GEOGRAPHIC BOARD OF CANADA 55 his mouth large, his nose tho long, was large and open. Yet tho this assemblage of feature may not appear favourable there was a certain animation in the countenance and spirit of his manner that solicited attention and interested most people in his favour." "Wolfe was a great leader and to his presence at the result was largely due." Wood; islands, lot 62. Holland, 1765. Translation of French name I a Bois as on Franquet , 1751. There are two post offices on the island. Woodbrook ; settlement, lot 11. Woodstock ; school district, lot 6. Woodvale ; settlement, lot 2. Meaoham, 1880. Woodville post office was opened here January, 1894. Woodville Mills ; settlement, lot 54. Woodville mill on chart of Cardigan bay, 1839. Wright; creek, lot 65. Chart , 1846. Ruisseau du Moulin (meaning Mill creek) on Franquet map, 1751. Property here was owned by Surveyor General Thomas Wright or his sons. A descendant was living here until a few years ago. Wright; creek, Charlottetown royalty. Wrights on chart, 1846. Land here was owned by Surveyor General Thomas Wright as far back as 1775, when he and Phillips Callbeck , attorney general, who was acting as governor, were carried away by two American privateers to General Washington 's headquarters. It remained in the Wright family until about thirty years ago. Probably riviere de la petite (as)cension of French regime. Wright; point, lot 28. Chart , 1850. After a loyalist family, the head of which, Wm. Wright, came from New York to Bedeque bay in 1784. Yankee; hill, New London . According to Wm. Bernard, French River , who died October, 1923, aged 89, the hill bore the name when he was a boy. His father told him that the first store at the mouth of the harbour, within a stone throw of the hill, was kept by a "Yankee" who sold supplies to the (Yankee) fishermen. Yellow; swamp, lot 47. Meacham , 1880. York Point ; settlement, lot 32. A post office November 1, 1903, to January 15, 1913. Located at a point on York ( Yorke ) river. York ; settlement with post office ( Little York ), lot 34. Named by settlers from Yorkshire, England . Little York on Wright, 1852, and in Meacham , 1880. Yorke ; river, lot 32. Holland, 1765. After John Yorke (1728-69), Lord Commissioner of Trade and Plantations, 1761-63, 1765. He was the 4th son of Philip Yorke (1690-1764), 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, who had five sons and two daughters, most distinguished of whom was Charles (1722-70), who became, like his father, Lord High Chancellor . At the time of his death John Yorke was clerk of the Crown in Chancery. Also known as North river and to the French as riviere du Nord .