GEOGRAPHIC BOARD OF CANADA. 47 St. Gilbert ; settlement, lot 14. A post office May 1, 1896 to August 1, 1917. St. Hubert 's; school district, lot 14. St . Ignace; settlement, lot 23. Meacham , 1880. St . Ignatius is the school district. St . James; settlement, lot 15. Lake, 1863. Jacques river and St . Jacques church are here. Refer to Jacques river. St. John; parish, Queens county. St. John's on Holland, 1765. A reference to the early name of the island. Holland's map is entitled 'A plan of the island of . John." St. Lawrence ; school district, lot 1. St. Louis ; settlement with post office, lot 2. The post office here was known as Kildare Station till June 1, 1896, when the name was changed to St. Louis at the suggestion of Rev. Jean Chiasson , to avoid confusion with Kildare , eight miles distant. The population of St. Louis is of French origin. St. Margaret ; settlement, lot 43. A Scottish settlement before 1800. After St. Margaret of Scotland . St . Mary; bay, lot 61. Also St. settlement. St. Marys on Holland, 1765. St. Marys ; settlement, lot 22. St. Nicholas ; settlement, lot 17. St . Patrick; parish, Kings county. After the patron saint of Ireland. St . Patrick's on Holland 1765. Compare St . Andrew, St . David and St . George parishes. St . Patrick; school district, lot 22. Name in use since 1864. St. Peter 's Lake; school district, lot 39. St. Peter and St. Paul ; school district, lot 2. St. Peter ; island, road and spit, Hillsborough bay; bay, lots 40 and 41, also settlement and river, flowing into bay, lot 41. St. Peters island on Holland, 1765. Inept translation of the original French name St. Pierre, found on Franquet 's map, 1751, referring to the Comte de St. Pierre, equerry to the Duchess of at the French court, who in 1719 and 1720 obtained a grant of Prince Edward Island and formed a company to develop it. Three ships carrying 300 emigrants sailed from Rochefort in April 1720 with a naval lieutenant . Robert David Gotteville de Belile in command and prospective governor of the new colony, Louis Denys de la Ronde, a dashing Canadian naval officer, born at Quebec in 1675, joined Gotteville's ship at as second in command. Charlottetown harbour was reached and presumably named Port Lajoie ( Franquet 1751) to express the "joy" at their safe arrival. Landing on the left in lot 65 at present Warren cove, known to the French as Debarkation cove (ance du Debarquement, Franquet , 1751) they climbed the slopes and cleared a townsite where a governor's house, barracks, store-house were erected. At this time, too probably were named St. Peter island (ile St. Pierre) and Governor island (tie du Gouverneur) after the president of the company, St. Pierre and the governor Gotteville ( W. C. Milner , " Journal" 20 June, 1922. Cavern "Prince Edward Island Magazine, Vol. 1, 1899). In the following year de la Ronde named St. Peter bay (havre St. Pierre). St. Pierre's enterprise was abandoned in 1724 and the island reunited to the Royal domain 1730. Road and spit named on chart, 1846. The Micmac Indian name of St. Peter bay is "Pogoosumkek-booktaba," meaning "the bay of clams." Baslooakade, meaning "haunt of the seacow" is the Micmac Indian name of St. Peter island. St. Philip ; school district, lot 14. St. Raphael ; settlement, lot 15. A post office July 1, 1901, to August 22, 1914. Earlier Back settlement. St . Rock; school district, lot 2. St . Roche in 1864. St. Teresa ; settlement, lot 51. St. Timothy ; settlement, lot 15. A post office December 1, 1894, to September 1, 1914. Salutation; cove, lot 26. Holland, 1765. Samuel; point, between Dock creek and Dock river, lot 5. Samuels on Hill map, 1821. Refer to Mill point and Hill river. Sandy; island, Kildare river, lot 3. Chart , 1851. Goose island on map, 1821. Sandy; point, lot 64. Chart , 1849. Savage; harbour, lot 38. Also Savage Harbour settlement. Holland, 1765. Known to the French as havre des Sauvages and havre a rAnguille ( Bellin , 1744). Abraham Gesner , reporting on the geology of Prince Edward Island under date December 31, 1846, says : "Between the head of Hillsborough river and Savage Harbour there is a tract of low land across which it is probable the tide once passed between the east and west coasts. By the encroachment of the sea on the south side of the harbour a number of Indian skeletons have been exposed and washed from the bank. These skeletons were lying together in different positions, as if the bodies had been thrown into a common pit, the top of which was only one foot beneath the soil. From an examination made at the spot, some of the bones were found to be of great size; and in general they all exceeded in their dimensions those of the race in their present state. The site of this pit on the extremity of a small