changed to this name in 1914, and an Act of Parliament was passed in this year confirming the change.
GOAT ISLAND (C. B.)—This is a very old name for this island, and appears on very early maps of Cape Breton. It is near Louisburg, and the French had a battery on it to defend the entrance.
GOAT ISLAND (A.)—This island was first called "Biencourtville" in honor of Biencourt. Then it became known as "Armstrong's Island", after a possessor named Armstrong. At one time also it was called Vane's Island, after Charles Vane, to whom it was granted. The French named it "Isle aux Chevres" that is "Isle of the Goat." The English called it "Goat Island," by which name it is known today.
GOFF'S (H.)—Named after one of its early settlers, Mr. William Goff.
GOLDBORO (G.)—By an Act of Parliament in the year 1898 changed from its old name East Side Isaac's Harbour.
GOLD RIVER (L.)—There is a tradition that gold was originally found at this river by the early French settlers, and hence the name; but another authority asserts that the name was "Gould River" after an early settler, and it became changed to its present name. The Indian name for this place was "Amagapskeget" meaning "rushing over stones."
GOOSE HARBOR (G.)—See St. Francis.
GORE MOUNTAINS (Hts.)—No doubt named in honor of Sir Charles S. Gore, General-in-chief in North America, with his residence in Halifax (1837). (Gore District in Upper Canada was not named after this officer, but after Sir Francis Gore, who was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, 1806-1877).
GOSCHEN (G.)—Named after the pastoral city of Biblical fame, which was situated in Egypt. This name also appears, or did appear, as the name for settlements in Antigonish, Hants and Colchester Counties.
GOTTINGEN (H).—On April 6th, 1764, the suburbs of Halifax were called "Gottingen" at the request of a number of people of the neighborhood. It is named after the Prussian city in Hanover.
GOUGH LAKE (H.)—See Anderson Lake.
