PREFACE In 1969 Douglas B. Boylan , the Prince Edward Island member on the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names requested the Permanent Commit¬ tee's Secretariat to undertake a comprehensive field survey of that province's place names and their identification on topographical maps, and to prepare a new book on the origin and use of geographical names. He recognized that much of the nomenclature used on topographical maps did not reflect contemporary usage; he also anticipated that a new publication on the utilization and meaning of names would be as popular as "Place-names of Prince Edward Island ", compiled by Robert Douglas nearly 50 years ago. In the early 1950s, when the first editions of the 1:50,000 (1 inch equals 1.25 miles) topographical maps were produced, the Canadian Board on Geograph¬ ical Names conducted extensive correspondence with the Hon. Bradford LePage and the Hon. Walter Jones on the correctness and application of names. Subse¬ quently, a gazetteer was published in 1960, showing the 1,200 decisions made by the Board, and its predecessor, the Geographic Board of Canada. When it was learned in October, 1966 that the Surveys and Mapping Branch of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources was planning to print new 1:50,000 scale map coverage of the Island the following winter and that scheduling was well advanced, this writer was assigned to conduct a cursory survey of the toponymy, and to report errors and omissions. B. Graham Rogers , then Prince 's member on the Permanent Committee, and the writer ascertained 262 new names and 152 errors in application and utilization. Many of the new names were those of storage ponds, which had been hitherto disregarded as geo¬ graphical features; but several were names of communities of long standing such as Summerjield, Highfield , Hampshire and Greenfield . Corrections included deletion of unknown names like Bonwell , alteration on maps of names like Cymbria and changes, such as Thorndyke to Brackley . The hurried nature of the survey resulted in some errors in application, particularly the names of storage ponds. During the summers of 1970 and 1971 the writer conducted several inter¬ views throughout the Island and examined historical documents in the Legislative Library . The toponymic surveys resulted in 383 new names and 148 corrections. Subsequently, the source materials used by Douglas in the early 1920s and references in the Public Archives and the National Library were researched. Much of the material in this work is based on the research and subsequent publication of "Place-names of Prince Edward Island ", referred to throughout this work as Douglas 1925. Although well received by Islanders, and, by current standards, a competent piece of toponymic research, some deficiencies may be noted. Douglas listed derivatives under single headings so that all names with Rustico , for example, are shown under Rustico , rather than North Rustico , Rustico - ville, South Rustico and . Two Colvilles were listed together, although there is no association between the origins or usage. Sometimes Douglas presented IV