MITCHELL.-Island, North Channel, Algoma

after the Hon.

Peter Mitchell (1824-1899), one of the 'Fathers of Confederation'; Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 1867-73.

MOBERLY.-Rock, Sudbury; after a lawyer of Collingwood. MOCKING BIRD.-Island, Manitoulin; after a tug. MOHAWK.-Rock, Simcoe; probably after a vessel.

MOILE.-Harbour, John I., Algoma; after the owner of a sawmill here. The mill was seized by bailiffs, but was transported on scows from Detroit to this point.

MONCK.-Point, Manitoulin; after Charles Stanley, fourth Viscount Monck (1819-94); appointed Governor-General of British North America, 1861-67, and of Canada, 1867-68. Incorrectly,

'Monk' on the chart.

††MONCK.-Point, Cockburn I., Manitoulin.

*MONTRESOR.-Point, Bruce; named by Bayfield, probably after Capt. Henry Montresor who distinguished himself in the capture of U. S. gunboats at New Orleans, Dec. 12, 1815.

MOODIE.-Rock, North Channel, Algoma; after Mrs. Susanna Moodie, authoress of "Roughing It in the Bush," etc.

*MOORE.-Point, Simcoe; possibly after an official of Penetanguishene naval station.

MOORHOUSE.-Patch, Manitoulin ; after a boatman in surveying steamer Bayfield.

MOOSE.-Point, Georgian Bay, Parry Sound; 'Moose Deer' point on Bouchette's chart, probably translation of Indian name. MORDEN.-Rock, Parry Sound; after a lake captain.

MORELAND.-Bank, Manitoulin after a steward in the Bay

field.

MORRIS.-Island, Manitoulin; after late Hon. Alex. Morris (1826-89), Minister of Inland Revenue, 1869-72; Lieut.-Governor of Manitoba, 1872-77.

††MORRIS.-Island, Muskoka.

MORRISON.-Islands, Serpent Harbour, Algoma; after a lawyer, Owen Sound.

MOSLEY.-Island and rock, Parry Sound; after a Church of England clergyman.

MOUSE.-Island, North Channel, Algoma; "derives its name from the quantity of mice that abounded on it at the time of the survey."

MOWAT.-Island, Parry Sound; after Sir Oliver Mowat (18201903), Premier. of Ontario, 1872-96; Lieut.-Governor of Ontario, 1897-1903.

††MOWAT.-Island, Manitoulin.

*MUDGE.-Bay, Manitoulin ; possibly after Lieut.-Col. R. J. Mudge, R.E. (1790-1854), Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Engineers, one of the commissioners appointed in 1830 to report on Maine-Canada

boundary. Or, after Capt. Zacharie Mudge (1770-1852), first Lieutenant in the Discovery in Vancouver's voyage, 1791-92; Rear-Admiral, 1830; Admiral, 1849.

MULOCK.-Island, North Channel, Algoma; after Sir William Mulock, Chief Justice, Court of Exchequer, Ontario; PostmasterGeneral, 1896-1905.

MURIEL-Island, Parry Sound; after Muriel Welsh Boulton, Capt. Boulton's daughter.

MURIEL.-Point, Manitoulin.

MURRAY.-Point, Parry Sound; after Capt. Alex. Murray McGregor (q.v.)

††MURRAY.-Rocks, Parry Sound.

NADEAU.-Island, Parry Sound; after a Roman Catholic priest at Wikwemikong.

††NADEAU.-Point, Smith Bay, Manitoulin.

NANTON.-Reef, St. Joseph Channel; after Lieut.-Col. H. C. Nanton, R.E., a graduate of the Royal Military College, 1883.

NARES.-Point and inlet, Parry Sound; after Admiral Sir George Strong Nares; cominanded an expedition to the the Arctic, 1875-76; attained the, then, 'farthest North.'

NARROW.—Island and point, Manitoulin, and point, Noble I., Algoma; descriptive.

NARROWS.—Island, Parry Sound; descriptive of position near narrow passage.

NEEBISH.-Island, and EAST NEEBISH, rapids, St. Mary River; Indian name; probably same derivation as Nabobish, Indian village, Mich., which from nubobish, "poor soup."

NEELAND.-Island, St. Joseph Channel, Algoma; after Mayo Neeland, graduate, Royal Military College, 1883.

NELLES.-Island, North Channel, Algoma; after the Rev. Samuel Sobieski Nelles, D.D., LL.D. (1823-87), President of Victoria University, Cobourg, now of Toronto.

NEPTUNE.-Island, Cloche I., Sudbury; after the steamer Neptune in Hudson Bay expedition under Lieutenant Gordon, 1884. NEW.-Bank, Nottawasaga Bay, Grey; discovered during sur

vey.

NEWBERY.-Cove, Manitoulin ; after Christian name of Capt. Boulton's son.

NIAS.-Islands and rocks, Parry Sound; Lieutenant John Nias served on the Fury during Parry's Arctic voyage, 1821-23. NICHOLAS.-Island, North Channel, Algoma; after the late Nicholas Flood Davin (q.v.) M.P. for Assiniboia West.

NICHOLSON.-Rock, Manitoulin ; after Moses Vernon Nicholson, clerk in Department of Marine and Fisheries.

NICOLET.-Rock, Parry Sound; after Jean Nicolet, the famous French explorer who reached Sault Ste. Marie.

NIGER.-Rock, Parry Sound; Parry (q.v.) served as Lieutenant in the Niger (38) in 1815.

NEWBURN.-Rock, Parry Sound; after a boatman in steamer

Bayfield.

NISBET.-Rock, Sudbury; after the chief engineer of the Bay

field.

ant.

NOBLE.-Bank, Manitoulin ; after James Noble, fish merch

††NOBLE.-Island, Serpent Harbour, Algoma.

NORQUAY.-Island, North Channel, Algoma; after the late Hon. Joseph Norquay, Premier of Manitoba.

*NOTTAWASAGA. -Bay, Simcoe; Nottaway (or Nadowa) 'adders'—a name applied by various Algonquin tribes to a number of their neighbouring and most detested enemies-sag or sank 'outlet' (of a river). On Bouchette's map, 1815, the western portion is called "Iroquois Bay."

NUMBER 9.-Island, Muskoka; number given to the island by the surveyor.

††NUMBER 10.-Island, Muskoka.

OAK.-Islands, Parry Sound; this name is also applied to numerous other features in Canada, usually owing to its predominence in the vicinity over the other varieties of trees.

O'BRIEN.-Islands, Parry Sound, and patch, Manitoulin ; after the late Col. W. E. O'Brien, M.P., in command of the 12th York Rangers and the 35th Simcoe Foresters in Riel rebellion, 1885.

O'CONNOR.-Rocks, Parry Sound; after Rt. Rev. Richard Alphonsus O'Connor, R. C. Bishop of Peterborough.

O'CONNOR.-Island, North Channel; probably after late Daniel O'Connor, K.C., Ottawa.

O'DONNELL.-Point and channel, Muskoka; after the captain of a local passenger steamer.

O'DONNELL.-Island, North Channel, Algoma; after a boatman in the surveying steamer Bayfield,

O'DWYER.—Island, North Channel, Algoma; after an engineer

of Algoma.

OGILVIE.-Island, North Channel, Algoma; after late Wm. Ogilvie, D.L.S.; Commissioner, Yukon, 1898-1901.

OLD TOWER.-Island, Parry Sound; from old lighthouse

on it.

OLIVER.-Rock, Sudbury; after Major-General J. R. Oliver, sometime, Commandant, Royal Military College, Kingston; C. M. G., 1889.

O'MEARA.-Point, Manitoulin; after a former accountant, Department of Militia.

OMEMEA.-Island, Parry Sound; Indian name, signifies 'wild

pigeon.'

ONE-TREE.-Island, Nottawasaga Bay, Simcoe; from a "single ash tree blown down in 1894."

††ONE-TREE.-Island, Western Islands, Muskoka.

††ONE-TREE.-Island, Parry Sound.

††ONE-TREE.-Island, St. Joseph Channel, Algoma.

††ONE-TREE.-Island, Manitoulin.

ORLEBAR.-Rock, Parry Sound; after Commander J. Orlebar, R.N., naval surveyor.

van.

OSBORN.—Point, Manitoulin ; after chaplain to Bishop Sulli

OSLER.-Island, North Channel, Algoma; after Hon. Featherston Osler; Judge of Common Pleas, Ontario, 1875-83; Justice of Appeal since 1883.

OSPREY.-Bank, Muskoka; after Capt. Osprey V. Spain, late Wreck Commissioner, Marine and Fisheries Department.

OTTER.-Islands, North Channel, Algoma; after an otter seen swimming near the islands.

OTTLEY.-Island, Muskoka; after Charles L. Ottley, Commander on the Victoria, sunk in collision with the Camperdown off Tripoli, June 23rd, 1893.

OUIDA.-Rock, Parry Sound; after one of the children of Rev. H. Gaviller, Parry Sound.

OVERHANGING.-Point, Bruce; "name given to a cliff with a projecting apex."

*OWEN.—Channel, Manitoulin ; after Capt. (later, Vice-Admiral) William Fitzwilliam Owen (1774-1857); in 1815 and 1816, Lieut. Bayfield was assistant to Capt. Owen in the survey of Lake Ontario. Owen entered the navy in 1788; was midshipman in the London, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Colpoys (q.v.) at the date of the great mutiny; Lieutenant, 1797; Coinmander, 1809; Captain, 1811; in charge of survey of Great Lakes, March, 1815, to May, 1816; Vice-Admiral, 1854; died at St. John, N.B., 1857.

++*OWEN.-Island, Manitoulin.

*OWEN.-Sound, Grey; after Admiral Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen (1771-1849); entered the navy 1786; in 1796, he was acting captain of the Impregnable with Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Rich (q.v.), his godfather, and of the Queen Charlotte with Sir John Colpoys (q.v.); K.C.B., 1815; in October, 1815, he signed, as Commodore, a 'Return of officers serving on the Great

Lakes'; Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, 1822-25; Rear-Admiral, 1825; G.C.H., 1832; Vicc-Admiral, 1837; G.C.B., 1845; Admiral, 1846. It has usually been assumed that Owen Sound, like Owen Channel, was named after his brother, William Fitzwilliam Owen, but Cape Commodore at the western entrance and Point William, Campbell Bluff and Point Rich at the eastern, practically demonstrate the accuracy of the above derivation.

+tOWEN SOUND.-Town, Grey.

OWEN.-Island, Parry Sound; after a former resident.

OXLEY.-Point, Heywood Island, Manitoulin ; after the late James Macdonald Oxley, author, and, sometime, clerk in Department of Marine and Fisheries.

PACIFIC.-Rock, Sudbury; after the steamer Pacific, which struck on it.

PAGE.-Rocks, North Channel, Algoma; after John Page, Chief Engineer of Public Works, 1868-79; Chief Engineer of Canals, 1879-90.

PALESTINE. -Island, Parry Sound; "derives its name from the circumstance of its having formerly been used as a rearing place for bees from that country, a reminder of which is a couple of hiveshaped houses still remaining near the north-eastern side of the island."

PALLISER.—Point, East Rous I., Sudbury; after Sir Edward Palliser, famous British gun-maker.

PANDORA.-Rocks, North Channel, Algoma; after a Georgian Bay vessel.

PANET.-Point, Clapperton I., Manitoulin; after late Col. Charles Eugene Panet (1830-98), Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence, 1875-98.

PAPINEAU.-Island, North Channel, Algoma; after Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau (1786-1871), of Montebello, Que.; the principal leader in the Rebellion in Lower Canada, 1837-8.

*PAPOOSE.-Island, Manitoulin ; because near a larger island, Squaw Island.

*PARRY.-Sound and island, Parry Sound. As Capt. Boulton named features in Parry Sound and vicinity after brother-officers and ships that Parry served in, and after Parry's relations, etc., a brief summary of his life is given below, the names that have been given to features in Georgian Bay being in capitals:

Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855), son of Dr. CALEB HILLIER Parry and SARAH, his wife. His mother was the daughter of John RIGBY and grand-daughter of Dr. TAYLOR of Norwich. He received the first rudiments of education under Dr. MORGAN, then headmaster of the Grammar School,