# Place-Names of the Province of Nova Scotia/E

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EARLTOWN (Col.)—Was first surveyed in the year 1817 by Alex. Miller, who gave it its name in honor of the Earl of Dalhousie who was at that time Governor of the Province.
Miller surveyed boundary lines for different Townships and gave some of them their names.
Earltown was first settled by Donald McIntosh and Angus Sutherland in 1813. They came from Sutherlandshire, Scotland.
EAST BAY (C. B.)—The modern and inappropriate name now generally applied to St. Andrew's Channel. The Micmac Indians called this place "Aglaseawakade," "the English settlement," or "place of the English."
EAST BERLIN (Q.)—Formerly known as Pudding Pan, given the present name by an Act of Parliament in the year 1886.
EAST CHESTER (L.)—Sometimes called "Scotch Cove." First settled by John Hutcheson, John Duncan and Thomas Thompson, from Scotland.
EAST DOVER (H.)—See Ocean Glen.
EASTON (D.)—Sometimes known as New Jerusalem, first settled by Enoch McMullin in the year 1856.
EAST RIVER (P.)—Was called by the Indians "Duckland," which is in their language "Apcheekumook-waakade."
Sometimes called by the early Highland settlers "Great River," owing to its being the largest of the three rivers, East, West and Middle River, which flow into Pictou Harbor.
ECONOMY (Col.)—Village and River. Micmac Indian name was "Kenomee," which means "Sandy Point" or a long point jutting out into the sea. This name is found in old church records and tokens spelled "Oeconomy." Later it was found spelled "Conomy" and at present "Economy," which suggests a meaning altogether different and less appropriate than the original "Kenomee."
ECUM SECUM (H.)—This sounds like an Indian name, but the Indians knew the place as, and called it "Megwasagunk," meaning "a red house."
​EDEN (P.)—See Garden of Eden.
EDWARDSVILLE (C. B.)—See Point Edward.
EEL BROOK (Y.)—The Indian name was "Wipkomegakum," meaning "place of eels, but they were poor and lean.
Was settled in 1767 by seven Acadians who escaped deportation.
EEL CREEK (Y.)—The Indian name was "Wipkomagakum," meaning "place of plum stones."
EGERTON (P.)—A Township of Pictou County. The County was subdivided in the year 1807 into three Townships, namely: Pictou, Egerton and Maxwelton. Probably named after Francis Egerton the third and last Duke of Bridgewater. He was a great projector of canals and was known as "The Father of British Inland Navigation."
EGMONT LAKE (H.)—Named after the Right Honorable Earl of Egmont, who obtained a grant of 100,000 acres on the Shubenacadie River in the year 1769.
The Indian name for Egmont Bay was "Wegwaak."
There is a cape of this name in Victoria County, Cape Breton—doubtless named after the same gentleman. It was formerly known as Aspe, and it is the southern promontory of the Bay of that name. (See Aspy Bay.)
EIGHT MILE BROOK (P.)—Given this name because of it being eight miles from the starting point of the old Cobequid Road to the point where it crosses the road.
EISNER COVE (H.)—Named after a family.
ELDERBANK (H.)—Formerly called Little Musquodoboit, named after St. Andrew's Church of Elderbank, which in its turn was named after the farm on which it was built.
ELDER HEAD (Y.)—Named after a resident, Mr. Ebenezer Moulton, who was a church elder. He came from Massachusetts in 1761 and is said to be the first preacher in Yarmouth.
ELGIN (P.)—So named in honor of James Bruce the eighth Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), a Governor-General of Canada during the troublesome years 1846-1854.
ELLERSHOUSE (Hts.)—Named after Francis V. Ellershausen, a native of Germany, who settled in Hants County in ​1864. He acquired a grant of 60,000 acres of land, including the Lakes Panuke and Stillwater. He built a large steam mill at Stillwater, and another at what is now known as Hartville.
ELLISON RIVER (D.)—Formerly known as Craig's Brook.
ELMSDALE (H.)—Received its name from the number of elm trees growing in the Intervale. First settled by a man named Tremoine; later by Frasers and McDonalds from Pictou County.
EMULOUS REEF (S.)—On Ram Island, Lockeport Harbor, called after H. M. Sloop "Emulous" of 18 guns, which was wrecked here August 2nd, 1812.
ENFIELD (Hts.)—So named at a public meeting called at Malcolm's Pottery 1862; suggested by Mr. Thomas B. Donaldson after his home town, Enfield, in the Connecticut River Valley. Was previously called "The Crossing."
First settler was William Hall (about 1830).
ENFUME (V.)—See Cape Smoky.
ENON (C. B.)—Originally a part of Loch Lomond, changed in 1905 by an Act of Parliament to the present name.
ERINVILLE (G.)—So named by lovers of Ireland who settled in this district.
ERNST ISLAND (L.)—Named after an early settler Mr. Mathias Ernst.
ESKASONI (C. B.)—"Eskasoni" is said to be an Indian word meaning "still water." But Dr. Rand gives the spelling as "Eskusoognik" and the meaning as "green boughs." This place is still settled by Micmac Indians and reserved for their use.
ESTMERE (V.)—So named by an Act of Parliament in the year 1887—"mere" a rare word meaning "a pond, pool or lakelet"—also old Scottish word for the sea.
ETNA (K.)—A point on the Blue Mountains named after the famous Sicilian volcano.
EUREKA (P.)—A milling company was established here known as the Eureka Milling Company; hence the village name.