Toponymie | Canton de Potton | Place Names

The origins of the name Pevee are a mystery.  Here, the spelling may be phonetic, and incorrect, since it may be that this mountain was named for Joshua Peavey , one of twelve Associates of Nicholas Austin who were “known to have settled in Bolton by 1794”.^[1]  Chemin Schoolcraft, in Potton, skirts the western flank of Pevee.

At the risk of baring my country roots, I will hazard another pure guess as to this mountain's name.  My theory is that, when viewed from South Bolton, this mountain's shape resembles the logging tool known as a peavey.  On that premise alone, I found the following description, courtesy of Wikipedia – where an illustration might lead you to agree with me!  “A peavey or peavey hook is a logging tool consisting of a handle, generally from 30 to 50 inches long (0.75 to 1.25 m), with a metal spike protruding from the end.  The spike is rammed into a log, then a hook at the end of an arm attached to a pivot a short distance up the handle, grabs the log at a second location.  Once engaged, the handle gives the operator leverage to roll or slide or float the log to a new position.  The peavey was named for blacksmith Joseph Peavey, who invented the tool as a refinement to the 'cant hook' in the 1850s.”  (Are you now curious what a cant hook is?)

In a short document entitled Amerindian Legends of Potton, Gérard Leduc tells of treasure hidden somewhere in the vicinity of Pevee or the adjacent Aunt Becky's Mountain, which is the very rounded mountain clearly evident to the left, as one drives from South Bolton on Chemin Mountain.  (Quite wisely, he neglected to include a map, if he had one!)  Not only are views from the summit of Pevee a splendid reward to the intrepid climber, but also the cloud formations to the west are often spectacular.  From the flanks of this mountain, also once called Mineral Mountain, the arrival of weather changes are often obvious in the sky to the west.