Dundee: Former CN stop 3 mi W of Morell in Lot 39. Named for Dundee, Scotland because most settlers were from there.

Dundee Road: Extends from Uigg to Head of Montague, Lots 50 and 57. Named by Mary Kettle Martin (c1824-1918) settler from Dundee, Scotland, 1842. Douglas

1925 confused this name with the place in Lot 39.

Dunedin: 8 mi W of Charlottetown in Lot

31. Probably given for the historic name of Edinburgh, Scotland. PO 1892-1913.

Dunk Island: See Holman Island.

Dunk River: Flows W into Bedeque Bay. Named by Samuel Holland 1765 for George Montagu Dunk (1716-1771) Earl of Halifax. Bellin 1744 Bedec; De la Roque 1752 Riviére de Bedecq.

Dunns Creek: Flows S into Murray Harbour, Lot 63. Meacham 1880 names H., Jno., and Mrs. Chas. Dunn there, and Cummins 1925 names Albert and William Dunn.

Dunstaffnage: 7 mi NE of Charlottetown in Lot 35. Named for Dunstaffnage Castle near Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland. School district 1851. PO Lot 35 c1855-1905; PO Dunstaffnage 1905—1913.

Earnscliffe: 1 1 mi SE of Charlottetown in Lot 50. Named by Seymour Young in 1897 for the residence of Sir. John A. Macdonald in Ottawa. PO Gallas Point 1891-1897; PO Earnscliffe 1897-1914.

East Baltic: PO c1877-1970 in Baltic, Lot 46. Also school district c] 880, with West Baltic school in present Glencorradale.

East Bideford: 4 mi NE of Tyne Valley in Lot 12. PO 1913-1924.

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Durant Creek: Flows NE into Southwest River, Lot 20. Meacham 1880 shows Sam’l and Jno. Durant there, and Cummins 1925 has Sam Durant there.

Durell: PO 1891—1913 in Little Pond, Lot 56.

Durell Cove." See Howe Bay.

Durell Point: Extends into Northumberland Strait, Lot 56. Named by Samuel Holland 1765 for Philip Durell, second in command of the navy at the fall of Quebec, 1759, and commander of the North American station at Halifax, 1766. Cummins 1925 Browns Cape, but both it and Meacham 1880 show McDonald families living at the point.

Dutchman Rock: Partly submerged rock N of Red Head, Lot 15. Probably named by a naval surveyor. Douglas 1925 Little Dutch— man, which is another rock at the W end of Bedeque Bay and S of Sunbury Point; he suggests it may be associated with the sea- man’s epithet of “squarehead”. In Micmac Mundoopskoochk, “devil’s little rock”.

Duvar: 3 mi N of O’Leary in Lot 5. Named for John Hunter Duvar, a fisheries inspec- tor and poet. He added the name Duvar in 1861 because of the commonness of his name John Hunter. The name Duvar Road was used in 1872. PO Duvar Road 1896- 1914.

East Lake: 2 mi E of East Point, Lot 47. Douglas 1925 erroneously applies this to South Lake.

East Parish: Named by Samuel Holland 1765

for Lots 43 to 47. Rarely used and no longer referred to.

East Point: 14 mi NE of Souris in Lot 47. PO 1867-1913.

East Point: E end of PEI. On Holland 1765. In Micmac Kespemenegek, “end of an island”. Map 1750 Pointe Rouge.