“The Wollestook Gazette” has not been selected without due deliberation. Our aim as we before stated, is the encouragement of literary tastes and pursuits. We know that the population of St. John has been from very evident reasons largely migratory, consequently we thought that the majority of the inhabitants were ignorant of the Micmac (sic) name of the picturesque river which flows into the magnificent harbour which well nigh surrounds the city. We know that the statement will be contradictory to those of a well-known and fluent historian of this province, but still with youthful hardihood we dare to say that the . . . name of the St. John river was the “Wollestook.” That this is so we think we can prove . . .