EDEN (P.)—See Garden of Eden.
EDWARDSVILLE (C. B.)—See Point Edward.
EEL BROOK (Y.)—The Indian name was "Wipkomegakum," meaning "place of eels, but they were poor and lean.
Was settled in 1767 by seven Acadians who escaped deportation.
EEL CREEK (Y.)—The Indian name was "Wipkomagakum," meaning "place of plum stones."
EGERTON (P.)—A Township of Pictou County. The County was subdivided in the year 1807 into three Townships, namely: Pictou, Egerton and Maxwelton. Probably named after Francis Egerton the third and last Duke of Bridgewater. He was a great projector of canals and was known as "The Father of British Inland Navigation."
EGMONT LAKE (H.)—Named after the Right Honorable Earl of Egmont, who obtained a grant of 100,000 acres on the Shubenacadie River in the year 1769.
The Indian name for Egmont Bay was "Wegwaak."
There is a cape of this name in Victoria County, Cape Breton—doubtless named after the same gentleman. It was formerly known as Aspe, and it is the southern promontory of the Bay of that name. (See Aspy Bay.)
EIGHT MILE BROOK (P.)—Given this name because of it being eight miles from the starting point of the old Cobequid Road to the point where it crosses the road.
EISNER COVE (H.)—Named after a family.
ELDERBANK (H.)—Formerly called Little Musquodoboit, named after St. Andrew's Church of Elderbank, which in its turn was named after the farm on which it was built.
ELDER HEAD (Y.)—Named after a resident, Mr. Ebenezer Moulton, who was a church elder. He came from Massachusetts in 1761 and is said to be the first preacher in Yarmouth.
ELGIN (P.)—So named in honor of James Bruce the eighth Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), a Governor-General of Canada during the troublesome years 1846-1854.
ELLERSHOUSE (Hts.)—Named after Francis V. Ellershausen, a native of Germany, who settled in Hants County in
