Title: New Brunswick "What's in a Name"
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Content: These names depict the problems encountered in     attempting to paddle a canoe against the on-rushing water. Sources: Places     and Names of Atlantic Canada (1996) by William B. Hamilton. St.     Croix River
The St. Croix River rises in the Chiputneticook     Lakes and flows 120 kilometres southeast to Passamaquoddy Bay, forming a part     of the boundary between New brunswick and     Maine. Discovered in 1604 by Pierre Du Gua de Monts and     Samuel de Champlain, the first settlement in acadia was built on an island in     the river, now known as Dochet's Island. ( It is today part of     Maine.) They called both the island and the river     Sainte-Croix because, upon exploration, they found that the river had three     branches that formed an irregular cross. The first year on Ile Sainte-Croix was     a disaster. Of the 79 settlers who attempted to 'overwinter', 39 died from     scurvy by spring. In the summer of 1605 the settlement was abandoned, the     buildings dismantled and moved across the Bay of Fundy, to     Port-Royal.