User:Papulaisle

Papulaisle. Name created by merging two words- Papula and Isle. Papula is a name created by William A. and Betty Jane Patterson for a small island in the Lake Fleet Group of islands in the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River in Ontario, Canada. Idea was- at the time (around 1938) to name a small island upon which a cabin (summer cottage) recently had been built. This island was not named on the charts of the area. Likely as it was so small, maybe less than a quarter acre in size. The word, 'papule' was chosen- representing something small. Definition of papule I was told: an isolated pimple, apparently. Then the word was altered so as to sound, aboriginal, native- and thus changed to Papul-a. The, 'e' being dropped and an, 'a' added at the end of the word. Since it was an island- the name became Papula Island or Papula Isle. Papula was next to a larger island named Axeman Island. That island and Papula were owned by one family commencing in 1926 ostensibly. On Axeman the family commenced naming boats, features, etc., after aboriginal people, events, usage: Chief, Tomahawk, Mischief and Squaw were some boat names. There was once a wood sign on the island hanging over the entrance to the cabin stating, "Papula Island". The sign was stained dark with letters, I believe, in green- a dark forest green. The ends of the sign- and the sign was maybe 30" long and 6" wide, were 'scalloped'. I was raised summers on Papula Island and remember the island and sign- all, well.