The name "Miramichi" was first applied to a region in the northeast of New Brunswick, Canada, and has since been applied to other places in Canada and the United States. Although other interpretations have been suggested, it is believed that "Miramichi" was derived from the Montagnais words "Maissimeu Assi" (meaning Mi'kmaq Land), and was perhaps introduced for use in European languages by Jacques Cartier in 1535.[1]
Miramichi is used in the names of many places, including:
Settlements
edit- New Brunswick
- Miramichi, New Brunswick, a city in northern New Brunswick
- Nelson-Miramichi, New Brunswick, a dissolved community that was merged into Miramichi in a 1995 municipal amalgamation
- New Brunswick electoral districts
- Miramichi—Grand Lake, the current federal electoral district
- Miramichi, an earlier federal electoral district in New Brunswick (known as Northumberland and later as Northumberland-Miramichi)
- Miramichi (provincial electoral district)
- Miramichi-Bay du Vin, a provincial electoral district for New Brunswick
- Southwest Miramichi, a provincial electoral district for New Brunswick
- Miramichi Centre, a provincial electoral district for New Brunswick
- Miramichi Bay-Neguac, a provincial electoral district for New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- Miramichi, Nova Scotia, a community in Inverness County, Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Miramichi, a geographical area in Sudbury District, Ontario
- Pembroke, Ontario, formerly known as Miramichi, Canada West (ca. 1828-1850)
- Miramichi, a community in Middletown, Connecticut
- Miramichi, an historic post office in Hamilton County, Nebraska
Geographic features
edit- New Brunswick
- Miramichi River
- Miramichi Valley, a region frequently shortened to simply "Miramichi"
- Miramichi Highlands, a physiographic region of New Brunswick
- Miramichi Lake, a lake lying at the headwaters of the Southwest Miramichi River in York County, New Brunswick
- Miramichi Bay, an estuary of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
- Nova Scotia
- Miramichi Brook, a stream in Inverness County, Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Miramichi Bay, a bay in Bruce County, Ontario
- Miramichi Island, an island in Muskoka District, Ontario
- Miramichi Island, an island in Parry Sound District, Ontario
- Muskrat River, Ontario (near Pembroke) - formerly known as Miramichi River
- Yukon
- Miramichi Glacier
- Miramichi Lake, a lake in Osceola County, Michigan
- Lake Mirimichi, a reservoir in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Other places
edit- Miramichi Bridge, a bridge crossing the Miramichi River at Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada
References
edit- ^ Rayburn, A. (1975) Geographical Names of New Brunswick. Toponymy Study 2. Surveys and Mapping Branch, Energy Mines and Resources Canada, Ottawa
- ^ a b Querying Geographical Names of Canada, "Geographical Names of Canada - Querying by Name". Archived from the original on 2011-07-09. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
- ^ a b U.S. Board on Geographic Names, http://geonames.usgs.gov/