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

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MABOU (I.)—Nicholas Denys called the place "Le Chadye." The name is a corruption of the Indian word "Malabo." The Indians named the place "Malabokak"-the meaning is obscure.
MACCAN RIVER (C.)—The Indian name was "Maakan," or "Maagan," meaning "the fishing place." The English changed the spelling to its present form.
MACNAB CREEK (R.)—Named after a family of MacNabs early Scotch settlers of Richmond County.
MADER COVE (L.)-Named for Bernard Mader, a native of Germany, from which country he came to Nova Scotia, and was one of the original colonists locating at a point in Lunenburg County, which took the family name, and has since been known as "Mader Cove."
MAGRAY ISLAND (Y.)—See Big Tusket Island.
MAHONE BAY (L.)—In 1754 Captain Ephriam Cook of Halifax formed a settlement here. It was called "Mush a Mush" in 1756. It is said that the name "Mahone" was first given to the Bay because it was a resort for pirates. As their vessels were low crafts the French word "Mahonne," which means "Venetian boats," was given to the Bay. The name was later applied to the village.
The name "Kinburn," "Kindred Streams," was used in 1857, but the name fell into disuse. "Mahone Bay" was shortened to "Mahone."
On a map dated 1672 this place appears as La Baye de Toutes Isles. or the Bay of Many Islands.
MAINADIEU (C. B.)—Some French maps have it "Menadou." Charlevois has it "Penadou." It is an old Indian word, but drifted into the French spelling.
Some give this story: "Main a Dieu," said some storm-tossed sailor, who believed he saw the hand of God (Dieu) stretched forth to save.
Latter day Indians call it by the name "Luskuch," meaning a hieroglyphical direction, drawn on bark and placed as a direction to others. Mainadieu was at one time known as Little Cape Breton.
​MAITLAND (A.)—See Maitland, Hants.
MAITLAND (R.)—One of the four Townships of Richmond County named in honor of Sir Peregrine Maitland, who was Governor of Nova Scotia 1823-31.
MAITLAND (Hts.)—Named in honor of Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777-1854), whowas Governor of the Province 1823-31. After the French deportation the first settler was John Raines or Rhines. The first land grant was to William Putnam and Luke Upham, dated Janusry 30th, 1771. The Indian name was "Menesatung"meaning "healing waters." Before Maitland received its present name it was known as Beaver River (see) Settlement.
MAITLAND (Y.)—See Maitland, Hts.
MALAGA LAKE (Q.)—This is the second lake on Port Medway River, and the name is from the Indian word "Maligeak" meaning "fretful water."
MALAGASH (C.)—This place was called by the Indians "Malegawate," meaning "the mocking place," or the place where the Indians used to meet to play games. Some Micmac students say that the word is from the Micmac word meaning "end of smooth waters."
The water between Malagash Point and Cape John was at one time known as Frederick Bay, so named by Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet Desbarres, after himself.
The Malagash Point or Cape was called by the Indians "Wagwoskoogwek" meaning "the end of the still water."
MALAGAWATCHT (I.)—Said to be a Micmac Indian word meaning a triangular piece of land formed by a river on two sides and a lake or larger body of water on the third side.
In New Brunswick there appears the name "Malegawaachk" given a lake with many islands in it.
MALIGEAK LAKE (L.)—An Indian word said to mean "loose" not firm. The word is compounded of "Mal-bad-loose" with a termination denoting inherent and inanimate. (See Lunenburg).
MALIGNANT COVE (P.)—So called owing to the wreck near-by of a British man-of-war vessel named the "Malignant" bound to Quebec. (See new name Milburn.)
MALONEY CREEK (Near North Sydney) (C. B.)—Named after a family of this name who settled and for a long time ran a ​grist mill, at this place. Sydney's first settler was an Irishman named John Meloney or Maloney (1784). (See Muggah's Creek.)
MANASETTE CAPE (G.)—Said to have been named after a steamship.
MANCHESTER (G.)—One of three townships of Guysborough County, so named, in all probability, after the English City of Manchester.
MAN-OF-WAR POINT (V.)—Received its name from a vessel which was built there and not finished when the Island was taken by the British, and they burned her, The marks of the forge are still to be seen there, and a few years ago the blocks on which she was built could be seen sunk in the sand.
MAPLETON (C.)—Portion of Maccan (see) changed to the above name by an Act of Parliament passed in the year 1879.
MAPLETON (Hts.)—This place was once known as the Three Mile Plains (see). The name was changed to Mapleton by an Act of Parliament in the year 1901.
MAPLEWOOD (L.)—The place formerly known as Lower Foster Settlement, by an Act of Parliament in 1907 was changed to its present name.
MARBLE MOUNTAIN (I.)—Received its name owing to the hill or mountain of excellent limestone found there.
MARGAREE (I.)—Named by the French "Marguerite" River, and by the Indians "Weeukuch" or "Weukuto."
The Indians called the mouth of the Margaree "Weeukuch" meaning "red ochre," and the river mouth they called "Oochaadooch" which means "where they get it." (the Red Ochre).
Margaree Township was one of the four subdivisions of the north-western part of Cape Breton, formed in the year 1828. MARGARETVILLE (A.)-Named after the wife of Judge Haliburton, who was at the time Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. It was at one time called "Reagh's Cove," also said to have been at one time called Peter's Point.
MARJORIE ISLAND (R.)—Formerly known as Gooseberry Island. Received its present name about 1884 after Miss Marjorie Campbell, daughter of Sir Alexander Campbell.
MARKLAND—See Nova Scotia.
​MARR BROOK (D.)—So named after an early settler Thomas Marr.
MARSHY HOPE (P.)—A valley in the Antigonish Mountains.
When his neighbors were in the habit of saying to James Mappel (about 1810) "Leave this marshy place; the frost will destroy your crops," he always replied "I hope it will improve." Hence his neighbors made the remark that his hope was a marshy hope, which became the name of the valley.
MARSHALL COVE (A.)—See Port Lorne.
MARSHALL TOWN (D.)—Named after a first settler Anthony Marshall.
MARTIN RIVER (L)—Near Mahone Bay. The Indian name was "Piktoojook," meaning "small explosions."
MARTIN POINT (Col.)—Near Londonderry. The Indian name was "Wosoksegek" meaning "scen in the distance, as a signal; bright land mark."
MARY JOSEPH (G.)—The Indian name of this place was "Megwasagunk," meaning "red shells."
MASSACRE ISLAND (Q.)—An Island in Port Mouton. It is said that a French ship was wrecked upon this island, and the crew were all cruelly murdered by the Indians. The bones of many human beings were found from time to time beneath the sands on the beach of the island-hence the gruesome name.
MASON ISLAND (L.)—So named owing to the excellent quality of sand and gravel to be found on the island which was extensively used by local and other masons.
MASSTOWN (Col.)—At one time called "Cobequid Village." This village takes its present name from the fact that the French Acadians had a place of worship or mass-house there, Winslow herded them into this church before taking them on board his vessels in the year 1775.
MATTIE (G.)—This place is named so because of a number of the residence bearing the name Mattie.
MAUGER BEACH (H.)—This beach is near the entrance of Halifax Harbor. At one time it was owned by a man, Joshua ​Mauger, who in the year 1749 was Provincial Agent in London for Nova Scotia. He came to Halifax from Louisburg, and in 1751 was Victualler to the Navy at Halifax.
There is a Township and an Island in New Brunswick also named after this man.
MAXWELTON TOWNSHIP (P.)—A Township of Pictou County. In the year 1807 the County of Pictou was subdivided into three townships; namely, Pictou, Egerton and Maxwelton.
MAYFIELD (Ant.)—First settled in 1820 by James Mcdougall from Keppoch, Scotland. He named it "Keppoch." It was changed to Mayfield about the year 1888.
MAYPOLE BROOK (Col.)—A brook near St. Andrews River, where the Indians used to assemble and hold their councils and kindle their fire under a large tree, which later suggested the name "Maypole."
McCULLY HILL (Col.)—Named after a resident William McCully, a son of William McCully an early Scotch settler of French River.
McGRATH COVE (H.)—Named after William McGrath, who settled here in the year 1851. (See Ocean Glen; see also Rockhaven.)
McKINNON HARBOR (V.)—Named after a family of settlers. The Indian name was "Amasiboogwek," meaning "a grand river."
McLENNAN MOUNTAIN (P.)—Received its name from John McLennan, the first settler at the mouth of the brook that flows past the base of the mountain. Here it is claimed was organized the first Presbyterian Church in the Province of Nova Scotia.
MACNAB'S ISLAND (H.)—In 1750 was called Cornwallis Island. It was named after Peter MacNab who bought the island for £1000 in 1783. The name appears on the Colonial Office map of the year 1815.
McNEIL BAY (C. B.)—A Bay on the Mira River named after an early settler Lieutenant McNeil.
McNUTT ISLAND (S.)—Alexander McNutt, an enthusiastic adventurer from the north of Ireland, who was the means of settling Truro, Onslow and Londonderry—also the County of Shel​burne—at the close of his life resided on an island there and in 1765 was drowned crossing to the shore. The island has since been known as McNutt's.
MEAGHER'S GRANT (H.)—So named after a Captain Meagher to whom the Government granted this tract of land about the year 1784 to compensate him for the loss of a schooner which he had loaned to the Government.
MEANDER (Hts.)—In Newport. The Indian name was "Miltcigatc."
MEAT COVE (V.)—Received its name owing to the great number of moose and caribou found there in the early days, which furnished the natives and others with s supply of meat.
MEDWAY RIVER (Q.)—See Port Medway.
MEISNER POINT (L.)—Named after the Postmaster Jeffrey Meisner.
MELROSE (G.)—, MELROSE HILL (I.)—After Melrose in Roxburgshire, Scotland.
MELVERN SQUARE (A.)—First settled in 1790. Was named "Mill Town." About fifty years ago at a public meeting called for the purpose, it was named "Melvern Square" at the suggestion of William Gates. The Gates family were among the first settlers of the place. Four roads meet at this square.
MELVILLE ISLAND (H.)—Was at one time called "Couries Island" probably named after Henry Dundas, the first Viscount Melville, at one time Secretary of State, and was Lord of the Admiralty 1804-1805.
MERIGOMISH (P.)—Micmac "Mallegomichk." At one time called "Malegonish." The Micmac word means "Hardwood Grove." First settled by Barnabas McGee, a native of the north of Ireland who emigrated to Pennsylvania or Maryland and from there to Merigomish in the year 1776.
Dr. Rand says the name is from the Indian word "Malegomitc" meaning "the place of merry making."
Merigomish River was at one time known as Port Luttrell.
Merigomish Island sometimes known as Robertson's Island, after Colonel Alex Robertson, who owned it at one time.
Dr. Patterson finds the Micmac meaning for Mallegomichk as diversified by coves; he quotes no authority but it is beautifully appropriate.
​MERLAND (Ant.)—At one time named "Usher" changed by an Act of Parliament to its present name in 1868. It was first settled by the following Irish families: Dominic Daley, Thomas Coffey, Thomas Power, Michael Hogan and Patrick Dunn, about the end of the eighteenth century. It is said this place was named in honor of a former priest the Reverend James Merle. Merle is, the Scotch name for a black bird.
MERRITT POINT (C. B.)—Near Little Bras d'Or, named after a family who settled near and owned the land which forms the point. They were of Scotch descent.
METEGHAN (D.)—The Indian "Mitihikan" meaning "wooden fence"-weir. The village was first settled by Prudent Robicheaud in the year 1785. The Geographic Board of Canada states that it is a descriptive Indian name meaning "blue stone."
MEUSE POINT (Y.)—Named after a French Acadian, Benjamin Meuse, an early settler.
MICA HILL (V.)—A hill near Neil's Harbor, about 900 feet high. Received its name owing to mica being present in the near neighborhood.
MICHAUD POINT (R.)—Appears sometimes as "Micheaux Point." Denys in his descriptive passage around the Island refers to the Isles Michaur, the name or a variation of it, still given the point. The islands are known as the Basque Islands.
MIDDLEFIELD (Q.)—See Greenfield.
MIDDLE HEAD (V.)—A name given to the point of land which divides the north and south Ingonish Bays.
MIDDLE RIVER (H.)—Near Sheet Harbor. The Indian name was "Kookwejoogwode," meaning "the haunted place" or "the place of spectres.' The Indian game of Blind Man's Buff was played here.
MIDDLE RIVER (V.)—The original Indian name was "Wagamatcook," or "Wokumutkook," meaning "little green water," elsewhere said to mean "somewhat cleaner."
MIDDLETON (A.)—So called because it is nearly the midpoint between Annapolis and Kentville.
MIDDLE RIVER (P.)—The Micmac Indian name for this place was "Nemcheboogwek," meaning "straight flowing," or "flowing down hill in a straight course.'
​MILBURN (Ant.)—By an Act of Parliament in the year 1915 the name Malignant Cove (see) was changed to the present name.
MILFORD (I.)—So named by an Act of Parliament in the year 1884.
MILFORD HAVEN (G.)—Settled by Benjamin Hallowel and others in the year 1784. The grant was given in 1765. Hallowel came from Boston. He divided his 20,000 acre grant among Loyalists, in 1784. In 1786 they planned and laid out a town named "Boylston."
MILL BROOK (Col.)—Here William Waugh, son of the first settler Wellwood Waugh, built a water mill at a very early date, hence the name.
MILL BROOK (P.)—First settled by Thomas and John Fraser in the year 1800. They built a mill there in 1808, hence the name. It was earlier than this known as Bear Brook, owing to their having trapped a large bear on their first visit to the Brook.
MILLIGAN SWAMP (D.)—Named after an early settler John Milligan.
MILL CREEK (C.)—On the River Hebert. The Indians called the place "Booktowaagun," meaning "fire works."
MILLVIEW (H.)—The settlement formerly known as Lower Bedford, The Dump and Doyle's Dump, changed to its present name by an Act of Parliament passed in the year 1896.
MILL VILLAGE (Q.)—At one time called Mills Village. It received its name owing to the first settlers Smith and Moseley, having erected a grist mill there. The place was surveyed and granted about 1760.
MILTON (Q.)—This place was called "the Falls" until the year 1830. It received its name owing to the excellent milling opportunities in the locality.
Richard Kempton and his four sons were the first settlers.
MILTON (Y.)—This place was known as "The Mills" in 1820. In this year a brig was built here, and the place of building was filed in the Registry as "Milltown." The Customs Officer changed it to Milton, and so the name was evolved. This place was first settled by Sealed Landers in the year 1761; he was one of the three first settlers in Yarmouth. They came from Cape Cod. ​MINAS BASIN—Minas, Manis, Menis, as it has been variously called. Was named by the French "Les Mines." It was named after the Cape which owes its name to the fact that veins of copper had been found at Cape d'Or, called also Cap de Mines.
MINAS CHANNEL—The Indians called this place "Pleegun," meaning "opening in a beaver dam."
MINAS RIVER, MINAS SETTLEMENT, MINAS REGION, MINAS BASIN—The home of the Acadians, all named after the Cape of that name. These places are now covered by the names: Avonport, Hortonville, Grand Pre, Gaspereau, Wolfville, Port Williams, New Minas, Kentville, Starr's Point, the two Canards, Cornwallis and Pereau.
MINASVILLE (Hts.)—See "Minas Basin." This name was given it by an Act of Parliament in the year 1890; it was hitherto known as Moose Brook Settlement.
MINT COVE (D.)—Often called Mink Cove, was settled in 1789.
MINE HOLE (Col.)—Believed to be the result of very early excavating for copper ore, hence the name.
MINUDIE (C.)—An Indian word "Menoodek" meaning "a small bay." A fanciful derivation for the name is "Main a Dieu, i. e., "God's Hand." The Indian word "Munoodek" means "a sack" or "a bag" and the name may have been derived from this word.
MIRA RIVER (C. B.)—The Indian name was "Soolakade," meaning "the silver-place." It was named "Mire" in honor of a French officer, Lieutenant M. de Mire, in the year 1746. We find it on the maps about the year 1800 as "Miray" and "Myre."
In 1737 Mons St. Ovide de Brouillan, at that time the French King's Lieutenant on the Island, received a large grant of splendid land on the Mira River. There is a little river, a branch of the Mira, which the Indians named "Mtoodcok," meaning "a difficult, dangerous place."
MISPOUK LAKE (Y.)—This name is from the Indian words "mis" (great) and "paug" (still water).
MISSAQUASH (C.)—The little tidal river that formed the division line between the French Fort Beausejour and the British Fort Lawrence. Doubtless Micmac Indian. We find it ​spelled "Mezagouesch," "Mesagoueche," In 1750 records it appears as "Musaguash." In 1755 the French called the river "Ste. Marguerite."
MISTAKE RIVER, MISTAKE SETTLEMENT (D.)—Lumbermen under William Hassett, who was foreman for John Heavyside, an early enterprising lumber merchant, at one time reached the shore and thought it was the north-east branch of the Sissibou; finding they were mistaken they gave it the name as above, this was about the year 1828. Sometimes called Irish Settlement.
MOLASSES HARBOR (G.)—See Port Felix.
MONASTERY (Ant.)—This place received its name from the fact that there was a monastery there, which was established by a Father Vincent in the year 1839.
MONEY POINT (on Mira River) (C. B.)—The story is told that a passing boatman saw exposed on the sands at this place a cask which he thought contained money. He came back at night to get it, but the swift change in tide had covered it.
MONEY POINT (V.)—This place is so named owing to the fact that a specie ship was lost there and up to the present time gold coins are found in the sands and rocks of the place.
MONTAGUE (H.)—This district received its name in honor of Gore Montague, the son of Col. George Montague a descendant of the Duke of Manchester, who owned lands at Lake Loon, near Dartmouth.
MONTROSE (Col.)—Named after the seaport town of this name in the North Sea in Forfarshire, Scotland.
MOODY POINT (P.)—The Indian name of this place was "Poogunipkchk."
MOOEANUK (H.)—A string of islands near Jeddore. An Indian name meaning "the haunt of the sea duck."
MOOSELAND (H.)—See Arlington.
MOOSE RIVER (A.)—Was at one time called by the French "La Riviere d'Orignal," after some man of that name. The English confounded this word "Orignal" with "Oregnol," which in French means a "moose." Hence the present name.
MOOSE RIVER (C.)—The Indians named the place "Kesegwitck," meaning "the current flows swiftly."
​MOOSE RIVER (Q.)—Once named "Ruisseau de la Roche" or "Rock Brook."
MORAR (Ant.)—Formerly known as North Side Cape George, given its present name by an Act of Parliament in the year 1888. Named after a county on the western coast of Scotland.
MORDEN (K.)—Named after a Kings County family "Morden." It was formerly named "French Cross," a name given it for the reason that a large black cross had been erected at this place by some of the French Acadians who escaped at the time of the "Expulsion," and spent some time at this place. A number of them died and were buried there, and the cross was erected by the survivors to mark their resting place.
Some of them escaped to friends on the opposite side of Minas Channel. Their place of landing was called "Refugee Cove."
MORE-RUM BROOK (Y.)—A watering place for horses, about a mile west from Tusket Bridge. One historian says, it derived its name from the circumstances that, while the horses were drinking, travellers used the opportunity offered by the excellent spring water for mixing purposes, to take another glass of grog, generally rum. Another Yarmouth historian says it received its name in this strange way: "When the road was being cut out the rum which was being served to the men gave out when the workmen reached this point; they refused to go beyond the brook until the rum was forthcoming. The surveyor in charge told them they could drink from the brook until more rum arrived, hence the name "More-Rum Brook."
MORGANVILLE (D.)—Settled in 1828, sometimes called Morgan Settlement, after the first settler, Edward Morgan.
MORIEN, C. B.—At one time called "Cow Bay," so named owing to the finding there of a cow belonging to the first settler of Sydney, John Maloney, it having strayed from his farm in Sydney. Previously called by the French "Morrienne Bay." The French mined coal here as early as 1720.
The Micmac Indian name for this place was "Noolektootc," meaning "place jammed with ice," or "a bivouacking place." The present name, an abbreviation of the old French name, was fixed by an Act of Parliament in 1895.
MORRIS ISLAND (Y.)—Named after John Morris, who in the year 1773 received a grant of the whole island.
MORRIS LAKE (H.)—Sometimes known as McDonald Lake. It is near Dartmouth. Probably named in honor of Charles Morris, who was Surveyor-General of the Province about the year ​1780; or perhaps in honor of his son who bore the same name and succeeded him as Surveyor-General in 1781. The Geographic Board of Canada states it is named after an Indian family of Morris living at the lake.
MORRISON ISLAND (P.)—The Micmac Indian name of this place was "Tumakunawaakade," meaning "the pipe stone place"
MORTIMER POINT (P.)—Near Pictou. Named after Edward Mortimer, an Englishman who settled in Pictou and became a wealthy merchant.
He built "Norway House," a historic and interesting place in the town.
Was for some time known as Gordon's Point, owing to a Lieutenant Gordon having settled there.
MORVAN (Ant.)—First settled by McDonalds and McDougalls. It was named "Keppoch" by James McDougall, after his Scottish home village. Later it was named "Morvan."
MOSER ISLAND (L.)—So named after a Mr. Jacob Moser, one of the early grantees of the Township of Lunenburg.
MOSHER (H.)—An Island and Point named after an old St. Margaret's Bay family-one time known as Grampus Island and Point.
MOSHERVILLE (Hts.)—This place was formerly known as Middle Kennetcook and was by an Act of Parliament in 1870 changed to its present name.
MOUNT ADAM (P.)—See Garden of Eden.
MOUNT DENSON OR DENISON (Hts.)—This place received its name in honor of Colonel Henry Denny Denson, an Englishman who settled here about 1755, and took up a large grant. His home was called "Mt. Denson."
Denson's name appears as a member for Newport (Kings County) in 1767.
MOUNT EGERTON (P.)—See Egerton.
MOUNT EPHRAIM, MOUNT THOM (P.)—Thomas Troop and Ephraim Howard, coming from Pictou to Truro to meet and assist the first settlers who were arriving from Philadelphia in the Brig "Hope," called these mountains after themselves.
The old Indian name for Mount Thom was "Pamdunook" (a mountain chain.)
​MOUNT GRENVILLE (R.)—See St. Peter's.
MOUNT HANLEY (A.)—Called after a man named Hanley, who crossed over it in the early days. It was named Hanley's Mountain" up to 1896; then it was changed to its present name.
A very noted Loyalist named Thomas Barclay, afterwards Speaker of the Nova Scotia Legislature, settled himself and a number of Loyalists here.
MOUNT PLEASANT (D.)—Settled and named by settlers from Digby in the year 1787.
MOUNT THOM (P.)—See Mount Ephraim.
MOUNT UNIACKE (Hts.)—This place was settled in 1808 by an Irishman named Richard John Uniacke, who came to Cumberland County in 1774, where he received a large grant of land. He was Solicitor-General of the Province in 1782. He died at Mount Uniacke in 1830.
MOUNT VARNER (L.)—So named after Elias Varner. The Mount is on lands owned by him.
MOUNT YOUNG (I.)—It is said that this place was named after Sir William Young (1799-1887), who was the first representative of this County. He was Premier of Nova Scotia 1854-1857 and again in 1860 when he was appointed Chief Justice of Nova Scotia and was knighted in 1868. The County was in 1836 known as "Juste au corps."
MOUSE ISLAND (C. B.)—Near Long Island, in the Bras d'Or Lake. Granted in 1820 to Rev. Hibbert Binney, with Long Island. A very small island near the comparatively large one suggested the name.
MOYDART (Ant.)—Evidently named after the Scottish County "Moidart" on the west coast, although the spelling is unlike the original.
MUD BRIDGE, near Wolfville (K.)—The Indian name was "Mtaban," meaning "mud-catfish ground."
MUGGAH CREEK, near Sydney (C. B.)—Named after Mr. John Muggah a native of Banffshire, Scotland. He was employed as a military engineer at Sydney. He married a Miss Meloney, a daughter of Sydney's first settler, John Meloney, and ​settled at Muggah's Creek. The plant of the Dominion Iron & Steel Company is located on the old Muggah farm.
(It is strange that the creek in the northern arm of Sydney Harbor is named after the family to which this man's wife belonged "Maloney's Creek.)
A very early authority refers to this creek and stream as "Dartmouth River."
MULLEGASH (C.)—See Malagash.
MULL RIVER (I.)—Named after the Island or Sound of this name in the Hebrides, Scotland, by the settlers of Scotch origin.
MUNRO POINT (V.)—A point in St. Ann's Harbor, named after a resident family spelling their name thus. There is also a point of this name on Boularderie Island, named after the owners, a very respectable family of Scotch descent who lived there.
MURCHYVILLE (H.)—Settled by Scotch about the year 1812. It was for years called "Mill Village." The first settlers were named Merson. The first post office was established in 1876. A number of the inhabitants are named "Murchy"—hence the name of the village.
MURDERERS ISLAND (L.)—The Island was so named owing to the many crimes committed on it by the Indians in the early days.
MURPHY'S BRIDGE (Y.)—So named after William, one of the six sons of a very early Yarmouth settler James Murphy.
MURRAY (V.)—This place was so named in honor of the Honorable George H. Murray, Premier of Nova Scotia, by the manager of an American Lumber and Pulp Company doing business there.
MURRAYFIELD (P.)—Named after an early Scotch settler named Murray.
MUSHABOOM (H.)—This is an old Indian name by which the Post Office at this place is still known. It was at one time called "Winchester Harbor." It is locally known as "Chelsea Bay."
MUSQUODOBOIT (H.)—Indian name. The original spelling was "Mascoudabouet" and also appears as "Muskoodeboowek," said to mean "flowing out square," or "rolling out in foam or suddenly widening out after a narrow entrance at its mouth." ​This place was first settled by Europeans about 1692. The first grant was to Sieur de Gautiers.
Lower Musquodoboit was formerly known as "Meagher's Grant," and was settled in 1799.
Upper Musquodoboit was at one time called "Deacontown" after Samuel Fisher Archibald, who came from Truro and settled here in 1798; he was a deacon. There is a point near called "Mount William," so named owing to the fact that a William Guild, who was drowned in the river, was buried on the Hill.
Used to be called "the Garden of Halifax" and the old settlers claimed that the Indians knew it as "the chosen water."
The Indians named Middle Musquodoboit "Natkamkik" meaning "the river extends up hill," and Upper Musquodoboit they called "Kesokudek," meaning "the road runs over the hill."
MYRA (H.)—A Cove and Island in Blind Bay, Halifax County, called after a family named Myra.