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The Cornwallis River is in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It has a meander length of approximately 48 km〔(''Columbia Gazeteer'' )〕 through eastern Kings County, from its source on the North Mountain at Grafton〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cornwallisheadwaterssociety.ca/watershedinfo_map.html )〕 to its mouth near Wolfville on the Minas Basin. The lower portion of the river beginning at Kentville is tidal and there are extensive tidal marshes in the lower reaches. In its upper watershed at Berwick, the river draws on the Caribou Bog while a longer branch continues to the official source, a stream on the North Mountain at Grafton. ==History== The original peoples of the area, the Mi'kmaq, knew it as ''The Narrow River'', or Chijekwtook〔Dr. Watson Kirkconnell, (likely sourced from Silas Tertius Rand): 〕 There are also references to the Mi'kmaq calling the river Jijuktu'kwejk.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.danielnpaul.com/GovernorEdwardCornwallis.html ) as well as in a map published by the Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council.(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://mapcorg.ca/ )〕 The river was named Riviere St. Antoine〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kentville.ca/explore/virtual-tour/the-cornwallis-river/ )〕 by Samuel de Champlain after his arrival in the New World in the early 17th Century. Later it was called the Riviere des Habitants by the Acadians, who built a series of settlements around its mouth including the village of Grand-Pré and a smaller settlement further up the river at New Minas.〔(Town Plot - Starrs Point )〕 The Acadians also built extensive dykelands in the area, although there is no clear evidence that the ''running dykes'' beside the river were built by them.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first1=Ed )〕 Following the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755, the area was settled by New England Planters in 1760 who named the river after the townships established along its banks. The river became known as the Horton River.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://archive.org/details/anhistoricaland01haligoog )〕 after Horton Township, the major Planter settlement at the mouth of the river, named after the ancestral home of George Montagu-Dunk, the official in charge of English settlement in Nova Scotia. However in the 19th century settlement and commercial growth moved upriver to the Kentville area in Cornwallis Township,〔(Ed Coleman, "How Kentville Became the Shiretown", ''Kings County News'', May 22, 2015 )〕 named after Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax. As a result, the river assumed the name Cornwallis River by 1829.〔William MacKay, "A New Map of Nova Scotia complied from the latest surveys" (1829) published in ''The Mapmakers Legacy'', Joan Dawson, Halifax: Nimbus (2007), p.4〕 The Mi'kmaq of Annapolis Valley First Nation in Cambridge, NS, voted unanimously in 2011 to have the name revert to what ''they'' consider to be the original local name for the river, the Abiskaq Saboo: "Annapolis Valley First Nations Chief Brian Toney wants the name of the Cornwallis River changed. He said band members have to cross it every day and are reminded of Gov. Edward Cornwallis. Cornwallis put a bounty on the scalps of natives, including women and children in 1749 during the frontier warfare that followed the founding of Halifax. The proposal led to a debate about renaming and the portrayal of history. 〔 (Leo J. Deveau, "Judge wrongs of history in context — and don’t erase names", ''Halifax Chronicle Herald'', April 2, 2015 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cornwallis River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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