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WAGONER SETTLEMENT (D.)—Settled in 1833 by Benjamin Wagoner, and called after him. Now known as Riverdale.
WALLACE (C.)—One of the three Township divisions of Cumberland County. This place was at one time called "Ramsack" or "Ramshag." It was settled in 1784 by American Loyalists. In the year 1810, Alexander Stewart, for many years the County (Cumberland) representative in the legislature, had the name changed to "Wallace" in honor of Michael Wallace, Provincial Secretary. Wallace acted as Lt.-Governor of the Province in 1818 and again in 1824. The name has spread to Wallace Bay River Bridge—Station—Grant—Highland—Ridge—East Wallace—Head of Wallace Bay—North and South, etc.—all in Cumberland County. This appears to be a regrettable multiplicity of nearly similar names, and must lead to endless mistakes and misunderstandings.
WALKERVILLE (R.)—The old name for this place was Basin River Inhabitants. It was renamed by an Act of Parliament in 1906.
WALTON (Hts.)—The name was formerly "Little Petite." It was changed about 1830 to "Walton" after a gentleman named James Walton Nutting of Halifax, who owned considerable property there.
WARREN (C.)—So named in honor of Warren Hastings. (See Hastings).
WARREN LAKE (V.)—Named after a family who are said to be one of the first English-speaking settlers at North Bay, Ingonish, after the exodus of the French.
WASHABUCK (V.)—Said to be a Micmac Indian word meaning an angle of land formed between a river and a lake. Sometimes spelled Washabuckt, and "Watchabuckt." There is an Indian name "Wosobachuk" which means "placid water" and is likely the word the name is derived from.
WATERFORD (C. B.)—A mining town located near a lake which is known as "Waterford Lake"-hence the name. Locally, the lake was known in recent years as "Kearney's Lake" after an
