This is totally off topic, but can anyone tell me how Ecum Secum got its name? Every time I see it, my curiosity leaps to life. Joanne Hunt Litchfield, NH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Lynn Tibert" <tibert@ns.sympatico.ca> Cc: <NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [NS-L] Roll Call - Tibert, McDonald, Appleby, Fleet, Baker - and Guysborough County Veterans > Personally, I am researching these families: > > 1. Tibert (Typert, Tipert, Diebert) of Lunenburg County and Liscomb > Mills, Guysborough County. > > 2. McDonald: Loyalists who first settled in Shelburne County then moved > to Harrigan Cove, Halifax County and stretched to Liscomb Mills, > Guysborough County. > > 3. Fleet and Baker families of Ecum Secum, Halifax and Guysborough > County and Marie Joseph, Guysborough County. > > 4. Appleby family that arrived from Newfoundland and settled in Halifax > in the late 1890's. > > > Professionally, I am researching all veterans who were born and/or lived > most of their lives in Guysborough County, and who served in Canada or > overseas during the First and Second World Wars. > > Diana Tibert > Milford, NS > > ---------------------------------------- > Basic List Commands: > > 1. To post to the list > Send a message to: > NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com > > 2. How to unsubscribe > a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- > request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word > unsubscribe > > b. Digest mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-D- > request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word > unsubscribe > > 3. How to subscribe > Send an email containing only the word > subscribe > to NOVA-SCOTIA-L-request@rootsweb.com > > 4. How to change to Digest mode > a. Unsubscribe from List mode (2.a. above) > b. Subscribe to Digest mode > Send an email containing only the word > subscribe > to NOVA-SCOTIA-D-request@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOVA-SCOTIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Joanne -- Others may know how Ecum Secum got its name -- but it has an Indian backing -- meaning "red rock" so my husband told me, as he was born in Ecum Secum. The same is of Summerville Centre, where I was born -- original Indian name was Flat Rocks -- later Broad River, a tributary of Great River which has waterways from the Atlantic to Minas Basin. Due to eight places called Summerville in Nova Scotia, the 1898 postmaster requested and received permission to name it Summerville Centre. Guess my husband and I both came from areas with Indian backgrounds, but only my area had residential Indians. Muriel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joanne Hunt" <adajoanne@verizon.net> To: "Diana Lynn Tibert" <tibert@ns.sympatico.ca> Cc: <NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [NS-L] Roll Call - Tibert, McDonald, Appleby, Fleet, Baker - and Guysborough County Veterans This is totally off topic, but can anyone tell me how Ecum Secum got its name? Every time I see it, my curiosity leaps to life. Joanne Hunt Litchfield, NH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Lynn Tibert" <tibert@ns.sympatico.ca> Cc: <NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [NS-L] Roll Call - Tibert, McDonald, Appleby, Fleet, Baker - and Guysborough County Veterans > Personally, I am researching these families: > > 1. Tibert (Typert, Tipert, Diebert) of Lunenburg County and Liscomb > Mills, Guysborough County. > > 2. McDonald: Loyalists who first settled in Shelburne County then moved > to Harrigan Cove, Halifax County and stretched to Liscomb Mills, > Guysborough County. > > 3. Fleet and Baker families of Ecum Secum, Halifax and Guysborough > County and Marie Joseph, Guysborough County. > > 4. Appleby family that arrived from Newfoundland and settled in Halifax > in the late 1890's. > > > Professionally, I am researching all veterans who were born and/or lived > most of their lives in Guysborough County, and who served in Canada or > overseas during the First and Second World Wars. > > Diana Tibert > Milford, NS > > ---------------------------------------- > Basic List Commands: > > 1. To post to the list > Send a message to: > NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com > > 2. How to unsubscribe > a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- > request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word > unsubscribe > > b. Digest mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-D- > request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word > unsubscribe > > 3. How to subscribe > Send an email containing only the word > subscribe > to NOVA-SCOTIA-L-request@rootsweb.com > > 4. How to change to Digest mode > a. Unsubscribe from List mode (2.a. above) > b. Subscribe to Digest mode > Send an email containing only the word > subscribe > to NOVA-SCOTIA-D-request@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOVA-SCOTIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ---------------------------------------- Basic List Commands: 1. To post to the list Send a message to: NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com 2. How to unsubscribe a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word unsubscribe b. Digest mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-D- request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word unsubscribe 3. How to subscribe Send an email containing only the word subscribe to NOVA-SCOTIA-L-request@rootsweb.com 4. How to change to Digest mode a. Unsubscribe from List mode (2.a. above) b. Subscribe to Digest mode Send an email containing only the word subscribe to NOVA-SCOTIA-D-request@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOVA-SCOTIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Joanne, According to "Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia" (http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/cap/places/) page 193: "Ecum Secum is located around Ecum Secum Inlet about twenty miles north-east of Sheet Harbour. The Indians name was Agwasaagunk or Megwasaagunk, "a red house" or "a red bank". The origin of the name "Ecum Secum" is certain. An 1809 the variation was "Ekemsagen". An 1813 variation was "Ekemsikam" and by 1845, "Ecum Secum" was the spelling used." Cheers, Trish Trish LeBlanc St. John's, NL Researching - LeBlanc, Aucoin, Cameron & MacLean families of Cape Breton and all families in the Margaree area http://www3.nf.sympatico.ca/trish.leblanc/

Joanne Hunt wrote: > This is totally off topic, but can anyone tell me how Ecum Secum got its > name? Every time I see it, my curiosity leaps to life. This question is not Off topic but quote on topic. however the subject line should have been changed to say: Ecum Secum, Name Origin. bob gillis