Balderston Pond: At North Wiltshire, Lot 31 . John Balderston (c1803-1876), who came to PEI from England in 1822, is said to have built the first windmill at Belfast, Lot

58. His son Benjamin became a miller at North Wiltshire 1 857.

Baldwin Road: 7 mi NW of Montague in Lot 51. Named for Thomas Baldwin, farmer and merchant who died about 1875. PO Baldwin’s Road 1882. Settled by Irish 1839 and 1841.

Baldwin’s: See St. Teresa.

Ballems Island: In Egmont Bay, Lot 10. Named for Fred Ballem, who is noted in Cummins 1925 as the owner of adjacent lots. Formerly called Bird Island. Also known as Little Island.

Baltic: 6 mi N of Kensington in Lot 18 and Princetown Royalty. Douglas 1925 sug- gests it may date from Napoleonic Wars when there was a heavy timber export trade from the Maritimes owing to the Baltic ports being closed to British com- merce. Possibly it, and other places called Baltic in PEI and Ontario, are derived from the Gaelic bailteach, “belonging to a village". PO 1891-1923. Baltic River flows N into Darnley Basin.

Baltic: 7 mi NE of Souris in Lot 46. School established c1846, later becoming East Baltic when West Baltic school area set up 2 mi W in Glencorradale. PO East Baltic 1877—1970. Settled 1842. Formerly called Irish Baltic.

Baltic: See Bethe]. Baltic: See Albion Cross.

Baltic Road: In Meacham 1880 for short road leading NW from Clyde River.

Bangor: 4 mi S of Morell in Lots 39 and 40. Selected at a public meeting c1879 from an

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old English dictionary; possibly named for Bangor, Carnarvon, Wales, or Bangor, Northern Ireland. PO 1884-1913. For— merly known as Indian Town Road for road leading from Morell to Morell Indian Reserve.

Banks Point: Former name of the point at

Annandale. On Bayfield 1850. Meacham 1880 shows Wm. Banks resident there.

Bannock/7am: Name used in 1838 in Lot 31.

The road from Clyde River to Hampshire is called Bannockburn Road.

Baptiste Creek: Flows SE into Percival Bay in Lots 9 and 10. Named for an early settler who cut hay there. Survey plan 1835 Battis River; Meacham 1880 Baptiste Creek.

Baptiste Point: See Grande Digue Point.

Barbara Weit: Former school district in Lower New Annan, Lot 19, 3 mi W of Kensington.

Barbara Weit River. Flows W into Malpeque Bay. Douglas 1925 quotes H. G. Compton that it was named for the wife of George Waite who settled near it 1804. Douglas also suggests it may relate to barberry weed the common shrub with red berries. The earliest reference with the present spelling is the PEI Register 1830. Other references have Barbara Weed, Barbara Wiot, Bar- bara Wiet and Barbary Wyet. Since George Waite lived until the mid—18005 it would seem that Barbara Waite would have oc- curred in a reference to the river. Perhaps the name is corrupted from the original

Micmac name for it. In Micmac Kadakun- cheech, “little eel trap”.

Barclays Pond: Former name of a pond in

Ellerslie where James Barclay had mills in the late 1800s. Noted by Meacham 1880. Also called Griggs Pond.

Barges, Etang des: See Campbells Pond.