Old French "framboise" 'raspberry', from OF "frambeise", from OLF "*brāmbesi" 'blackberry' (cf. Dutch "braambes", "braambezie"; akin to German "Brombeere", English dial. "bramberry") blended with LL "fraga" or OF "fraie" 'strawberry', which explains the replacement > and in turn the final "-se" of "framboise" added to OF "fraie" to make "freise", modern "fraise" (≠ Wallon "frève", Romanian "fragă", Romansh "fraja", Italian "fragola", "fravola" 'strawberry'). Pope (1934) estimated that perhaps still 15% of the vocabulary of modern French derives from Germanic sources (while the proportion was larger in Old French, because the French language borrowed heavily from Latin and Italian). At the third Council
Framboise River Lakes in the watershed include MacArthurs Lake and MacMullin Lake, which are connected by a channel. MacArthurs Lake has been described as "a beautiful pond". It is at . It is at an elevation of . The Middle-River Framboise Wilderness Area is a relatively inaccessible protected area of wetlands, streams, lakes and well-defined and forested drumlins. A deposit of ore containing zinc (9.55%), lead (2.28%) and copper (0.94%) was discovered in Strachans Brook in the 1890s. The Stirling base metal deposit, or Mindamar Mine, was purchased by British Metals Corporation, which operated the mine between 1935 and 1938, discharging waste