When I was a kid, a lot of the big old 'family farms' on Prince Edward Island had names that had lasted from earlier generations - a la 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'. They would often be displayed on genteel little signs near the road. Nowadays, if you see such a name and sign, it inevitably indicates a B&B; otherwise, the old names seem to be gone and forgotten. I'm wondering if that's the case in other rural areas - also, whether this naming of farms became fashionable at some identifiable point?

Btw, many, if not most, of those family farms were swallowed by bigger entities over the years since my childhood .......