The Philadelphia covenantors who arrived in 1766 called it The Bend. Prince Edward Island was originally named Green's Shores Bedeque in honor of pioneer Daniel Green, a Quaker Loyalist from Pennsylvania. In more recent times, Dominion No. 4 post office in Cape Breton changed its name in 1931 to Passchendaele to memorialize the Canadian lives lost at one of the worst battles of World War One. Passchendaele remains the name of a neighborhood of Glace Bay. In southeastern New Brunswick, Dieppe took its name in 1947 from the coastal town in France assaulted by Canadian troops in the Second World War.
Place names continue to evolve.
Many of our most colorful place names originating from native Indian or early Acadian raise a knowing grin from the locals when attempted from the lips of visitors. Cascumpeque, Nauwigewauk, Tatamagouche, Tabusintac, Antigonish, Kouchibouguac, Passamaquoddy and Kejimkujik, to name but a few. Beaus jour, meaning good stopping place and Mahone Bay, N.S. after a type of pirate boat called mahonne. Burnt Church, N.B. got its name when an Acadian village and church were destroyed by the marauding English in 1758. Parrsboro, for John Parr, Governor of Nova Scotia from 1782 to 1791.