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YEAR BOOK 1951-52 47 PLACE NAMES by L. B. SKINNER Many interesting articles have ·been written on the origin and meaning of Canadian place names and our own ski country near Ottawa might receive a little ·of the 'same attention. King Mountain Many of our readers associate this name with the late Mackenzie King but this high point in our local •llopography is of historical interest not because of the former prime minister but for l:ts relationship to the triangulation sy.stem of the Geodetlc Survey of Canada. Nine·teen other triangulation stations are visible .from this vantage :POint as .shown on the sketch below. In 19(}5, the station on King Mountain was the :p·oint of commencement of the triangulation sySr tem for the whole ·of Canada and the name King Mountain serves as a memento of the work of the late Dr. W. F. King, C.M~G., first director of :the Geodetic Survey. Ottawa The ongm and meaning of tli.is name has been the subject of much debate. The author helieves that the river was uamed first for an Indian tribe whose name was variously spelt Otoways, ·Ottah-wah, Ottawawe a_nd some thirty other spellings listed in the Handbook of Indians of Canada. Gatineau The Gatineau River was mentioned but not by name, as early as 1613 by Champlain. The first record of a name for the river is in a report by David Jones (1783•) in which he mentions River Lettinoe. A plan made by Colonel By of RideaU: Canal fame, shows the river designated Galteno River. It is believed the name commemora-tes Nicolas Gastineau or Gatineau of Three Rivers who was a fur-trader between 165{} until his death about 1683. Ga-tineau's sons were also fur-traders and al'though •the St.
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