Acadian Place names during Acadian periods by Province

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Acadian Place names during Acadian periods by Province
(Acadia was geographically and administratively separate from the French colony of Canada (Québec) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia)

Place Name/date established/Current Name if applicable/Census or Parish

Île Saint Jean, Acadie, Nouvelle-France 1713 - 1763
Nova Scotia Colony 1763 - 1769
Colony of St John's Island 6/28/1769 - 1873
Province of Prince Edward Island, Canada 7/1/1873

Anse de la Boulloterie, Boullotierre/now Newtown/in census of 1752
Anse-de-la-Fortune
Anse au Compte Saint-Pierre Kappoch
Anse au Dubuisson
Anse au Matelost
Anse aux Morts
Anse du Nord-Ouest
Anse à Pinet/now Pinet Harbour
Anse aux Pirogues
Anse au Sanglier
Bedec, Bedeque
Belair
Etang des Berges (near Tracadie) / now Stanhope
Etang du Naufrage
Etang Saint-Pierre
Fort-de-l’Est
Grand Anse
Grande Ascension
Havre à l’Anguille
Havre aux Sauvages/now Savage Harbour
Havre la Fortune/ now Fortune Bay
Havre Saint-Pierre
La Traverse, Cape Traverse
Malpèque, MacPec, Malpec/established before 1745/now Malpeque, Port Hill/Ste-Famille Parish
Petite Ascension
Pointe au Bouleau/now Birch Point
Pointe de L'Est
Pointe Prime, Prim Point/now Eldon/in 1752 census/St-Paul Parish
Port La Joye/established 1720/now Charlottestown Harbour/in 1752 Census/St-Jean-l'Evangeliste Parish
Port St. Pierre
Rivière au Crapeaud/ now Crapaud
Rivière de Île au Foin (Foic?)
Rivière des Blancs
Rivière des Blonds/de Blancs (on Tyron river)
Rivière-du-Moulin-à-Scie
Rivière du Nord
Rivière du Nord Est/in 1752 census/St-Louis Parish
Rivière du Ouest/now West River
Rivière du Peugiguit
Rivière du Porte la Joye
St. Pierre du Nord St Peters/established1720/in 1671 census?/St Pierre Parish
Tracadie,Tracadieche/now Carleton (in 1795)
Tranchemontagne
Trois Rivieres/now Brudenell Point

Île Royale, Acadie, Nouvelle-France 1713 - 1763
Nova Scotia Colony 1763 - 1784
Cape Breton Colony 1784-1820
Nova Scotia Colony 1820-1867
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada 7/1/1867

Baie-des-Espagnols 1752
Bay of Gabarus 1752
Baye de L’Indienne
Baye de Mordienne 1752
Chétican, Chéticamps, Ochatasia (1660), Ochatis(1689) Chéticamp 1660-
Isle of Sainte Famille (near Port Toulouse) 1752
L’Ardoise 1713 1752
La Baleine 1714 1752 Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours
La Briquerie 1752
La Rivière de Mire 1752
Lorembec/Laurembec 1714 1752 Ste-Claire
Louisbourg 1713 Notre-Dame-des-Anges
Niganiche (SAW combines with Po
rt d’Orleans) 1721
Nerichac Niganiche (SAW combines with Port d’Orleans)
Petite Bras D’or 1752
Petit-Dégrat 1725 1752 Ste-Claire
Pointe a La Jeunesse (near Sainte Famille) 1752
Port-aux-Basques 1740
Port-d’Orléans/Niganiche 1721 Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours
Port Dauphin 1716, 1752 Ste-Anne
Port-Toulouse 1715 1716, 1752 St-Pierre
Rivière aux Habitants 1752
Rivière de Mire 1752
Sainte-Anne* (French fort)
Scatary 1722 1752
Ance Daranbourg, Isle of Scatary 1752
Ance de Bellefeuille, Isle of Scatary
St.-Esprit 1724 1752 St-Esprit

Places unsure:
Avilles Costebelle
La Cadie on Isles Madame 1752

Newfoundland
Ile St-Pierre St-Pierre 1687 St-Pierre
Plaisance 1663 Notre-Dame-des-Anges
Plaisantin at Ille Mon Repos
Port-aux-Basques

Place Name/Current Name if applicable/Years/Census or Parish
Acadie, Nouvelle-France To 4/10/1713
Nova Scotia Colony (counties implemented) 4/11/1713 - 1867
Nova Scotia 7/1/1867

Aulac (near Beaubassin)
Baulieu 1714
Beaubassin Amherst 1679 - 1755 (when burned) 1686, 1693, 1698, 1700, 1701, 1703, 1707, 1714 Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours
Cansueau/Canso Guysborough 2012
Cap Tourmentin 1755
Cappe 1714
Cap Nèigre (near Pobomkou) 1671
Cap Fourchu = Pombcoup Yarmouth
Cap de Sable large area encompasses more than 1 town
Chebogue/Chebook ? - 1759 Ste-Anne
Chebooktoosk Bouctouche Acadian 1785
Chebuctou Halifax in 1749
Chedabouctou Guysborough 2012 1659 1686
Chezzetkouk = Shillencook
Chibouctou
Chignecto/Chiqnitou = isthmus area
Chimougouik 1755
Cobeguit/Cobeguid/Vekopequit Turo Before 1728 1701, 1703, 1707, 1714, 1750/1751 SS-Pierre et Paul
Conway Digby in 1783
Fort Anne = Annapolis Royal
Fort Chedaboucto/Chiboucto Guysborough
Fort Edward (at Pisiquid) Windsor 1749
Fort Latour/Cap de Sable Villagedale 1630
Fort Lawrence (built after Beaubassin) 1750-1756
Fort Point = Chedabouctou
Fort Saint Lewis = Chedaboucto = Fort LaTour? ? - 1702
Fort Saint Francis = Canceau/Canso
Fort Ste. Marie La Heve 1632-1636
Grand Pré 1687-1755 1701 Saint Charles de Mine
Halifax 1749
La Butte (burned 1755) ? - 1755 1750/1751, 1755
La Hève/La Have 1604 - ? 1686, 1693
La Rivière Ste Croix (in colony of Mines)
La Rivière des habitants 1714
La Rivière du Port Royal 1693
La Rivière de la Vieux Habitants 1701, 1704
La Riviére de la Vieille Habitation 1714
Les Planches (burned in 1755) Amherst in 1764 ? - 1755 1750/1751
Lunenburg (British) 1753-
Magannechis
Merliguaiche/Merliqueche/Merligash Lunenburg in 1753 ? - 1753
Menoudy/Minudie (near Beaubassin) 1750/1751, 1755
Minas, des Mines (area Rivière aux Canards, Habitant Creek and Minas) 1688 1686, 1693, 1701, 1703, 1707, 1714, 1750/1751 St-Joseph
Ministigueshe
Miramichi 1686, 1761
Missaguash River/Megagouesch/Messagouache (near Beaubassin) 1671- 17580/1751
Mouskedaboue(sp?)/Musquodoboit Cole Harbour-Lawrencetown after 1755 1671, 1713
Nechepatagon
Noel
Pisiguit/Pigiguit/Pisiquid Windsor 1698- St-Famille
Petite Rivière Walton River
Pictou (Merigomish Harbour) Merigomish Harbout
Pobomcoup (1651 to 1758 when burned) Pubnico 1651 1671, 1686, 1693 Notre-Dame
Port La-Tour (after Acadian period, at Cap de Sable)
Port-Mouton 1604
Port Razoir
Port Rossignol Liverpool in 1759
Port-Royal Annapolis Royal in 1710 1636-1710, Annapolis Royal 1710-present 1671, 1678, 1686, 1693, 1698, 1700, 1701, 1703, 1707, 1714 St-Jean-Baptiste
Pubnico 1651
Rivière-aux-Canards 1670-1755 1701, 1714
Rivière-aux-Rochelois 1671
Riviere de Kiniscour (in Mines area) 1701
Riviere de L’Ascension (in Mines area) 1701
Rivière de Mecan 1750/1751
Rivière de Nanpan 1750/1751
De La Rivière Pisiguit 1714
Rivière des Mines ou Rivière des Hebert 1750/1751
Riviere St-Antoine 1701
Shillencook Chessetcook
Shubenacadie ? To 1755 Ste-Anne
Tatamagouche (burned in 1755) ? - 1775
Tebouque at Cap Forchu Yarmouth in 1761 ? - 1761
Teotore

Vil Cheverie
Vil Conomie = Economy
Vil Porcupine/Cap Porcupine Portapique

Place Name Current Name if applicable Years Census/Parish
Acadie, Nouvelle-France To 1763
Nova Scotia Colony 1764 - 1784
Colony of New Brunswick 1784 - 1867
New Brunswick, Canada 7/1/1867

Babineau (near/in Memramcook area) Salisbury
Baie Sainte-Anne 1760-
Baie Verte 1752, 1755
Belleilse (St. John River Valley)
Beaubears Point (in Miramichi area) about 1750 - 1758
Pointe-de-Beauséjour/Beauséjour (became Fort Cumberland in 1755 by British) 1750-1755 1752 St-Louis
Beausoleil (near/in Memramcook area) Boundary Creek
Brassard, now Macabee
Burnt Church Point (in Miramichi area)
Butte de Portage (near Baie Verte) 1752, 1755
Butte à Roger (near Fort Beauséjour)
Cap St. Laurent 1755
Caraquet 1761
Chedaique (now Shédiac)
Chipagan (Shippagan)
Chipoudy Shepody 1698 - Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation
Cocagne 1772
Ecoupage/Ecoupay (near St. Anne’s Point)
Fort Beauséjour became Fort Cumblerland in 1755 1750-1755
Fort Boisébert
Fort Cumberland (was Fort Beausejour) in Petitcodiac area Fort Frederick/Fort Monckon (British built 1758 probably on site of Fort LaTour 1758 British
Fort Gaspareaux became Fort Monkton in Baie Verte (titled Riviere des Gasparots) 1701, 17414, 1752, 1755
Fort Gédaique
Fort Jemseg/Jemsce (St. John River) Carleton 1659 1676, 1685, 1693, 1695, 1698, 1733
Fort Latour (St. John River Valley) 1630-1642
Fort Lawrence (Petitcodiac area)
Fort Martignon 1672 yes
Fort Menagoueche on St. John River A fourth fort built at site of Carleton
Fort Nashouat
Fort Nashwaak, St. John River 1692-1700 1695
Fort Nerepis (originally Indian) pre-`697 - 1765 at least
Fort St-Jean, St. John River Valley pre-1659 -1700
French Lake (St John River)
French Village, Incl Eel River Noble Settlement, then Hardwicke 1767
Freneuse, River St. Jean 1695, 1698
Gédaique Shediac 1751 first acadians
Grand Anse v Grymross/Grimrose/Gimross (St. John River valley) Gagetown ? - 1758
Ile de la Valliere Tongue's Island 1676 -
Kennebeccassis, near Jemsek -1788
Lac Freneuse = French Lake? 1755-
La Coupe 1752, 1755
Le Lac (on the Aulac river) 1752, 1755
Madawaska Settlement (after the expulsion, until 1843 when it was divided between NB and Maine[37] 1784-
Médoctec/Pays-Bas 1686- St-Jean River Catholic Mission, or Ste-Anne
Memramcook/Memeramkook pre expulsion - ? 1752
Mission de St-Charles (Miscou area) 1634
Mission de Miramichi 1761
Neguac/Negouac 1757
Nipisiguit/Nepisigny (missions of Recollet and Jusuits) 1620 1686, 1761
Pesmonguadis 1693
Petitcoudiac/Petitcodiac/Peccoukac/Petkoudiack Hillsborough, Moncton? 1698 - 1752, 1755
Point à Buot Pointe-de-Bute
Pré-des-Bourgs (near Beaubassin) Sackville 1752, 1755
Pré-des-Richards (near Beaubassin) Middle Sackville 1752
Ramrekeeke/Ramshack (destroyed in 1755 at same time as Tatamagouche) Wallace ? - 1755
Restigouche 1750 1760
Ristigouche was in Quebec
Richibouctou/Richibucto/Rigibouctou Richibucto 1687, reestablished 1790
Sackville (adjacent to Tantramar Marshes)
St-Anne, St. John River area ? - 1759 when burned
Sainte-Anne des Pays-Bas (St. John River Valley) St. Anne's Point, now Fredericton pre 1733 - 1759 (rebuilt) 1733
St. Basile (Madawaska Co) 1792-
Saint David (refugees) Madawaska 1785-
Saint-Léonard (Madawaska Co) 1789-
Sainte Marie Springhill
Shepody = Chipoudy
Riviere St. Jean/St John River 1693, 1698
Tracadie (how to tell which one vs Ile Saint-Jean?) 1785-
Tintamarre Trantremar 1723- 1752, 1755 Ste-Anne
Veskak/Veshak/Vechkok/Weskak/Westcock (near Beaubassin) 1750/1751, 1752, 1755

Eastern Maine
Acadie, Nouvelle-France To 1783?
New England 1783
Colony of New Brunswick 1783 - 1842
State of Maine 8/20/1842

Castine (became British 1763) 1613-present
Norridgewock/Kennebec pre 1694 -
Pentagouët (now Castine) Castine 1620's 1671, 1693 Ste-Famille
Fort St-Marie became Fort La Tour 1631
Madoueska/Madawaska (NB until 1842, then split) 1784
Pesmaquady/Passamaquoddy St. Stephen 1684
St. Aubin (in Passamaquoddy)
St Croix (in Passamaquoddy) Douchet 1604

Sources

• https://www.acadian.org/history/documented-records-early-acadia/ (name spellings 1659)