province was disposed of in a day in 1767 in grants by ballot, chiefly to military and naval officers, the exceptions being lot 66, reserved for the Crown, and lots 40 and 59 (already disposed of), school and church lands in each township and reserves of 500 feet all round the island for fisheries. (Canadian Archives, 1905. Orders in council, Imperial. Pt II, p. 9.)

The 150,000 topographical maps published in 1966 and 1967 correctly

identified the 67 lots (with some minor discrepancies in boundaries), but inexplicably assigned Georgetown Royalty to Lot 54 and did not identify Charlottetown Royalty.

Confusion exists concerning the current status of Princetown Royalty. Since 1861 its area has been added to Lot 18 for census purposes. Local residents describe it as the “Malpeque area” now. It is separately identified in the Meacham and Cummins atlases, but is ignored on the current topographical maps. For the pur- poses of this book the territorial division of Princetown Royalty is considered to be extant, and features within it are described as such.

Published postal records are available for the two periods 1830 to 1870 and 1885 to the present. G. Douglas Murray of Mount Mellick has collected data from other published and unpublished sources on the opening and closing of post offices, and has kindly corroborated, and, where necessary, corrected dates. Dates for the opening of schools are given to indicate the initial utilization of names.

The meanings for names of Micmac origin are taken from Douglas 1925. These were originally given to Dr. Silas Rand by Peter Jim in 1880. Rand’s material was lost in a fire at Wellesley College, but Douglas was able to obtain his information from Dr. W. F. Ganong who had made a copy of Rand’s notes. Father Pacifique de Valiguy recorded the Micmac names for many features in 1934; these are given throughout the text.

The availability of many references and the occasional critical note about some of them are given in the section on references. It is surprising to find that authentic copies of Holland’s map of 1765 was not available for research in Canada; it was during the compilation of this book that the Public Archives was prompted to acquire an exact copy. The Meacham and Cummins atlases provided considerable data on the usage of geographical names and of the occurrence of property owners with names similar to features. Both atlases spelled most names with “Mac” by “MC”, thus explaining why many geographical names like MacPhee Beach occur with the form McPhee in references to these atlases in this book.

The photographs were obtained from the Public Archives of Prince Edward Island. The Public Archives of Canada provided the small scale maps. The large scale map in the rear pocket was compiled by the author and produced by the Surveys and Mapping Branch.

The writer wishes to express his appreciation to Douglas Boylan for his assistance in Prince Edward Island, and to Betty May, Edward Dahl and Lawrence Earl of the National Map Collection at the Public Archives for their cooperation. Thanks are also expressed to G. Douglas Murray for data on postal records.

Alan Rayburn, Ottawa, January, 1973.

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