Place-Names of Nova Scotia.
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ABERCROMBIE (P.)—This place was likely so named after General James Abercrombie, a British General, who was connected with the 42nd or the first battalion of Royal Highlanders. He made several campaigns in Canada, and was killed at Bunker Hill in 1775.
ABERDEEN, C. B.—See New Aberdeen.
ABUPTIC HARBOR AND RIVER (Y.)—See Argyle River.
ACADIA.—Acadia, sometimes Cadie or Kaddy, is the Micmac Indian equivalent of region, field, ground, land or place, the place of; and when joined to an adjective, it denotes that the place referred to is the appropriate or special place of the object expressed by the noun or noun-adjective. In the Micmac Indian language adjectives of this kind are formed by suffixing "a" or "wa" to the noun.
As an example: Segubbun is the Micmac Indian for ground nut. Segubbuna, of or relating to ground nuts. Segubbuna-Kaddy, is the place or region of ground nuts. This gives us the place name of "Shubenacadie."
The Malicite Indians used the word "quoddy" for "Kaddy,", as it occurs in the place name "Passamaquoddy."
Acadia included the greater part of Maine, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and was known as "the Duke's territory" and later as "the King's territory", it was also sometimes called "the province of Sagadahock."
ACADIA COLLEGE—See Wolfville.
ACADIAVILLE (R.)—Formerly Little Arichat, changed by Act of Parliament to its present name in 1866.
ADDINGTON FORKS (Ant.)— Likely so named in honor of the Addington who was the British Prime Minister in the years that Edward, the Duke of Kent, was Commander-in-Chief of Nova Scotia, 1796-1800.
AINSLIE (I.)—The Township of Ainslie one of the four subdivisions of the north-western part of Cape Breton Island, was formed in the year 1828 and was named after Lake Ainslie which
