. The Canadian field-naturalist. . ⢠place name indicating burn â² place name inferring burn â major settlements Birchy Bay < 0 2 4 6 km Figure 1. Location of place names referring to fires. facing the open Atlantic were discovered and named earlier than those located deeper in the bay. Hence the name of the largest island at the entrance to the bay, Fogo Island, is one of the oldest place names in Newfoundland. It first appears as y:do fogo (Fogo Island) on a map drawn by Pedro and Jorge Reinel in or before 1519, and it means "Fire Island" in Portuguese. "Cap Brule"^ (
. The Canadian field-naturalist. . ⢠place name indicating burn â² place name inferring burn â major settlements Birchy Bay < 0 2 4 6 km Figure 1. Location of place names referring to fires. facing the open Atlantic were discovered and named earlier than those located deeper in the bay. Hence the name of the largest island at the entrance to the bay, Fogo Island, is one of the oldest place names in Newfoundland. It first appears as y:do fogo (Fogo Island) on a map drawn by Pedro and Jorge Reinel in or before 1519, and it means "Fire Island" in Portuguese. "Cap Brule"^ (Burnt Cape) near the western entrance to the bay is of French origin, and, consequently, not as old as the names of Portuguese origin. It should be noted, however, that even most of the English place names are relatively old, probably originating about the time the first English fishermen frequented and settled the area at the end of the 17th century. Several "Burnt Islands" and "Burnt Heads" appear on the earliest sea charts of the area, surveyed by Michael Lane in about 1785, and by Frederick Bullock in 1826^. Place names, at best, are only indicators reminding the researcher to consider the possibility that vege- tation fires may have occurred in a given area. Only a more detailed field investigation can properly ap- praise the actual role of the fire in development of local vegetation types and their distribution. 2Cape Brule is the approved name of the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names ^Both charts are in the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa. Literature Cited Bluthgen, J. 1964. Allgemeine Klimageographie. Walter de Gruyter and Co., Berlin. 599 pp. Lemieux, 1961. An evaluation of Paterson's CVP Index in eastern Canada. Canada Department of For- estry, Forest Research Branch, Technical Note Number 112. 11 pp. Mather, J. R. and G. A. Yoshioka. 1968. The role of climate in the distribution of vegetation. Annals of the Association
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