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BFAR RIVER 103 PNR En Std pear two letters from A. W. &. and Benjamin Sulte, upon the Imbert question, I do not see that either of them throw much new light upon the subject.

“Mr, Sulte declares that Lescarbot calls the stream in question Hébert. Be it so, admit that Lescarbot, in making his map, conferred upon his friend and fellow-traveller, Louis Hébert, the compliment of naming a river for him, We have seen that the name did not “stick”; neither did Champlain’s name St. Antoine, for the same Stream. It was otherwise with the name Znbert. This name must have been in use about the commencement of the eighteenth century, if not much earlier; for it appears in, at least, Bellin’s maps @rly in the century. I décline to admit that Belin, in compiling his Map, Was any more likely to “read Imbert where he should have seen Hébert”, that anÿbody else as to read Hébert, where he should have scen Imbert. We have seen that the latter name was in use about half à century after Bellin's time; for it appears in Charlevoix’s map in 1744, So, the name Imbert did “stick”, until it more recently got changed, in some Cases, into Hébert. Ù

“My researches may have been defcctive ; but I can find 20 mention of Louis Hébert’s having been in Acadia until 1610, the Year of Lescarbot’s arrival. Neither do I find it

D Positively stated anywhere, that Simon Imbert shared in the earlier Voyages of Poutrincourt. I positively believe that ke did so, and for the following reasons: Pout-incourt, vhilst in France, in the latter part of the Year 1611, sent Out a ship loaded with supplies for his Young colony and intended home, at Port Royal. This vessel and Cargo were entrustel to Simon Imbert, and by him safely taken to their fintended destination. By being entrusted with important Charge, it is obvious that Simon Imbert, although in times

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past only a “cendrier et ancien Tavernier de Paris”. was regarded by Poutrincourt as à highly trustworthy servant, à man of capacity, and as a voyageur who was already acquainted with the coasts of Acadia. My inference is that Poutrincourt rewarded his tried and faithful servant with a gift

lands, embracing a certain island and a certain stream, which thence became known as “Isle d’Imbert” and “Rivière d’[mbert”, — Imbert’s Island, Imbert's” River — not as à compli-

ment to him, but because they were his, as we now hear of Smith’s Brook, Gray’s River, MeLellan’s Mountains, &e. ! have no proof positive of this, but I think it is a conjective which bears the highest degree of probability upon its face.

&T have failed to observe, in my reading, any mention of Louis Héberts having brought his wife out to Acadia. Im the early part of 1611, Madame de Poutrincourt eame out to Port Royal,with her eldest son.young Biencourt, and brinsing with her all of her family who were not already in Acai this, according to the Jesuit Father Biard, who came out 11 the same ship. She was undoubtedly the first white womai who ever stopped upon the soil of Acadia, and one of the lirst who ever saw America. She probably had a daughter, or daughters, and perhaps female servants whic! accounts for Father Biard speaking in the plural of “the women”.

“This little controversy has perhaps been carried for enough. Let us return to the place from which it originatel. Why cannot the people of that ridiculously named spot — #5 has, I am told, been already suggested—revive the 4 none of Imbert, pronounced after the English manner, and «il their double village East Imbert and West Imbert? Lei the unfortunate place have a name before it become a rai Wif station. Any application of the name “Hébert” is to be re

prehended ; for there are already two rivers Hébert in Nova ‘otia, — one in Ilants and one in Cumberlend county.” P.S. H. (5) * * * To this, I answered by a letter which the Digby Courier prin‘ed, on the 24th May.

SIR,—After reading the communication of “P, S, 12 in vour last issue of the 10th inst. 1 beg Dermission to submit the following remarks :

Was not Lesarbot at Port Royal with Louis Hébert, and is not that Hébert the same Hébert whom Lescarhot eulogizes so often in jus book? No doubt about that. Well, who will say that Lescarbot made a mistake in his man when he wrote the name of Hébert ? Lescarbot had left Acadia at the date on which the name of Simon Imbert is mentioned for the first... and last time,

About Belin, there can be no misuni ing: he ever saw the country: he always made his maps as à compiler (i. e. from previously existing authorities) ; he did not live in the commencement" of the eighteenth century, be- Cause his map is dated 1744. That sme Year, Charlevoix publirhed his History of New Fran e, am ‘in furnished him with a copy of his map. Bellin is no authority in the face of Lecarbot,

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1! the original source of infor nation Lesearbot is an age thentical and indisputable source, Be!lin and Charlevoix are but historians, like You and me, that is to sav: we have not

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seen the facts themselves. In answer to the query about tix time Hébert went to Acadis, please read Champlain and Les carbot, who were there also, and who rank necessarily above the historians.

JL am not astonished to see that Hébert turned to be Im pert and that this last name Was modified into Bear, becaux handred similar cases in the his-

there are no less than one tory of Canada. Let me tell you whab huppened among» the good people of Quebec, during the present century. A French settler named Berger (shepherd in English) dividell His land into buildings lots and sold them well. Te French called the place Bergerviile. The Engiish speaking peopi could not understand the meaning of the term, and they mis pronounced it Beggarsville. Later on, the French speakins k to translate it, thus miak- Quêteux (of Beggarm). The residents of the d rushed into

citizens of Quebec again undertoo!

ing: Village des village protested against such a qualification an print, explaining that the word shepherd meant in French the man who tends sheep; but there was à mistake there, if we remember that the first cettler was Berger and not Shepherd The English citizens of Quebec pronounced themselves for Shepherdsville, in consequence of the argument ; and now-° days the English call it so, whilst the French people stick to Village des Quêteux, rot with standing the vituperation cf

the villagers —— and poor Berger himself is forgotten !

18th May 1889.

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