Wm. H. Aitken, settlers here. Probably havre a Mathieu of de la Roque, 1752.

Rona; settlement, lot 62. Meacham, 1880. Rona is a small island of the Hebrides. Ronaghan; brook, lot 61. After Ronaghan family. Meacham, 1880, has Monaghans.

Rosebank; settlement, lot 4. The name dates from May 1, 1905, when it was replaced as a post office designation that of Piusville, given in the 1870’s by Father James McDonald. Rosebank post office was closed August 15, 1913. The name Piusville is retained as a railway station name.

Rosebank; point, lot 48. Name given by Charles Stewart, one of the first, if not the original owner. It was owned by his descendants till about 30 years ago. He named his farm and residence Rosebank farm and the point is part of it. Name on chart of Hillsborough river, 1839. Pte a la Pirogue (Canoe point) on French plan, 1749. Rand gives this place two Micmac names, Adoosak and Medubunageak, both meaning “steep red bank.”

Roseberry; settlement, lot 58. A post office November 1, 1895, to April 1, 1915. It may commemorate Lord Rosebery, British prime minister 1894 to 1895.

Rose Hill; settlement, lot 17. A post office January 1, 1901, to June 1, 1913. After Rose Hill farm; named by Thomas Archibald, a Scotsman who purchased the land comprising it in 1811 and lived on it two years. “Notwithstanding its hill name, the farm is level, but a small clearing made by earlier French settlers fell rather abruptly to the water and which, while Mr. Archibald occupied it and for many years afterwards, was bordered with a fringe of wild roses.” (Meacham, 1880.)

Roseneath; school district, lot 52. Meacham, 1880.

Rose Valley; settlement, lot 67. Descriptive name given by John Mackay, school teacher, before 1864; earlier known~—in 1855 a post office—as Anderson Road, after Alex._And_erson of Bedeque, who surveyed the road passing through here from Bedeque inthe direction of Yorke river.

Roseville; settlement, lot 3. Name suggested by Lawrence Doyle, first postmaster from the quantity of wild roses found here. Post office of Roseville opened about 1888, close October 1, 1913. Lawrence Doyle’s father, Martin, came from Wexford county, Ireland, to Tryon, P.E.I., in 1815, settling in lot 3 in 1835.

Rosny; settlement, lot 15. A post office May 1, 1911, to July 1, 1912, when name changed to Caissie.

Ross Corner; settlement, lot 25. After Murdoch Ross _(died 1896), for many years a farmer hereabouts. A post office December 1, 1894, to April 1, 1913.

Round; pond, lot 2. Roxbury; lot 6. A post office July .1, 1896, to March 1, 1914. Earlier it had been selected

at a public meeting as the name of a school district, at the suggestion of Jerome Arsenault, who had recently returned from a visit to Roxbury, Mass, USA.

Royalty; point and sand, Darnley basin, lot 18. Chart, 1850. In Princetown royalty. Rush; creek, lot 16. Meacham, 1880. Also known as Chinnick creek, after an early settler_

Ruskin; settlement, 10t 51. A post office about 1891 to August 15, 1913. After John Ruskin (1819-1900).

RuStiCO; bay, lots 24 and 33. Called Harris bay with Grand Rastico as a secondary name on Holland map, 1765. The name Rustico commemorates an early settler, Rene Rassmot who came to Port Lajoie (Charlottetown) in 1724 from Avranches, in Normandy, mov1ng later to the head of Whitley river, where Stevenson’s mill now (stands S’Prince‘Edwar’d Island Magazine, Volume 4, No. 1), not far from Rustico chapel. RaCica and Racmo are forms used by de la Rocque 1752. Of Covehead and Rustico bays, Abraham GeIiIIlI’ writing under date December 31, 1846, says: “Great quantities of oyster and other s e. s are found on the banks of the rivers and sides of the bays;_ they are sometimes Six feet in thickness ..... These collections were made by the Indians in former times, and they