Pictou County. The Indian name was "Tawitk" meaning "the outlet."
GRAND PASSAGE (D.)—and
GRAND PASSAGE (R.)—Known to the Indians as "Taooitk" or the "opening."
GRAND PRE (K.)—French meaning "the great prairie," a village on the shores of the Basin of Minas, the scene of many conflicts between the French and English, also the scene of the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755).
GRANVILLE (A.)—Granville Centre, Granville Ferry, Lower Granville, in honor of Lord John Cartaret, who became Eart Granville in 1744, and was English Secretary of State. On what was known as the Granville Shore, about opposite to Goat Island is the site of the first European settlement in North America (See Patterson's "Sir William Alexander") Granville, one of the four Townships of Annapolis County, was formed and granted in the year 1764 with 168 proprietors. Here the senior De La Tour built his first fort.
GRAPNEL BEACH (V.)—This place is so named because the anchorage or holding ground in the adjoining waters is good. Grapnel means a small boat anchor.
GREEN BAY (L.)—At one time named Palmerston Bay.
GREENDALE (Ant.)—This place was known as Greenfield; but the name was so common it was changed to its present descriptive name by an Act of Parliament in 1886.
GREENFIELD (Col.)—Surveyed and named by a Mr. Alexander Miller, about the year 1817. He surveyed the lines and boundaries of Earltown, Kemptown, and Greenfield, in this County and named them all.
GREENFIELD (Q.)—A farming village so admirably situated it is said that the season is a fortnight earlier than in other parts of the County. Early green suggested the name. It is near the "Ponhook," or "first lake" on the Medway River. In this County the affix "field" in naming their places appeared to be popular, as we find places named "Middlefield," "Brookfield," "Westfield," "Northfield," and "Buckfield," all within a very short distance of each other, the place name being formed by prefixing the word "field" by a descriptive or decorative word.
GREEN HILL (P.)—The old Micmac Indian name was "Espakumegek" meaning "high land."
