settlers who were shipwrecked in the "Archduke Charles" about the year 1816.
LAKES O'LAW (I.)—After a lake in Scotland. This place is found named "Mario" on an old map. Whether this name was applied to the lakes or the district is not clear.
The lakes are now called "Harvard Lakes." There is a settlement near called "Emerald," so that the Irish must have had some representative among the early settlers.
LAKE ROSSIGNOL (Q.)—Was called after an early French adventurer and trader named Rossignol whose property and ship were confiscated near Liverpool by De Monts and his party, who founded Port Royal. (See Liverpool).
Rossignol, who was the first white man to visit the place, wandered off into the wilderness, and is said to have died on a small island near the north end of the lake which bears his name.
LAKE TUPPER (Q.)—This place was likely named after a fine old family of Queens County. Nathan Tupper was an early Parliamentary representative of the county.
LAKE WALLACE (Sable Island)—This small lake on Sable Island was named in honor of Michael Wallace who was an acting Lieutenant-Governor of the Province about the year 1818.
LAKE WENTWORTH (D.)—This place was first settled by Frederick A Robichaud in 1836. It is sometimes called "Robichauds Lake." Named in honor of Governor (1793-1807) Sir John Wentworth. (See Wentworth).
LANARK (A.)—Named after the inland county of Scotland of this name.
LANSDOWNE (P.)—Named in 1884 in honor of Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, the fifth Marquis of Landsdowne who was Governor General of Canada (1883-1888).
LANTZ SIDING (Hts.)—Received its name about 1898 from a gentleman named Lantz, who operated a brick and tile manufacturing plant at this place.
L'ARCHEVEQUE (R.)—Village and Cove, a French word meaning Archbishop.
L'ARDOISE (R.)—So named by the French, meaning "The Bay of Slate," because of the slate cliffs along the shore. The Indian name for this place was "Moglakachk", meaning "the place of brant or geese."
