Brirtian Cr with Jno. Berrigan living beside it. Douglas 1925 Britain Creek; NTS 1] L/7 1967 Bristol Creek.

Berry Head: See Bury Head.

Bessborough Grove: On Map 1775 in Lot 31 in the area of present Hampshire.

Bethe]: 7 mi E of Charlottetown in Lot 48. Named by James Douglass c1880; he taught Sunday school in the schoolhouse. In Meacham 1880. Formerly known as Baltic.

Betsey’s Point: See Beaton Point.

Bideford: 2 mi NE of Tyne Valley in Lot 12. Named by William Ellis and Thomas Chanter who came from Bideford, Devon- shire, England in 1818. PO 1912-1927. At first known as New Bidefora'.

Bideford River: Flows E into Lennox Channel and Malpeque Bay. Samuel Holland 1765 named it Goodwood River for Goodwood, Chichester, Sussex, England, one of the seats of the Duke of Richmond. Bideford River is on Bayfield 1850. Meacham 1880 Goodwood or Bideford River. In Micmac possibly Geosépesitjg nige Sarlieg (Pacifi— que 1934, who identifies it as Lot 14 Creek or Port Hill).

Big Bus/1: See Clearspring. Big Cape: See Short Point. Big Clear: See Bradford.

Big Mars/1:130 1870—1888 in Monticello, Lot 42.

Big Pierre Jacques River: Flows S into North- umberland Strait at Glenwood, Lot 8. Prob- ably given for an Indian chief. Piel Jaques

was among chiefs who presented a petition to the House of Assembly in 1832. Bayfield

1847 Peers/lock River. JHA 1848 Pier Jacques’ River.

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Big Point: Extends into Northumberland Strait, Lot 60. Named by Samuel Holland 1765 Jenyns Point for Soame Jenyns (cl 703-1787), at Lord Commissioner of the Board of Trade and Plantations. Cummins 1925 McDougal Point.

Big Run: Flows S into Boughton River in Poplar Point, Lot 55. Only use of “run” as a term for flowing water in PEI. Big Rim was formerly a school area name in Poplar Point. Bayfield 1850 Malcolm Creek; not named in Meacham 1880 but noted in

Cummins 1925. Douglas 1925 Malcolm Creek for Malcolm Macdonald, settler 01800.

Bill/100k Island: See Fish Island.

Billhook Point: Extends into Cardigan Bay from Panmure Island. On Bayfield 1850.

Plan 1745 banc mere/tine.

Birch Creek: Flows N into Grand River at Central Lot 16. Probably named for a family; Meacham 1880 shows Thos. and Edward Birch with land in Lot 16. Mea- cham 1880 BurksRiv.;NTS11 L/121967 Burke Creek; Bayfield 1850 and Douglas 1925 Burke Cove. Peter Bourke is noted in Census of 1798.

Birch Creek: See Mill Creek.

Birch Hill: 3 mi SE of Tyne Valley in Lots 13 and 14. Settled by a Birch family in 1862. Meacham 1880 shows Edward, Thos. and Wm. Birch as settlers there. In 1971 Edmund, Henry and Sidney Birch were residents there.

Birch Hill: 8 mi E of Charlottetown in Lot 49. Noted in JHA 1843. Neither a school or PO name, but the site of a Presbyterian church and cemetery.

Birch Hill: Formerly school area name at Farmington, Lot 42.