Chief Justice Richard Gibbons, who was one of the first of the Civil Establishment in the Town of Sydney, in the year 1784. He was taken prisoner by the French when on a voyage from Falmouth to Halifax. He died of fever in a Nantz prison.
GIBRALTAR—The Indians named this place "Wesek," meaning a "sapling" or Weesik" meaning "the beaver's home." The original town and fortress in Spain received its name from the Saracen Leader Tarik "Gebel-al-Tarik" the hill of Tarik.
GIBSON'S WOODS (K.)—This is a negro settlement, and was named after the chief negro family among them.
GILBERT COVE (D.)—Named after Lt. Thomas Gilbert, a celebrated Loyalist Pioneer about 1783.
GILFILLAN ISLAND (Y.)—This island was granted to John Perry in 1765, and to James Gilfillan in 1767, and from the last named received its name.
GILLIS LAKE (C. B.)—Called after a family named Gillis; the Indian name was "Elbegatkik."
GILLISVALE (I.)—So named in 1881.
GISBORNE LAKE (V.)—Named after Frederick Newton Gisborne, an Englishman, who was about the year 1879 superintendent of the Dominion Telegraph and Signal Service. Gisborne laid the first submarine cable in America, and it was he who laid the first cable from Newfoundland.
GLACE BAY, (C. B.)—It was at one time known as Windham River-after a General Windham. It evidently received its present name from the French, who must have found it frozen over, and named it "Glace" (ice). Incorporated as a town in 1901. The Indian name for this place was "Wosekusegwon," meaning "bright house" or the "home of glory." The head of Big Glace Bay is known as "Dyson Pond."
GLADSTONE (I.)—A happy change from the old name "Victoria Line" in honor of the great statesman William Ewart Gladstone. The name was approved by Parliament in 1901.
GLASSBURN (Ant.)—This place was a portion of Black River settlement and was given its present name by an Act of Parliament in the year 1891.
GLENCOE (I.)—Named after the ill-fated glen of the same name in Argyleshire, Scotland, where Chief Maclan and his Macdonald followers were massacred in 1692.
