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Names
The ground's Indigenous-layer names survive in French and in one family's name. Terre Coupee is the prairie's name — carried by the plat of Terre Coupee that became Hamilton, by Terre Coupee Lodge No. 204 of the Masons, organized over T. L. Borden's store on 24 July 1856, and by the Terre Coupee Anti-Horse-Thief Association of 1853 or 1854 — a French name that outlasted the French-speaking world that set it, printed here without a gloss the record read does not carry. The townsite's own earlier name is the grantee's: Bourissa Hills in the plural in the reference article, Bourissa Hill in the singular on the town's promotion site, both forms printed because the sources conflict; "Bourissa Hills Park" carries the plural into the modern map. The treaty spelling of the family name is Bourissa; Howard prints Bourissau, Chapman Bursaw, and the double-r "Bourrissa" is unattested in any source read. The family name lives on elsewhere as Bourassa — among the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, in Joseph Napoleon Bourassa's line — a distinct later spelling, not the treaty spelling for Lazarus. The town's imposed name is the proprietor's own, as the Story of New Carlisle section prints: Carlisle gave the town his name, and no record found derives it from the Pennsylvania town. Olive, the township's name, is settler naming and stands in the Story of New Carlisle section: for Olive Stanton, wife of Charles Vail.