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

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TABLE ISLAND (Col.)—An island near Tatamagouche named by the Indians "Teegoonkoote" meaning the "small knee."
TAILOR ISLAND (I.)—Named after a tailor Mr. John McRae who is said to have been the first settler on the Island.
TANCOOK LITTLE (L.)—First granted to Patrick Sutherland. It was originally called "Queen Charlotte Island." The name is from the Indian name "Uktankook" meaning "facing the open sea."
TANGIER RIVER (H.)—The Indian name was "Ah-ma-gops-ke-keek," meaning "tumbling over the rocks."
A Morocco seaport and an island in Chesapeake Bay bears this name. It was owned by Portugal and the early Portuguese may have given it its name, but it is said to have been named after a schooner wrecked there in 1830. The Indians at one time called this place "Wospegeak" meaning "the sunshine reflected from the water." The Forks of the Tangier River was named by the Indians "Niktookpak" meaning "the place where the still water branches off."
TANGIER LAKE (H.)—The first of the Tangier Lakes, named by the Indians "Wiskusok," meaning "a branch of a tree."
The second of the Tangier Lakes was named by the Indians "Milpagech" meaning "variegated." (See Brian Lake).
The third of the Tangier Lakes was named by the Indians "Emasakunek," meaning "he could walk on snowshoes." They also knew it as "Pedawispak" or "barren lake."
The fourth of the Tangier Lakes was named by the Indians "Pedawikpaak" meaning "the flowing is obstructed in the midst of a barren."
TANGIER GRAND LAKE (H.)—The fourth of the Tangier chain of lakes named by the Indians "Pedawikpeak."
TANTALLON (H.)—Previous to 1890 this place was called "Head Harbor." It was first settled by German and French. The present name is after the famous stronghold of the Douglas Family in Haddingtonshire, Scotland.
TARBOT, TARBOTVALE (C. B.)—Named after "Tarbot" in the sub-division of Harris in the Hebrides, Scotland; suggested, no doubt, by descendants of emigrants from these parts. The Scottish spelling is "Tarbert."
​TATAMAGOUCHE (Col.)—This place is mentioned as far back as 1738 when La Loutre refers to it as "Tahamigouche" said to be the Indian word for "the place where two rivers meet." The Waugh and French River meet here. The termination "oochk" or as it appears "ouche" is the Micmac locative termination which gives the word the meaning of "place at "or "at the." Tatamagouche Township was for a time called Southampton, and the harbor "Southampton Harbor." Rand's dictionary says the Indian name was "Takamegootck" meaning "barred across the entrance with sand."
TAYLORVILLE (H.)—See Chaswood.
TEDDY FOLEY HILL AND BROOK (C. B.)—Near Sydney, so named after a colored man named Edward Foley, who was employed on the old Ingoville Farm and had his cabin on the hill.
TEDFORD HILL (Y.)—This hill received its name after an old Yarmouth County family named Tedford.
TENNYSON ROCK (C.)—This rock is the pinnacle of Pinnacle Island (one of the Five Islands, Basin of Minas.) The rock is solitary, and nearly two hundred feet high at low water,—a seated figure strongly resembling, as seen from the basin, Lord Tennyson in his old age—with his cloak about him, for this reason the Rock is so named.
TERENCE BAY (H.)—This place had at different times the following names: Tenants Bay, Tern Bay, Turner Bay and Turner Bay Rock.
THE HUB (C. B.)—This place is now included in the bounds of New Aberdeen. It was at one time called "Burnt Head" owing to a fire in one of the old coal mines. The name "Hub" which is now applied only to the coal mine, came about in this manner: Nearly all of the coal mines at one time in operation in this district were opened on the outcrop of the various coal seams, which swing around in a circle. "The Hub" was near the shore in the centre of the circle—hence the name.
THE MARTYRS (L.)—These islands were so called by Champlain. The name was suggested by the fact that a number of Frenchmen were killed on the Islands by the Indians.
THE NARROWS (H.)—This place was known to the Indians as "Kebek" or "the narrow place." (This word is also the possible origin of the name "Quebec".)
​THE OVENS (L.)—See Ovens Point.
THE PINES (K.)—This place was at one time known as "Pine Woods," now called "The Pines." It is a negro settlement.
THE ROOST (C. B.)—Near Glace Bay, was known in the early days as the "Shag Roost" because of the fact that large flocks of the sea birds known as "shags" roosted on the point of land. The name Shag was in time dropped.
THE WEDGE (Tusket) (Y.)—Settled by Acadians in 1767. The Indian name was "Nizigouziack"; also "Olsegou."
THIBEAUVILLE (R.)—This place received its present name August 1st, 1907. It was named after the majority of its inhabitants, who are named ""Thibeau." It was first settled by Jacob Thibeau about 1836.
THIRD LAKE (Q.)—See Liverpool.
(Q.)—See Port Medway.
(H.)—See Tangier.
THORBURN (P.)—Formerly known as Vale Colliery, was given its present name by an Act of Parliament in the year 1886. The name made up of "Thor" the Scandinavian god of Thunder, and "burn" the Scotch and north of England word for "brook or small river."
THREE FATHOM HARBOR (H.)—The Indian name of this place was "Amagunchech," meaning "the little breezy place,"
THREE-MILE PLAINS (Hts.)—A village so named because it is three miles from Windsor. (See Mapleton).
THRUMCAP (H.)—Shoal and Island near entrance to Halifax Harbor, probably so named from the thrumming or noise of the surf on the cape. The Indians named it "Elpasaktcatc," meaning "canted over."
THURSTON'S CORNER (Y.)—Received its name after one of the early settlers named John Thurston.
TIDDVILLE (D.)—So named after an early Loyalist settler Samuel Tidd.
TIDNISH (C.)—This name is probably the same as "Tignish" or Micmac "Mtagunechk," meaning "a paddle."
​TILBURY ROCK (R.)—A reef near St. Esprit, westward from Louisburg, so named owing to a British warship named "Tilbury" being wrecked there in the year 1757. The "Tilbury" was one of the eleven ships under the command of Viscount Howe and Admiral Holborne that made a fruitless attempt to capture Louisburg in that year.
TIMBERLEA (H.)—Formerly named Bowser Station (see); recently given this name. It is the centre of a considerable lumbering district.
TINKHAM ISLAND (Y.)—Called after an early settler named Edward Tinkham, who came from Marble Head and settled here in 1762.
TIVERTON (D.)—Settled in 1785 by Messrs. Robert Outhouse and John McKay, was known as Petite Passage. It received its present name in 1842 after the borough of that name in England, long represented in Parliament by Lord Palmerston.
TOBEATIC LAKE (Q.)—The sixth lake on the Liverpool River, called by the Indians "Toobeadoogook."
TONEY RIVER (P.)—Named in honor of Captain Toney, a Frenchman who was a great chief among the Micmac Indians. He is said to have made a treaty of peace with the English in 1761. The old Micmac Indian name was "Booktowtagun," meaning "spark of fire," or flint" or "what strikes fire," or literally, the place where flint stone is found.
TONGE ISLAND—So called after Colonel Winckworth-Tonge, who commanded the Engineers at the seige of Port Beausejour in 1755, and who received a grant of land in which this island was included. He was of Irish birth, and represented Kings County in the "Long Parliament" 1770-1785. He was at some time during those years Chief Naval Officer for Nova Scotia.
TOR BAY (G.)—Tor is Scottish for Rock or Pinnacle. This place was neamed by the early English mariners after Tor Bay on the south east coast of England. The Indian name was "Tabooesimkek," meaning "two in company picking berries." (This is where "Tabusintac, N. B., gets its name.)
TOWN GUT (P.)—At this creek a survey was at one time made for a town; the creek has ever since borne the name of the Town Gut.
​TOWN POINT (Y.)—In 1763 a committee intended to survey and form a town on a projecting point of land on the Chebogue Harbor. This place is still known by the name of Town Point.
TRACADIE (Ant.)—One of the four township divisions of Antigonish County. The Micmac Indian name was "Tulukaddy" which means "place of residence." Champlain mentions it in 1631 as "Tregate." Another explanation of the derivation of this name is that the Indians called it "Telegadik" a word used by the Micmacs to denote any particular inhabitated place or camping ground. The English changed the "I" to "r" (there is no "r" in Micmac), making it "Etragadie," from which we get the name "Tracadie."
TRAFALGAR (G.)—Named after Cape Trafalgar in Spain or after the great British naval victory gained there in 1805.
TRENTON (P.)—Named thus owing to the Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co. having their steel manufacturing plant at this place, and after the busy manufacturing capital of the State of New Jersey. The name originally was after the English River Trent. The choice of a name for this ambitious little Nova Scotia town was unfortunate as it lacks originality, and the name is used to denote a battle between the Americans and British, in which the British were defeated.
TRUEMANVILLE (C.)—Named by Act of Parliament passed in 1876.
TRURO (Col.)—First settled in 1761 by McNutt's colonists from Ulster. The Township was granted the 31st of October, 1765. It was at one time called "Cobequid." The present name is after the Town of Truro, the chief town of Cornwall. Truro is one of the four Townships of Colchester County. In the Court House in Truro there is a tablet erected by the Nova Scotia Historical Society in 1912, unveiled by H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, which reads as follows: "This Tablet commemorates the British settlement of Truro, Onslow and Londonderry 1760:-1762 partly by a colony of English stock from New England, chiefly by Scots-Irish from New Hampshire and Ireland under the leadership of Colonel Alexander McNutt etc., etc.
TUMBLIN ISLAND (L.)—Named after a resident, Benjamin Tumblin.
TUN ISLAND (H.)—An island in Blind Bay, named by Captain P. F. Shortland, R. N., in 1864.
​TUPPERDALE (I.)—Former name Rocky Ridge. Changed to its present name in honor of Sir Charles Tupper by an Act of Parliament in the year 1897.
TUPPER LAKE (Q.)—See Lake Tupper.
TUPPERVILLE (A.)—See Tupperdale.
TUSKET (Y.)—This place derives its name from the Micmac Indian word "Neketaouksit" meaning "the great forked tidal river.
Tusket Wedge was at one time called "Chebec."
Tusket Island in 1633 is called by Jean de Laite "Isles aux Tangneux" or "Gannet Islands." The Indians also knew this place as "Aglassawakade," or "place of the English."
The name also appears as "Tousquet" in Rameau's history of the French colonies 1859.
TUSKET WEDGE (Y.)—See the new name "Wedgeport."
TWEEDMOOGE (C. B.)—The Indian name given to the Barrasois or Lagoon at the head of East Bay or St. Andrew's Channel. "Tweedmooge" was the name by which the portage from East Bay to Sydney River was known.